The Grand Old Book by Le Roy E. Froom

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 27, 1914

The Grand Old Book

By Le Roy E. Froom

"THE grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever." Isa. 40:8.

YONDER at the entrance to the Mediterranean stands Gibraltar. And the swellings of the sea with majestic sweep have for ages surged up, up, up, against the giant rock, only and always to be hurled back into their own watery depths.

Even thus has the grand old Book weathered the blasts of ages. Like a mighty Gibraltar it stands. Infidels, skeptics, and higher critics have appeared on the stage of action, and passed into silence. The great of earth's past have done their utmost to destroy the Bible, but death has claimed them all. Thrones have fallen. Dynasties have perished. Empires have disappeared in the march of nations. Death has characterized the passing years, but the Rock of the eternal ages lives on forever.

"And so the Bible, anvil of God's word, For ages skeptic blows have beat upon; And though the noise of Paine, Voltaire, was heard, The anvil is unworn — the hammers gone."

Its precepts are binding. Its decisions are immutable. Christ is its grand theme. Our salvation is its supreme object. It reveals the one disease, sin. It points out the one remedy, the blood of Jesus Christ. Shall we not give its words the consideration their vital, far-reaching consequences demand?

LE ROY E. FROOM.