HOW IT HAS BEEN GUARDED.—
Rev. Adolph Saphir expressed the following striking thought at the anniversary of the British and foreign Bible Society: “Marvelous is the very existence of this book. One portion of it was preserved by the Jews, who have been most careful and scrupulous custodians of a historical record which faithfully and severely delineates their guilt and obstinacy—they have been the guardians of predictions which fully and clearly describe the person and work of a Messiah whom they reject; while the other portion of the Bible has been preserved and transmitted by a church, the errors of whose apostasy are anticipated and condemned in the very pages which they have so diligently preserved. Strange, indeed, the Synagogue guarding the Old, the Church of Rome guarding the New Testament.” It is not all the world that can pull a humble man down, because God will exalt him. Nor is it all the world that can keep a proud man up, because God will debase him.