ABSTRACT
The Bible is the great source of our knowledge of Religion, as Israel has conceived it. The Bible is divided into three great parts : The Pentateuch, or the "Five Books" of Moses, sometimes called the Torah, the Law ; The Prophets ; The Hagiographa, or Holy Writings. The Bible is the great treasury of religious truth. It is on that account revered by many millions of men outside the pale of Judaism. The Bible is an unique book. It has come to us with all the sanctity in which the reverence and affection of successive ages have clothed it. The Bible, being the work of godly men, necessarily contains both a Divine and a human element. The allegories and legends of the Bible serve a useful purpose ; they teach some precious moral or religious lesson, and teach it all the more forcibly by reason of the picturesque shape in which it is presented.
