of Plato and Xenophon, who were coeval with Nehemiah and. This embraces not only the voluminous productions of the early Christian Fathers, but also the Greek and Roman Classics-the History, Poetry and Philosophy of men who were the contemporaries of the Inspired Authors of Seneca and Lucan, rho occupied distinguished positions at Rome at the very time when Paul was detained there a prisoner in chains of Pliny and Statius and Martial, who were witnesses of the persecutions which banished John to Patmos, and gave Ignatius to be devoured by lions of Cicero, Terrence and Plautus, who flourished during the first and second century B.C. While the Bible makes everything speak for God, God, in these last days, has made everything speak for the Bible-even 'the stone has cried out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber has answered it,' that prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.Īnother wide and fruitful field of corroborative evidence we have in the ANCIENT LITERATURE which has come down to us. Every branch of modern science, every field of modern research, every pursuit which has been made the subject of modern study, has yielded both numerous and diversified corroborations of the Sacred Record. And our own age has been fruitful beyond any that went before both in the development of new testimonies, and in the recovery of old and lost ones. Every successive age has produced not only additional proofs, but proofs peculiar to itself of their Divine Origin. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES claim to be God's messages to mankind in all the world, and through all generations and testimonies to the truth and validity of this claim have been springing up and multiplying ever since those messages were first delivered to men.

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