tians and Ephesians.

Chapter XXXII. Philippians and Colossians

Chapter XXXIII. First and Second Thessalonians.

Chapter XXXIV. First and Second Timothy.

Chapter XXXV. Titus and Philemon.

Chapter XXXVI. Hebrews and James.

Chapter XXXVII. First and Second Peter.

Chapter XXXVIII. First, Second and Third John and Jude.

Chapter XXXIX. Revelation.

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Chapter I.

Why We Believe The Bible.

There are two lines of proof of the reliability of the scriptures, the
external and the internal. These different kinds of evidences may be
put down, without separation, somewhat as follows:

1. The Formation and Unity of the Bible. There are sixty-six
books written by nearly forty men, who lived at various times, and yet
these books agree in making a perfect whole. These writers were of
different classes and occupations. They possessed different degrees of
training and lived in widely different places and ages of the world.
The perfect agreement of their writings could not, therefore, be the
result of any collusion between them. The only conclusion that can
explain such unity is that one great and infinite mind dictated the
scripture.

2. The Preservation of the Bible. That the Bible is a divine book
is proven in that it has survived the wreck of empires and kingdoms
and the destruction of costly and carefully gathered libraries and
that, too, when there was no special human effort to save it. At times
all the constituted powers of earth were arrayed against it, but it
has made its way against the tide of fierce opposition and
persecution.

3. Its Historical Accuracy. The names of towns, cities, battles,
kings, empires and great events, widely apart in time and place, are
given without a blunder. The ruins of cities of Assyria, Egypt and
Babylon have been unearthed and tablets found that prove the accuracy
of the Bible narrative. These tablets corroborate the stories of the
creation and fall of man, of the flood, the tower of Babel, the
bondage in Egypt, the captivity, and many other things. This accuracy
gives us confidence in the reality of the book.

4. Its Scientific Accuracy. At the time of the writing of the
Bible. there were all sorts of crude and superstitious stories about
the earth and all its creatures and processes. It was humanly
impossible for a book to have been written that would stand the teat
of scientific research, and yet at every point it has proven true to