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ity, the long-derided, unfairly-criticised, mutilated and mal treated Bible stands as the “best seller” in the book mar kets of the world today. “Aye, but if Christ was himself ‘the fullness of the Godhead bodily’ what need of any further revelation of the truths that center in God?” Let it be remembered that Christ lived in a remote cor ner of the world and for a brief period of thirty years: yet he came avowedly to establish a religion for the world and all the centuries. In order that his teachings might be thus universalized and perpetuated Is it not obvious that they must be recorded somewhere and somehow? And where better or how otherwise than in a divine Book, “writ ten by.holy men as they were moved (or borne onward) by the Spirit of God?” It thus appears that the sponsor for the Book is the Spirit of God. The word is inspiration, literally “breathed of God;” and in the Book thus written we have our author ity for what we are to believe as the Word incarnate. “Search the Scriptures,” said Jesus, “for in them ye think (and rightly think) ye have eternal life; and these are they which testify of me.” Let the veracity of that w itness be impugned, and who or what is left to bear trustworthy witness of Jesus as the Saviour of men? You have cut down the tree of life! In view of what our Lord said of the Old Testament, “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead,” one is bound to wonder what evidence is required to convince a rejecter of the New Testament as to the fundamentals of our Chris tian faith. This may perhaps account for the fact that mutilaters of the Scriptures as a rule are deniers of the virgin birth, the vicarious death, the bodily resurrection and the supernatural factor in the Gospel of Christ. It is impossible to emphasize too deeply the importance of these fundamentals. The Church, without them, is as unsubstantial as the stuff that dreams are made of. “Ye are built,” says Paul, “upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord.” (Eph. 2:20,21.) Aye, resting on that sure foundation, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! And our individual faith is assured in the same way. To be a Christian is simply to let Christ have his way with us. Less than that is to follow him afar off, which means, sooner or later, to arrive at a complete denial of his juris diction over us. He stands with his Book in hand— the Book that he knew and loved and believed and never criticized— enjoining us to search it for a sufficient knowl edge of himself as a Rock to build on; which having found, all henceforth that makes the Christian life worth living is to build upon it. “But let every may take heed how he buildeth thereupon,” for “every man’s work shall be made manifest." (1 Cor. 3:10-17.) Behold, the Temple rises! There is no limit to the pos sibilities when one has grounded his life upon the Rock of Ages. It is wonderful to have thus begun to grow. Let us dream on, beloved, for our largest dreams are destined to come true. “Now are we sons of God,” by faith in the gospel of his grace, “but it doth not yet appear what we shall be!” ate ate Nothing Better as a Christmas Gift THE KING’S BUSINESS (Until January 1,1924, $ 1.00 per year.)
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