Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-03-22
Inspiration Of the Bible.

Open the Bible. examine The tiity sacred
authors therein frOm Mu,es-who wrote
IN the wilderness 400 wear, before the
siege OF trov--to the fisherman son OF
/-brdee. vino wrote 1900 years LAT.
+ ,he>us and PatmOS under the rtf-Y
Domiidu and you will lind none ~ those
mistakes which the science uf every cOun-
tiy detects IN the works OF preceding gen
era'ions. Carefully 20 through the Bible
from Genesis to Revelat.ons in search of
such faults, and, as you carry on the in
ve>tigatiOn. remember that it is IA book
which treats of everything which describes
nature, which recUuuts its wonders
which records its creation. which tells Us
of the formation OF the heavens. OF the
light, Of the waters. OF the air, OF the noun
tains. OF animals, and OF plants; that it is
book which acquants us with the first
revolutions OF the world, and which fore
tells also its last; it is book which de-
scribes them with circumstantial details.
invests them with sublime poetry. and
chants them in fervent melodies, that il is
a book replete with Eastern imagery, full
OF majesty, variety and boldness that it is
a book which treats of the earth and things
visible. and at the same time OF the celes-
tial world and things invisible; that it is "A
book III which nearly fiity writers, OF every
degree oi cultivation. of every order, OF
every condition. and separated from one
another by 1900 years, have been engaged
that 1t is book written varlonsly in the
centre of Asia, in the sands of Arabia, in
the deserts OF Judea, in the porches of the
Jewish Temple, and IN the rustic schools
OF the prophets oi Bethel and Jericho, in
the magnificent palaces of Babylon, and on
the idoatrous banks of the ,Chebar, and
.fto "a. in th..r nf oil
zatlon. in the midst of the Jews aud their
ignorant councils, among Polytheism aud
its idols, and, as it were. in the bosom OF
Pantheism and its foolish philosophy that
il Is book whose first writer was, during
forty years, brought up among the magic
ians of Egypt, who regarded the sun. plan
cts and elements as endowed with inteili-
gence, reactiHg upon and governing our
world by their continual evaporation; and
that it is u book whose first pages preced-
ed by more than 800 years the most ancient
philosophers OF Greece and Asia-Tnales
Pythagoras, Zaleucus, ,Xenophon, and Con-
fucius; that it is book which carries its
records into the scenes of the invisible
world, the hierarchy OF angels, the latest
periods OF iutnrity, and the glorious con-
summation of all things. Well. search in
its 30 authors, its 66 books, its l ,1S9 chap
tefs. ana lts o1,lIo Nerses-sedfcu lot
single one of the thousand errors with
which every ancient and modern author
abounds when they speak Of the heavens
or the earth. of their revolutions or their
elements, and you will fail TO find it. . A..
Ii never does violence to facts. nor to the
principles OF sound natural philosophy.
Never in Que single instance will YOU find
it in opposition to the just ideas which
science has given us regarding the form of
our globe, its magnitude, and its glory.
There is, therefore, no physical error what
ever IN the Scriptures; aua this transcend
ent fact, which becomes more admirable In
proportion a 1t is made the sabject of
iDvestig alton, is a striking proof of the in
spiratiOn which dictated them even to their
least expressions.-(Gaussen