Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GIFT OF GOD. "God loved the world"—not only the Jews at Jerusalem, but all mankind; not only at the time of Jesus but before and since. Always, "since the world began" he has given his Word to all men, at all times, in so far as they were able to receive it. Whence came the wonderful instructions for life in the ancient writings of Enoch, Moses, David and the Psalmists, in the Vedas, the Avesta, the Gathas and Upanishads, in Isaiah and Lao Tse? Were they of Origins human or divine manufacture? They were always higher than the imaginations of men, and they were opposed to his natural desires. When their inner significances and realities are perceived, the oneness of their essentials is so evident there can be no doubt that they originated from a single source. They all had their origins in the Word of God, which in its essence is the same today, yesterday and forever. There is but One God; His Word is ever one and the same. That which is different is not His Word. Each of the great religions bases its teaching, faith, loyalty and existence upon confidence in the word of a single human founder. Each points back to him as the reliable one, the superlative one, the infallible one. But no word is infallible save that of God, andif those great ones were truly reliable, their word must have been the Word of God. The expression of that Word through such prepared human instruments has always been the method whereby man has learned the Will of God for his own life. They were the "mouths" of the Lord. That the Almighty God chooses a man to be his representative and his mouthpiece is shown in the interesting account, related in Exodus 3 and 4, of his appointment of Moses to be the Deliverer of his people Israel. After God called to him out of the burning bush and told him t...