The Living Word by H. Grattan Guinness

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 12, 1915

The Living Word

By H. Grattan Guinness

COUNTLESS volumes have been written on this theme without exhausting it, and witnesses to the Bible still multiply. The mighty Past is speaking. God is bringing forth its testimony. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, have broken the silence of the ages. The moldering monuments, the buried cities, the sandy deserts, the sculptured rocks, have found a voice. Sinai and Petra, Horeb and Hermon, echo the sacred oracles. Memphis and Tyre, Tadmor and Nineveh, have risen from their graves. The painted papyrus, the pictured walls, the stone tablets, the rusted medals and coins bring forth their testimony. The ruins, the rivers, the mountains, and the seas cry out, “Thy word is truth.” And the living witness as well as the dead. The Samaritan still lingers at Sychar; the Jew still wanders in every land. The church of Christ still lives, and spreads throughout the world. The gospel still regenerates. The promised Spirit still sanctifies, and witnesses in Christian hearts. In a word, history and experience confirm the Scriptures, and assure us that through the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New, and above all through his Son, God himself has spoken to our race; and that the word which he has spoken liveth and abideth forever.

— H. Grattan Guinness, D. D.