HAVE WE ANY NEED OF THE BIBLE?
Religion consists of the knowledge of a number of great facts, and of a course of life suitable to them.

We have seen three of these: that God created the world; that he governs it; and that he is able to conquer his enemies.

There are others of the same sort as needful to be known.
Our knowledge of these facts, or our ignorance of them, makes not the slightest difference in the facts themselves.

God is, and heaven is, and hell is, and sin leads to it, whether anybody believes these things or not.

It makes no sort of difference in the beetling cliff and swollen flood that sweeps below it, that the drunken man declares there is no danger, and, refusing the proffered lantern, gallops on toward it in the darkness of the night.