Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-21
rUIBIE STUDY.
Dr. pile Addresses the Methodist on
ti,e Subject.

Notwithstanding , unfavorable
weather there was a gooily at
tendance. at the Methodist church
last night, when DrJDille of San
Francisco lectured on "Bible
Study" The lecturer gave advice
as to the style of Bible to use for
systematic study, also as to the
helps in that regard. He suggest
ed Bible with wide margins for
making notes on, but not having
references bound Herewith on ac-
count of,bulk. A concordance, a
text book and Woods Bible Die
tionary were the helps recon-
mended.
DR.. Ollie enlarged upon the
prevalent ignorance OF the Bible.
Out Of about two score students
in leading college.in the Eastern
States, twenty-nine, of them being
members of evangelical churches,
not one.third could,tell profess
sor, who gave them the test, where
certain incident alluded to by
Tennyson was to be found in the
Bible. Yet they ahad passed a
course in English literature, with
its many hundreds of biblical al
lusions, by Shakespeare, Milton,
Tennys0n and other great authors.
One United STATE. Senator made
wager Of ten dollars with another
that he could not recite the Lords
prayer. The challenged one be-
gan,
"NqN,L lay mo down 20 Sleep"
whereupon the challenger at once
paid him the bet. sIngersoll in
the North American Review last
year charged the Mosaic law with
being q more severe code than that
of Draco, saying that it created
three hundred capital offenses.
The fact was the law OF Moses on
ly specified the death penalty for
seventeen ,offenses, whereas the
English Law of the past century
gave the death penalty for four
hundred affenses, and even the
law of the limited States today, in
Guiding the army and,navy regu-
lations, prescribed capital punish
ment in forty, cases. Many of the
most eminent jurists and states
men in the United States had been
Bible students, and telling anec-
dote in this connection wss related.
DIR. Ollie said thatJesus studied
the scriptures, as they existed in
his time, in three languages, which
was proved by his quoting from
the Syriac, the Greek and the
Hebrew versions. Instead of
using his supernatural power the
Savior welded the "swosd of the
spirit, which is the word Of God"
and that weapon fitted into the
palm of Christians of the present
day as we'll as it had into that of
their great Leader. Moody, the
shoe store clerk that he was when
he began his work, with his we'll
marked Bible under his arm was
able to shake two oontinents, and
with the same equipment his
power had never waned but
was still waxing. The power OF
scripture in the heads as we'll as
the hearts of people was ilIustrat,
ed by the case of the Waldenses
who memorized so fauch Of the
Bible that the most relentless per,
secution could not quench ltbeiI
religious devotion. Their preach.
ers before being licensed had to
commit to memory whole books
of the Bible, including all of the
Epistlss.
The lecturer urged on has
hearers systematic study of the
Bible. They should not be con-
tent with dipping into it here and
there at random, as
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner.
Eating G,Chiis,mas pic;
He stuck In his thumb
And pulled out plum,
And said, '"What brave boy am /"
Certain books of the scriptures
ought to be studied in groups,
which the lecturer specified, as, fol
instance, Genesis with Revela-
tions-the former telling of the
entrance of sin and death and the
latter of their perpetual destruc,
ton. He also instanced striking
harmonies in the doctrines of GER,
tain corresponding numbers Of
chapters and verses in diiferent
books.