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The Bible is the oldest book the world has. It antedates the
Chinese bible. It has come down to us through the ages. Its enemies have
sought to destroy it. Its pages are stained with the blood of martyrs.
Empires, kingdoms and states crumbled around it. How do you account for
the Bible surviving the wreck of time? The answer is that God is with it
and in it.
It was Mears
who said, “The lyric poetry of the Hebrews was in its golden age nearly
a thousand years before the birth of Horace. Deborah sang a model of a
triumphant song full five hundred years before Sappho was born. The book
of Esther was a venerable fragment of biography, more strange than
fiction, at least twelve hundred years old at the dawn of the romantic
literature of Europe. The proverbs of Solomon are by eight hundred years
more ancient than the writings of Seneca.”
Though it
has been exploded, demolished, and made ready for the grave countless
times, it goes on in its triumphant way, giving light, hope, and
salvation to unnumbered millions in many lands and many tongues.
The Bible lives in spite of men. False theories of religion
profess to be built upon it. A relentless war is waged upon it by those
who hate it, and friends to it have become lukewarm. Yet the Bible is
here. It is the deathless book. It is as eternal as God. “The word of
the Lord endureth forever.”
The Indestructible Bible
By A.G. Freed
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