ing the Jews. It is
probable that the monument was completed after the death of Titus. It
consists of a single arch of Grecian marble, of exquisite proportions,
with fluted columns on each side. The frieze, which gives it special
interest and value, is on the right-hand side passing under the arch
going towards the Coliseum. It represents the triumphal procession of
captive Jews, the silver trumpets, the tables of shew-bread, and the
golden candlestick, with its seven branches. The candlestick itself is
said to have been thrown into the Tiber from the Milvina Bridge, on
the occasion of the battle between Maxentius and Constantine. Should
the proposal to turn the course of the Tiber be carried into effect it
is not impossible that this precious relic may yet be recovered.

_No book was ever produced by chance._ Every volume in the world is
indebted for its existence to some being or beings. And the Bible, we
are assured, could not but have had an intelligent author. But within
the range of intelligence there exist only bad beings, good beings,
and God. Hence, among these must be found whatever originates in
intelligence, for this classification includes all beings that are
intelligent. Now that bad beings--wicked men and infernal
spirits--could not have originated a book so full of goodness, is a
reasonable opinion; for it bears no resemblance to such an origin. It
commands all duty, forbids all sin, and pronounces the heaviest
penalties against all unholy conduct; and as darkness can not
originate light, so neither can evil originate good. Nor would it help
the matter to suppose that good beings--pious men and holy
angels--were the contrivers of these well-arranged records; for they
neither could nor would write a book, ascribing their own inventions
to divine inspiration; especially as such forgeries are most severely
reprobated in every part of it. As therefore God is the only remaining
being within the range of intelligence to whom the Scriptures can be
reasonably ascribed, they must, of necessity, have been written by
Him. And, indeed, the Bible is a work as much exceeding every effort
of mere man as the sun surpasses those scanty illuminations by which
his splendor is imitated, or his absence supplied.

We are now conducted, by fair and consecutive reasoning, to our last
general proposition, which is this: _God was the author of the Bible._

By the Bible we mean, of course, both the Old and New Testaments. "The