The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-07-28
From The German Of Caissen.
ACCURACY Of THE BIBLE.

An astonishing feature Of the word of God is,
that, notwithstanding the time at which its compost
tons written and the multitude OF the topics to
which it alludes there is not physical error not
assertion allusion dproyed by the progress OF
modern science None of those mistakes which the
science of each succeeding age discovered IN the
books Of the preceding above all, Of those alb
surdties which modern astronomy indicates in such
great numbers IN the writings of the ancients in
their sacred codes--ln their philosophy and even ~
the finest pages of the fathers Of the church not
of these is TO be found in any of our sacred
books. Nothing will there contradict that which
after many ages, the Investigations Of the learned
world have been able TO reveal TO the state OF
globe, on that Of the heavens Peruse with care our
Scriptures from one end 10 the other TO find there such
spots. Aud wh you apply yourself TO this examina
tion remember that IT !: ok which speaks Of eve
~ thing which describes nature which iecltes its
creation, which tells If the water Of the atmosphere
of the mountains OF the animals, and of pants, IL
book which teaches Us the FIRST revolutions of the
world and which also foretels its last il recounts
them IN the circumstantial language Of history, il
exos them in the sublimest strain. Of poetry and II
chaunts them m The charms ofgowing song II is a
book which Is full Of oriental rapture elevation va
rety, and bodress. IL i. book which speaks of the
heavenly and Invisible world, whilst IT speaks OF
the eartn and things visible. IL is a book which
nearly fifty writers, u every degree of cultivation,
and oil every state, of every condition. and living
through the curse Of teen hundr-d years have con
CURED 10 make. II - a book which was written
m the centre of Asia, In the sands of Arabia in the
deserts Of JUDAH IN the courts Of the temple Of the
Jews, the music school of the PR phets Of Bethel and
OF jericho, In the sumpuous palaces of Baby Ion and
the idolatrous banks Of Chebar and finally in the
centre OF ives ern civilization, In the midst Of the
Jews and oi their ignorance in the midst of pol he
ism and ITS ols, as also in the bosom Of panheism
and of its sad philosophy. 1t is book whose first
writer had been forty y pupil OF the m gicians
OF Egypt, IN whose opinion the sun the stars aud the
elements, were endo~ ed with intelligence reacted on
the elements, and governed the world by per etual
alluyium II Is a book Whose first writer preceded,
by more than nine hundred years, the most ancient
philosophers OF ancient Greece and Asia-the Tha-
eses and the Pytbagorsses, The Zalcuses the Keno
phons and the ConlucIuses II is a book which car.
ries IFS ma raons to the hiersrches OF angels
even TO the most distant epoch of the future AMI the
glorious scenes Of the last day. Well search among
ITS 81 authors, search among its sc books, its Iso
chapters, and It's 81 l1J verses-scarch for only one
OF those thousand errors hat the anciens and the
moderns COZ mitted when they speak Of the heavens
or the earth, of their revolutions Of the elements
search, but you will find none.