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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 19, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 25.

LITERARY NOTICES.

"Scientific Confirmations of Old Testament History." By G. Frederick Wright, D.D., LL.D., F.G.S.A., holding the chair of "The Harmony of Science and Revelation" in Oberlin College. Price, $2.00. Bibliotheca Sacra Company, Oberlin, Ohio.

The author of this book has devoted some thirty-five years or more to the study of his subject. He has had the opportunity of extensive travel in this country, Europe, Asia, and Africa for the purpose of making his investigations of geology. The doctor shows a profound reverence and respect for the Bible. He follows the usual lines of geology in supposing that the world existed for long periods of millenniums of years, but that phase of the subject is only referred to incidentally. He makes a strong argument on the ground that a universal flood that came up quickly and subsided quickly is the only hypothesis on which geologists can explain many of the things that exist in different parts of the earth. The Flood is mentioned in the literature of all ages and nations, but the Bible presents the only account that is straightforward and sensible. The other accounts are so grotesque in their presentation as to make them absurd.

The chapter on the "Witness of the New Testament" shows that the historical account of Christ, aside from what the Bible has to say of Him, is much more authentic and extensive than the accounts of such well-known historical characters as Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. All men will accept without question that these characters lived, and the evidence from history that Christ lived is even more abundant. It is not necessary for a person to agree with all the conclusions of the doctor, but there is a main formation of solid truth that runs thru the volume from beginning to end, and it is presented in such a way as to be very readable, refreshing, and helpful.