The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-22
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seq1snce Of teachers unlicensed By what
: termed the higher rrisiessm. having
ceased % believe the recorssS Of 3 Book
which they hesd IN their hands as the
Word Of God Yoa ask how. under shese
circumstances. Is the waning iateress in
these schools to be rcvivels IL YOU VII
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answer yogr question Lee all Sansfsy
school teachers SIX for the old paths ana
walk therein. We have seen the high tide
Of destructive criticism Il Is now ran
idly receding. and the Wanted wisdom Of
the so-called higher criticism Is beinx
swept out 70 sea with the ehbfide. The
Church OF Christ has no need Of teachers
for her children who do not believe whar
has cone 10 them on divine testimony.
Such persons are at the best only half
Christians. If they are Christians az an
II this IS thought a sweeping assertion |
proceed to establish the two following
propositions:
!. That no one can be s true believer
IN Jesus Christ who refuses TO believe in
the miracles recorded in the Old Tesla
ment. such as the sun standing still Ra-
iaams ass speaking with mans voice
Jonah swallowed by a great fish and cast
up again. and the narratives of the ere
alton. the food. the Ark of Noah. etc.
= That so far from there being any
thing in any OF these narratives opposed
10 intelligent rsason. the unreasonableneSs
Is on the part of those who decline 10 b.
lieve them.
l. On the first point he il remembered
that the Old Testament existed in our
Sayionr's time exaetly as we have it now
The Jewish historian JaSephus expressed
the universal sentiment of the Hebrew
nation when be wrote: lit Is a principle
innate IN every Jew to regard these writ
ings as Oracles of God. and TO eleave 10
them yea. and TO die gladly for them :
The New Testament makes il perfectly
clear that our Lord accepted and sane
toned this opinion of the Hebrew nation
concerning the Old Testament. BY Join
ing in the worship of the synagogue. in
which the whole was received as the
word of God. he set his seal upon il as
divine He grounded his own claims on
the testimony of the Old Testament, and
taught that all that happened TO him from
his birth to his resurrection was in full
fllment of what was written concerning
him in the Law of Moses. and in the
Prophets. and in the Psalms. In one
short and emphatic sentence he affirmed
the divine truth and power of the Old
Testament The Scripture cannot be
broken" And further. BY his reference to
the Mosaic account of the creation. the
Hood. and Lots wife and 10 the story of
Jonah. has affirmed his belief in the his
tOrical truth of these events: while in
the writings of his inspired Apostles are
references 10 the ass speaking with mans
voice. and to the ark of Noah, as histori-
cal events. Consequently TO disbelieve
narratives of the truth of which Christ
and his disciDles are witnesses is to re
ject Christ.
> proceed TO show that none of the
narratives referred to mt any strain on
a reasonable faith. The unreasonable
people are those who reject them. Take.
first the ark of Noah. Trad..ions not
only of a food. but of an ark. in which a
few persons were saved. have been found
among nearly all nations. Foremost
among them is the Chaldean. 1t is pre-
served in fragment of Berosus. and re
lates that in the tenth generation after
the first man. a King of Babylonia Xisu-
thrus. was warned from heaven of COM
ing flood. and built an immense shin. 81
600 feet long and 100 broad. and en-
harked in il with his family and all kinds
of animals. and sailed toward Armenia.
When the food was in time abated. Xisu-
thrus sent ont some birds from the vessel.
which not finding any food nor any place
After an interval of some davs Nisu-
thrus sent out the birds a second time
and now they returned to the shin with
mud on their feet A third time he re-
peated the experiment and then they re-
turned no more He then quilted the
vessel. which was stranded upon the side
Of certain mountain. and. attended by
his wife. daughter and pilot. built an altar
and offered sacrifice.
The Indian tradition enoatc nf q Onp-
eral degeneracy of mankind. and the con
seduent retribution from heaven. and the
announcement given hy the divine shirt
Vishner. TO the seventh King of the Hin
dus that he would he furnished with an
ark in which he might save himself his
family. and a pair of each animal from
the coming food.
The tradition exists even among the
Chinese who compute il 10 have taken
place 1000 years before the Christian
era. Fah-he the reputed author of Chi
nese civilization. is said TO have escaped
from the waters of the deluge. He reap
pears as the first man at the production
of renovated world. attended bv seven
companions. his wife. his three sons and
three daughters. hv whose intermarriage
the whole circle of the universe is finally
completed.
At ADarnpa. formerly called Kibofos or
Ark in Phrvgia. coins hsve been found
Of the age of Sephimius Severtis repre-
Senting an ark floating on the waves and
'ntaining q human Dair. On the ark q
lid is Derched and another bird is seen
9v'pg toward il. having sprig in her
hoax: and the same human pair Is also
~eeu on drv land. in an attitude OF
PRAYER. and the letters NO are visilAe
In the Hawaiian genealogy. the eighth
in descent from kumnhonua the first
wan inre the name OF Nun. and was the
san Of Iminanea. which meas Seeking
Rest thus coincidipg with the name that
Noah signifying REST" or Comfort
received from his father
From MANY other sources traditions
have heeu collected. and. as a German
ditiOrs of all nations reaching from Ar
ing acroSs Eastern Asia to America may
convince every candid inquirer that the
food Is an historical event. Of which the
genuine and primitive description IS 10 be
found in Holy Writ
,. The ass speaking. Is 1t reasonable
to believe that Balaam's ass actually
spoke the words recorded in the Bible
narrafsres Nest certainly We have the
testimony OF St. Peter in the New Tesla
uenf who refers to it as true. The
iurah are speaking with mans voice
foEbad the madness Of the prophet.@ II
IS not more wonderful that articaIate
words should have prcseeded from the
ass month tEan that the angel standing
in she wav with 4 drawn sword ia his