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come to light in recent years. No sooner does the hostile critic call in question a single fact of the Biblical record than the archaeologist’s spade uncovers the needed evidence. It has been claimed in comparatively recent years that there was no such nation as the Hittites, so frequently mentioned in Old Testament history, but today the British Museum maintains an extensive Hittite Depart ment devoted to the remains of that ancient civilization. It was said that the art of correspondence was unknown in the time of Solomon, so that the ex change of letters with Hiram of Tyre must be fictitious. It has been found, however, that not only was the art of correspondence well known during this era, but postmen were actually employ ed for the transmission of the same. As the era of the major and minor proph ets is reached, the corroboration of his torical details is still more marked, each new discovery bearing added witness to the historical exactness of the inspired record. It is of no small importance that the Christian should examine the great mass of evidence bearing on the author ity of God’s infallible Book— only a fragmentary part of which I have touch ed upon in this address— but when all has been said the supreme credential of the Bible is in its transforming influence upon the life which has been fully yield ed to its message. Today the very foundations of our faith are assailed. If this specious modern teaching regarding the Bible is to receive currency, then we have no longer supernatural revelation which declares the mind of God, but merely a human book which, in view of its own claims to a Divine origin, is entirely unworthy of acceptance. And without the anchorage of authority which the Scriptures afford there can be no Chris tianity, no Church of Christ, no assured peace for the soul.
DIVINE POSSIBILITIES. I dare to say that— it is possible for those who really are willing to reckon on the power of the Lord Tor keeping and victory, to lead a life in which His promises are taken as they stand and are found to .be true. It is possible to cast all our care upon Him daily and to enjoy deep peace in doing it. It is possible to have the thoughts and imaginations of our hearts purified, in the deepest meaning of the word, through faith. It is possible to see the will of God in everything, and to receive it, not with sighing but wit singing. It is possible, by taking com plete refuge in divine power, to become strong through and through; and, where previously our greatest weak ness lay, to find that the things which formerly upset all our resolves to be patient or pure or humble, furnish to day an opportunity— through Him Who loved us, and works in us an agreement with His will and a blessed sense o f His presence and His power — to make sin powerless. These things are Divine possibilities, and because they are His work, the true experience of them will always cause us to. bow lower at His feet and to learn to thirst and long for more. We cannot possi bly be satisfied with any thing less than— each day, each hour, each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit— to walk with God. ,J—H. C. G. Moule. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT We are glad to be able to announce that our good brother, Dr. A. C. Gaebe- lein, will spend some time on the Pacific Coast this spring. He will speak in the Bible Institute Auditorium several times during the week of February 26th to March 4th, and will also be engaged in Conference work in San Diego, Whittier and other towns in Southern California.
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