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Show I The Bible Today I Jews uud Chilstlans liuvo ever held tlmt book uji uh scripturu. The book that brings to us tlio great things or faith and Ufa It Is the main source from which wo obtain our Ideas and ldcnla about Ood tho realities of this life and of thu lifts to conic. Hecauso It Is tho keynote of the religious bo-lllels bo-lllels or thu Christian; because It contains con-tains tho ruiidameiitul facts concerning concern-ing thlngi not only of this world of time but also of that future uorhl eternity; because It contains reasons why men Hhould livo up tho the high-i,sl high-i,sl obtainable; becutiBC It holds out to men, weak and wrong-doing ns wo know ourselves to be, perfection as an uttulnublu goal of life; because of these reasons and many moro sclenco has of recent years felt compelled to test II, to prove It In all wuys possible. Such Investigating Btudy wub long opposed op-posed by those who, through n false and unfair respect for the Hlble, felt that tiny questioning of the statements state-ments or the book wns In truth it dishonoring, dis-honoring, through doubt, of Ood and Ills revealed wisdom. Hut, thnnk Ood for It has brought out tho fullness of the truth of Ood In 11 way never oven realized or drenmed of by our ancestors, ances-tors, some camo to have n more rational ra-tional feeling towurdo the Hlble. They said: "If It Is true It is the most wonderful of books If It Is true It sets n goal and way of life or marvel, ous beauty ns possible for us. If It it true It g ves inclining to this life of ours and should take awny from men nil pessimism and despair, therefore there-fore It ought to be rigorously tested as a whole and In detail, that It may the more fully compel us to life." This search by scholars of all kinds has resulted In n renewed and elevated elevat-ed boiler lu the Hlble. It lms brought out u fuller faith than was possible under the older way of regarding It It Is still the most wonderful or all books; It still contains the way of life.; It still Is Hcrlptuie. Yet what a dirfercnco lu point of view, how greatly Its value Is enhanced, The time was, and somu still so feel, that people thought the book to be verbally liiRplrcd; that Is, that It was literally, hlstoilcally and spiritually, spiritu-ally, true word for word from the llrsl of (icncBls to the last of the book of Hovelatlous; that eni.li of tho writers writ-ers wns used simply as a "pen In the lingers of Ood." Such an interpretation interpreta-tion could only mean that Ood 'a revelation reve-lation of Himself to man was full and complete fiom thu very beginning of things and that the Hlble was a moro or less complete account of the failures fail-ures of man to accept and live that revelation. Such a method also put the believer In full opposition to selence, for we grant that In all othoi things of life and men there Is ti gradual growtiraud development from the less perfect towards the more perfect. As n result of tho now Hlbln study, we, today, low tho book from a different dif-ferent angle. It Is still tho Hook of Life, but how different, how much fullor nud moro perfect n book. It Is now lu a sense fuller than ever before be-fore the record of God's revelation of life to man. A progressive revelation that fully and completely fits lu with .the decrees of tho sclenco of the world and oven helps to bring out thu fullness full-ness of that science. When In the course of the evolution of man ho reached a stage where he was more than animal, Ood began to reveal his personality to the personality, personal-ity, tlio divine, In man Then as man developed and grew Ood over, through Ills Inspired prophets and teachers, revealed Himself more and moro fully, Ood ever giving as much of the wholo and well rounded truth as man was able, to understand and In attempt to live. Tho Hiblo then from n modern point of view shows 011 the one hand God's gradual revelation of the truth and on tho other man's gradual acceptance ac-ceptance of that truth and his ever more perfect attempt to live It. Tho Old Testament Ih the record of 'ho gradually growing moral consciousness con-sciousness nud llfo In man. When that development linn progressed sufficiently suf-ficiently God gave to thu world of man Ills beloved Sou that He might, by taking tipou'lllmself tho nature of man, show tho life, as God had re-1 re-1 vnaled to man, actuallred In the life of tho Sou of man and at tho same time sum up and round out the teach. I lugs of the past. The Now Testament Is the revelation of that llfo nud then an nccount of how man accepted II nud began tn Incorporate it Into his own life and tn lit environment to tin teachings of Christ |