Christ is the Word of God. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. That hope alone explains the Book, giving meaning and consistency to its story. According to the prophecy of Micah, the messianic Shepherd of Israel had to be born in Bethlehem. It is unthinkable that an heir to the throne of David could be born in Bethlehem now, and be also able to prove his legitimacy by documentary evidence.
Strength's in the sun.
Let men their songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. Far as the curse is found. Thou never ceasest to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects introduced into the curriculum of a school, it is only too possible for men to be held to be educated and intelligent without ever having seriously tested their intelligence upon, say, the Book of Job, or upon the Epistle of Paul to the Romans.