THE Bible has been tried, tested, and proved by both foes and friends. By foes its genuineness has been suspected, its historicity assailed, its veracity impugned, its right to exist challenged, and its liberty to speak curtailed. By friends, too, the Bible has been tried. For thirty centuries, counting from the days of Moses, men and women in all ranks of society have put it to the proof and never found it to fail; have followed its precepts, trusted its promises, accepted its consolations, lived upon its hopes, and have been strengthened for duty, fortified against temptation, upheld in adversity, comforted in sorrow, supported in death, and sent away into the unseen world with the assurance of a glorious resurrection and a blessed immortality.
Thomas Whitelaw.