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The Fundamentals spake unto you out of the midst of the fire, and He declared unto you His covenant, even ten commandments and He wrote them upon two tables of stone” (Deut. 5:22). “These words the Lord spake, and He wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me” (Deut. 9:10). “And the Lord de- livered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God”! Seven times, and to men to. whom writing is instinct; to beings who are most of all impressed, not by vague vanishing voices, but by words arrested, fixed, set down; and who them- selves cannot resist the impulse to commit their own words to some written deposit, even of stone, or of bark, if they have not the paper; seven times, to men, to whom writing is instinct and who are inclined to rely for their highest conviction on what they have styled “documentary evidence,” i. e., on books; God comes in and declares, “I have written” ! The Scriptures, whether with the human instrument or without the human instrument, with Moses or without Moses, were written by God. When God had finished, Moses had nothing else to do but carry down God’s autograph. That is our doctrine. The Scriptures—i f ten words, then all the words —if the law, then the Gospels—th e writing, the writings, He Graphe— Hai Graphai —expressions repeated more than fifty times in the New Testament alone— this, these were inspired. Brethren, the danger of our present day—the "down grade” as it has been called, of doctrine, of conviction, of the moral sentiment—a decline more constantly patent, as it is more blatantly proclaimed—does it not find its first step in our lost hold upon the very inspiration of the Word of God? Does not a fresh conviction here lie at the root of every remedy which we desire, as its sad lack lies at the root of every ruin we deplore?
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