And Inspiration is for all, not for the few. No man
is without the " Light that light^th every man that
Cometh into the world." God spake to Bible-prophets
exactly as He speaks to us all now, but more clearly
because their hearts were more attuned to, and there-
fore more receptive of, His Spirit. How spirit —
God's Spirit or man's spirit — thus directly speaks to
spirit, we cannot tell. It does, and neither life nor
death, nor height nor length nor breadth act as a
barrier. But this direct action of spirit on spirit lies
in a region of which even the natural features baffle
human science.
If Inspiration is this, then the Bible is both the
most human and the most divine of books. Divine,
because, in the Bible, the Voice of God's own Spirit it
is which speaks to us from hearts so full of His Spirit
that in His Light they see light Human, because in
the Bible God's message comes to us in and through
man. Herein lies both the Bible's strength and its
weakness. Truth is never so effective as when
incarnate, and, as the most intensely human of
books, the Bible is all the more helpful just because
it is the heart-experience of men of God. None the
less "we have this treasure in earthen vessels." It is
God's message coloured by the human mind through
which it passes. The Bible contains God's Word,
but all of it is not the Word of God.
