A Sermon Preached by the Rev. A. N. Rowland on June 10, 1923, in Union Church; Shanghai "Tt is not the great that are and the inspiration of the standing." Job 32.8.
There is a very interesting description of this vexed eubje-t in the 32nd chapter of Job, especially in the. last six verses, and it helps us to answer the question whether inspiration has ceased, or can cease while God has a word and man a heart to give. The question was recently published in the form whether inspiration ceased 400 years before Christ. Well, if inspiration is a matter of books, as many hold, it certainly did not cease with the book of Malachi, because a large part of the Hebrew Bible was composed after his death. You know it has three parts which in turn came into the Canon (1) Law, (2) Prophets, (3) the Writings. The Writings include Psalms and Job, Ezra and' Nehemiah, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Esther and Daniel. It was surely by inspiration that these books came into being, and they all belong to the period B. C. 600-200, It was an age of literature that has left a great mark on history. It was not an idle, empty, uninspired age, but it was an age when the pen was stronger than the tongue.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.