Blue-grass blade., 1908-05-24
Cause Of. Rejection Found Upon its Own
Pages After Careful Investigation.
(By j. j. Greenough)

by j. j. Greenough)
The sacred book of the Christians has been
deemed holy, and revelation from God for
many centuries by the nations of Europe
and America. The foremost in science and
art. As my father in Boston and Matthew
Carey, in Philadelphia furnished the public
with all the octave bibles used in the schools
and elsewhere. My father had the territory
OF New England and New York while Mr..
Carey had the rest of the United States
early in the beginning of the last century.
My fathers bible all in old Scotch stand.
ing type, locked up in iron chases, and weigh.
ing some tons Subsequently my father
stereotyped the bible, using the metal of the
standing type. My father was the best
proof reader | ever knew. He read all the
proofs IN the stereotyping, and | was called
on to read the standard bible to him. In
this duty read the bible aloud four times
through from end to end, consequently |
was well posted in that literature.
AS my mind active, and retentive
felt that L had mastered the book. The
wonderful contradictory and incomprehensi-
Die passages, not to speak of the vulgar,
which sometimes made me, a child blush
Caused me to investigate the history of its
advent. 10 my surprise 1 found that the
most learned had no knowledge of the au-
thors OF the Bible, or when it was written.
L gradually ascertained that it is probable
by Ezra after the return of the Jews from
Babylon, where they had been held in cap
tlvlty, from legends handed down from an
tlquity by the Hebrew traditions coupled with
those OF their Babyonian captors, to whose
literature they had free access, and the pen
tatech was largely taken and adapted to the
Hebrew version. / found that ingenious the
ologsans had twisted and transformed the
most tales of the diety into divine revela.
tions, the most barbarous acts being coupled
with holy teaching showing that the only
one in which malignity and vengeance was not
crime was the God the Hebrews wor-
shipped.
As I had been brought up in a school of
equity and was too Independent to be innu-
enced by sophitical arguments, construed the
legends as their plain language Indicated
found the God of the Bible to be quite HUI
man in his attributes, unquestionaby inhu-
man form( visible entity, talking at one
time with Moses face to face as man
speaketh unto his FRIEND" and at another
time in the same chapter, v. 10: Sand he
said Ito God) | beseech thee show me they
glory;" v. 20 God said, "Thou canst not see
my face, for threre shall no man see me and
live" And the Lord said, Behold there is a
place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a
rock; And it shall come to pass while my
glary passeth by that I will put thee in
cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with
my hand while I pass by, and thou shalt
see my back parts: but my face shall not be
seem" such is the frppery of the God of the
universe as deineated in Exodus.
Robert Ingersoll has well said can honest
Gods the noblest work of man." but no man
has yet achieved it, While there is much
to deprecate in the legends of the Old Tesla.
ment the Christians have develoned II M con.