Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Treasure and Our Trust, or the Bible in the Last One Hundred Years: An Historical Discourse for the American Bible Society in the United States Centennial, 1776-1876
But God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. Apostles and Evangelists have given us the words of the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Ghost has sent forth in imperishable forms that New Testament which completes the oracles of God.
They speak to us of Him and for Him; they teach us how to speak to Him in the endless dialogue between God and man. They speak in language so simple, in revela tions so many and in thoughts so great that he may run that readeth. Whatever may be obscure, however deep the mystery of God, no faltering voices leave us nuoer tain as to our duty and our destiny, our ruin and our redemption. The Bible carries with it the promise of the power and demonstration of the Spirit. It is the reve lation of Jesus Christ by the Holy Comforter. It is the inspiration of the Eternal Spirit acting upon human spirits in all ages, lands, and races. It is the written word, filled with the thoughts of God towards us, enlightening, renewing, reforming, purifying, saving men, and so lifting up the nations into the plane of the highest Christian civilization. It is this commingling of the divine and the human in the written word and in Christ Jesus, the Word [who] was made ?esh and dwelt among us, which makes the whole Bible the Book for mankind. And so, what was once the possession of a single little nation on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, has gone out into all the earth from that ancient centre of population and of power, until now many nations have this treasure in their own keeping.
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