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LMOST instinctively at this time I turn to John iii. 16 for my text—to John iii. 16.—where I read: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Before I begin I would like to make it perfectly plain that I stand by the Bible from cover to cover—all in—from the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis to the last verse of the last chapter of the Revelation of St. John. For the moment I am not out to defend the Bible—the Bible can be left to take care of itself; and I note, in passing, that when men attack the old Book, it only ends in the biter being bit.

Only a few years ago a sceptic wrote from a certain room of a house in Paris that the Bible