(RECAP) Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by O. R. KINGSBURY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. My Bible. My own dear Bible! How I love On these fair leaves to look! In early life it touched my heart, To silent rooms and shady bowers Sage penmen were inspired of old, In thee, O book! mine eyes behold What heavenly kindness in his face, What beauty in his crown! O best of books! wherein such grace, Such love to man is shown. The word Bible means simply Book, but the term is now applied only to the word of God. The book called by us the Bible, contains the revealed will of God as made known to holy men of old, and by them written down under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This book is entitled, The Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; it is called also, holy writ, and the word of God. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God." 2 TIM. 3:16. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." JOHN 6:63. "I will hear what God the Lord will speak." PSALM 85:8. Who was the earliest writer of the Bible? Moses wrote the first five books, namely, These, taken together, are called the Pentateuch; a word which signifies Five Books. 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." GEN. 1:1. "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." PSA. 33:6. |