Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-08-11

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churches in the shape o.
advanced thought" In Biblical inierpre.
taiiOn. All Of them, and without any cx.
ception. deny the whole inspiration Of the
Bible. Genesis is an allcgory, and there
are many myths IN the Bible, and they
philosopl,izc, and guess. and reason, and
evclute until they land In great CONT
nent Of mud. from which, ! fear, for nj!
eternity they will not he able Ia exiricaie
themselves
The Bible is not only divinely inspired,
but il is d,vinely protected In its present
shape. You could rs easily. without de-
lection. take from the writings of Shake
spearc Hamlet aud institute In place
thereof Alexander Smiths drama rs nj any
time during the last 1900 years man
could have made any important change in
there hal been an element of weakness,
or 'lisinicgraiion, the book would long ago
have fallen 10 pieces. II there had been
one loosc brick ar cracked easement IN
this cas,ellaicd truth. surrey the lombard
mcni 81 eight centuries wonll have dis
covered and broken through that impcr.
fcciion. The fact that the Bible stands in
tact, not wiihstanding all the furious as
saul,s an all sides upon il, is proof to me
that this is u miracle. and every miracle
is Of Cod.
But" SAYS some one, while We admit
the Bible is al God. IL has not been under.
siood until our time" My answer Is that
ifilic Bible lie u letter from God, our
Father. io man. Ills child. is /, NOT strange
that that letter should have hccn written
in such way that il should allow 20 gen.
craiions Ia pass away and lw buried before
the letter could he understood: That
would bc n very bright father who should
write letter for the guidance and intelli.
gencc of his children. moi understandable
until 900 years after they were buried
and forgotten. While rs the years roll on
other beauties aud cXccllcncics will nm.
fold from the Scriptures. that the Bible is
such dead failure that all the Christian
scholars for 500 years were deceived in
regard To vast reaches II its meaning is u
demand upon my crc,lulity so great that
IL found myself ut all disposed To yield To
il should Tomorrow morning apply az
some insane asylum rs unfit 10 go alone.
ATTEMPTING TO IMPROVE COPS WORK.
Who make up this precious group of nd.
vance thinkers 10 whom God has made
especial revelation in our time of that
which lie tried la make known thousands
OF years ago and failed Ia make intclligi.
bic: Are So worthy distinguished for
unworl,llincss, piciy and scholarship that
il is 10 hc expected that they would have
been chosen To fix up the defective work
Of Moses and Isaiah and Paul and Christ.
Is il at all possible! wonder ON what
mountain these modern exegctes were
TRANSPORTED: | wonder what star point
down O their birthplace: Was il the
North star. or the Evening star, or the
Dippcr As they came through. and de-
seconded Ia our world. did Mars blush or
Saturn lose Onc Of It's rings: When find
these modern wiScacrcs attempting 10 I'M
prove upon the work al the Almighty and
10 intcrlarl il with their wisdom and In
suggest prophetic and apostolic crrito. |
am filled with u disgust insuifcrablc. Ad.
vanccc thought. which proposes To tell
the Lord wha, lie ought To- have said thou
sands of years ago, and would have said
IL lie had hcen rs wise IA His 10Th ccniu.
~ critics All this comes Of living away
back IN the etcrnities Instead al Kiss. ]
have two wonders in regard tn these men
The first onc is how the Lord got along
without them before they were born. The
second wonder is how the Lord will get
along with them after they are dead.
But" say some, do you really think
the Scriptures are inspired throughout: ="
Yes. either rs history or rs guidance. Glib
bon and .IOscphus and Prescott record in
their histories a great many things they
did not approve al. When GEORGE Ian
con puts upon his brilliant historical page
the account at an Indian massacre There
are scores of things in the Biblc which
neither d;od nor inspired mcn sanctioned
Either as history or as guidance the en-.
tire liiblr WAS inspired at God.
But. says somc one. don't you think
that the copyisls might have made mis-.
takes in transferring the divine words
from one manuscript Ia another - Yes.
no doubt there were such mistakes; hut
they M more affect the meaning of the
Scriptures than the misspelling u: u word
or the ungramHaiical structure Of sen
ience In last will and testament affect
the validity or the meaning of that WILL
All the mistakes made by the copyisis In
the Scriptures do no, amount Ia any more
Importance than the difference between
your spelling in documen, the wonl
"iorty" forty or Inur,y. This book Is the
last will and testament of God To- our lost
world, and II bequeallis everything in the
right way, although human hands may
have damaged the grammar or male mn.
jusliilabIe Interpolation.
AETmEIsM THE END.
These men who pride themselves In our
day ON being advanced thinkers In Bibli.
cal Interpretation will all Of them end In
atheism, IL they live long enough, and I
declare here to-day they are doing more
In the different denominations Of Christ
ians and throughout the world for damag.
Ing Christianity and hindering the cause
Of the worlds bc,temeni than 5000 Robl.
ingersolls could do. The man who stands