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How Scotland Lost Its Hold of the Bible

By Iain H. Murray - Posted at The Banner of Truth : How Scotland Lost Its Hold of the Bible 1 was first published in The Banner of Truth magazine, No. 623-624 (Aug-Sep 2015). The article can be downloaded as a 28-page print-ready pdf here , and may be freely printed and distributed. Man is now thinking out a Bible for himself; framing a religion in harmony with the development of liberal thought; constructing a worship on the principles of taste and culture; shaping a god to suit the expanding aspirations of the age. … The extent of the mischief no one can calculate. A soul without faith, a church without faith, a nation without faith, a world without faith – what is to be their future? What is their present? When faith goes, all good things go. When unbelief comes in, all evil things follow. — Horatius Bonar. 2 There are times when Christians are conscious that a book has come to them just when it was specially needed. It was so with me one February day in 1954 when, as a