The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1844-12-20
Astonishing Accuracy Of the
Bible.

Bible.
An astonishing feature of the word Of
God is, notwithstanding the time at which
it's compositions were written, and the mul
titude Of the topics to which it aIludes,
there is not one physical error--not one as.
sertion or illusion disproved by the progress
of modern science. None Of those mistakes
which the science of each succeeding age
discovered in the books preceding: above
all, none Of these absurdites which modern
astronomy indicates in such great numbers
IN the writings of the ancients in their sa\
cred cOdes-in their philosophy, and even
in the finest pages oc the fathers Of the
church-not one of these errors is to be
found in any of our sacred books. No thing
there will ever contradict that which, after
so many ages, the investigation of the learn.
ed 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, and, whilst you apply yourselves to
this examination, remember that it is
book which speaks of every thing, which
describes nature, in all its various forms,
and recltes 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.
tons of the world; and which also foretells
its last. 1t recounts them in the circum.
stantia language Of history, it extols them
In the sUblimest strains of poetry, and
CHANTS them in the charms Of glowing song.
, II is book which is full Of oriental rapture,
elevation, variety and bOldness. 1t is book
; which speaks of the heavenly and invisible
; world, whilst it also speaks Of the world
and things visible. II is a book which near
Sly fifty writer's Of every degree Of cultiva-
: ton, # every state, Of every condition and
4 living through the course of fifteen hundred
f years, have concurred to make. 1t is a
f book which was written in the centre oil
s Asia, in the sands Of Arabia, in the deserts
s of Judea, in the court Of the temple Of the
Is Jews: and in the music schools Of the pro.
phets Of Bethel and Jerico, in the sumplu
: Gus palaces Of Babylon, and on the idOla
s trous banks of Cuebar; and finally, in the
Is centre of the Western civilization, in the
midst of the polytheis and its idols, as il
IN the bosom Of patheism and its sad philos
" ophy. 1t is a book whose first writer haC
CT been forty years pupil of the magician
lie of Egypt, in whose opinion the sun, th'
e. stars, and elements were endowed with in
s. teligence, reacted on the elements, ant
ed governed the world by perpetual illuvium
lie It is book whose perpetual writer proceed
in ed, more than nine hundred years, the mos
he ancient philosophers of ancient Greece an
er Asia-the Thaleses, and the Pythagorase:
nd the Zalucuses, the XenOphons, and the Cor
air fuciuses. It is book which carries its nal
rations even to the hierarchies of angels
,ut even to the most distant epochs of the future
Ill. and the glorious scenes OF the last day.
tar Well, search among its so authors, scare
among its Sc books, its 1889 chapters, ar
vas its 3I,713 verses, search for only one
nd those thousand errors which the ancient ar
led moderns committed when they speak of Il
lu' heavens or Of the earth--of their revolt
or lions, oftheir elements; search-butyou W
e" find none.-FrOm the German Of Cause
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