Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-01-12
From the German of Gauseen.
ASTONISHING ACCURACY OF
THE BIBLE.

he DlDLC.
An astonishing feature of the word of God
is that Notwithstanding the time at which its
compositions were written, and the multi
tudes Of the topics to which it alludes, there
is not one physical error-not one assertion
or aluson disproved by the progress of
modern science. None Of those mistakes
which the science Of each succccdingagc dis
covered in the books of the proceeding -
above all, none Of those absurdities which
modern astronomy indicates in such great
numbers in the writings of the ancients-in
their sacred codes, in their philosophy, and
even in the finest pages of the fathers of the
church not one of these errors is to be found
in any of our sacred books. Nothing there
will ever contradict that which after so many
ages, the investigations Of the learned world
have been able TO reveal TO us on the state of
our globe, or on that of the heavens.
Peruse with care our Scriptures from one
end to the other, to find there such spots 5
and whilst you apply yourselves to this ex-
animation, remember that it is book which
speaks ofeverythng, which describes nature,
which reciles its creation, which tells US OF
the water, of the atmosphere, Of the noun
tains, of the animals, and of the plants. 1t
is a book which teaches us the first revolu-
tions of the world, and which also fortclls its
last; it recounts them in the circumsanlial
language Of history; it exlols them in the
sublmest strains Of poetry, and it chants
them in the charms of glowing song. 1t is a
book which is full of oriental raptures, eleva-
ton, variety and boldness. 1t is book
which speaks of the heavenly and invisible
world, whilst ii also speaks of the earth and
things visible.
1t is book which nearly fifty writer's, Of
every degree of cultivation, of every state, OF
every condition, and living through the course
of fifteen hundred years, have ooncurred to
make. 1t is book which was written in the
centre of Asia. in the sands of Arabia. and
in the deserts of Judah; in the courts of the
temple of the Jews, in the music schools Of
the prophets of Bethel and Jericho, in tho
sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and on the
idolatrous banks of Chebar and finally, il
the centre of the western civilization, in the
midst of the Jews and of their ignorance, If
the midst of poiytheism and its idols, as alsc
in the bosom Of pan,heism and of its sad phi
losophy. Ii is book whose first writer hat
been forty years pupil of the magicians o
Egypt, IN whose opinion the sun, the stars
and the elements, were endowed with intel
igence, reacted on the elements, and gov
erned the world by perpetual aluvium.
1t is a book whose first writer proceeded
by more than nine hundred years, the mos
ancient philosophers of ancient Greece, ant
Asia-the Thalesea, and the Pythagorases
Ahe Zalucuses, the Xenophons, and the Con
iuciuses. 1t is a book which carries its mar
rations even to the i,ierarchies of angles
even 10 the most distant epoch of the future
and the glorious scenes of the last day.
Well, search among its so authors, searcl
among its &c books, its 119S chapters, ant
its 81 ,l73 verses, search for only one of those
thousand errors which the ancienis and tn,
.moderns committed, when they speak of tn,
heavens or Of the earth, of their revolutions
of the elements; searcl-but you will fnt
none.