A Constant Miracle

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 29, 1912

A Constant Miracle

THE Bible itself is a standing and an astonishing miracle. Written fragment by fragment, throughout the course of fifteen centuries under different states of society and in different languages, by persons of the most opposite tempers, talents, and conditions, learned and unlearned, prince and peasant, bond and free; cast in every form of instructive composition and good writing,—history, prophecy, poetry, allegory, emblematic representation, judicial interpretation, literal statement, precept, example, proverbs, disquisition, epistle, sermon, prayer; in short, all rational shapes of human discourse,—and treating, moreover, of subjects not obvious, but most difficult; its authors are not to be found, like other writers, contradicting one another upon the most ordinary matters of fact and opinion, but are at harmony upon the whole of their sublime and momentous scheme.—Maclagan.