Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-24
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the Bible, commonly called "the
books of Moses" and popularity
supposed to have been WI tten by
him, the New York Loi'irt"t''m
publishes with apparent approval,
the views of Professor Herman
Stack. All eminent Christian 81 olar,
whom il calls the Te>chauduri
of the Cd Testament DIR. Stack
says, RESPECTING the evidences Of
these books having he, IL written by
Moses, that while the external proofs
are no; convincing, the internal evi
dtnccs are decisive against that ;he-
ory--pai ~ the diverse charac-
ter and style Of the different paris
too pronounced to have been written
by any one hand. That Moses may
have written Il part OF the Penia
touch, Professor ) ZACH does not deny.
but that the whole OF It--includIn.
the account of bis own death and
burial, i'll The last chapter of Deut-
eronomy--was composed by Moses
is he AYERS, wholly uutenable. To
this Rev. D.. Crosby replies in the
same paper, that, while the question
> of the Mosaic authorship of the
Pentaleuch may seem to some OF
no great practical importance, its
issues are ally vital. I" Int should
be finally shown that Moses did not
wife the Peutateucn, then Cnrls
tianIty Is IL hoIow sham; tor, AS ne
Argues, "Jcsus virtually certified
that Noses wrote II by referring to
him as the author OF Command
here gwen, and an error of IL
hair bieadth i'll his teachin.s des-
troys his nessiahshlp. > Ine Truth
Seeker quotes DR.. Crosby on this
! point and agrees With ham us ~ the
: effect vi this decision, and also with
i Professor Sack us To The Necessity
Of 1t. 1t says: - Tue who.e saliva.
tion schem- hinges on the SUPPOSED
tall Ot man. :" lake the first
~
five books Of tho Bible away, and
the iest are supei1uous. CHRISTIANS
must make their B.b.e hang together
or they arc lost" But, to this con
cluslon aud that OF DR.. Crosby, the
editor OF the independent emphalcally
demur,, and SAYS: 1t IS little
worse Lnau suicide and treason iol
the CHURCH 10 Insist that the truth vi
Christianity and the messlahshlp OF
Jesus depends Oh such 4 Subordinate
matter. Thus tie doctors dlsa.
gree, and who shall decide
ELECT INFANTS"
Rev. DIR. Shedd, professor in
Union Theological Seminary pres
tvierian), New York. writes to the
Chicago Adrmce, explaining his
position with regard to " Elect In
fants." He admits holding, as
charged, that infants are by nature
unholy, sinful and morally un-
Clean" and consequently hell-de-
serving" but he also holds that " all
infants of believers are saved by the
washing of regeneration" in bap-
tism. With regard to the condition
of the heather, he holds that G cd
has his elect among them, who are
saved by Christ through the Spirit. d"
The Adrance Congregational, de-
clares itself not at all satisfied with
this showing, and asks how it 10 that
the water Of baptism should have
such regenerating efftc on infants
who die, when " children who hap
pen to live longer give no evidence,
in any considerable numbers at least
of regeneration at such an early age.
If all infa nts of believers that die
are saved by the washing of regen-
Grafton, is it not strange that many
infants of believers that live, con-
fessedly are not? This is poser.
SCHOOL WANTED.
A writer in the Baptist Herald of
! Truth wants " u school that will re.
cognlze the existence of God" He
narlates that being in one of the
public schools of San Francisco re.
Gently, on the closing day, one Of
the children recited as a voluntary q
familiar aud beautiful selection from
the scripture beginning, " The Lord
is my shepherd. 1t was lecited, .
he says, clearly, accurately and feel
ingly, but the teacher took occasion
to request that hereafter no selec
tons from the Bible be chosen foI
school exercises. / knew, of course
that the Bible had been banished
from the public schools, but 1 was
not aware that prejudice toward i,
could be carried to the extreme
above indicated.
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