Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-03-18
Accuracy of the BIhle.

Accuracy OF the bible. fr.
An astonishing feature of the word of God
is, that, notwithstanding the time at which its
compositions were written, and the multitude
Of the topics TO which it aludes, there is not
one physical error,--not one assertion or au-
sion dsproved by the progress of modern sci
ence. None of those mistakes which the SCI
cncc of each succeeding age discovers in the
books of the proceeding ; above all, none of
those absurdities which modern astronomy in-
dicates in snch great numbers, in the writing
OF the ancents-n their sacred codes, in their
philosophers, and even in the finest pages Of
the fathers of the church, not ono of these er-
Nothing there will ever contradict that which
after so many ages, the Investigations of the
learned world have been able 10 reveal to us
on the state Of our globe, or on that of the
heavens. Peruse with cafc our scriptures
from one end to the other, to find there such
spots. And whilst you apply yourselves to this
examination, remember that it is a book which
speaks of everything, which describes nature,
the formation of the heavens, of the light, of
the water, or the atmosphere, of the mountains,
of the animals and of the plants. 1t is book
which teaches us the first revolutions of the
counts them in the circumstantial language oi
history it extols them in the sublimest strains
! Of poetry, and it chants them in the charms OF
glowing song. 1t is book which is full OF
oriental rapture, elevation, variety, and bold
ness. 1t is book which speaks Of the heaven
/ ly and invisible world, whilst it also speaks OF
the earth and things visible. 1t is book which
nearly fifty writer's, Of every degree of cultva.
tion, of every state, ofcvery condition, and liv.
! ing through the course of fifteen hundred years
have concurred TO make. 1t is a book which
was written in the centre of Asia, in the sand.
Of Arabia, aud in the deserts of Judah, in the
courts of the temple of the Jews, in the music
schools of the prophets of Bethel and of jericho
in the sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and OF
the dolatrous banks of Chebar /; and finally
in the centre of the western civilization, ia tn,
midst oil the Jews ana OF tHelr ignorance, III ln
midst of polytheism and it's idols, as also in th
bosom of panthesm and of its sad philosophy
1t is book whose first writer had been fort
years pupil of the magicians ofEgypt, il
whose opinion, the sun, the stars, and the elc
ments, were endowed with intelligence, react
ed on the elements, and governed the worl
by perpetual efluyium. II is book who's
first writer proceeded, by more than nine hun
dred years, the most ancient philosophers c
ancient Greece and Asia,-the Thalesea, an
the Pythagoruscs, The Zalucuses, the Ncnc
phons, and the Contuciuses. 1t is book whic
carries its variations even to the hiearches {
angels, even TO the most distant epoch of th
future, and the glorious scenes OF the last day
Well, search among its 80 authors, search q
mong lis G6 books, Its llS9 chapters, and II
3l,l73 verses, search for only one ofthose thou
sand errors which the ancients and the modern
commit when they speak OF the heavens or {
the earth h---of their revolutions, or of their elt
ments ;search-but you will find none.-Fro'
} The German Of GauSSen.