44 TALKS TO MEN power 0£ looking into the future, and predicting with minuteness, accuracy, and precision things which were to occur hundreds of years ahead, and that these prophecies harl been fulfilled to the letter. -We concluded that a book which had this power of looking into the future and telling with minuteness, accuracy, and precision things that were to come to pass centuries afterwards must have for its Author the only One in the uni verse who knows .the end from the beginning that is, God. The third reason I gave for believ ing the Bible to be the Word of God was because of the unity of the Book. We saw that though the Bible was composed of sixty-six books, writ ten by at least forty human authors, the period of their composition extending over at least 1500 years, and displaying every form of liter ary structure, that there was one all-pervading thought and purpose through the entire Book, that every part of the Bible fitted into every other part, and that the Bible was the most thoroughly one Book of any book extant. We saw that the only way to account for this undeniable and re markable phenomenon was that back of the hu man authors was the one all-governing, all-con trolling, all-superintending, all-shaping mind of God. The fourth reason for believing the Bible to be the Word of God was because of the im measurable superiority of its teachings to those of any other book, or all other books. We saw that there were three points of radical difference
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