It is sometimes objected by skeptics, that the Bible has been through so many manuscripts and versions, that it is altogether uncertain whether it is essentially the same as it was written. But these people either know or are willingly ignorant that the Hebrew Bible—i. e., the Old Testament—is in the original language still, as is also the Greek New Testament. Neither of these have been corrupted by translation, for they are in the same tongue in which they were written. Neither is the English translation essentially different from the original, as anybody who can read Greek or Hebrew can see for himself. Moreover there is a manuscript at Rome which is 1400 or 1500 years old, and another as old or older has recently been found in the East by one of the best scholars in the world, in the employ of the Russian Government. Then, too, there is a translation of the New Testament into the ancient Syriac, made, perhaps written, fifty years after the death of the Apostle John, and widely circulated in Asia. This has recently been translated into English, and is a valuable witness of the general accuracy of our common English New Testaments. No one who carefully examines the subject, will have a reasonable doubt that our means of knowing what the Apostles and Prophets wrote, are, in the main, as good as if we had lived in the second or third century.—Sel.