whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised
him from the dead."

It is said that a lawyer and a noted preacher, who was a lecturer,
happened to meet at a hotel breakfast-table. The lawyer suspected
that his companion was a preacher, and, as he was an infidel, he
thought he had a good opportunity to give a thrust at the Bible.

"Excuse me," said the lawyer, "I take it from your appearance that
you are a preacher."

"Yes, sir," said the preacher.

"Well, now," said the lawyer, "don't you find a great many
contradictions and difficulties you cannot understand in the Bible?"

"Yes, sir," replied the preacher.

"How, then," said the lawyer, "can you continue to believe in it?"

"Why," said the preacher, "do you see what I am doing with the bones
of this fish? I lay them aside and enjoy the good of the fish. So
with the Bible. I lay aside the things I cannot understand, and feast
upon the rich spiritual food it contains, willing to wait until all
mysteries shall be removed hereafter."

If the finite mind could understand everything contained in the
Bible, it would become worthless as a revelation, for the finite mind
could produce it. But since it reveals the infinite mind, we must
expect it to contain things that the finite mind cannot understand.