New-York tribune., 1903-04-12

dence which has educated the chosen races Of
mankinds Moreover. IL distinctly taught that
both Judaism and Christianity. after their ISOLATION
and pupilage destined to universal prevalence
that In Abraham all the families Of the earth
would De blessed. and Christ himself be revealed
the desire of the nations And the Gospel.
therefore. proclaimed among the f5entiles as
well as among the Jews st. Paul too the Apostle
to :he Gentes. when preaching to the Athenians
insisted upon the consensus Of Christianity with
their religion I'm those great theistic beliefs which
taught by their poets and philosophers.
and which to all mankind. And
Christianity clad in civilization is going forth
among the religions of the world reclairnins their
truths and rejecting their errors. she is simply
fulfilling mission IS absolute and UNI
versa religion-tbe faithful saying. and worthy %
all acceptation. that Christ came into the world
to sinners.
I do not forget how much the question il
picated by the views of radical school of the
higher critics who maintain. literary grounds.
that the Old Testament Scriptures themselves be-
tray that mythical and legendary origin which
archsoIogists would ascribe 70 them Many
of the conclusions of this school based upon
unverifed conjecture and continual assevera-
tion. But II may be well 20 accept them hypo-
theticaly. in order state the whole problem OF
opinion. Assume then. II you like. that the books
of the Pentateuch Hexsteuch were not written
by Moses. but a sort of mosaic Of pre-ex-
listing documents written by unknown scribes and
collected BY unknown redactOrs or editors. as We
possess them. Assume
stories of creation and paradise IN their literary
form anthrcpomorphic. dramatic. allegortcal
and unhistorical. Assume still further that In
these respects they bear some external resemblance
to the creatiOn-myths and paradise-egends OF
other peoples Prove all this. II pOsstole-
and yet you will have destroyed the incOntesta-
BILE fact that these ancient writings contain Oh
jective revelation from God 10 which Il IN
fnitely superior in kind and degree any supposed
revelations the religions OF Babylon. Nineveh.
Assyria. Egypt. Greece and Rome, and which
literary form surpasses any other sacred
books. ancient modern. Nor will YOU have
lessened the evidence which the Bible thus af
forls OF growing harmony with the very sciences
archaeology and phIoIosy which
rayed against it,
In this article have sketched in popular man
ner those physical sciences which have seemed to
be in conflict with revealed religion. because such
sciences just most popular in their I'm
preston and most likely disturb existing faith
I'm the inspiration anG authority of the Holy
Scriptures. and because they the most ad
vanced sciences The argument might be carried
up into the higher sciences OF psychology. soci-
ology and the science of comparative religion. but
such sciences. yet not mature nor IN
so apparent conflict with the Scriptures. IL will
be that the argument is strongest where
science is most clear and full II Is also cumuls-
tive. and already. trust warrants the belief that
when science shall have reached the utmost goal
of it's development II will still be. 1t always
has been. In harmony with the Bible.