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: to it its unity. This is what gives to it its unique value. No other book has told men so well fmd so truly of goodness and God as the Bible. All that it says about God and all that it says about goodness is not indeed of equal value and of equal truth: there are degrees of excellence and of worth. But, taken as a whole, no other book has spoken and still speaks of God and goodness as this book, the Bible. And this is what has made the Bible precious and beloved through so many ages and to so many very different peoples. For God and Goodness can never grow old. Men and women always want to know about them, and in this respect one age is the same as another. The poetry of the Bible is often very beautiful, but men have not loved it for its beauty. Its stories are often very interesting, but men have not read them again and again for their intereslingness. Its proverbs are often very wise, but men have not learnt them for their wisdom. Its history records many facts, but men have not greatly cared for the facts. Just as the writers cared for the 'moral' more than for the facts (and the later the historians the less they cared for the facts and the more for the moral), so its readers have always cared for the history of the Bible because they found in it something which told them about God and goodness, about virtue and vice, holiness and sin, about God's rule in the world and how he governs it for the best. 3. The subject of the Bible, then, is Goodness and God. It was written in Hebrew by Hebrews and primarily for Hebrews. Hebrew was the name of a people (as English is the name of a people), wbo were afterwards called Jews. I who write this book nnd you who read it are Jews. Perhaps some of our great great great (and so on) fathers wrote a bit of the Bible itself. But we do...