New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-06
BIBLE NOT WORD OF GOD.
DR.. j. B. Remensnyder Replies to
Statements of Bishop Williams.

The Rev. DR.. ]. B. Renensuyder Of ST. JaInss's
Lutheran Church. No 800 Madison avenue IN an
interview yesterday afternoon replied the state
ment OF Bishop Williams Of Michigan that the
Bible was not the word of God. Picking up clip
ping containing Bishop WlliaIns's remarks the
subject IN his sermon before the Young Mems
Christian Association Of Detroit last Sunday, DR..
Remensnyder said
I notice he first charges that a young man out Of
college reading Genesis finds such impossible geo-
ogy, astronomy and ethnoIogy that rather than
to handle the Sculptures crafy he gives 4O up the
Bible. refusing 70 stulfy his reason. TO this state
eminent ge0GGgist Principal, Dawson The COS,
sa@e as that Teveed by the tssmony OF the
rocks And there is also the testimony OF the late
Genesis could not be more exact. There is hers no
chance parallelism, for God. neither in His word
nor works. can be charged with accident or IN
In PsBBy to his further n assertion st Nhr Soe
God" have but TO cite II Timothy Ill., 10: All
T. @ z ge Teeevsd the word OF
500 ys received 1t not as the word OF men but as It
eiGses with the solemn warning IF any man \. shall hall
prophecy, God shall take away his part out Of the
Book OF Life" And two thousand sig hundred
mo9 of Use the me Lord R as 10 saith
the Lord" the word Of the Lord game" In the
effrontery which dares to tell the non-scTipturs
a tat the B6e dSss not put for forth the claim
the divine autograph shines forth upon every page
But overlooking all this evidence. this clerical
critic cites passages from the imprecatory psalms
Of denunciation against the wicked. which im-
tating the vituperative style OF 1ngersol he says,
would put red Indian TO shame" In answer to
this would say that God had TO use falHble
men through whom TO give his revelations to man.
Hence the Bible has human as well a divine
side This treasure we have in earthen vessels. ,"
says the Apostle That is. the historical setting OF
the Bible reflects the characteristics and prevailing
sentiments OF the age in which It was written
Sometimes, then. IN Scripture, We may see IN the
writer's traces Of their human characters Blu, But
through this earthly medium the divine infaIA9ls
take It. The writers, told. spoke as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost" That is. they
were so filled by the Holy Ghost and raised TO such
a height OF inspiration that their human inhrmi-
ties became a negligible quantity, and they were
able to gve the essential truths OF the revelation
IN unalloyed brightness and purity -, =, 49, -
The Bible then. despite its earthly SHE'LL In It's ker-
mel is divine In its mora! and spiritual truths in Us
teachings of Jesus and in its uncoverings OF the
secrets of the invisible world is infallIble
lation IS in warp and woof. in its heart and core,
the word OF God.
And in a time when skeptical critics have so i'm
paired its authority that thereby numbers are
losing faith IN religion and turning aside from the
Church, what shall say Of the man who uses
his sacred Office TO heighten ignorant pre1udlces
AGAINST IL and to msrepresent II BY damaging
statements essentially false?