The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-05


that my reason and judgment are
not infallible, but they are the best
guide that / have, and cannot
throw them overheard. / must tol-
low them
Il So take the road to the left.
! l 90 about a mile and then come
to an impossible morass, and have
Ito 20 back and take the way the
guide said.
| We get on well together again
for ways, but again we come TO
place where two paths diverge. ms
time the guide says: THE road 10
the left is the road to take"
But my reason and judgment
passing upon the phenomena OBJ
servable by my senses see clear IN
dication that the road to the right
is the road to take, and again we
have our little parley.
! Again / say to the guide: Il
know that you have passed through
this forest time and again, and that
you never led a party astray, and
have great confidence in your Judg-
ment on that account, but my rea-
son and common sense passing upon
/ the phenomena observable by my
senses tell me that the road TO the
right is the road TO take. Now, i
know that my reason and common
sense are not infallible, but they are
the best guide that l have, and /
cannot throw them overheard SO
again / go the way my reason and
common sense passing upon the phe-
lnomena observable by my senses
suggest. / go about half a mile,
and then run up against an impass-
able barrier of rock. and have to go
back and go the way the guide said.
Suppose that this should happen
so times, and every time the guide
lproved right, and my reason and
!common sense, passing upon the
phenomena observable by the senses,
Iproved wrong. do you not think that
about the ffty-hrst time / would
have reason and common sense
enough to throw my ever-erring
Judgment to the winds and go the
way the guide said?
This has been my exact experience
with the Bible. Time and time again
/ have come TO the parting of the
ways, where the Bible said one
thing and my reason and common
sense seemed to say another. and,
fool that / was, threw the Bible
loverboard and went the way that
my reason and common sense said,
and every time l have had TO come
back and go the way the Bible said.
! L trust that the next time when /
land the Bible differ | will have com
mon sense enough 70 throw my ever
lerring reason and judgment over
board and so the way the Bible says.
THE most irrational thing in the
world is what We call rationallsm
lRationalism IS an attempt TO subject
the teachings Of infinite wisdom to
the criticism of our finite judgment
Gould anything possibly be more ir-
Irrational than that? II never seems to
occur to the nationalist that God can
have a good reason for saying or do
ling thing If he. the nationalist. can
mot see the reason. One OF the great
est discoveries that | ever made was
one day when it dawned upon me
that God might possibly know more
than did. and that God might pos
lsibly be right, when to me He ap-
peared to be wrong.
Tenth Reason.
My tenth reason for believing the
bible to be the word OF God Is be-
cause OF the testimony OF the Holy
\ Spirit to that fact. To the one who
puts himself In the right attitude to-
ward God and truth, the Holy Spirit
bears direct testimony that the
voice that speaks TO him from the
Bible is the voice of God. One will
often meet a cody old woman. Of
no very wide reading or culture, who
stll has a firm faith that the Bible
is the word of God.
/ IL you ask her why she believes the
Bible to be the word OF God. she will
lreply: Il know the Bible to be the
word of God" But again II you ask,
"Why do you believe II 20 be the
word Of God?" she viii reply: 81
kow II to be the word Of God" And
II stlll again you ask: J"why do you
believe il TO be the word OF Code"
lagain she will reply: IL know II TO be
the word OF Cod Very likely you
win say: "Well, l will not disturb
the old lady's faith" (no fear. you
couldn't II you would. but she is
beneath argument" You are mis-
taken, she Is above argument Jesus
IChrist says: ''He that Is of God
lheareth Gods words" John viii.
sheep hear my will, and know
them. and they follow me" John
x. 2O. She Is one Of Gods children
and knows her Fathers voice and she
knows the voice that speaks to
her from the Bible IL the voice Of
iGod She is one of Christs sheep,
and she knows that the voice that
speaks to her from the Bible is the
voice of the. true Shepherd.
\ Skeptic.
I can tell you how any one of you
can come to that same position,
lwhere you will be able to distinguish
Gods voice. and TO know that the