The earliest portions of the Bible, the Pentateuch and the book of Job, are more than 3,000 years old. In these most ancient of all records every moral question bearing upon man's present and future relation with God-with creation, with time and eternity, with God and Satan, with angels and demons, with holiness and sin-are spoken of. Besides the moral truths and subjects contained in these books which make manifest the absurdities and gross darkness of the ancient philosophies, it contains numerous historical and scientific facts, which "Science" has vainly sought to overthrow. We invite skeptical young men especially to read with care the Bible. Search the book through from Genesis to Revelation; then produce one fact from the realm of nature contradictory to Scripture. Many philosophic schemes have been propounded by minds of past and present ages. Many a scientist has hurled attacks upon the matchless volume of which the Spirit of God is the writer-but where are the opponents of the Bible ? Where are the one thousand theories and conclusions of a proud and unbelieving world ? Look into the temple of science. See it strewn with the wreck of exploded schemes carefully formulated by the world's brightest intellects. The work of many a noble mind has been contemptuously rejected by succeeding investigators, who, in their turn, share the fate of their predecessors.

Almost every Bible fact and statement has been questioned by ancient and modern infidelity, yet the truthfulness and exactness of every word of God are the more apparent by the most searching examination. The countless number of the stars (Gen. 15:5); the rotundity of the globe (Isa. 40:22); the earth suspended in space (Job 26:7); vegetation apart from the light of the sun (Gen. i:11-13); the orderly series of creations (Gen. i); the origin of the human race (Gen. 2); the primitive languages of mankind (Gen. n); the historical origin of nations (Gen. 10); a primal creation, subsequent ruin and restoration of the earth as man's dwelling (Gen. i:1-3); the early ages and characteristics of human history (Gen. 5-9)-these and numerous other facts fill pages of the blessed Word of God, and modern science is only slowly awaking to the discovery one by one of these truths, and vaunting her wisdom in so doing!

We assert the peerless perfection of the Holy Scriptures, and we invite, with unshaken confidence as to the result, the faith of our readers in every statement of the word of God. Subjection of mind and of the moral being to the teaching of Holy Scripture casts light and warmth over, and is an impulse to earnest study, yet a check on human arrogance. Yes, we triumphantly reply to the scepticism of our days, The Bible is indeed the very Word of God. If it were mere human production, why not produce another work like it ? Why ? Because a learned world cannot produce another Bible.