The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-01-22
ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE.
tContiausd.)

An astonishing feature of the Word of
God, is notwitstandng the time at which
its compositions were written, and the
multitudes of topics to which it alludes,
there is not one physical error--net one
assertion or allutioh disproved by the pros
gress Of modern science. None of those
mistakes which the science of each sue.
ceeding age discovered in the books of the
preceding; above all, none Of those alb
surdiues which modern astronomony ind
Gates in such great numbers in the writ ers =,
philosophy, and even in their fnest pages
of the fathers of the chuI ch-not one of
these errors is to be found in any Of our
sacred books. Nothing there will ever
con tradict that which after so many ages,
the Investigations of the learned world
have been able TO reveal o us, on the state
of our globe, or that of the heavens. Pc
ruse With care our Scriptures, from one
end to the otheSsIand find there such spots,
ana whilst you apply yourselves to this
examination, remember that it is boo k
which speaks Of every thing, which de
scribaa nature, which recites its creation
vi ich tells Of the water, the atmosphere
fof 4he mountains, Of the animals, and ot
the plants 1t is book which teaches us
| of the revolutions OF the world, and which
also fofate!ls its last. 1t recounts them
| in he circumstanlial language ofhiatory
| il exto!s them in the sublimsst s,rainb bi
! poetry and chaunts them ia the charm
Of glowing song. 1t is a book which is
| ftij 0 gst tssi,al rartare, ,claFSt ION, y4ciety
apd-boidness. Il is book which speaks
/. Of tAse heavenly and invisible world, whilst
| it also speaks OF the earth ana thugs ,is>
ible. 1t is book which nearly ffty wri,
ters of every degree of cultivation, of
every stage, ofevery condition, and living
through tie course of fifteen hundred ears,
have concurred to make. 1t 10 book
which was written in the ceutre of Asia,
in the sande of Arabia, AMI in the deserts
of the Jews, in the music schools of the
prophets of Bethel and Jericho, in the
sumptuous palaces Of Babylon, and ON the
idolatrous banks Of Chebar, and finally, in
the centre Of Western civilization, in the
midst Of Poly ytheism and it's i!ols, and in
the bosom Of pantheism aud its sad philo
sophy. II is book whose first writer had
been forty years pupil of the ma gicians
Of Europe; in whose opinion the sun, the
stars, and The elements, were endowed
with inleligencs,reaoted on the elements.
and governed the world by a perfect al
luyium.
II ia book hose first writer preceded
by more than nine hundred years, the most
aucent philosophers of ancient Greece
and Asia; The Thaleses and the Py thag oras-
ses, Zalucuses, Xenophons and the Con-
fucintes. 1t is book which carries Its
narrations even to the hiersrchies of an
gels; even to the most distant epoche of
the future, and the most glorious scenes
OF the last day Well, search among its
sixty.six books, its l, l99 chapters, and
its 81, 1923 yerses--search for only one of
the errors, which the sncients & moderns |
when they speak OF the heavens
or the earth, or of their elements-search, |
but you will find none!