The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-12

tain few days ago Yet the Schar-
acter of the queries indicate the cum
ming always displayed by mfidels in
seeking to build all their arguments
on an hypothesis instead of the truth.
And John Stuart Mills definition of
an hypothesis is exceeding apt and to
the point. He said AN hypothesis
being mere supposition, there are
no other limits to hypotheses than
those of the human imagination"
Darwinianism is built upon mere
hypothesis. and all the arguments Of
the higher" or destructive critics"
are built upon the same kind of a
foundation. The free-thinker or in
tidel has always mistaken license for
liberty. for the simple reason that he
will not brook the restraint the Word
of God places upon fallen human ma
ture. Instead of allowing the Bible
to judge him, he would sit in judg-
ment upon it, and the result is law
llessness or moral anarchism.
! will take up but few of the more
salient or conspicuous features of the
queries put by Mr.. Materialist
First; 1T the God you believe in
and worship infnite?"
Yes. The God of the Bible is abso-
lutely infinite.
is the universe of matter infinite?"
No. 1t is impossible to believe ia
the eternity of matter; matter is not
eternal. The universe Of matter is
the work of an Infinite Creator
And right at this juncture the reader
will see that the cunning of the sophist
is displayed in assuming that tie
Christian believes in the eternity of
matter or substance. Here is where
the philosophic speculation of the ma
terialist is shown to be merely an
hypothesis. VIII the Church Mem
ber' please observe that if he or she
admits belief in the eternity of mat
ter, then there must follow as a nat
ural sequence submission to all the
dogmatic conclusions of the material
| ist
The fact of the matter is this no
finite being can comprehend the in
finite. "Canst thou by searching find
out God? Canst thou find out the Al
mighty to perfection? 1t is as high as
heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper
than hell; what canst thou know
dob 1879. God is Spirit, and they
that worship Him must worship Him
in spirit and in truth?" SO the Christ
declared
Further, the sinner saved by grace
lis alone given the knowledge that is
withheld from the unregenerate. Tn
less the divine nature has been re-
ceived, in other words the life of Christ
communicated, and the soul is made
to bow to the divine sovereignty of
God, there can be no apprehension of
Deity in the true sense of revelation.
SO we read in Cor. 2;6-16:
How be it we speak wisdom among
them that are perfect: (that is to those
who have adulthood in Christi yet not
the wisdom of this world, that come
to nought: But we speak the wis
dom of God in a mystery, even the
hidden wisdom, which God ordained
before the world unto our glory which
none of the princes of this world
knew: for had they known it, they
would not have eructied the Lord of
glory. But as 1t is written, Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard neither have
entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for
them that love Him. But God hath
revealed them unto us by His Spirit.
fo rthe Spirit searcheth all things,
yea, the deep things of God. For what
knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no
man. but the Spirit of God Now we
have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God Which
things also We speak not in the words
which mans wisdom teacheth; com
pairing spiritual things with spiritual
But THE NATURAL MAN receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them. because
they are SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED,
But he that is spiritual judgeth all