Telegram-herald., 1888-08-06
TALK ON ORTHODOXY
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uzs~cszs II rsilsiezs sd1o~soEs assd szs4dsnts
ksid ys<riy IN sAis pl.es His sernoa today.
-hich -4s ds.iverss - a. .zsiisacs lsaposinz
il numssrs .za insslls x-nee. VA frssn ne
foli0-tax ssxs. In the book cf Jeremiah
". iss Ash Tor ths oid paths where .
shs god ~zy, asd yak ts-rsia, ard We shall
fad resi- f0r your ssals. 2nd answered tie
qasstssn as Orthodoxy Stale and Unrsa-
ss..sl.F' Folls~las - . verszEsn report
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gTeas Londsa Fog has coma down upon
sonas II The ministers and some q the
churches m the saaps ef ~h&t Is called "ai-
vAnoed thought IN bibarzl Interpretation
AZ Il them, and without any exception.
day TIE fali iEstarasioa of the Bibls Gene
SIS Is an ailsgorys aud tnsrs are many myths
In the bio<ss and taey Phiiosophlzs and guess
snd reason and svoiUte until tAsy land ia a
great continent of mud. from which, fear,
fnr al st@rrity they VII not be able 10 sxtrl-
cate themselves
Tho biole - not oniy divineiy inspired,
ous st IS divinely Protested in its present
snaps You eoaid - e&sily, without dstec-
uon, take from tie writings OF Shakespeare
Hamlet and irstftuss IN place thereof Alex
ander Smiths drama IS at any time during
the iAse cfteen hundred years q man could
have made any important change in tho
btols without immediate dssectiOn- III there
bad been an element Of weakness or Of de-
eoption or of diSintsgratioa, the book would
long ago have fallen 10 piecea IL there had
been one looss brick OF cracked easement In
tas cAstsl.ted truth, surely the bonbsrd-
ment OF eight centuries would have discov-
cred and broken through that imperfection
no fact that the Bible stands intact, not
withstanting all the furious assaults on al
sides upon IL, s proof to me that IL Is . Inir-
acls. and every miracle is Of God
But" ays some one, "while we admit the
Bible Is OF God, IL has not been understood
until our time" Ny answer Is that IL the
Bible bs . letter from God. our Father, 70
man. his child, Is IL not strange that that
letter should have been written In such a
way that it should allow seventy generations
70 pass away and Be buried be.ors the letter
could DO understood That would bs q very
bright father who should write q letter for
the guidance and inteLigenc Of his children,
nos understandable until q thousand years
after they wcrs buried and forgottenl While
as ths years roll on other beauties and excel
lencics will unfold from the Scriptures, that
the Bible Is such q dead failure that all the
Christian scholars for eighteen hundred years
eredecesved in regard to vast reaches Of its
meaning, Is . demand upon my credulity so
great that II found myself at all disposed 10
yield 70 oit should tomorrow morning apply
st sons insane ssylun as unflt 70 90 alone
Who mako up this precious group Of ad-
vsncsd thinkers 10 whom God has made es-
peciai revelation In our time Of that which
- tried 10 make Known Thousands of years
ago and failed to make inteligiblei Are
thsy % distinguished for un worldliness, piety
and schoianhip that it 10 TO be expected that
tAsy woah have have been chosen to fx I'D
ths detective work OF Moses and Isaiah and
Paul and Christi Is it at all possiblef /
wonder on what mountain these modern e1-
ecrts were ransfgursdi I wonder what
star pointed down TO thesr birthpiacel Was
IL the North star o. tho evening star or the
Dipperi As they came through and de-
scended to our world did Mars blush
or Saturn lose one Of its ringsi When
/ hnd these modern wiscacres attempt
ing to improve upon the work Of the !
Almighty and to intsrlard It with their wis
dom and 10 suggest prophetic and apostolic
errata, / am filed with q disgust insuffer- |
able. Advanced thought, which proposes to
tell the Lord what he ought to have said
thousands Of years ago, and would have said |
IL he bad been as wise ~ bis Nineteenth CEN
tury critlcsi All this comes Of living away |
back In the etcrnities instead Of 1883 |
have two wonders In regard to these mon.
The hrst one Is how the Lord got along with |
cut ,hsn before they were born The second |
wonder 10 how the Lord viii get along with
ozs them altar they are dead
But" say some, do you really think the |
Scriptures are inspired throughout Yes.
either ss history or as guidance. Gibbon |
and Jossphus and Prescott record IN their
histories . great many things they did not 1
approve Of When George Bancroft puts
upon his brilliant historical page the account
OF an Indian massacre, does he approve Of |
that massscrci There are scores of things in
the Bible which neither God nor inspired
men sanctioned Either as history OF as
guidance the entire Bible was inspired Of
God
But says Soma one, "don't you think
that the copyists might have made mistakes
IN transferring the divine words from ono
I
were such mistakes; but they no more affect
she meaning Of The Scriptures than the mis-
spelling Of . word or toe unErarnnatical
structure of q sentences In last will and tes-
lament affect the validity or the meaning Of
that Will All tbs mistakes made by the COP
yists in the Scriptures do not amount 70 any
more importance than the difference between
your Spelling in a document the word forty
forty" or 'fourty" This book is the lass
~ill and testament Of God 20 our lost world.
and is bequsaths everything in the right
way. although human hands may have dam
aged the grammar OF made untusfifis sbls in
tsrpolasion
Th~~o m>u Who pride Themselves in orr
dsy On being sdvsnc,d thinkers in biblical
viii al of them end In athe-
iSrl. II they i've long enough. and declare
here today they srs doing more ia the
different deuouainations of Cbrsssians. and
'hruuxhous the world, for damaging Chris
sixnitv and hinierinr The csuse of toe worlds
oetter-n-ut than five thousand Robert ragsr-
oils could do Thar man Who stands inside
! castle is far more dangerous, IL be be an
snenv. than ~. thousand enemies outside
ne castle Robert q. Tngersoll szssils ths
,sssie from the outside. These men who pre-
ierd 10 Be sdv.nced thinkers IN al the Co
1orninatsons ara fighting the truth froza ths
inside snd srying - ssovs back tAs bolts and
wing op~n the gates
Now. an in tsvcr os ths greatest fr>-fo-a
4 religious shougbs and 6irrussson- ~onId
aye a. mach liberty for hss-rodoxy .. for
,-shodoxv. II should charge MP theories
= religion I saeuld prNch them cut and cas
'ut soe in she building vh~rs an scrus-
ous>i % p~>rrh, fer tkst VS. e-rr.>d ~