Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-11-10

telligent man, and yet you shut your
eyes to every one Of the evidences Of
Christianity. Though you charge
Christians with being unreasonable in
their beliefs, you yourself are so un-
reasonable that you are willing to
accept any theory and believe any alb
surdity as long as it is not found in
the Bible" Such is the mental and
spiritual conditions Of many of those
men who will not read the Greek SUI
prescription above the cross.
The Bible Stands Every Test.
If the Bible does not satisfy the in.
tellect, how can you account for the
fact that it has commanded the adj
miration of the greatest thinkers of the
ages? If this book, which acclaims
Christ, does not bear the investigation
of the mind, how was it that Sir Will
liam Jones, the greatest linguistic hui
man encyclopedia who ever lived, once
said in reference to that Bible, II have
carefully and regularly perused the
Scriptures and am of the opinion that
this book, independent of it's divine
origin, contains more Sublimity, purer
morality, more important history and
finer strains of eloquence than can be
collected from all other books, no mat
ter in what language they may have
been written" If Christ's Bible does
not appeal to the brain, how can you
account for the fact that Thomas Car
lyle, a great intellectual leader of the
English speaking world, whose dys-
peptic stomach made him chronically
growl at everybody and everything,
once declared that the book of Job was
the finest prose poem ever written, or
that Lord Jeffrey, the hard headed
critic of the Edinburgh Review, always
carried in his side pocket st. Johns
Apocalypse because he felt that it was
a masterpiece of literature? All, those
testimonies do not tend to prove that
Christ only influences the ignorant and
the mentally superstitious.
If this Bible does not appeal to the
brain, how is it that science and reve-
lation, by the statements of the Bible,
are daily becoming more and more har-
monized? AS intelligent men, do you
have for centuries been squabbling,
these differences are gradually passing
| away and that science and revelation
are coming into closer and more har-
| monious relations in regard to many
| things whereOn they formerly dis
| agreed? 1t is only within a few weeks
that Professor Sayce, writing on the
latest archaeological discoveries. said,
''In every case where we can test the
| Bible story by cOntemporaneous monu-
ments. the authenticity of which is
doubted by no one, we find it confirmed
and explained, even in the minutest
points" Do you not know, as intelli-
gent men and women, that many re-
cent discoveries of the psychologists
prove that the leaves of the Bible, some
of them written 5000 years ago. are
absolutely in accord with scientific
facts which are continually being re-
vealed?
That the Bible and modern scientific
statements are being more and more
harmonized by recent investigations
and discoveries is illustrated by an in
cident which happened some years ago
in the city of Philadelphia while was
preaching there. If you ever have had
any dealings with medical students,
you know that there is proportionately
more intidelity among them as class
than among any other body of young
men. Most of this infidelity, believe.
is caused by the evil influences of the
diSsecting room. One day. when a
medical professor, while lecturing upon
the body, quoted the well known pas
sage in Job, Il am escaped with the
skin of my teeth" litter of derision
ran around the classroom. The col
lege professor raised his hand for 81
lence and said: Tut. tut, tut, gentle
men; there is no need for laughing. |
am not a minister, nor the son OF a
minister, nor am l a protesting Chris
tan, but / here and now want to state
that the more | study that Bible the
more it appeals to my intelligence as
IN inspired book. l am as firmly con-
WINGED that the Bible is inspired as
was the centurion convinced of the di-
vinity of Christ, when at the foot of the
cross he cried out in awe. Truly this
man was the Son of God This very
passage just quoted displays a knowl
edge which could not have been ac
quired by the man who wrote it in any
other way than by revelation. For cen
turtles scientists ridiculed Jobs simile
about the skin of the teeth. But a few
years ago a microscope was invented
with such powerful lens that, much t.
the surprise of the scientists, it was
found that Job was right. Over the
tooth there is thin skin, the infinitesi
NAL part of an inch in thickness. No
body was ever able to see this ski
with the naked eye, yet Job saw it il
Inspiration thousands of years befor,
the microscope was invented"
The Second Superscription.
The superscription on the cross wa
written also in Latin. This implie
that Christ will one day be the su