century's witness to the bible. 



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Churches, and doubtless much facilitated the progress of the Gospel. 

 In view of the above facts, while it is certain our cosmopolitan Bible 

 could never have been produced by Jewish writers save through 

 Divine overruling, it is, perhaps unnecessarily harsh to say " One 

 never hears of Jews seeking the spiritual good of other nations 

 by translating and circulating among them the Divine Oracles." 



The argument for recognising a transcendent. Divine power 

 pervading Scripture seems emphasised by the fact, that its scientific 

 accuracy and literary perfection, as a human work, cannot possibly 

 account for its unique influence. It has its deficiencies in these 

 respects. The paper rightly admits that " the unjustified claims 

 sometimes advanced for the inerrancy of the letter of Scripture 

 as it has come down to us" are "mistaken and untenable." A 

 thoroughly human book, it is inexplicable without the assumption 

 of a Divine Inspiration ; just as our Blessed Lord was truly man, 

 but none the less God's Son. 



(The speaker had not time to develop this, and guard it from 

 misinterpretation, and he was utterly misconceived by some 

 present, as doubting the Incarnation, or the Special Inspiration 

 of the Bible, doctrines which, as those who know him are aware, 

 he has strenuously upheld for fifty years.) 



Mr. John Schwartz did not agree with some points in the 

 paper, and considered that the Bible was not all on one level as 

 regards profitableness, and that the morality of some portions was 

 positively injurious. 



Mr. Evans said : I desire to thank the lecturer most warmly for 

 his excellent paper. Eecent discoveries made in Assyria, Babylon 

 and Egypt have again and again proved the truth of the historical 

 statements of the Bible. That Abram really came from Babylon, 

 is clearly proved from records in the British Museum, though at 

 one period this was denied. In fact much criticism and suspicion are 

 now withdrawn in view of the proof of the historical truthfulness of 

 the Book ; as for instance the Siloam Pool inscription, a cast of 

 which is in the British Museum, which proves the statement that 

 Hezekiah made a pool and a conduit for bringing the water into the 

 city, hidden from the invader, and the further fact that the identity 

 of so many of the kings of the Old Testament has been clearly 

 established by inscriptions now in the British Museum. A previous 

 speaker has referred to what he considers the immorality of parts of 



