The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-14
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
The Gcpryi; Philosopher on the Higher.
Criticism.
-lHnntd fonsiifuii0n.
Criticism.

lived with him tifty-,x years, and
laMccl was Noah : father. Surely
l.amcch told Noah all about the crca-
ton, for he got it direct from Adam,
and lie lived with his son Noah 595
years had plenty Of time, didn' he?
Noah had son named Shem, who
went into the ark with him, and /
reckon during the long rainfall the
old gentleman didn't have much else
to talk about to his children besides
the creation and Cain and Abel and
Seth and Enoch, and SO Shcm knew
it all about as we'll as his father.
Now, Shcm was another long lived
patriarch for he lived 5O2 years after
the food. lie lived to see Arphaxad,
Salah, Ebcr, Pclcg, Rcu, Serug, Ma
hor, Tcrah, Abraham, Isaac and ia
cob-clcvcn generations. Yes, he
lived and communcd with Jacob for
fifty years, and old Noah himself, the
preacher of righteousness, lived until
Abraham was sixty years old. Well,
of course old Father Noah told Faith
cr Abraham everything that Lamcch
had told him, and Shcm told it, too,
and also had fifty years talk with
Jacob about it,
Is there any trouble about keeping
the account straight this far, and this
clears up the Mosaic record for,,about
1000 years.
Now, Jacob had a son named Levi
and this same Levi-thc father of the
pricsthood-was the grandfather of
Amram, who was the father of Moses.
How easy it was for Levi to transmit
to Amram, his grandson, all that he
learned from Jacob. Then the record
would read: Adam told Lamech, La
mech told Noah, Noah told Abraham
Abraham told Jacob (and Shem told
him, too), and Jacob told Levi and
Levi told Amram.
Lamech, Noah, Abraham, Jacob,
Levi and Amram. The twcnty-seven
generations are reduced 10 six men
and those six we're all men favored Of
Gcd and in the line Of descent to
| David and Jesus Christ. Besides
these men there we're godly women
not few. Old Mother Eve was there,
the last and best part Of the creation,
and probably lived with Adam until
his death. Don't you know she loved
to meet with her descendants and how
she sat in the corner with her knitting
and talked to old Mother Enoch and
Mother Methusaleh and Mother La
mech, who was her g-g-g-g-g-g-g grand :
daughter and how she wept with then.
over that apple business.
Resources indeed! Could histor-
ian have any better or more truthful
Godfearing men and women to learn
from? Young men, beware how you
become infatuated Or infected with
this modern idea Of higher criti-
cism.
For $500 years the authenticity of
the Old Testament has been studied
by the most learned men of the ages.
Paul says, "Unto the Jews were COM
mitted the oraoles Of God. What if
| some do notlbelieve: shall their unbe-
lief make the faith of God without
effect? God forbid; yea let God be
true, but every man liar
Two hundred and eighty-6ve years
before Christ seventy learned men
compiled the sacred canon and it has
remained the same unchanged till this
day. But ever and anon some carp
ing and cynical mind strains itself to
find flaw and calls it higher criticism.
Just like Seward and Giddings and
other fanatics did when they armed
old John Brown and declared that
th"r" was n higher law than the con.
stitution.
Young man. stand by the faith of
the ages the faith of your fathers and
be not wise in your own conceit. for
Solomon saith, There is more hope
Of fool than of him.
Bill. ARP.
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