8 PREFACE 



race, living in an area not as large as some of our 

 American counties, who had no great universities to 

 train them for their work, no great libraries to consult, 

 no swift ships to carry them to the different centers of 

 civilization, no telegraph to bring them news from 

 every corner of the earth. Yet they grappled with 

 every problem that confronts mankind, from the crea- 

 tion of the world to life beyond the grave. They gave 

 us a diagram of man's existence and set up w^arning 

 signs at every danger point. If the Bible be of human 

 origin, why is it that, with all the advance in wealth, 

 education, and invention, mankind does not produce a 

 better book ? 



In one chapter Moses gives us three verses that more 

 vitally concern man than all that can be found in all 

 the books that uninspired man has written. " In the 

 beginning God created the heaven and the earth," is 

 the only sentence that gives us the origin of life; sec- 

 ond, the command that established reproduction ac- 

 cording to kind; that is the only law governing the 

 continuity of the race; and, third, the making of man 

 in God's image; that is the only explanation of man's 

 existence on earth. 



No substitute ever proposed for the first verse of 

 the Bible is as easily understood, believed, and de- 

 fended. 



The law of reproduction according to kind is in- 

 violable. Even man is not able to lead or compel that 

 intangible, invisible thing that we call life to cross the 

 line of species. 



And no man without revelation has ever been able 



