New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-05

while It lifts supreme that all-directing agency of
are assured i'm that life OF feeling. thought and
will OF which are most Immediately conscious.
self upon scientific basis. The doctrines OF
1hfi,any are not 6aTs 6es f t1g
the most permanent phenomena IN the worlds his
The tendency to eliminate the testimony Of the
New Testament 10 the historical character II the
tessedIy discarding the best witnesses at a trial
DR.. Wilson said in part:
DIR WILSON'S ADDRESS
The only way in which the co9 ser party
cTiticsm is by showing that The promises nF tSe
radical critics are false. by showing through the
foundations upon which the magnificent structures
sden 9 I ana ng anS rS 5cab nm
Another pathological assumption % the critics
arises either from ignorance OF original Hebrew
or MISUNDERSTANDING ~ some version OF H. But
critics with regard 10 the text 81 the old Testa-
hs f l1a' lne 80 b a S s ,I ntoTg
posers.
Professor Wilson spoke OF the "groundIeSsness o.
the radical critics attack from false assumption
made I'm the field Of philoIogy. as TO the meaning.
origin and use OF terms The first Of these he H.
lustrated from the Aramaic word King" showing
that the Arameans had but one word Tor eu-
,fToT a 6nE and maS9 and Thar thsre va. eT
Nabunaid was the last King or Babylo7. and the
DR. Kyle said in rar,
The critics tell us thu: the Bibl, romances about
early history, but | can say without fear Of
tradiction that il has never IN single instance
has never been lost is part Of the record Of the
past, The higher critics accept the classics as
dock and try 10 secure false witnesses against IT,
oisn but in the in5rfeTsnd l, 81 b eHg nfheT Gru
God. they and tho churches are waking up.
THE MORNING SESSION.
A. the morning session there was an address on
Practical Consequences OF Attack on the
Bible" by the Rev. DR.. A. H. Plumb OF the Wal
nut Avenue Congregational Church. OF Roxbury
Boston. Or. Plumb deploring the attacks on the
Bible. declared that they weakened moral restraint
and paraIyzed Christian effort
The Rev DIR. j. y. Renensnyder Of St James
Lutheran Church, this city, read a short address.
Dr. David J. Burrel pastor OF the Marble Col
legiate Church. said in part:
There IS another book that is far more I'm danger
than the Bible from the prevalent destructive cri-
cism, and that is the dictionary: Words have
Bible, but I afraid for that other book Tho
save it. on St Patrick's Day when the parade
marching up Fifth-ave., little girl stood on
her from a window. The dog was jumping around
and barking. The child became excited and cried
Come down. mamma, CiyDs going bite the
army" Now, I'm not worried about the army
DR. Burreu spoke Of the 'lamentable state OF our
seminaries." SoEe of them. he said. have 10 offer
said, only where the teachers are defective and
the Christian world do well without such sem
tnaries. lie added.
If you hear your preacher say "let us get back
10 Christ corner him at and ask him what
Christ he means II he does not mean the incarnate
Christ he does rot mean our Christ.
The Rev. Or. r. r. Booth. ex-moderator OF
the Presbyterian General Assembly declared the
ministers Of his young days in the ministry. COM
pared with the ministers of day. were as giants
10 pygmies. He denied that there was any con-
sensus OF scholarly opinion tie side Of the de
structlVe criticism. Bishop Sabine. Of the Reformed
Episcopal Church. also spoke.
In the afternoon address by Professor Howard
osgood, OF the Rochester Theological Seminary
was read. II recOunted the points advanced by the
critics or to-day, and declared them identical with
Paines Age Of Reason" published I'm 1892.
Dr. Edmund J. Wolf, president OF the Lutheran
General synod. and professor at the Gettysburg
theological Seminary said there had been epOchs
or criticism or the Bible but that. far no harm
had been done. The tyranny OF fashion, he said
Demanded every now and then that scholarly
skepucs should attack the Bible.
president Revere Franklin Weidner, of the Theo-
logical Seminary Of the Evangelical Lutheran
scholars agreed with the higher critics that there
was no revelation but merely history, in the Bible
ne higher critics who denied supernatural origin
Tor Christianity. the speaker declared. had never
Iead the New Testament understanding the spirit
IN which the Apostles wrote. Professor ]. r.
Ihomas, or the Newton Theological Institution
ana the Rev Dr. f. =. Ingersol spoke briefly.