Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-18
BURRELL TO BRIGGS.
First Lecture of a Series in Defense
of the Bibles Inerrancy.
TWO THEORIES OF INSPIRATION,
One of Them Latitudinarian and the
Other Evangelical.
BETTER A BIGOT THAN AN USBELIEVER
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1srArcH.I

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NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-There were few
empty seats in the Marble Collegiate Re
formed) Church tonight, when the pastor,
Rev. DR.. d. j. Burrell, began the first of
his series of Sunday night sermons in de-
fense of the Bibles inerrancy. There
were many Presbyterians in the congrega-
tion who had come to hear the views of the
critics in their own church assailed. They
found the views of DR.. Burrell in strict ac-
cord with the orthodoxy of the Princeton
School of Theology, and listened with
keenest interest to his vigorous attacks on
the arguments of the Presbyterian clergy
men who have declared the Bible to be
errant.
DR.. Burrell chose this significant text
from Jeremiah: "And it came to pass that
when Jehudi had read three or four leaves,
he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into
the fire that was on the hearth, until all the
roll was consumed in the fire that was on
the hearth"
IS. Inspiration Gift of God.
''The inspiration to write the Scriptures,
said DIR. Burrell," was a peculiar gift of
God, and it was bestowed only on those
chosen by God for definite purpose. 1t
qualities them to Infallibly communicate
the truth of God. There are two theories
of inspiration. One of them is the lati-
tudinarian view, and the minister of
the evangelical church that holds this view
must dreadfully strain his ordination VOWS.
The other is the evangelical view of inspira-
tion. Each has its shibboleth. The ]ati-
tudinarians say that the Bible contains the
= L ~ hat 1a sa
the word of God.
'Those of you who hold to the view that
the Bible merely contains the word of God
must carry your arguments to their logical
conclusion. One of the deductions from
this belief is that the Bible is but partly
true. All books can stand that strain, for
all have some truth in them-even Joe Mil
ler's joke book and the 'Kreutzer Sonata.
The Bible Must Be Entirely True.
"Another natural deduction is that the
is true, and what part false? God made
grievous mistake in committing Scriptures
to us as an infallible. rule of faith and
true. We had better have a
syndicate made up at once of
Pope Leo and others to tell ignorant folks
like you and me what part of the Bible We
should have. Then if the Bible simply
contains the word of God, it is not inspired
in its integrity. Further, you cannot say
yet it is the best of books. You
can pile up Hume, Macaulav, Guiot
and the works of 100 other
authors with the Bible, and you have got to
take the Bible as the least trustworthy of
all. The Bible musi be worthless for the
purpose for which it was intended. 1t is to
lead US unerringly and infallibly to
Heavens gate, and that it cannot do if it is
not perfect.
81 would rather be held bigot than allow
a man to tempt me from my belief in the
Bibles jnerrancy Jeroachim, the Hebrew
King, did what all reasonable men should
do who belive: in penknife criticism-he
threw the whole roll away. But let US turn
from that poisonous, ,asplike word contains
to the healthy word tis.''
Original autographs without Error.
Dr. Burrell said that he was not of those
that believed the Bible had come down alb
had empowered the holy writers to write,
and stood over them as they wrote. DIR.
Burrell said he was convinced that those
original autographs were absolutely without
error
. "All parts of the Bible" continued the
speaker, "are equally true. There are no
degrees of ofinspiration. The Biblical critics
tell us that as respects doctrine God |
breathed hard, but as to matters of history He |
didn't breath so hard, and when it comes to |
science He didn't breathe at all I challenge |
the right of nybody to say what God in !
tended to do when He made the Word The |
Bible is as true in science and geography |
as anything else 1t is presumptu- |
ous for anyone to say that |
The tenth chapter of Genesis,
because it is as dry as last years directory,
is good for naught. God says it is all true
How it must nauseate the Lord to have the /
creatures of His hand standing in the cor
-idors of His temple and telling Him what
He should have done and what He should |
not have done Shame on themt r sav"