Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-10-30
From lhe Gernan of.Gaussse

The Accuracy of the Bibie.-An aston
ishing feature of the word of God is, not
withstanding the time atwliich its compo-
silions were written aud:the mui,itudes of
the topics to which italludes, there is not
one physical error-not one assertion or
allusion disproved BY the progress Of mo-
dern science. None Of those mistakes
which The sciences o. ach succeeding age
discovered in the books Of the preceding !:
above all, none ofthose absurdities which
modern astronomy indicates in such great
numbers in1the writings of the ancients-iu
their sacred-in their philosophy, and
even in the finest pages Of the fathers Of
the church--nof one ofthese errors is 10
be found in any Of our sacred books.
Nothing there will ever contradict that
which, after so many ages, The inyestiga-
lion of The learned world have been able
to reveal to us on the state our globe, or
ON that of rhe heavens. Peruse with care
our Scriptures from one end 10 the other.
10 find there such spots. and, whilst you
apply yourselves 10 this examination, re-
member that il is book which speaks Of
everything, which describes nature, which
recites lis creation, which tells US Of The
water, of the atmosphere, of the noun
tains, Of the animals, and of the plant. II
is book which teaches us The first revo-
lutions Of The world, also foretells its last.
It recounts them in the circumstantiai lam
guase Of history, i, exports them in the
sublimesl strains Of poetry & it chants
them 10 the charms faptlre, elevation, va,
rie,y and boidness. It is a book which
speaks of the heavenly and invisible
world, whilstit also speaks Of the earth
alrd things VISIBLE. II is book which
nearly 6hy writer's Of every degree OF cul-
tiva,ion, OF every stale os every condition
and liviaS through the course of fifteen
hundred years have concurred 10 make.
1t isa boole which was written in the cen
tre1bf Asia, in the sands Of Arabia,,' aud in
the deserts, of Judea; in The court of the
temple Of the Jews, in the music schools
of sde prophets of Belheland Jericho, in
the sumptuous palace Of Babylon, and on
tho idolalrous banks of Chebar; and, final
ly, in the centre OF Western civilization, in
the midst of polylheism and its idols, as in
iue UOSOIIl OI pudutHeiSHl dnu ltS Sdo pun
osophy. II is book whose first writer
had been forty years a pupil Of the masi-
clans Of Egypt; in whose opinion the sun,
the stars, and The clements, and governed
The world by a perpetual aliuvium.' tits
a book whose first writer preceded by
more Than nine hundred years, the most
ancient phiosophersof ancient Greece and
Asia, the Thalesses,' and the P Pythasorases,
the Zaluecuses, the %snophons, and the
Confnsciuses.' II is a fox which carries
its narrations even to liz hierarchies Of an-
gels, even TO the most distant epochs Of
the future,' and the glorious scenes Of the
last day. Well, search among SO authors
search among its 66 books its l, lS9 chap
lers, and lis 81, ,7l3' verses, seach for only
one Of these three thousand errors. which
the ancien,s and moderus committed when
they speak Of The heavens, or Of the earth,
OF their evolutions, of their elements
search but you will find none.