bring me the Book.” At once, the young man went for Sir Walter’s Bible. It’s true; there is but one Book. Last eve, I paused beside the black smith’s store And heard the anvil ring the vesper chimes. Then, looking in, I saw upon the floor Old hammers worn with beating years of time. “How many anvils have you had,” said I, “To wear and batter all these ham mers so?” “Just one,” he said, and then, with twinkling eye, “The anvil wears the hammer out, you know.” And so I thought, the anvil of God’s Word For ages skeptics blows have beat upon. Yet, though the noise of fallen blows was heard, The anvil is unharmed; the ham mer’s gone.
each word aloud before writing it. Never was even a single word to be written from memory. No other writ ten work of ancient times has been transmitted with such care and ac curacy as the Word of God. Modem scholars, who have spent many years in study and research, are agreed that the copies of the original docu ments have been handed down with substantial correctness. Incontrover tible evidence shows us how God’s Word has triumphed over all hazards and hardships. Apocryphal or spuri ous books were omitted from the canon of Scripture. What is truly God’s Word belongs in God’s Book. We can’t overlook the wiles of Satan who has sought to destroy the Bible. Paul warned the believers at Ephesus that they would be facing the wiles of the devil (Eph. 6:11). The word “wiles” means methods. Our evil foe is characterized by cun ning, deceit and trickery. He seeks to infiltrate the good and the holy with the bad and the unholy. Every scheme of destruction which man’s unregenerate mind could conjure has been brought against the Bible. Dur ing the early Christian era, some of the most cruel and merciless persecu tions were meted out to men and women who held sacred the Word of God. Men fling themselves against the Bible with all their fury. But instead of their breaking the Book, the Book crushes them. Bibles have been burned and tom to pieces, but God’s Word remains triumphant. In our world of darkness and despair, the Bible shines forth as the scintil lating light to lead men aright. The Bible is the one beacon of hope in the night of man’s sin. When the poet and novelist, Sir Walter Scott, lay dying, he said to his son- in-law, “Please, bring me the Book.” There was some uncertainty because his father-in-law had a large library. The question came, “Sir, which book?” Scott answered immediately, “My son, there is just one Book;
Dr. Lehman Strauss discusses ra dio messages with Dr. J. Richard Chase (left), Academic Vice Pres, of Biola, and Mr. Donald W. Ranson (right), Director of Radio for the organization. 9
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