Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-07

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the conference missionary sermon
was preached by Rev. T. E. Olsen OF
Devils Lake. The speaker confined
himself closely to the subject and
indicated clearly the thought and pur
pose of the scriptural injunction &c
We into all the world and preach the
Gospel
The next speaker on the program
was Rev. JudsOn Hill and the needs
Of the college which he represents
was set forth and aid asked to carry
on the work. g.
| At 4 O'Clock DR.. Wright was in
troduced and he gave his third lee
ture of the course. His theme was
Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch
Established. The lecture throws a
great deal of light on what are the
authentic truths of the Bible. Dr.
Wright's concluding lecture will be
given today at 4 o'clock and it should
prove a great drawing factor.
DR.. Wright said in part:
OF late a theory has become widely
prevalent that the Pentateuch is a
composite document only small part
of which was written in the time of
Moses. The great Bible dictionaries
which are now being published all
present this view, as do many lead
ing commentaries, while the Old
Testament professors in many of the
leading theological seminaries, both
exercise the view and teach it as au-
thoritative In particular they teach
that the central sanctuary was not
established until the building Of the
temple that Deuteronomy was not
written till the time of Josiah, and
the Priestly legislation such as we
find in Leviticus and Numbers, was
not made until this time of Ezege.
The earlier history of Genesis and
Exodus is mostly compounded of sew
eral untrustworthy legends so that the
patdiots cease to be regarded as
real personalities.
The starting point of these theorists
was the varying use of Jehovah
Uord) and Elohim (God) in Genesis,
The writer of the 1st chapter of GEMS
is uses the word Elohim, while that of
the I'd chapter uses Jehovah-Elohim,
and in later chapters sometimes one
word occurs and sometimes another.
They have therefore, divided up the
books into sections in which these
words occur and assigned them to diff
ferent late authors. One they desig-
nate as 81" another CO., and another
81 E.. The writer of Deuteronomy
they call ID" and that of the Priestly
legislation "P."
Things seemed to be all going the
way of these so.called higher critics"
until a champion of of Moses arose
three or four years ago from among
his own people, and for whose dis.
covery l can claim considerable cred
it. Five years ago Dean WAGE of Can
terbury, England, asked Jewish
rabbi why they left the defense of
Moses to the Christians. This word
got to the ears Of young Jewish
barrister in Lincolns Inn, London,
named Harold M. Wiener, who had
recently graduated with high honors
from Cambridge University and had
published standard work on the
Jewish Law, and set about the ex-
animation of the grounds for this
destructive criticism of his peoples
literature. The main channel for the
publication Of Mr.. Wiener's counter
critism has been the Biliotheca
Sacra. in which ten long articles have
appeared, and more are to
follow. Six Of these have already been
collected and finished in book form,
and are putting the higher critics of
Europe and America in close corner
from which there is no escape.
With a wealth of knowledge and
scholarship which is unsurpassed he
shows first, that the higher critics,
not being lawyers, have made most
egregious blunders in their understand
ing OF legal terms and customs and so
have manufactured contradictions
without number out of whole cloth.
Second, that they have made their
divisions into Jehovistic and Elohistic
documents on the basis of the text
Of our ordinary Hebrew bible without
lnquiring whether that is the best
text. Whereas, this text was not fix
ed until 700 A. D. while the Greek
and Syriac translations of the tesla.
ment were made from a text, 1000 |
years older than this and the Samari. |
;on testament does from that earlier
period. Several other later trans
ations and commentaries also carry
is back to this earlier text. The facts
show that Jehovah and Elohim were
equivalents, one being the name and
he other the title, like taft" and
the president" or president Taft"
hence there was no uniformity in the
original use of these words. In 173
cases where Jehovah occurs in Gene
lis in our revised Hebrew text, Elo-
lin takes it's place 1913 times in some
If the earlier texts. Thus it appears
hat so far as this clue is concern
he critics have been building on the
sand. And so it is repeatedly
shown that from this neglect of text
lal criticism, their lack of legal know
edge, and their general carlessness
n not collecting all the passages bear
ng on their theories, the destructive
critics Of the pentatench have blown
Up one Of the thinnest bubbles that
las ever been blown. The bubble has
low been punctured, and the adher-
ents of the documentary hypothesis of
he origin of the pentatench are COM
PEELED to turn to some other sound