The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
INFALLlBILITY In BOOKS.

Kew. LYMAN ABBOTT, the distinguished
olVlne, who has been pronounced, as a pull
pit orator and teacher, superior to his noted
predecessor In Plymouth church, HENRY
WARD BEEcHER, has startled the clergy of
the country by sensational sermon deliv-
cred In New York last Sunday night. His
lheme was 1.-The Evolution of the Bible"
In the course Of his remarks he said:
1t used to be the belief that the Bible is a
| perfect book. l think that few hold this opin.
Ion now. They may think they hold it, but dc
not beneVe that they dc. Such man OPENS
the Bible at Genesis. He finds that the world
was created IN six days, and to make it per-
Iec'iy sure That 1t means six days of twenty-four
hours each, It says "And the morning and
evening were the first day" II he believes that
mo Bible is perfect book, he is compelled to
have two rninds-one which believes in crea
tion from scientific standpoint, and the other
from q religious standpoint
Further along he declared:
DO noe |ish to shock any one, butI do wish
10 say chat Tor my part 1 90 not believe that the
oloie is an infallible book l believe that it is
an inspired book but not infalible BY infal
notify we would mean that the book infallibly
communicates 10 the man who reads the infal.
llole thought Of the man who writes We can
not believe this. We have one infallible book
Eucltd's Geometry.
Inc most learned of the clergy may well
ueny that 1t is commonly believed the Bible
means to say the world was made in IA of
our hours; that is, in six days of "a hours
! each. That idea may have prevailed before
geology and other sciences developed the
fact that such marvel of creation was
; Inconsistent with COPS universal system,
but the truths of geology have turned the
| minds OF investigators TO see that the
days" of the Scripture historians were
great periods and epochs Tnis, it may
reasonably be said, is not an evolu ton of
! the Bible, but of knowledge, and the
Christian world seems to have had no diff
Guilty IN surrendering the six-day theory
without giving up any part of their
faith in the Word. This very point.
San Francisco Presbyterian clergy
man OF note, DR.. MCKENZIE,
illustrates by saying that KEpLER did not
create the laws, the discovery of which
has given immortality to his name, nor did
GALILEo create the moons of JUPITER, add
ing forcibly, There was growth of as
tronomy. but not growth of the stars, 4"
from which the logical deduction comes
naturally that the growth of LYMAN
ABBoTT's knowledge OF the Bible is not to
be confounded with the growth of the
Bible itself, and that evolution may stop
somewhere between the Apostle JOHN and
the pastor of Plymouth church.
One Of the Oldest and most orthodox of
Baptist clergymen on the Pacific coast,
Rev. c. A. BUCKBEE, thinks the question of
the Bibles infallibility depends largely
on Interpretation, and says when it shall
be perfected in its true text and translated
from the Hebrew and Greek into the Eng
hsh language so as "to convey the exact
thoughts it impressed upon those in whose
language it was first written, it will not
be subject to such criticism as DR..
ABBoTT's. And all the world wonders why
this has not been DONE