VOLTAIRE, a French writer and infidel, once said that in a hundred years the Bible would be a forgotten Book. Copies would only be found in museums.
Some time after Voltaire’s wretched death, and long before the hundred years were up, the infidel’s house had become the property of the Geneva Bible Society. Out of it went forth thousands of copies of the Holy Scriptures.
At an auction sale once, ninety-two volumes of Voltaire’s works, part of a rich man’s library, were sold for $2.00.
A century later, another infidel, Robert Ingersoll, famous American lawyer and orator, held vast meetings and lectured against the Bible and Christianity. On one occasion he held up a Bible and declared, “in fifteen years I’ll have this Book in the morgue.”
The fifteen years went by. Then Ingersoll himself was in the morgue. But the Bible lives on!
ML-09/29/1974