Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-01
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The- usual large audience Of young men
eieeted Pro-. Weidner At HE closing lee
ture in the bible lecture series II the Y.
n. G. A. rooms Yesterday afternoon He
began By saying that 10 this vide-awake
age Il would not do for man to believe .
thing simply because his father did. but
each must search and be assured for him
self. and particularly 10 this 90 because it
is the tendency Of all literature today to
attack the bible. He then briefly re-
viewed his two former lectures. empha-
sizing the facts and principles that had
been brought out and stated the intention
OF applying these to one book AZ an OBJ
ject lesson. OF seven books In the new
testament to which objections had been
made, the epistle TO the Hebrews had been
very greatly discussed. The lecture
would be devoted to Two objects: fret, to
apply the principles rehesTsed to this
book. to do. a little higher criticism"
ourselves. only not coming to the book as
the higher critics do, to doubt. but COM
ing with ready minds to receive; and this
In order to show how we can solve these
difficult questions ourselves. Second, to
give limit of how to study the bible.
The usual method of finding out about q
book is to 60 to commentaries and 6nd
what this or that man says about it; the
right way Is to take the principles that
guided the commentator and apply them
for ourselves. He then took up the ques-
ton. what Right has the Epistle TO the
Hebrews to bein the.Blble. and gave as the
first point that In order that one be 10 po-
sition to discuss this question the book
must be read. and that 1T one time he
showed that Q translation of the book,
"a part of the bible, had been made as
early as $50 A. D.; that it was always
present in the Oldest manuscripts; that il
had been greatly discussed from ITO A.
d. TO $40 A. D.. but only in the western
church: that it was very early quoted as
part of the bible. The internal evil
dences were abundant. These evidences
are found by questioning the book. They
prove that the book Is in line with all
other scripture. 1t throws great light on
the old testament, Il exaults Jesus Christ,
Is evidently greatly used by the spirit
particularly applicable to Jews and Jew-
ish Christians and 50 on. These and
many other points were established on
the statements OF the book. The ques
tons Of authorship and to whom written
were discussed. from the statements of
the book and with citations from early
church writer's. II was shown that the
inspiration OF the book and its right to Q
place 10 the bible did not depend upon
who wrote it or to whom written. DR..
Weidner closed with an outline OF the
book as to.conients. After the lecture
there were many questions asked and
answered.
The lecture series will be continued
each Sunday afternoon. Rev. ]. II. Kerr
taking the next four afternoons, having
for his subject the books Of the bible,
showing their unity. The flrst lecture
will deal with the old testament.
There was large congregation at The
First n. E. church last evening. a goodly
portion of which was railroad men. Rev
G. W. Cue preached sermon which hat
been prepared especially for the railroad
men. in which he spoke Of the dangers
deprivations and hardships of their worl
and urged Goodness a. the essential over
ruling principle OF those engaged in rail
reading as in the other callings of life