The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-02-15
ARP ON ABBOTT.
Georgia Philosopher on the Higher
Criticism.
WERE PLENTY Ct RESOURCES
Bill Differs with Lyman Abbott in His
Remarks About the Authenticity
OF Bible.

n 5IocI lawyer whose culeI business
was to defend criminals was asked the
secret Of his success, and ne replied 1T
is 10 deny everything and call for the
proof" New England agncsticism and
higher criticism of the scriptures seem
to have like maxim. The deeper a
man goes into science the more inclin-
ed Is ne TO call for the proof; especially
II he has more learning than brains,
and has to strain his mind to solve the
mysteries of life and nature
L was Illuminating about this, for l
had just read the press dispatches that
Rev. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded
Henry Ward Beecher, had in a public
eddress in Boston declared that the
Book OF Genesis was a myth-a legend
written before the flood by some I'M
! known prophet-and that it was i'm
possible for Moses to have known ofthe
things that transpired 1000 years be-
fore 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
:
Of Genesis he will overthrow the whole
structure OF Biblical authority that
has Withgtood the wear and tear Of
time for all these centuries. The
Bible is the standard of the ages-the
headlight of the nations and it must
stand as a whole or fall as a whole.
Ihe reverend gentleman processes to
believe in the new testament and part
OF the old, but if he is really a 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,
! IF they will not believe Moses and
| tue prophets, neither will they believe
though one rose from the dead" This
| is that Moses who predicted the COM
! ing OF the Savior when he was giving
/ the laws to the children Of Israel-that
Moses to whom God intrusted the
tables Of STONE that contained the cor
mandments, and who wrote the most
beautlful song in the Psalms OF David
! THAT Moses who appeared in glory on
the mount while the Savior was trans
f1gured-that Moses of whom Paul said
he was faithful as testimony of those
things which were to come after. Re-
1erennsS are too numerous to quote
all showing that Moses was the vice
gerent Of the Almighty, and was a
prophet inspired by Him.
NO, Mr.. Abbott cannot uphold the
new testament and pull down the old
lie must sustain or demolish all. 1t is
the same old attack Of science upon
miracles because they cannot be ex-
pfalned upon any hypothesis Of human
reason; when the truth is that Mr.
I Abbott himself is a stupendous mir.
acle, and cannot tell how he thinks OF
Where the power of thought or the
FACULTY OF memory is located, nor how
ne can at will raise his hand or close
his eye; nor how he took form ant
shape in his mothers womb. All ma
ture is a miracle; the leaves of tn,
trees, the color of the flowers, tn.
/ Hight OF birds, the infinite smallnes
Of matter and germs, the infinite mag
nitude and boundless extent of tn
heavens and of space, and in all crea
ton there is nothing that has pride
vanity and self-conceit save mana,
+ agnosdic or skeptic or an infidel-"Th
I tcol (only) has said in his heart, ther
i is no God"
I l have recently visited the good oil
I city OF Columbus and received it's hos
] ploality and benedictions It is Jus
my age, and through all these year
has moved steadily and surely forward
manufacturing with serenity and die
. nifty the character its cultured me
and women gave it in the beginnint
;. How broadly beautiful it was laid out
how bountiful is it's shade; how gree
, the grass on its public grounds; no,
! beautiful the river that gIrdles it. Nc
Tor a single year has there been an
retrograde in the manners or moral
> OF its people. Considering it's climat,
I society and prosperity l do not kno
: city that l had rather live in. 1t
: already large enough for moral safet,
| for Jefferson spoke a truth when h
, said that great cities were pestilentii
to good health and good morals {
: course, we favor the increase OF an il
l dulstrial population that keep tn
wheels and spindles turning and til
wolf from the doorand the beggar fro
the streets and if every city cared fl
It's operatives in the mills as Columbl
+ does, there would be no object lessor
of misery to be carried before I'll
5 NlSllou puS uIlS VIb0u
club rooms of the Eagle and Phenl
: mills. Yes, club rooms for factor
. boys where they can spend their ev
I nings and read and write and batl
and exercise instead of going to IL
saloons. The beautiful library b
q 1000 volumes of standard books ar
Z the reading tables are furnished Wi
9 the best newspaper and magazi1
= literature. l cannot enumerate t.
u pleasant and attractive features
these rooms. They are all free
i. nearly SO to the factory boys who b
l. come members. Colonel Gunby Jord1
n is the big-hearted promoter of this q
@ tachment to the mills and TIE m
t, owners pay all the expenses.
s. Shakespeare says: "The evil til
n men do lives after them; the good
.r oft inferred with their bones" wo,
h reverse that expression, for go
J. deeds and their influence last Ions
than evil ones and nowhere has t
succession of good citizenship prov
IN it more palpably than in Columb
W There is still wealt without ostentati
in and hospitality without a strain. \
h a shyster among her lawyers nor
70 quack among her doctors. Not a far
81 preacher among her clergy, nor
a. venal partisan among her editors. F.
d. tunate city; hsppy people!-Bill 4
ia in Atlanta Constitution.