Reasons for Believing the Bible
A good old Highlander gave Claudius Buchanan the following reason for believing the Bible to be from God: “I know nothing about what the learned men call the external evidences of revelation; but I will tell you why I believe it to be from God: I have a most depraved and sinful nature; and, do what I will, I find I can not make myself holy. My friends can not do it for me, nor do I think all the angels in heaven could. One thing alone does it — the reading and believing what I read in that blessed Book; that does it. Now, as I know that God must be holy, and a lover of holiness, and as I believe that Book to be the only thing in creation that produces and increases holiness, I conclude that it is from God, and that He is the Author of it.” Let those who imagine that a nation can be made Christian by incorporating the letter of a Christian creed into its constitution, remember the lessons of history. The worst despotisms that have ever cursed the world, were administered in the name of God. — N. Y. Tribune.