WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE 55 Do you know that God does not answer prayer? " "No, I do not know that God does not answer prayer. I do not believe that He answers prayer, but I do not know that He does not answer prayer.'' "Well," I said, " I know that He does answer prayer, but that will not do you any good ; but here is a possible clue to knowledge. You are a graduate of a British University?" "Yes." " You know the method of modern science? The method of modern science is this, if one finds a possible clue to knowledge, to follow that possible clue to see what there may be in it. Here is a possible clue. Will you adopt the methods of modern science in religious investi gation? Will you follow out this possible clue to see what there may be in it? Will you offer this prayer, ' Oh, God, if there be any God, show me if Jesus Christ is Thy Son or not, and if Thou showest me that He is Thy Son, I promise to accept Him as my Saviour, and confess Him as such before the world? ' " '' Yes," he said, " I will do that, too; but there is nothing in it. My case is very peculiar." "One more thing," I said. "John says in John xx. 31: 'These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name.' Now John tells us here that the Gospel of John is written to show men the proof that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Will you read the proof? Will you read the Gospel of John? " " I have read
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