The Iola register., 1888-08-17
0RTH0DOXY.
lof. Talmage Preaches on the In
spiration Of the Bible.

spiration Of the Bible.
The Bible Surely Of God-"Advsnced
Thlnkers'' Rebuked-Splendon Of Or.
thodoxy Depicted Its Great Leaders
-An Appeal For the Church.
In late sermon on Orthodoxy DR.. Tai
mage took his text from the book of Jere-
miah, chapter vi. verse 16: "Ask for the
old paths, whore ID the good way, and walk
therein, and 70 shall find rest for your
souls" and answered the question: SIS
orthodoxy stale and unreasonable!" He
said:
A great London fog has come down on
some Of the ministers and some Of the
churches in the shape Of what II called
advanced thought" In Biblical intsrpre-
tation. All Of them, and without excep-
tion, deny the full inspiration Of the Bible.
Genesis il an allegory and there arc many
myths in the Bible, and they philosophize
and guess the reason and evolve until they
land in . great continent of mud from
which, fear, for all eternity they shall
not be able to extricate themselves.
The Bible Is not only divinely inspired.
but it is divinely protected in its present
shape. You could as easily without de-
lection cake from the writing of Shakes
peare Hamlet and institute in place there
of Alexander Smiths drama as at any
time during the last fifteen hundred years
. man could have made any important
change in the Bible without immediate de-
lection.
II there had been an element Of weak
ness, or of deception, or Of disintegration,
the book would long ago have fallen to
pieces. II there had been one loose brick
or cracked easement in this castellated
truth, surely the bombardment Of eight
centuries would have discovered and
broken through that imperfection. The
fact that the Bible stands intact, notwith-
standing all the furious assaults ON all
sides upon it, is proof to me that It is .
miracle, and every miracle is Of God.
"But," !" says some one, ''while we admit
the Bible Is Of God, 1t has not been under
stood until our time" Ny answer is that
II the bible be q letter from God, our
Father, to man, His child, Is it not strange
that that letter should have been written
in such q way that it should allow seventy
generations to pass away and be buried
before that letter could be understood?
That would be q very bright father who
should write letter for the guidance and
intelligence of his children not understand
able until thousand years after they were
buried and forgotten! While as the years
roll on other beauties and excellences will
unfold from the Scriptures, that the Bible
10 such dead failures that all the Christian
scholars for 1900 years were deceived in
regard to vast reaches of its meaning, is
demandupon my credulity so great that il
found myself at all disposed to yield to
il l should tomorrow morning apply at
some insane asylum as unfit to go alone.
Who make up this precious group Of I'D.
vanced thinkers to whom God has made
especial revelation in our time OF that
which He tried to make known thousands
of years ago and failed to make intelligi-
BILE. Are they SO distinguished for un-
worldlipess, piety and scholarship that it
is to be expected that they would have
been chosen to fix up the defective work
of Moses and Isaiah and Paul and Christ!
Is it at all possible: I wonder on what
mountain these modern exegetes were
trans6gured? I wonder what star pointed
down to their birthplace! Was it the
North star, the evening star, or the Dipper?
As they came through and descended to
our world did Mars blush or Saturn lose
one of its rings! When find these
modern wiseacres attempting to inn
prove upon the work Of the Al
mighty and to interlard it with their wis
dom and to suggest prophetic and apostolic
errata, am filed with disgust insuffera-
BILE. Advanced thought, which proposes
to tell the Lord what He ought to have said
thousands of years ago, and would have
said if He had been as wise as His nine
teenth century critics! All this comes Of
living away back in the eternities instead
of 1883. have two wonders in regard to
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," say some, "do you really
think the Scriptures are inspired through
out:" Yes, either - history or as guild
ance. Gibbon and Jossahus and Prescott
record in their histories q great many
things they do not approve of. When
George Bancroft puts upon his brilliant
historical page the account Of an Indian
massacre, does he approve Of that mas
Sacre:
There are scores Of things in the Bible
which neither God nor inspired men sane
toned. Either as history Or guidance the
entire Bible was inspired Of God. ''But,"
says some one, ''don't you think that
the copyists might have made mistakes in
tranferring the divine words from one
manuscript to another" Yes, no doubt
there were such mistakes: but they no
more affect the meaning Of the Scriptures
than the misspelling Of word or the un-
grammatical structure Of a sentence in .
last will and testament affect the validity
or the meaning Of that will All the mis-.
takes made by the cOpyists in the Scrip
tures do not amount to any moro impor-
tancs than the difference between your
spelling in . document the word forty,
forty or fourty. This book is the last will
and testament Of God T. our lost world,
and it bequsaths every thing in the Ti1kt
way, although human hands may have
damaged the grammar or made unjusti6a.
BILE Interpolation.
The men who pride themselves in our
day on being advanced thinkers in Biblical
Interpretation will all Of them end In athe-
ism, il they live long enough and declare
here to-day they are doing more in the
different denominations Of Christians, and
throughout the world. for damaging
Christianity and hindering the cause of
the worlds betterment than five thousand
Robert Ingersolls coulddo. That man who
stands inside . castle is far more danger
Gus il he be an enemy than five thousand
enemies outside the castle. Robert G..
Ingersoll assails the castle from tho out
side. These men who pretend to be ad.
vanced thinkers In all the denominations
are fighting the truth from the inside, and |
trying to shove back the bolts and swing |
open the gates.
Nov am in favor NJ the Oreafost froo.