June - the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland
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Testimony to <strong>the</strong> Bible. 63characters were formed by pressure upon s<strong>of</strong>t clay, which wasafterwards baked. Hundreds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se clay tablets have beenfound in Babylonia, which dated fOUT thousand years beforeChrist." Sir C. Marston mentions !ano<strong>the</strong>r remarkable discovery."It was interesting," he says, "to record <strong>the</strong> recent discoverythat shorthand was known and largely practised in <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong>Christ. Dr. Langdon, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Assyriology at Oxford,brought clay tablets from <strong>the</strong> city <strong>of</strong> Kish in Babyloniawhich gave positive and conclusive evidence that <strong>the</strong> art <strong>of</strong>writing was practised four thousand years before Christ. From<strong>the</strong> tablets it had been clearly proved that <strong>the</strong> original religion <strong>of</strong>Mesopotamia was Mono<strong>the</strong>ism (worshipping one God), with amrid decline to Poly<strong>the</strong>ism (many gods) and belief in evilspirits." Dr. Langdon,and Dr. Woolley at VI', and Kishdiscovered <strong>the</strong> story <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Flood, and after careful examill1ationby Dr. Langdon, he obtained <strong>the</strong> date <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Flood as 3,400 B.C.This was <strong>the</strong> same date given in <strong>the</strong> Bible. Many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>cuneiform tablets are dated so many years "after <strong>the</strong> Flood."Although we need not, yea, must not lay any weight onArcha::ology las far as <strong>the</strong> Word <strong>of</strong> God is concerned, yet weshould be thankl'ul tlmt <strong>the</strong> very stones are loudly speaking Hispraise, and even witnessing with us against our adversaries that<strong>the</strong> Bible is <strong>the</strong> Word <strong>of</strong> God in every detail. The witness <strong>of</strong>two is essential in <strong>the</strong> courts <strong>of</strong> human justice against an 'accusedperson, but we have <strong>the</strong> witness <strong>of</strong> God Himself that <strong>the</strong> Bibleis His own vVord, also Prophets land Apostles and all believers,and over and above all <strong>the</strong>se witnesses, we can bring forward"clay tablets" to witness against our opponents that <strong>the</strong>y aretloplol'ahly deceived by Satan and led captive at his will to believea lip, rejecting truth, and <strong>the</strong>reby rejecting God's revelation toruin