The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-14
TWO BIBLES
BY DR.. ALFRED BUXTON

Rev Albert Buxton. Phi. D., preacnet
last night at the Central Christian cnuTcI
! on Two Bibles" DR. Buxton took Ior ili'
text Psalm. 1870. The entrance OF '-.s
words giveth light" DR.. Buxton sdiu II
part:
The record of the Lord is more than re
! Tablet is infallible. This sure truth y
left us in two records-the written "oI.
and the created universe, Ihese are w
Bibles The first is contained IN the pc
turesque story of erring man-errlhg gu
| always unfolding; the second is the scrol
OF the sky, the earth, the sea
Both Bibles are understood only IN terms
of the soul. 1t is a travesty OF Language
| to speak of a "seIf-interpreting" Bible
The more mature the soul, the nearer U
a true understanding of the WORD OF Goa
The aged saint understands what 10 nm
In boyhOod was a string OF words MOI
until the mystery of real fatherhood may
deVout men begin to understand tha'
Like as father pitieth his chlldren st
the Lord hath compassion NOT untll the
SHADOW has fallen athwart the doorway
may man read Alright the triumph or the
Shepherd Psalm. Yea, though walk
through the valley of the shadow OF
death. l will fear no evil
And the universe of God reveals itself
more and more as man dips into the twin
mysteries found there and in his own life
as well. The aged astronomer may nave
learned no more of a distant star thaIl
when he first turned his telescope upon
its point Of light in younger days, but
Its truth comes to a deeper soul. and he
may cry with greater certainty, "The
heavens declare the glory of God Ihat
glory has found deeper lodgment In
deeper soul.
To the reverent student of the two BIZ
bles, the ultimate truth there contained is
unassailable. But experience teaches him
to find that truth beneath the surface.
His earlier study IS confused by the Jingle
of language-and no language is true eX-
cept as it brings to the soul thought
We read that the floods clapped their
hands, the hills skipped like rams-and
we do not feed on the words-they are the
froth. We understand meath the foam OF
language that nature surgeS with JOY OF
obedience to Gods laws.
So later when we read that the stars
fought with Sisera. and that Joshua COM
manded the sun TO stand STILL we are not
content with the verbal glitter; we under
stand that when man is fighting on God 5
side the stars twinkle strength into his
steadfast faith and sunset will never come
until he has won the battle.
We read that woman was taken as a rit
from man; but not until we pass the age
'of childish fairy wonder-not until we find
that God did not make a solitary sex, dc
we understand the truth beneath the fable
that there is in the family but one real
soul-the twin soul, the counterparts, the
God-made pair.
My only doubt of Gods revelation is the
uncertainty of my own understanding.
doubt neither record. l would as soon mis-
trust the story of David as the story OF
the sea 1 am as sure that the sky APP
pears blue as | am that Solomon built a
temple. He is the greatest infidel thai
teaches me a jargon of words and leaves
me to doubt the presence of a Coda God
that wrinkles love IN nightly sky, that
keeps a tender care in the close folded
lily bulb