The land and the Book match. They correspond in this great fact, that both are universal. It is a universal land that produces the universal Book. In the nature of things, only such a land could produce such a book. It is self-evident that the Book is universal. Is the land universal ? If so, this is the point of wonder, and that is where we see the hand of God. In former times, the point of wonder was the smallness of the land. How could so much come out of such smallness! With the idea of the smallness in their mind, popular writers cast about for analogies to show that this is the rule, viz:small lands have all along given the world its greatest treasures. Greece is small; so is Italy, so is Egypt, so is Scotland, so is England. Yet these have been leaders in the world.

In our day the wonder is not so much the smallness of the land as the universality which the creative Hand has packed into that smallness. It is because the universal has been packed into it that it has produced the universal Book. Things must match, and they do match. This is what modern researches illustrate.

Palestine is no larger than Vermont, but you could not produce the Book in the little State of Vermont. Why ? Because the universality which is found in Palestine is not found in the State of Vermont. In Palestine the geologist finds all the rock-formations of the earth, and all the geologic periods and ages. All the zones are here, and all the climes of the earth. Mt. Hermon is about 9,000 ft. above the level of the sea, and the Dead Sea is 1,300 ft. below the level of the sea; and between the tepid waters of the Salt Sea and the perpetual snows of Mt. Hermon, which never lifts its white cap from its brow, you have packed all zones and climates, from the frigid belt to the tropical equator, and also all the flora and fauna of the earth. You have, too, on its wonderful surface all the life that belongs to all zones. Palestine is the world in a nutshell.

A noted scientist who has spent the most of his life in the study of the natural features of the land says:" There is not another spot on earth where so much of nature is focused as in this little corner. You have Alpine cold and torrid heat. Here are all animals, birds, insects, plants, shells, rocks, of all zones." Accordingly the illustrations drawn from nature with which the Bible abounds are suited to all climes and are understood by all men. The Bible is a world-book made in a world-land. As the Jew is the miracle of history, even so the cosmopolitan land of the Jew is the miracle of geography. Palestine is the Bible in geography. Selected