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WHO MADE THE BIBLE?

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 4, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 29.

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WHO MADE THE BIBLE?

WHEN a young collegian said to Dr. Wayland that he did not think it required great wisdom to make such proverbs as those of Solomon, the old man replied, "Make a few, make a few."
The world has been producing literature for ages, but where are the books that infidels themselves would set forth as being fit for companionship with the Bible? Men can make laws, creeds, fashions, disciplines, systems, and theories, but when we think of being shut up to them, how small, how mean, how meager they are. Take any church and deprive it of the Bible, and leave it nothing but its creed, and what a miserable show it would make; but give it the Bible with nothing else, and it would have a collection of law, literature, poetry, and ethics, such as the world could not parallel. Who made this book? It comes down to us from rude and dark ages. Surely the breath of God streams through this volume as through no other book which the world has ever seen. It carries its own credentials, and the world must confess, when listening to the words of Jesus, "Never man spake like this man." -The Christian.