My friend, Good change is not inevitable. It seemed for years that the battle against slavery in the British Empire would be lost. Those who fought to abolish the evil of slavery—men like John Newton, William Pitt, and William Wilberforce—felt at times a sense of the impossibility of the task.
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Tenth, on the ground of the direct testimony of the Holy Spirit We began with God and shall end with God. We began with the testimony of the second person of the Trinity, and shall close with that
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Ninth, on the ground of the fact that as we grow in knowledge and holiness we grow toward the Bible Every thoughtful person when he starts out to study the Bible finds many things with which he does
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Eighth, on the ground of the inexhaustible depth of the book Nothing has been added to it in eighteen hundred years, yet a man like Bunsen, or Neander, cannot exhaust it by the study of a lifetime. George
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Seventh, on the ground of the influence of the book There is more power in that little book to save men, and purify, gladden and beautify their lives, than in all other literature put together—more power to lift
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Sixth, on the ground of the character of those who accept and of those who reject the book Two things speak for the divinity of the Bible—the character of those who accept it, and, equally, the character of
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Fifth, on the ground of the history of the book, its victory over attack This book has always been hated. No sooner was it given to the world than it met the hatred of men, and they tried
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Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Fourth, on the ground of the immeasurable superiority of the teachings of the Bible to those of any other and all other books It is quite fashionable in some quarters to compare the teachings of the Bible with
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Third, on the ground of the unity of the book This is an old argument, but a very satisfactory one. The Bible consists of sixty-six books, written by more than thirty different men, extending in the period of
Ten reasons why I believe the Bible is the word of God. Second, on the ground of its fulfilled prophecies There are two classes of prophecies in the Bible—first, the explicit, verbal prophecies, second, those of the types. In the first we have the definite prophecies concerning the Jews, the
