Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05
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CONDUCTED By
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
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INFIDELITY.

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INFIDELITY.
The genealogical meaning of the word inf
del is zone who is unfaithful." He who neg
lects to discharge any duty which he owes,
either to himself, to his fellow men, or to his
God, may, with propriety Of speech, be called
an infdel. The word, however, is restricted
in it's application and is used by theologians
generally, to denote one who calls in question
the inspiration of the Scriptures.
In ten thousand ways, Satan, the great enc
my of all good, has been laboring to incite
men to doubt the truthfulness of God. Every
attack Satan makes, is, either directly or indi-
rectly, aimed at the word Of God. To Eve,
in the Garden of Paradise, he said, eye shall
not surely die" This is only a cunningy de-
vised mode of speech, which is equivocal in
import to the harsher and repulsve expression
s'God is not truthful" This last expression,
Satan, no doubt, thought would have shocked
the ears Of Adam and Eve, hence he modestly
said, ''Ye shall not surely die" To believe
this declaration Of Satan was to disbelieve the
declaration of God.
If every sin is traced to it's origin, it will be
found to have its beginning in doubling the
truthfulness of God. 1t has been 80 often and
so convincingy proven that the Bible is the
word of God, that it is only occasionally that
any individual will dare deny the fact. Such
being the case, Satan makes his attack more
adroitly. Men are rarely urged to question
the inspiration of the Bible as whole. This
would shock the ears Of common decency, and
frustrate all his diabolical purposes Instead
of suggesting to men that the whole Bible is
uninspired, he suggests to them that part of
it is the word of God, and part is not. Some
are led to believe that what Jesus Christ him
self said is inspired, but what Moses, David,
Isaiah, jeremiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Paul
and Peter said, is not inspired. This is a most
insidious attack. 1t strikes at the very found
alton Of tile whole. If what Paul said is not
as truthful and authoritative as what Jesus
Christ said, the whole foundations of inspira-
tion are swept away. The same is true con-
corning all the writer's of the Bible. If they
were not moved by the Holy Ghost to write
what they did write, then we have no Bible,
and it would be impossible to prove that Jesus
Christ is the Saviour, or, in fact, to prove that
there ever will be Saviour If the whole
Bible is not inspired, then none of it may be.
If one part is the word of God, and another
part is not, who is able to distinguish between
what is Gods word and what is not his word
| The doctrine of part inspired and part
uninspired Bible seems to be the favorite weap-
Oh which Satan is using at the present time to
harass the people of God and impede the pro-
gress of the gospel.
1t is not strange that wicked men league
with the devil and put forth all their might in
attacks upon the Bible. Whatever detracts
from the truthfulness of the Bible encourages
sin. 1t will be found on examination, that all
those who question the inspiration of the Bible
Bible is wholly on account of it's purity, or
because it forbids sin.
| fT Patience is the endurance of any evil, out
Of the love of God as the will Of God. The
offices of patience are as varied as the ills of
life We have need Of it with ourselves and
with others with those above and below us,
and with equals; with those who love us, and
those who love us not for the greatest things
and the least against sudden trouble, and un-
der daily burdens; disappointments as to the
weather or the breaking of the heart in wea-
riness Of body, In wearing Of soul; in ourown
failure, and others failure to us. In all these
things, from childhood's little troubles to the
martyrs sufferings, patience is the grace of
| God, whereby we endure evil for the love of
Him, and keep still and motionless not to Of
| fend him.
MANS WAY AND GODS WAY.-Man's way
is, "Have patience with me- and will pay thee
ALL" Gods way is, II, even I, am he that
blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy SINS" Man
in his self-sufficiency, would wait until he can
give or do something to earn salvation for him
self but when taught of God he comes emp
ty-handed, and joyfully receives at once eter
nal life as 1.-THE gift of God through Jesus
Christ" 1t is then that he inquiries, "What
shall 1 render to the Lord ?'-working not
for life, but from life, as the old divines would
say.
CHRIsT's LEGAC1Es.-Whe Christ was
about leaving this world he made his will
His soul he committed to his Father his body
he bequeathed to Joseph, to be decently in
tered his clothes fell to the soldiers his
mother he left to the care of John. But what
should he leave to his poor disciples that had
left all for him? Silver and gold he had none,
but he left that which was infinitely better,
his peace. "Peace leave with you, my peace
give unto you." And eternal life also 81
give unto them eternal life, and they shall
never perish"
Eg~ When truth rules right royalty over the
conscience and the life, it crowns us, and we
wear it as a diadem Of praise. But how prone
we are to wear it as our personal adOrnment
as something which we have wrought out and
perfected, and so make 1t our crown of pride,
to draw with it the admiration and applause
of the crowd. Hence all our priestly ambi-
tions and all the selfish motives by which the
rites Of worship have been made aglow with
strange fire.. II. Sears.
a. A skeptic, who was trying to confuse
Christian colored man, by the contradictory
passages in the Bible, asked how it could be
that we were in the Spirit and the Spirit in us,
received the following reply:
"Oh dar's no puzzle bout dat. It's like
dat poker. puts it in de fire till it gets red
hot; Now, de poker's in de fire, an de fires
in depoker.'
A profound theologian could not have made
a better reply.
a. At deaf and dumb asylum a visitor was
particularly struck with the comeliness and in
teligence of one of the young inmates. He
asked him many questions, which were prompt
ly and correctly answered. At length he ven
tured upon most delicate inquiry "Why did
God make you deaf and dumb, and me to hear
and speak 20 The boy took the chalk and
wrote, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth
good in thy sight.''
a. Our children need to be thoroughly in
structed in right principles. Youth is the best
time to form their characters, and the Bible Is
the best textbook for this purpose. An hour
oh dow or q fayu bourc 1uriOp tha week SOent