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Testimony to the Bible. 63characters were formed by pressure upon soft clay, which wasafterwards baked. Hundreds of these clay tablets have beenfound in Babylonia, which dated fOUT thousand years beforeChrist." Sir C. Marston mentions !another remarkable discovery."It was interesting," he says, "to record the recent discoverythat shorthand was known and largely practised in the time ofChrist. Dr. Langdon, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford,brought clay tablets from the city of Kish in Babyloniawhich gave positive and conclusive evidence that the art ofwriting was practised four thousand years before Christ. Fromthe tablets it had been clearly proved that the original religion ofMesopotamia was Monotheism (worshipping one God), with amrid decline to Polytheism (many gods) and belief in evilspirits." Dr. Langdon,and Dr. Woolley at VI', and Kishdiscovered the story of the Flood, and after careful examill1ationby Dr. Langdon, he obtained the date of the Flood as 3,400 B.C.This was the same date given in the Bible. Many of thecuneiform tablets are dated so many years "after the Flood."Although we need not, yea, must not lay any weight onArcha::ology las far as the Word of God is concerned, yet weshould be thankl'ul tlmt the very stones are loudly speaking Hispraise, and even witnessing with us against our adversaries thatthe Bible is the Word of God in every detail. The witness oftwo is essential in the courts of human justice against an 'accusedperson, but we have the witness of God Himself that the Bibleis His own vVord, also Prophets land Apostles and all believers,and over and above all these witnesses, we can bring forward"clay tablets" to witness against our opponents that they aretloplol'ahly deceived by Satan and led captive at his will to believea lip, rejecting truth, and thereby rejecting God's revelation toruin
64 Free Pl'esbytel'ian Magazine.of the critics. They are born cowards! "The wicked flee whenno man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as lit lion." Thecirculation of the Bible is on the increase, and the wonderfulthing is that it is written nlmost in all the langUiages and dialectsspoken and known throughout the world. The gold and wealthof this poor generation is largely at the disposal of Satan tocarry on his evil designs :lg:ainst Cllrisl, the Gospel, and the soulsof men, yet, in the fa0e of' all 1Ilis, till' circulation of the Bible ison the increase! Britain alone l'l'l'pil'('s tilree hunched millionssterling per annum frol1l tile sal'e o[ strong drink. Last year thenational revenue on the sale of tob
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