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went away from the earth, and I look for His return day by day.” Here, then, is a very full, a very definite statement concerning most of these fundamental yet disputed doctrines of God’s Word, and by a scientist of highest standing. The scientists are with us, therefore, young men and women of this present age who want to know more of the truth of this blessed Word of God. The scientists are with us, also, mature men and women who have borne the burden and heat of the day and been sustained by the strength and comfort of God’s holy Word. The scientists are with us, not only on questions of- science but on questions of faith; not only on the general truth of the validity of God’s word but also on these questions of fundamental doctrines, fundamental truths that lie as the basic elements of our faith. Therefore, “Hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering, for He is faithful that has promised” and will surely bring it to pass. Hi * * * The age is a hard one, a wearing one, a grinding one. Commercialism and worldly-mindedness have shut out spiritual visions so much from our eyes that the reaction has of necessity set in ; the people are turned perforce to the Word of God. “Where there is no vision the people perish.” Where shall we get the vision? “The entrance of Thy Word giveth light,” the Scripture says, and an eaget, groping, blinded world says: Then we’ll turn to the Word of God! We’ll get the vision there! We’ll study the Word of God! We’ll ask God to open our eyes afresh that we, may see Him in all the beauty of His holiness and the glory of His grace! The Bible the “Best Seller ” And so the world has been giving
now says Jeremiah was right, for when Lord Rosse turned his great telescope to the sky he found 400,- 000,000 stars and, far beyond, myriads on myriads that literally cannot be numbered. Noted Surgeon’s Statement of Faith They say the virgin birth is a myth, the atonement a fallacy, the fall of man a delusion, the second coming of Christ a vagary, the resurrection a misnomer, and the inspiration of the Scriotures a fanaticism which no reasoning, scientific and intelligent mind can believe. But Dr. Howard A. Kelly, professor of obstetrics and gynecology in Johns Hopkins university, a man whom Appleton’s Magazine says stands first in his profession of all the doctors of Europe and America, a man who has degrees from the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, as well as from the leading American universities, a man that a dozen learned societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and the United States have taken into membership, says: “I believe ¿he Bible to be the inspired Word of God. I believe Jesus Christ to be the son of God, without human father, conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; that all men, without exception, are by nature sinners, alienated from God, and when thus utterly lost in sin, the Son of God Himself came down to earth and, by the shedding of His Blood upon the Cross, paid the infinite penalty of the guilt of the whole world. I believe he who thus receives Jesus Christ as his Saviour is born again spiritually, as definitely as in his first birth. Satan I believe to be the cause of man’s fall and sin * * * yet will be in the end cast into the pit and made harmless. Christ will come again in glory to earth to reign, even as He
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