The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-14


wa, to defend criminals was asked the
sorro; Of bis success, and he replied:
1T is to deny everything and call for
the proof New England aguosticism
and higher criticism Of the scriptures
seem To have like maxim. The
deeper man goes into science the
more inclined is hr to call for the
proof; especially if he has more learn
ing than brains, and has to strain his
mind u solve the mysteries Of life and
nature.
was ruminating about this, for
had just read the press dispatches that
Rev. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded
Henry Ward Bccchcr, had in public
address in Boston declared that the
Book Of Genesis was myth-a legend
written before the flood by some un
known prophct-and that it was i'm
possible for Moses to have known Of
the things that transpircd 1900 years
before he was born, and. he asks,
"What were his resources if they
were not legends and myths?'
| know that it does not become me
to teach theology or the infallibility
OF the scriptures, but it occurs to me
that if Mr.. Abbott can undermine the
Book Of Genesis he will overthrow the
whole structure Of Biblical authority
that has withstood the wear and tear
Of time for all these centuries. The
Bible is the standard Of the agcs-thc
headlight of the nations, and it must
stand as whole or fall as whole.
The reverend gentleman processes to
believe in the new testament and part
Of the old, but if he is really Chris
tian he must believe as much of the
old testament as the Savior and His
apostles did. 1t was Christ who said
in the parable of Dives and Lazarus,
eff they will not believe Moses and
the prophets, neither will they believe
though one rose from the dead.
This is that Noses who predicted the
coming Of the Savior when he was
giving the laws to the children of Is
racl-that Moses to whom God in
trusted the tables of stone that con
tanned the commandments, and who
wrote the most beautiful song in the
Psalms Of David-that Moses who ap-
pcarcd in glory on the mount while
the Savior was trans6gurcd that
Moses of whom Paul said he was faith
full as testimony Of those things
which were to come after. References
are too numerous to quote-all show
ing that Moses was the vice-gerent of
the Almighty, and was prophet in
spired by Him.
No, Mr.. Abbott cannot uphold the
new testament and pull down the old.
He must sustain or demolish all. 1t
IS the same old attack Of science upon
miracles because shey cannot be ex-
planned upon any hypothesis of'human
reason; when the truth is that Mr..
Abbott himselfis astupendous miracle
and cannot tell how he thinks or
where the power Of thought or tho
faculty Of memory is located, nor how
he can at will raise his hand or close
his eye; nor how he took form and
shape in his mothers womb. All ma
ture is miracle; the leaves of the
trees, tho color Of the flowers, the
flight of the birds, the Infinite small
ness of matter and germs, the infinite
magnitude and boundlcss extent of the
heavens and Of space, and in all crea-
tion there is nothing that has pride,
vanity and sclfconccit save man-an
agnostic or skcptic or an inidcl-
"Thc fool (ouly) has said in his heart,
there is no God.
Well, now, leaving out the inspira-
tion that guided Moses when he wrote
the Book of Genesis, let us come down
to human reason and see whether
Moses had resources or not
Mr.. Abbott is now sixty.tivc years
old. He is the son of Rev. Jacob Alb
bott, who was born in 1903, and Jacob
was the son Of revolutionary sire.
Mr.. Lyman Abbott has children, and
perhaps grandchildren. That would
make FIVE generations from his grand
sire. This Mr.. Abbott lived in CON-
munion with his father forty-four
years, and probably was young man
when his grandfather died. Now, if
his grand sire and his sire were good,
truthful, Christian men, and no doubt
they were, how easy it was for Lyman
to get true account of the rcvolu-
tionary war so far US relates to all the
incidents that his grandfather knew