There is a vitality in them which passes on into the nature which is open to receive it.

They have again and again inspired intellectual movements on a wide scale, as they are constantly recreating individual ideals and aims.

Whatever view may be held of the authority of the Bible, it is agreed that its power as literature has been incalculable by reason of the depth of life which it sounds and the range of life which it compasses.

There is power enough in it to revive a decaying age or give a new date and a fresh impulse to a race which has parted with its creative energy.

The reappearance of the New Testament in Greek, after the long reign of the Vulgate, contributed mightily to that renewal and revival of life which we call the Reformation; while its translation into the modern languages liberated a moral and intellectual force of which no adequate measurement can be made.