The Fundamentals Jesus is the life and the light of man. The same is true of the Scriptures. Jesus said: “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” The Psalmist said, “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” In an inexplicable way Jesus is identified with the Word. “The Word was God. . . . and the Word became flesh.” And when the victories of the Gospel shall have been finally accomplished, and Jesus shall assert His regal rights, His name is called, “The Word of God.” (See Rev. 19:11, 13.) Second. The Bible assumes to be God’s Word by its im- perious demands. Who but God has a right to require of men what the Bible does? Third. The Bible has fulfilled all its claims and promises. The marvelous, far-reaching results of proclaiming and be- lieving it, demonstrably prove its supernatural origin and character. That there are difficulties, I well enough know. But many difficulties have disappeared as a result of patient, reverent, scholarly research; and without doubt others will soon go the same way. So, while I bid the scholars and reverent critics God-speed in their noble work, with the late learned Bishop Ryle I say: “Give me the plenary verbal theory with all its difficulties, rather than the doubt. I accept the difficulties, and humbly wait for their solution; but while I wait I am standing on a rock.” Let this, then, be our attitude, to tell it out to the wide world that the blessed Bible, the “Holy Scriptures” of both Testaments, are the product of the “Breath of God,” who made heaven and earth, and “breathed” into man His soul ; the product of that Divine “Breath” that regenerates, that illuminates and sanctifies the soul; a “God-breathed Scrip- tures”, whose “words” are the “words of God.” Tell it to the Church in heir seminaries, universities and eolleges, from her pulpits, Sunday Schools and Bible classes, and sound it in every convention, conference and assembly that her concep-
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