Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m. BIBLE. BIBLE, as everybody knows, means
book. The Bible is the book, the special book, the book of books, the holy or divine book, the revealing word, the book that, in a peculiar manner, discloses the thought and will of Deity. The idea of revelation is primary in religion. God must reveal himself. It is as necessary as it is that water should flow or light shine or force act. It is the nature of water to flow and light to shine. He cannot remain concealed. Without expression there is no thought. Thought and expression are simultaneous. The divine being and the divine existence cannot be even contemplated separately. To be is to exist. To have life is to impart life. Thus the universe is the embodied thought of the Creator. It is God’s frozen breath.
God said, ‘ Let there be light!’
and light was. In a flash, thought became speech and speech became fact; the three were one. Creation is the visible demonstration of the Creator. The heavens declare his glory; the firmament showeth thework of his hands. Day shouts tidings of him today; night breathes knowledge of him tonight. There is no articulate speech nor language, their voice is not heard; but their sound, their significance, is felt in all the ends of the earth. The dust of the streets illustrates his order; the stones proclaim his law; the flowers preach his beauty; the elements declare the flowing beneficent symmetry of his will; atoms, as well as suns, announce the even equity of his decrees. Tell more than he tells, show more than he shows, give more than he gives, He cannot. To use the expression of Goethe, nature is
the garment we see him by.‘Tfot the mask that conceals him. Who now questions that the world is animated, quick with living powers, burning with intelligence, glowing with passion, thr…