The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-02-11

was crowded. The Pastors text was,
Gas 1t was In the days OF Noah, so also
shall it be in the days of the Son of
Man."-Luke 1925.
The address opened with scathing
arraignment of the Higher Critics.
Our richly endowed colleges, he de-
clared, are undermining faith in the
Bible, which means faith in a personal
God. and are substituting scant rec
IGNITION of the laws of nature, devoid
Of sympathy or mercy. Practically
every minister graduated during the
last twelve years has been an agnostic
and believer in human evolution.
Disbelief In the Bible account Of mans
creation in Gods image, means dis
belief also in a fall from that image,
disbelief In the need of redemption
necessity for the Restitution to be ac
complished by Messiah's Kingdom
Acts 1922.
81 do not question the sincerity of
the Higher Critics. Experiences of
my own along the same line forty
them" said Pastor Russell. He insist
ed, however, that it is not honorable
for those who have abandoned the
creeds to pose before the public as sup
porters of the creeds, and to draw sal
aries and receive honorary titles for
undermining the faith of the people,
while posing as the representatives of
Christ and the Bible. He declared such
course dishonest and dishonorable.
Tho Deluee Corroborated by History
Il would that l might lure back to
the Word of God some of the noble
minds now arrayed against It'll know
their difficulty. In their minds they
associate the unreasonable theories of
our creeds with the Bible, believing it
to be the foundation for the gross dark
ness and superstition which once blind
ed US all. Would that l could show
them, as l now see 1t, the fallacy of
this position-show them that the Bible
is in most violent conflict with the er
rors OF the past, and that it teaches
from Genesis to Revelation a Divine
that only God of Wisdom and Love
could have devised it, and only those
moved by His Holy Spirit could have
written It,"
But" Quoth the Pastor, ''the Bible
truly says that we may see the deep
things Of God only by the illumination
Of the Holy Spirit, and that illumina-
ton is promised only to the sanctified
The fearful thought impresses us that
by no means all Of the professed minis
tiers Of Christ are sanctified and In
condition Of heart to be guided into
knowledge Of the Truth"
The speaker held that the Higher
Critics approach every Bible topic from
the standpoint of unbelief, and declar-
ed that IL they would reverse their Do
sition and seek for corroboration of
the Bible story, their success would be
better. These critics, exploring the
ruins of Babylon, found baked clay
tablets rudely picturing the Ark, and
saying a few words about a general
deluge Instead Of saying that this
confirms the Bible thought. they re-
verse the proposition, and say that the
Israelites, in captivity In Babylon.
doubtless drew their story Of the Del
uge from the Babylonian legends.
: How silly to suppose that the beauti-
full, interesting and connected nara
tive Of Genesis could ever have been
drawn from a few poor, miserable,
fragmentary words which the Baby
lonians have recorded ON the subject
The Genesis account gives the geneal-
ogy Of Noah in a most remarkable
manner-the exact day and year and
month Of his life in which the Deluge
occurred, the number of days Of rain,
how long the food prevailed, etc, etc
Before the finding of the BabyloniaI
tablets, the Higher Critics held that this
entire story of the Deluge was myth
and that Jesus and the Apostles had
been deceived when they quoted Moses
in respect to 1t.
Geology Confirms the Mosaic Deluqe.
Pastor Russell promised that next
Sunday he would take up the moral
reasons leading up to and Justifying
the destruction OF the human family
with the Deluge, as the matter is set
forth in the Scriptures. He might not
orally address the same persons, but
ehrou9h his sermonA printed weekly In