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or satisfy the highest aspirations of the human 

 soul. 



In the Bible the spiritual nature of man finds that 

 perfect adaptation, which the physical nature finds 

 in the world. And if there is found in man anything 

 that rebels against the Bible-, it never fails to tend 

 to degradation. So that in every respect, when men 

 follow the Bible and when they reject it, there is 

 proof that it is fitted for man ; that there is no sub- 

 stitute for it. With its truths, he is complete ; with- 

 out them, he is an unsolved enigma, a being groping 

 his way in blindness, he knows not whither. He 

 is in a prison of doubt, and there in darkness he 

 must remain ; for not even the wisest of men can, 

 without the Bible, soh [UCStionS which his 



spiritual nature If there is in the whole 



range of nature if adaptation more varied and 



complete than the Bible to the wants of man, we 

 know not where to look for it. We accept it as the 

 :!ul provision, worthy of the being for whom it 

 3 made, worth)' of the infinite Creator by whom 

 it was bestowed. 



