The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-04-28
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7 reyeas..s, and turning q Re fe:ss e. &c
. Go who is the Ear1e . .sTaay, tp4ay
and foTeger. There g certainly prog
rear in the knowledge of Goi from
/ fi.at conception which declared that
F God walled in the garden ia the cool Of
I the morning h that tAonght Of him
+ which declares. '@ye hath not see51, nor
/ ear heard; It is impossible foE a man to
/ behold him"
Certainly there was progress from the
. God If Leyisicus, who was particular
about the cut % the garHea-s, the
/ fIIuges and the taa Ga, the wash II the
cups aa- pans. end a.! the Ta-apl sruaiia
. Of the pre- zfa9od ard II tae people up
+ 70 the God 81 tho New Testament.
I whose place If worship was foiGa
neither III the mountains o. Samara
nor in Jerusalem, bat WAC Is spirit. and
+ uust be rorsa;peI in spirit and in
. truth.
/ .-OT CEACCLAR-
/ Second-If tn book then be the rec
orI Of progressive revelation it cannot
+ Be q book Of OracleE, each sentence Of
which Is If authority for all time. We
2
book Cf oracles. 1t il the impartial rec
ord Of the conflict Of good and evil in
life. The record Of the movement Of
God through human life. We have the
impartial ato..f Of life told in this book.
There is the record Of the liar, and the
thief, and the murderer, and the trick
gter There Is the story Of chicanery,
Of fratricide, Of war, Of brutality, Of Inst,
Of cruelty, Of slavery, Of wife capturing
and po'ygainy. There Is no attempt 10
varnish it over. There is no attempt to
make hero and u saint out Of n man
who had his faults and his weaknesses.
The record of Il man as man lived Ill life
Is given. The movement Of tho king
dom Of God thus through time is given
true to life, true to fact.
There Is one fact that is always OBJ
servaJIe in this record; that is, that the
fault il always the fault Of the pupil
not the teacher. There is no attempt 10
varnish over the lie which Peter told.
There is no attempt to make the apostles
perfect men. We see their petty quar-
rels with one another about precedence
in the kingdom. Cur Bible is the i'm
partial record Of the conflict Of good and
evil, that man may know that good does
triumph and evil brings the seeds OF
death and ruin. David and Jacob and
Solomon lived in their own day and own
time lives above the standard of their
day. Therefore were they men after
Gods own heart. III spite of all their
weakness and sir, their faces were
turned toward the right. They lived by
the best light they had. They were the
pioneers. They knew less of God than
the child of today, but they blazed tie
way through the forest, they lived in log
cabins and slept on the ground in the
open air, while we who come after live
il palaces and reap the result of their
labors.
TIE BIEAEEsT LIE.
Colonel Ingerson recently declared in
Cooper union, before q crowd of unedu-
Gated colored people, that no negro
should ever bow to the name Of God, be-
cause the God Of tho Bible had been the |
God Of slavery, who had upheld it |
through all the ages Of the past. do
not wish to be personal or unkind TO- !
ward the colonel, but that is the mean
est lie | ever heard any man utter The |
man who would make such an assertion |
would knock the crutcheS from beneath |
a crippled Tayfarer in crowded thor
Ouglfare without q tear or Q M ment's |
hesitation. Whenever q nation i to be |
enslayed, il IS necessary to first pat iron |
clamps on The lids Of the Bible When
ever the subject of slavery is touched il |
the Bible, it is always in the beuc, = Of |
the slave. Whence = the subject OF any .
mans sins aud weaknesses is touched in |
the law or the prophets, God speaks the |
word in behalf o. weakness and those |
who are oppressei, and points forward |
to the day Of dcllyerance. In times Of |
ignorance he sometimes overlooked |
mems faults; but il the fullness of time
he calls upon all for repentance.
To deny the historic setting of the |
Bible Is to stuitify the book and involve
ourselves in hopeless contradictions. If
we say that the Bible is book of oracles
and has no historic setting, we have at
once orr license for taking a sentence
from the Bible and making q spear of it
with which to GiDbet our enemies. This
has been favorite pastine of many
theologians IN the past, and this was the
point OF view Of the young theologian
who took the tex, ''Enoch was not"
He took that mot" and sharpened it until
he could run it through all his oppon-
ents. He said Enoch was not Metho-
dist, because he did not believe in fall
ing from grace. Ee was not a Presby-
terrain, because he did not have any
confession Of faith. He
was not an EpiscOpalian, because he did
not believe in ceremony. He vas not
UniVersahSt, because he did believe in
hell. He was not Baptist, because he
did not believe in much water. Enoch
was Congregation&list, because he
walked with God. The young man was
of course Congregationalist.
SUPERLATTyE NONSENSE.
If the Bible is such q collection of
oracles, such process of exposition is
legitimate. If it has its historic setting,
such a process is superlative nonsense.
Being a progressive revelation, and not
l book Of oracles Of equal authority, we
cannot tear from its historic setting o
ext in Genesis or Isaiah and attach it to
~--e ~AANO tSilA On Ef1oSIC Ii IIIG New
Testament. and on these two build a
scheme Of theology. Let Us tryit. Take
sentence from Genesis, ut is not good
for man to be alone;" attach it to
sentence froEn Paul's first letter to the
Corinthians, but I say to the unmar-
red and to widows, it is good for them
t they abide even as l." Which will
you believe? How can you reconcile two
'uch statements, if you have q hook of
oracles, of equal authority in all time,
n all ages? Take another illustration,
AXE Numbers XIV, 1886:
And while the children Of Israel were in the
wilderness, they found q man that gathered
ticks upon The Sabbath day.
And. they that found him gathering sticks
brought him unto Moses aud aaron, and unto
III the congregation.
And they put him in ward, because it was
lot declared wha5 should be done to him.
And the Lord said unto Moses, The man
hail | surely pu: to death: all the congrega-
ion snail stone nim with stones without the
amp. !