The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-17
PERSONAL TESTIMONY
nv Howard A. Kelly. Nj. D.

uih!e does not harmonic with the
,-o5ern scientific spirit, the following
,.s+imony from a distinguished physi-
Ian and surgeon should be of great
line. The editor Of Appleton's Mag
inc saws of Dr. Kelly: DR.. Howard
EagJy Of Baltimore. holds a position
.lmast unique in his profession. With
...demic, professional, and honorary
.4garees from the Universities of
r-rnsvlvania, Washington and Lee,
>aerdeen. and Edinburgh, his rank as
~..holar IL clearly recognized For
some twenty years a professor at
l.hr~ Hopkins University, his place
worker and teacher in n APP
,IeI science of his profession has
sa-u heyond question the highest II
America and Europe, AT least a
r4zer learned societies III England.
scotland, ireland, Italy,
Austria. France, and the United States
t..re welcomed him to membership as
easier in his specially in surgery.
f.naIlv. his published works have
used him to be reckoned the most
eminent Of al authorities in his own
have within the past twenty years
" nv life, come out Of uncertainty
and doubt into a faith which Is an
absolute dominating conviction Of the
tTath and about which | have not a
.hudoe Of 4 doubt. l have been init
rta1pN associated with eminent scien-
ftt. workers; have heard them dis
r,.ss the p~rofoundest questions; have
snyeeIf engaged IN ut work,
md 50 know the value of such opln-
fo!:z. was once profoundly disturbed
IN The traditional faith in which ]
have been brought up-that OF n
Protestant Episcopalian-by inroads
which We're made upon the book OF
Genesis by the higher critics. l could
rtt then gainSay them, not knowing
Hebrew nor archaeology well. and to
me, as 10 many. to pun out n great
}Icp Was t. make the whole founda-
Tim uncertain.
- ] floundered on for some years
r>iug az some OF my higher critical
friends are irving today. to continue
/, Use The Bible as the Word of COD
and at the same time holding 1t OF
r"npOsije authorship, q curious ana
disastrous piece of mental gymnastics
--,. bridge over the chaSnl separa r,nS
80. older Rible-lovlng generation frOr.
arner Bible-enancipated race. !
~tW IN the book q great light and glow
al heat, vt shivered out in the cold.
tuit dan II occurred TO me to see
What The book had to say about itself.
A. d short. but perhaps not the best
nlethnG, / took q concordance and
hooked out "W0T3. when / found that
5he Iibie claimed from one end TO
tht other 90 he the authoritatiye Word
IL t"l 10 man. ] then tried the
H4Jurul plan OF taking it AS nay text
book Of religion. as l would use a
F.Et-hOOk III any science, testing 1t by
admitting To its conditions. ! found
shat CHRIST Himself invites men (John
80: - to DO this.
/ Row believe the Bible TO be the
n>r.Ie,t Word OF God. inspired in q
sense utterly different from that OF
"nN merely human book.
believe Jesus Christ TO he the Son
- God. without human father, con-
lived by the Holy Ghost, born Of the
Virgin Mary. That all men without
'Ng"ption are hy nature sinners, alien
ted from God, and when thus utterly
lost in S:n the Son of God Himself
"a}ue down to earth, and by shedding
His blood upon TIE cross, paid the
Infinite penalty Of The guilt OF the
whole world. ] believe lie who thus
receives Jesus Christ rs his Saviour IS
torn again spiritually as definitely as
Ia has first birth, and, SO born spirit
~a!Iy, has new privileges, appetites
and affections; that he is one body
WITH Christ the Head and Will live
With Him forever. l believe no MAJ
an save himself by good works, or
nat Is commonly known as a mora
'i'e. SUCH works being but the nee
'"s,:fY fruits and evidence of the faith
within.
Satan 1 believe to be the cause OF
mans fan and sin, and his rebellion
tSainst God as rightfu1 Governor
satan IS the Prince of all the king
IONS Of this world, yet will in the
ma be cast into the pit and made
harmless. Christ will come again in
glory to earth to reign even as He
vent away from the earth, and / look
Tor His return day by day.
~ believe the Bible to be Gods
"ofd' because, as I use it day by day
as spiritual food, / discover in my
""n life as well as in the lives OF
nose who likewise use it in transform
1Uoh correcting evil tendencies, puri-
ing affections, giving pure desires
AiI teaching that concerning thu
i@~HieouSness Of God which those whC
no not SO use it can know nothing Of
IS as really food for the spirit as
bread is for the body.
Ftrhaps one of my strongest reasons
OF believing the Bible is that it re
LIS 10 me, as no other book in thu
H0TIo could do that which appeal.