Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-22

New Testament, anu ne ueclareu tuat uo
had found thirty thousand different
readings, but these differences were
unimportant, and were very small in dif'
ference, and were to be accounted Tor
on the ground that the Bible had come
down from generation to generatioD'
and had been copied by great many
different hands, and it is not surprising
that here and there there is word
changed, but about the great doctrines
of the Bible there is no difference. All
the sacred writers agree in these doc
trines: God-Good, holy, just, omnipo-
tent; mana lost sinner; Christ-ail.,
glorious and inviting the whole world
to be saved; two destinies-one Tor be-
lieyers and the other for unbelievers.
About these doctrines there is pc feet
harmony. Mozart, Beethoven, Han.
del, Haydn, never saw, wrote, or heard
more complete harmony. Is it not
wonderful that this Bible, written by
scores of men living in differ
ent lands, living in different ages,
some OF them having no communica.
ton with each other, having no idea OF
the general design OF the Bible, aitt
their fragments OF work are brought
from these different lands and ages and
are put together make compets book,
a book so harmonious that the best
scholars Of our day pronounce it COM
plete harmony. 1t is as though great
cathedral were to be built and hum
dred men were to do the work, and
these hundred men lived in different
countries, and lived in different ages,
and had no communication with each
other, and had no idea OF the general
design OF the cathedral, and yet after
awhile all their fragments of work shall
be brought together, and they prove to
be complete architectural triumph
the man who carved the pillars having
no communication with the man who
planned the dome; the man who FASH
i)ned the door having no comnunica-
ton with the man who contrived the
arches.
Charge the FourthnThe Bibleis unscien-
Your Bible says there was light before
the sun was created. How was 1t pos
sible. Your Bible intimated that the sun
turns round the earth, when the motion
is in the other direction. Your Bible
saws that in Joshua's time the sun and
moon stood still, which halting would
have ungeared the machinery OF the
universe. Your Bible says that water
was turned into wine. and presents
other impossibilities. Through ali of
that rigmarole infidelity goes every day,
and it saws the Bible Is unscientibc.
Who made you believe that there is an
unbridgeable chasm between the Bible
and science? Stewart Mill, Darwin,
Tvndall, Renan? Yes. Well, will
give you the names OF men who believe
there is perfect harmony between the
Bible and Science-men as much higher
than those whose names have quoted
as Mount Washington and Himalay q
are higher than RidgewooL
water works. Hershell, Keppler,
Lelbnitz, Ross, Isaac Newton. At any
rate, these names that / quote are Is
good as the names you quote. These
mel found a harmony between the Bible
and science. Have you never heard
Prof. Hitchcock or General Mitchell lee
ture on the harmony between the Bible
and science? The fact is, science is a
bov and revelation full-grown man.
The boy thinks he knows more than the
man, and he asks great many unan-
swered questions; but after science Is
fully grown and has been growing and
learning as long as revelation has been
established. perhaps it may know as
much. | say perhaps. Noltaire brought
an argument to show that the Bible
story of the golden calf being diss )lved
was an imp0ssibility-ac chemical impos-
sibility. While Voltaire was proving
that gold could not be held in solution,
all the gilders and coiners and metal
lurists OF the earth were holding
gold in solution and there were fifty
shops in Paris at that time where Vol
taire might have seen the very Process
which he pronounced an imposslbillty:
II, therefore, at anv time you should
find seeming disparity between science
and revelation, it is your common sense
that demands that YOU wait until science
is more thoroughly developed. The
temple OF the universe has two orches-
tras-the orchestra of revelation and the
orchestra OF science. The former has all
it's musical strings strung, and 1t IS
ready for the burst of eternal accord.
The latter is only stringing its instru-
ments. Wait and be patient. After
awhile YOU will find twisted into the
same wreath the rose OF Sharon and the
laurel OF scholarly achievement, and
the roar of the sea will be the magniii-
cent bass OF the temple worshippers
and the earth will be found out to b.
only the pedals OF an organ oi which tn
Heavens are the keyboard.
Now You See You Have Not Made Out .
Case.
The Bible is not impure, it is not cru.
ell. il is not contradictory, it is not un-
scientific. This plaintiff, the infdel, has
made out no case against the Bible, the
defendant. l might in the court OF your
reason move for a non-suit. But | will
not take advantage OF the circumstances.
| am going on to see whether anything
can be said in behalf OF tbs much'm"-
yned book. Why do you hold to the
Bible as a divine boosH oh, you say,
"I inherent it from my father" That
ia no reason. IIindoo children inherit
the Shsster trom their fathers and think
il divine. Mohammedan children inhei-
il the Koran from their fathers and think
II tiNlne. lOd ptCetht ho oSN"Nn'
when YOU say you believe the book Is
from Col because you inherit 1t from
your fathers. You ought to have some
good reason. some portable reason which
YOU could carry around in the banking
houses and stores aud shops and streets.
am going to give you such reason. l
am not addressing you as theologians.
Many OF YOU are busy men and have no
time for elaborate study on this subject,
and set in this day, when the air is filled
with intidel slang and skeptical scurrili-
ty and caricatur- o; the Bible, you ought
to have some quick and decisive answer
for the assailants.
If God Will Help Me 1 Will Help You
How do / know that this Bible is from
God? Here is the Old Testament.
Here is the New Testament. First |
take the New Testament. How do l
know that this comes from a divine
Christ? Jerome and Eusebius in the
fourth, and Origen in the third century
after Christ, gave list OF the books OF
the New Testament, just corresponding
to our list in the books OF the New
Testament. But you say, Wv here did
they get the list?" They got the New
Testament from Irenoeus; lrenoeus got