CONCLUSION Our task is finished.

We have passed under review some of the facts which have been won by modern discovery from the monuments of the nations who helped to create the history of Israel.

That history no longer stands alone like a solitary peak rising from the plain.

Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria have yielded up their dead; Canaan and even Arabia are now beginning to do likewise.

The Oriental world of the past is slowly developing before our eyes; centuries which were deemed pre-historic but a few years ago have now become familiar to us, and we can study the very letters written by the contemporaries and predecessors of Abraham, and read the same books as those that were read by them.