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TESTING THE TRUTH The whole question confronting the evangelical church today resolves its;elf into this: “ Is the Bible the inerrant Word of God?” We have many men disputing .its claims to inerrancy. We: have an increasingly large number drifting with the tide of speculators, hut we do not find any of them offering any satisfactory proof of their theories. There are many knotty problems for these deniers to solve and we are propounding one: If the Bible is not true, how do you account for the fact that there are one hundred and twenty-two definite predictions relating to the first advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, quoted in seventeen Old Testament books, and one hundred and sixty-six passages confirming these predictions to be. found in fifteen New Testament hooks? We are; not speculating now, but propounding a simple question in mathematics. How could seventeen different writers of the, Old Testament
I WILL COME AGAIN
O King of saints, come down In dazzling m ajesty; Thy suffering w itnesses to crown Who share Thy cross w ith Thee. Thou prom isest to give The crown a t th a t glad day, To all who lovingly believe And for Thy coming pray.
When shall the Judge descend And fix His kingdom here? With vehement love we still attend
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To see our Lord appear. W ith languishing desire We long our Head to own; Encircled by His angel-choir High on His azure throne.
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The Name, the Cross, we love
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And still, to meet Thee from above Our h earts to Heaven we send. And when Thou dost appear, Thou w ilt the kingdom give; And all thy fellow-sufferers here
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