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lamp, th e gas plant, th e eleciric light, these are instances. We have th e same thing w ith reference to inter-communi cation: a messenger on foot carrying th e message; post horses properly stationed, greatly increasing th e speed of transm ission ; steam, train s and steam ships, carrying these messages a t a vast increase of speed; th e tele graph and the telephone, cutting down th e tim e requ ired still fu rth er, and now th e radio, giving us communica tions for thousands of, miles w ithout any appreciable lapse of time. “W hat 'm an 'm akes, man ‘can improve.” Mr. Bryan said th a t th e Bible, somehow or other, never had been improved. It commands everything th a t is right and good and helpful to men; it forbids everything th a t is wrong and injurious to man and society; it has never been improved in all th e years th a t it has been in th e world. No sane man pro poses to improve it.' It stands alone. 3. This W onderful Book is th e Oldest Book in th e W orld th a t is generally known and which has any practical influence upon human society. A few older books exist. They come to us from Egypt, from In dia, from China. But these books have never produced any great impression upon hum an society. They do not now; we have no reason to suppose th a t they ever will. They are in the hands of a few scholars; they are placed in a few g reat libraries, but th e millions of men and women in th is world know nothing about them ; care nothing about them . The Bible as a practical book for th e world is th e oldest book. All intelligent people know th a t books wear out. They grow old and die and are forgotten. Thou sands of books die every year; thou sands of books are born dead, never produce any impression upon human society, b û t here Is a book which com mands everything th a t is good; which forbids everything th a t is evil and
which n atu rally would be hated by wicked people, yet it outlives all other books; it is th e oldest book in th e world. Who w rote such a book as th a t? 4. This Book is th e Most Popu lar Book in th e World. It condemns all sin; it Requires all righteousness. Many men wish to sin and therefore hate it and many men are unw illing to do w hat is righteous and therefore they hate th e book, yet somehow or other th is oldest book in th e world lives on and its popularity increases. There are two methods of determ in ing th e popularity of a book; one is by the number of languages into which it is tran slated , ano th er is th e number of copies required to satisfy th e popular demand. Now the Bible is tran slated into hundreds of languages. No other book even d istantly approaches it in th is particular. At th e present tim é it is p rin ted in more th a n five hundred different tongues. How are we to ac count for. a fact like th a t? W hat man has ever w ritten a book which his fel low men though t of sufficient im port ance to tran slate into a hundred lan guages? Yet, here we have an old book, finished nearly two thousand years ago, yet vital and growing today and published in more th a n five hun dred different tongues. Who could w rite a book like th a t? Men? Not at all. A book like th a t must be w rit ten J)y th e One who created men; who knows what they need and undertakes to supply th a t need. 5. The Bible is th e Only Book in th e World Which is Up to Date. By th is I m ean-that it never has to be revised in order to make it harmonize w ith th e latest discoveries in history and science. All other books do have to b e revised. If they are not, th ere are errors in them which decrease th e ir value, if they do n o t entirely destroy it. The Bible, however, has REMARKABLE RESULTS FROM
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