The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-09-08

y Oh Ags .,.ss pc, ,Sis ne writ.
.,,and in
NER. Alexander
s.c;1srRAr years q man
r,,rT portant change
E5s|' y AN' mediate detec-
ER. -sl an element Of
s!1 I II SrdeceptiSq, or.tof disln-
4ass .ile Book would long ago
go : Iallen TO pieces. If>there had
J,l one loose brick or cracked case
rolt in this castellated truth, surely
1Sa bombardment Of eight centuries
foMld have discovered and broken
~ through that imperfecticn. The fact
that
THE bible STANDS INTACT.
4 notwithstanding all the furious assaults
OIL all sides upon IT, is proof TO me that
it is q miracle, and every miracle Is Of
God. "But," says some one, s'While
we admit the Bible is Soe God, it has
not been understood until our time. !"
My answer is, that if the Bible be a
letter from God, our Father, to man,
Ills child, Is it not strange That that
. letter should have been written in such
a way that 1t should allow seventy gen.
erations to pass away and be buried be.
fore the letter could be understoodp
That would he very bright father
who should write letter for the guild
ance and Intelligence of his children,
not understandable until "a thousand
years after they were buried and for
gottenl While as the years roll OH
other beauties and excellenoles will am
fold from the Scriptures, that the, llsitle
4 Is such u dead failure that all. til, # b y
,tian. scholars for eighteen hundre>r, ffs
were deceived In regard to vast reaches
of its meaning, is demand upon my
credulity so great that if found my
self at all disposed TO yield toit ! should
tomorrow morning apply at somo in
sane asylum as unfit to go alone. Who
make this precious group of
ADVANCED TIIINKERs
toNYhom God has maze especial reyela-
tion in our time of that which He tried
& to make known thousands of yeifs sr,saSsl
and failed to make intelllgibls "a re re- |
they SO distinguished for unWfdilness,
plety, and scholarship thgyic'ls IS TO be
expected that they wS.d nave been
cho. en- to Ak up tho .lectiye work Of |
Moses and isaiah, ID Paul and Christ? |
JsitaL ali nossi5? l wonder OH what |
mountain .ase modern exegetes were
l wonder what star
pointed down to their birthplacel Was
1t the North star, or tho evening star,
or the Dipper2 AS they came through
and descended 10 our world did Mars
blush or Saturn loSo one Of Its rings?
When I ilnd tLcse modern wlseacres at
tempting TO improve upon the WORK Of
the Almighty, and to interlard it With I
their wisdom, and to suggest prophetic
and apostolic errata, 1 am filed with q
disgust lnsufferable. Advanced thought,
which proposes To tell the Lord what
lie ought to have said thousands of
years ago, and would have said if He
had been as wise as His nineteenth CEN
tury criticsl All this comes of living
away back in the eternities instead of |
1888. have two wonders In regard 10
these men. The first one Is, how the
Lord got along without them before
they were born. The second wonder is
how the Lord will get along without
them after they are dead.
"But,o say some, "do you really |
think the Scriptures are
INSPIRED THRoUaHoUT?'
Y Yes, either as history Oh as guidance.
Gibbon and Josephus and Prescott re-
cord In their histories great many
things they did not approve Of. When
George Bancroft puts upon his brilliant
historical page the account Of an Indian
massacre, does he approve Of that mas
sacre3 There are scores Of thing in the
Bible which neither God nor inspired
men sanctioned. Either us history or
as guidance the entire Bible was In
spired Of God. sBut," says some one,
Sydn,,Jk .,o,, %I,t,,1r fbot xI,o
might have made mistakes In transfey- |
ring the divine words from one manu-
script to another? Yes, no doubt there |
were such mistakes; but they no more |
affect the meaning or the Scriptures
than the mlsspelling Of q word or the
ungrammatlcal structure Of a sentence
in a last will and testament affect the
validity or tho meaning Of that will.
ALI the.
sMfsTAKEs. MADE by THE CoPYIsTs
in the Scriptures. do not amount toany
more Importance than the difference
between your spelling in a document
the word forty, fourty for forty. This
book Is the last Will and testament of |
God to our lost world, and it bequeaths
everything In the right way, although |
human hands may have damaged the |
grammar or made unjustiaable interpo.
lation
These men who pride themselves iii
our day on being advanced thinkers In
Biblical interpretation, will all Of them
end In atheism, If they live long en-
pUgh, and declare here, to-day, they |
are doing more In the different den0m-
nations Of Christians, and throughout
the world, for damaging Christianity
and hindering the cause of the worlds |
betterment, than five Thousand Robert
Ingersolls could do, That man who
stands inside a castle is far more dam
Ber0lls, if he be an enemy, thantiye
thousand enemies outside the castle.
Robert q. ILgersoll assails the castle
from the outside. These men who pre-
tend to be advanced thinkers in all tile
denominations, are fghting the truth
from the inside, and trying to shove
back the bolts and swing open til,
gates
Now, lam IN favor of tho greatest
FREEposI OF HELIaIoUs THOUGHT
and discussion. / would have as much