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Successful. And, more important than all, tliey tell the Gentile of a 

 Divine hand, not simply leading him as well as the Jew through the 

 early period of the world's history, but placing on record, briefly as 

 becomes the littleness of things human in view of the Divine, yet 

 comprehensively, the roll of his forgotten ancestry. Spite of all 

 questions regarding the books of Chronicles, the Bible still proves 

 itself the true and faithful Word, the great standard of historic fact 

 as well as of spiritual truth and life. I am fully conscious of the 

 importance of the revolution which the acceptance of the truths set 

 forth in this paper will cause in the world of historical science. Of 

 this, however, I am also sure — 



" Magna est Veritas et prseyalebit." 



