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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S that good men wrote it, and it is there fore true. And we have the fact of Christian experience which can be ex plained only by admitting a Divine "Christ and an inspired Bible. àk m BIBLE IN ,528 LANGUAGES Lord Finlay, speaking at the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, held in London, said as evidence of the progress made, while in 1903, the centenary o f the Society, the Bible was printed in 400 different languages, the number had now risen to 528. Perhaps the most striking fact of all was that during the stress and strain of the war 35 new languages had been added in the circulation. We heard a great deal about social unrest and trouble at home. He could not help thinking that the remedy for much of that unrest might lie, and did lie, in such work âs the So ciety was carrying on in Great Britain. OUR 73 YEAR OLD STUDENT One of our correspondence school students writes that she has completed her fourth Bible course. She closes by saying that she is 73 years old. She has received excellent marks and writes that the studies have been a great uplift to her. If a person at this age can take advantage of a Bible course with so great profit, what might many do who are much younger and more active? Why not spend some of your spare time in Bible Study?
our reason. “ Come, now, let us reason, salth the Lord.’’- And if we will per mit God t o ; enlighten our reason, it will guide us aright. But unenlight ened reason is a very fallible guide. It is easily influenced by prejudice, pas sion, ignorance and sin. It is some times like a prisoner in chains. Before his conversion Saul of Tarsus reasoned before the Sanhedrin that Christians should be killed, but after Ms conver sion Paul the Apostle, reasoned of righteousness, temperance and judg ment to come, till Felix trembled. The same reason, under different masters. If we will receive the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit through the revela tion of God in the Bible, our reason will lead us aright; but, if we refuse that enlightenment, it will lead us into the ditch of destruction. Can we find a common ground with the Agnostic? Yes, because the Ag nostic is right when he says that he cannot find God by looking through his telescope or his microscope. He sees design and he must infer a designer, but he cannot see God. If, then, we are ever to know God in His fullness, we must have a revelation of Him, and this we have in Jesus Christ. So that our agnosticism ought to turn us to Christ for a vision of the God we seek. Let the atheist be led by a study of his own personality to the God who made him; let the theist be led to God in Christ by the overwhelm ing proofs of His deity; let the ration alist be led by the need of reason’s enlightenment to the revelation of God in Christ. Now, can we find a common ground with the' Scientist? Yfes, verily, for the scientific spirit admits facts and we have the fact of Christ which can not be explained on any other ground than that He was what He claimed to be— Son of man and Son of God. We have the fact of the Bible which; can be accounted for only on the ground
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