“BIBLE IS HIGH EXPLOSIVE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 12

“BIBLE IS HIGH EXPLOSIVE”

ADDRESS BY MR. BALDWIN Mr. Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, said the other day in an address that the Bible is not only the greatest literature in the world, but beyond all it has been in the nature of a high explosive in the world. “It is a high explosive,” he said, “but it works in strange ways, and no living man can tell or know how that Book in its journeyings through the world has started the individual soul in 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith. These things are hidden until some man. some people, is touched beyond all this by the divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly, through the centuries, have startled the world • and stimulated mankind and which, as sure as we are meeting in this room, will recur again. “So much of our time in this world we seem to be carrying on our struggle in twilight or in fog—friends, and men who ought to be friends, hitting blindly in the melee and wounding men who are or ought to be their brothers. Xothing but the light which comes from that Book can lighten that twilight or dispel that fog.’’