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The Fundamentals The Bible is beyond all attempts at not only exhaustion, but comprehension. No human mind can, by searching, had out the fullness of God. “For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man save the Spirit of God.” 3. That leads up to the third point. The Scriptures testify to their Divine Original by their t r a n s c e n d e n t d o c - t r i n e , THEIR OUTSHINING LIGHT, THEIR NATIVE RADIANCE, THE GLOW OF THE DIVINE, THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT. We should expect to find a Book, that came from God, penciled with points of jasper and of sardine stone— enhaloed with a brightness from the everlasting hills. We should look for that about the Book which, flashing conviction at once, should carry overwhelmingly and everywhere by its bare, naked witness—by what it simply is. That, just as God, by stretching out a hand to write upon the “plaister” of a Babylo- nian palace, stamped, through mysterious and disjointed words, conviction of Divinity upon Belshazzar, and each one of his one thousand “lords” ; so, after that same analogue— why not?—God should stretch out His hand along the unroll- ing palimpsests of all the ages, and write upon them larger words, which, to the secret recognition of each human soul, should say, not only, “This is Truth,” but “This is Truth, God-spoken!” The Bible is the Word of God, because it is the Book of Infinites— the revelation of what nature, without it, never could have attained, and, coming short of the knowledge of which, nature were lost. The greatest need of the soul is salvation. I t is such a knowledge of God as shall assure us of “comfort” here and hereafter. Such a knowledge, nature outside of the Bible does not contain. Everywhere groping in his darkness, man is confronted by two changeless facts. One, his guilt, which, as he looks down, sinks deeper and deeper. The other, the
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