How glorious and soul-satisfying is the description it gives us of God's plan of salvation, and the way by which our sins can be forgiven! The coming into the world of Jesus Christ, the God-man, to save sinners,--the atonement He has made by suffering in our stead, the just for the unjust,--the complete payment He has made for our sins by His own blood,--the justification of every sinner who simply believes on Jesus,--the readiness of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to receive, pardon, and save to the uttermost,--how unspeakably grand and cheering are all these truths! We should know nothing of them without the Bible. How comforting is the account it gives us of the great Mediator of the New Testament,--the man Christ Jesus! Four times over His picture is graciously drawn before our eyes. Four separate witnesses tell us of His miracles and His ministry,--His sayings and His doings,--His life and His death,--His power and His love,--His kindness and His patience,--His ways, His words, His works, His thoughts, His heart. Blessed be God, there is one thing in the Bible which the most prejudiced reader can hardly fail to understand, and that is the character of Jesus Christ! How encouraging are the examples the Bible gives us of good people! It tells us of many who were of like passions with ourselves,--men and women who had cares, crosses, families, temptations, afflictions, diseases, like ourselves,--and yet "by faith and patience inherited the promises," and got safe home. (Heb. vi. 12.) It keeps back nothing in the history of these people. Their mistakes, their infirmities, their conflicts, their experience, their prayers, their praises, their useful lives, their happy deaths,--all are fully recorded. And it tells us the God and Saviour of these men and women still waits to be gracious, and is altogether unchanged. How instructive are the examples the Bible gives us of bad people! It tells us of men and women who had light, and knowledge, and opportunities, like ourselves, and yet hardened their hearts, loved the world, clung to their sins, would have their own way, despised reproof, and ruined their own souls for ever. And it warns us that the God who punished Pharaoh, and Saul, and Ahab, and Jezebel, and Judas, and Ananias and Sapphira, is a God who never alters, and that there is a hell. How precious are the promises which the Bible contains for the use of those who love God! There is hardly any possible emergency or condition for which it has not some "word in season." And it tells men that God loves to be put in remembrance of these promises, and that if He has said He will do a thing, His promise shall certainly be performed.