The Just Recompense Part XVI. The Home The Marriage Institution A Happy Home, And How To Make It Religion In The Home Honor Due To Parents Child Training The Mother Teaching The Children Promises For The Children Evils Of City Life Purity Part XVII. Health and Temperance Good Health Christian Temperance Evils Of Intemperance The World’s Curse Scripture Admonitions (A Responsive Reading) True Temperance Reform Part XVIII. The Kingdom Restored The Kingdom Of Glory The Saints’ Inheritance Promises To The Overcomer The Subjects Of The Kingdom Eternal Life The Home Of The Saved The New Jerusalem The Conflict Ended Pleasures Forevermore The Game Of Life In Progress The Game Of Life Lost The Game Of Life Won Index Of Subjects [Illustration.] The Word Of God. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Ps. 119:105. THE BIBLE; ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PLACE IN THE WORLD The Bible contains proof in itself of its divine origin. No other book can answer the questionings of the mind or satisfy the longings of the heart as does the Bible. It is adapted to every age and condition of life, and is full of that knowledge which enlightens the mind and sanctifies the soul. In the Bible we have a revelation of the living God. Received by faith, it has power to transform the life. During all its history a divine watch-care has been over it, and preserved it for the world. How, When, and Why Written After the flood, as men became numerous, and darkness was again settling over the world, holy men wrote as they were moved by the Spirit of God. Thus God spoke to His people, and through them to the world, that a knowledge of God and of His will might not perish from the earth. For centuries this work went on, until Christ, the promised Seed, came. With Him, and the blessed message of light and salvation proclaimed by Him and by His apostles, the Scripture record closed, and the Word of God was complete. Original Writings and Translations The Old Testament Scriptures were first written in Hebrew, upon scrolls, or rolls of parchment, linen, or papyrus. These were later translated into Greek, the oldest translation being known as the Septuagint, or “Version of the Seventy,” made at Alexandria, for the Alexandrian Library, by a company of seventy learned Jews, under the patronage of Ptolemy Philadelphus, about 285 B.C. The original order for this translation is said to have been given by Alexander the Great, who previously, upon visiting Jerusalem in 332 B.C., had learned from the prophecy of Daniel that Grecia was to overthrow the Persian kingdom. See Josephus’s “Antiquities of the Jews,” book 11, chap. 8, par. 5. This was the version in common use in the time of Christ.