who has ever lived or
will live while the world lasts:

It is the Message of God's Salvation through His Son Jesus Christ.

The message is for all; for the cleverest white man, the most ignorant
savage; for the black man of Africa, the yellow man of China, the tawny
little man who lives among the icefields of the Arctic Circle.

It does not matter who the person is, nor where he lives; a living
force exists in the Bible that will help every human being who acts
upon its words to become one of God's true sons and soldiers. No human
wisdom can explain this.

The Bible tells us about Christ. Before Christ came all teaching led
up to Him. He is the only safe Guide for our daily life. Through His
death alone we have hope for the future. From the first page to the
last the Bible speaks of Christ. This is the secret of its wondrous
power.

'_These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of
Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me._' (Luke
xxiv. 44.)

Although we speak of the Bible as one Book, because it tells one
world-wide story, yet this one Book is made up of many books--of a
whole library of books in fact.

[Illustration: BROKEN BITS OF CLAY BOOKS IN THE CUNEIFORM LANGUAGE,
BELONGING TO THE TIME WHEN MOSES WROTE THE FIRST WORDS OF GENESIS]

Go into a library, look at the well-stocked shelves. Here is a volume
of history, here a book of beautiful poetry, here a life of a great and
noble warrior. This book was written only last year, this one appeared
many years before you were born.

Just so is it with the books of the Bible.

For more than a thousand years God was calling the best and wisest men
of the Jewish nation to write for His Book. Some of the authors were
rich and learned; many were humble and poor. Kings wrote for it; a
shepherd-boy; a captive lad who had been carried away as a slave into a
strange land; a great leader; a humble fruit-gatherer; a hated
tax-collector; a tent-maker; many poor fishermen. God found work for
them all.

There are sixty-six books in the Bible, written by at least forty
different authors. Books on history; collections of sacred songs;
lives of good men and women; stirring appeals to the sinful. God chose
the men best fitted to write each part. He called them to His work; He
spoke to their hearts; He put His Spirit into their minds.

In these days thos