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"broken lights." They are lights, but they are broken. But there is one great difference between them and Christianity: in each of these, man is seeking God; in Christianity, God is .seeking man. These religions are aspirations; Christianity is a revelation. And so, we conclude that God has spoken, and this message is in the Bible or nowhere else. It calls for a personal test from every one of us. In the present day a great deal is said, and rightly, about the argument from experience. In 2 Peter 1 :16-21, we see three things-( 1) Christ, (2) prophecy, and (3) experience-Christ as revealed to the Apostles on the Mount of Transfigura tion ; then the word of prophecy; and then the word of prophecy made more sure by the light shining, until the day dawn and the day star arises in our hearts. These are the three things-Prophecy in the Old Testament, Christ in the New, and both together verified by personal experience-"in your hearts." If we will put them to the test, we shall have a verification in our own souls, and then will come the strongest possible proof that the Bible comes from God. There is no other Book in the world that will so verify itself to human experience, because it contains and embod ies a Divine revelation. And thus we have the matter entirely in our own hands. Whatever may be said about history and philosophy and morality, the crowning point is: What is the Bible to me? And when the Bible is really and truly in my own heart and life, I cannot pos sibly doubt that it comes from God. "Father of mercies, in Thy word What endless glory shines; For ever by Thy Name adored For these celestial lines!"
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