The Book

THE WONDER OF THE BOOK 



The wonder of the Book, my friends, grows 
on us as our experience is enlarged, for the 
more deeply we search it the more we feel 
that the Bible is not merely a book, but The 
Book, and that Sir Walter Scott in his dying 
hour was right when he asked his son-in-law 
to read to him out of the Book, and in answer 
to the question, "What Book" replied 
"There is only one Book, the Bible. 'In the 
whole world it is called 'the Book.' All 
other books are mere leaves, fragments. ' ' Yes. 
It alone is the perfect Book. It is the eternal 
Book. It is the Voice; all others are merely 
echoes. Of course, you all know that tbe 
Bible literally means the Book. It is a trans- 
lation of the Greek title of the Bible,
Biblos; in English, the Book. It is the Book 
that stands alone; unapproachable in grand 
eur; solitary .'in splendour; mysterious in »•• 
acendancy; as high above all other books as 
heaven above earth, as the Son of God above 
the sons of men. 

Hague