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Rh attempts and incessant activity to disprove it. Men do not raise armies and keep incessant watch and ward against nothing; and the very struggle which unbelief keeps up from age to age, is virtually an acknowledgment that the human heart needs, yearns for, and is capable of believing in, a Divine Revelation.

2. Now reflect that the Sacred Scriptures claim to be such a revelation, and from age to age have made good their claim to countless multitudes. It is sometimes denied, I know; but so is the rotundity of the earth, and so is the beauty of art denied by those who have no eye, and the grandeur of music by those who have no ear, and the blessedness of brotherhood by those who have no love. The facts remain; over all the Scriptures is written the name of them, like the name on the vesture of Him whom John saw in vision, "The Word of God." It is the distinct and specific claim of Moses, and the prophets, and the Evangelists, that God spake unto them, and that what they have written is His Word. The claim is plainly there; it is either true or it is not. I confess a great deal of respect for the old argument that the effect of these Scriptures upon the mind and life of the disciple is strong presumption in favor of their claim. Those who are