It is old. It is beautiful. It is the only hope we have. If we cast it
away we become as the brutes of the field, both in spirit and in body.
The strong take from the weak and perish into nothing--this is all that
is offered us by those who reject and revile the Bible. Such have
exceeding deep ignorance, exceeding ill manners, exceeding bad taste,
and exceeding great folly. "I find more sure marks of the authenticity
of the Bible," says Sir Isaac Newton, "than in any profane history
whatever." We use the word "secular" nowadays where "profane" was
formerly written. "Profane" meant "before" or "outside" the "fane," or
"temple."