Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-03-03

its ethical WORTH how much more we are convinced that it
the Word OF God when consider the necessity for such
revelation and the records past and present. which tell OF
its spiritual worth
Far back in prehistoric times men, led forward by their in
nctiye hunger for the divine began to gapPle with the
mysteries OF the volume OF nature And although these
investigators able pick from amid the thick
crowded. hierogyphc writing ineligible characters
yet, the wsest the book OF clearly
vealed the aperadng Divinity The ignorant Indian
and the most learned Magian priest alike incapable OF
passing from nature up to natures God" Failing to find the
divine in nature, turned deductions phil
osophy and brought clearer vision OF the Great
Light OF Truth Nevertheless, Socrates concluded you may
despair OF finding sufficient expedent for this
other Instruction. and Plato summarized his whole efforts in
the words THE truth is determine establish anything
certain in these is the work OF God only.
And after centuries of seeking after Socrates and Plato and
Aristotle had iumined the world the exalted human
philosophy inscribed altar the capital OF learning the
sad confession, To the HrknOan God"
IT, then the light OF and light
too dim to guide to true knowledge OF God
ond ii THAT f Re ers o h great
mists OF ignorance and misconcepon until both Tesaments
combine TO point to God Whence, ask with the
whence but from Heaven could men, unskiled in arts
In several ages born, in several parts,
Weave such agreeing truths: or how or why
Should all conspire to cheat with a lie?'
And yet the critics say that there such thing book
written by God and laugh the idea that the Ten Com
mandnens are from God Theirs is negative philosophy
any solution for the lie-problems OF others
The preservation OF this guiding light is another valuable
subtle changes through repeated TRANSACTIONS spite
the assaults o. persecution still have the Word of God
For the Bible though read hundreds tongues produces
the spiritual results among all peopes-an indisputabe
that the especial OF Providence guards the Beacon
light which He has up for the spiritual guidance Of
Nor the attacks OF the present by any unique
twenty-five centuries have passed since Jehoakim, King
Judah, prcked the heart by message jeremiah
up the roll with the knife his grdle and into
And his direct descendants include Porphyry the third
century, Julian in the fourth Molammed the Arab the
SEVENTH the materalc Hobbies, and Spinoza the panhes
the seventeenth; the versatile Noaire and
promising Thomas Paine in the eigteenth and the eloquent
Robert lngerso in the nineteenth. But in spite OF their
shafts OF argument, rcue nvective
polished periods, the Book still stands unique its triumph
Ger lis foes.
The greatest proof however, that the Bible Word
God is found in its marvellous freshness and aaptaby For
that light whether shining obscure clapels magni-
cent metropolitan churches has directed the seek
after truth the OF the highest good 1t is adapted
him who and him whose heart full OF ov
doWnodden and oppressed and those that the
wall the alley and the millionaire in his palace; the
OF society and the mother in the home the
the poW the mechanic the bench, the banker the
countngroom the scientist in his laboratory the phil
osopher in his study Its results may be the reclaim
ed lives OF individuals and the mnistraons OF great
phlanthrOplC nstituOns-mute witnesses OF its
inspire social service
Nature and past, still fail make clear
the God But the Bible reinerpretcd minor details
though ii be- revalzed by being rethought
tnues to be what for has beenthe Beacon
light OF men. That Book intoxicating universal principles
which solve the vital problems the prophetic the
Messianc days and also OF the twentieth century inspired
from the throne OF God and revealing his love manthat
Book OF Books must endure the permanent endowment of the