The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-04
DR.. TORREY TELLS
REASONS WHY HE
BELIEVES BIBLE
Audience OF thousand People
Heard Him East Night at
Auditorium.
Singing Under Leadership Of
Mr.. Melvin a Feature.
MORNING MEETINGS POPULAR

DR.. Torrey spokt last night at the
auditorium rink III a crowd of an
lproximately cool people on Give
Reasons Why I Bdlieve the Bible to
Be the Word of CID"
Briefly his reasons are: "The
Testimony of Jesus Christ as to the
authority OF the old testament
scriptures and his authorization of
the words of the apostles in the new.
It's perfect Organic unity.
It's fulfilled prophecy.
Its immeasurable, superiority over
other books.
Its unassailed tfedibility during
1900 years of criticism and testing.
Taking up his first reason. DR..
Torrey by quoting christs sayings
showed that, at least. the Uni
tartan theory of Christ's goodness.
but mortality Is unienable, because
Christ himself claimed to be the son
OF God and was executed as a bias
phemer for saving so: and he. there
fore. must be divine, an imposter or
a lunatic. DIR. Torrey argued that
his Influence on 4e succeeding IS
centuries is not IL OF an imposter
OF lunatic. therefore. he must be
divine. His works speak for his
divinity. his philosophy of life and
manner OF living are like that of no
other man; the story OF his career
recorded in the -four gospels is the
story OF a real life. for II is incon-
lcevahle that a hEmau being would
iabricate such a career In any time.
much less the time In which Christ
liver on earth. and II one did, IL is
not probable that four of them
would fabricate with such harmony
of ideas
Christ's claims to divinity. said
Dr. Torrey. are stamped by God as
genuine. by his resurrection. the best
authenticated fact in history.
Christ in his teachings, said DR..
Torrey placed the stamp OF approval
on the three division OF the old tes-
lament. the books OF the law. the
books of prophecy and the sacred
writings, and distinctly authorized
the apostles to write the New. For
authority he cited Matthews V, s.:
Mark VII. ~: Lake XIV, 81 and
a; and John X. So; XIV, 20; and
XVI, ~ and 10.
II all the scriptures are not the
word Of God. and Christ is not di-
vine. then Christ was not good
man. but an imposter or lunatic.
I'VE MUST HAVE CHRIST AND
"a WHOLE BIBLE; OR NO CHRIST
AND NO BIBLE" declared DR..
.Torres.
Bible Prophecies FULFILLED.
The whole OF the old testament is
proph etioal, said Dr. Torrey. The
history of the Jewish nation, the
types of the Patriarchs and Prophets,
the religious observances of seasons
and fasts. and sacrifices. the very
tabernacle itself and all it contained.
were symbolical These are the
prophecies of symbols and types.
summed up i'm the life of Christ
Then there are the explicit verbal
prophecies as found in Isaiah SO;
Micah V, and 3 Daniel TX. 2;
Jeremiah III. and 6 Psalms XVI,
Is to II. One. who studies the Old
Testament with an eye to the
prophetic side of its every chapter,
will be amazed and convinced, for
the prophecies and symbols given to
the Hebrews hundreds Of years be-
fore the time of Christ were fulfilled
to the letter as to time. place man
|ner and circumstance; and the
theory of mere coincidence is over
whelmed by the law of mathematical
probability
The Bibles Organic Unity.
The Bible contains &C books,
written by 40 authors. OF all classes
from kings to shepherds. fishermen
and politicians; in three different
languages. during a period covering
/ 500 years. What would one eX-
pect Of such a collection? Variance
and discord Yet. 1t is the most
harmonious work ever presented to
the world. These varying types of
men. living in varying periods of
time. under different conditions with
the most widely contrasting scholar
ship and the lack of it, and EN-
ploy.ng every known style of literary
composition, display the most per-
feet and wonderful organic unity.
lsuperhcially there may be discrep-
lancies and the superficial observer
may remark them, but the Bible
student finds absolute unity and ac-