The Bible, the Book of Mankind

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Excerpt from The Bible, the Book of Mankind: A Paper Read at the World's Bible Congress Held at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, Cal, , August 1-4, 1915But this only means that they are the first Jew and the first Greek that we happen to know oi, who read the Scriptures and remained unconvinced. How many in the meantime had read and believed! As the same writer reminds us, Aristides, the earliest of the Apologists, exhorts his heathen readers, after reading his own work, to take into their hands and to read the Holy Scriptures themselves This appeal to the Holy Scrip tures runs through all the Apologies, from the earliest to the latest, and shows that their authors were united in the belief that the regular way to become a convinced Christian was to read the Holy Scriptures. In this way Justin (dial. 7) and Tatian (oral. 29) and Theophilus (ad Autol. I. 14) expressly say that they themselves became Christians. And again, for a little later time: The Church was ever most anxious that the Bible should be Open and accessible even to the heathen, for she had again and again learned by experience that the Bible was her best mis sionary. The conversions of Hilary (a'e T i. 5. 10) and Victori nus (augustine, Confess. VIII., in Rome were notable examples, these men had been led to the Church by the Holy Scriptures. We cannot avoid perceiving that in the first age of Christianity the Bible was, and was understood to be, the seed of the Church.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.