CAN stones speak? Can rocks make their voice to be heard? The Lord said
of His people on His entrance into Jerusalem, “If these should hold their
peace the stones would immediately cry out.” And this is very much what
those very stones are now doing; for the stones of Palestine are
beginning to speak with a voice so clear and decisive that it seems a
perfect marvel that any thinking man should be able to resist their
evidence. Now therefore, if God permit, we will study their testimony;
we will put the rocks into the witness-box, and endeavour calmly to learn
from them what they teach us of the truth of God. There are three
subjects on which their evidence is conclusive—the geographical accuracy,
the historical truth, and the prophetic inspiration of the Scriptures.
Let us examine them on all three points, and may that divine Spirit who
inspired the word of His own great grace bring it home to our
understandings and our hearts!