The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-11-18

;;$$ in grace and his
! Christian charac-
ter. Among the many reasons which
clamor for expression | want 10 re-
mind my readers of lust one.
! Ii Is because the message from the
Bible is unchanging. Ii is always up
10 date and needs no revision. In these
days when so many voices are heard
demanding audience we need some
| thlng with absolute certainty in its
message, and there is distressing I'M
certainty in the messages which come
from every quarter save that which
grows out of the Holy Bible. There
can be no uncertainty here, and here
| alone we may find the truth beyond
peradventure.
Science processes TO have come To
the truth. but ever and anon new facts
are brought TO light which make the
former findings of science to be false
ana 1t becomes necessary TO rewrite
and change the textbooks. Not so long
ago science declared the earth was
HAT, but later learned through its re-
searches that ii had been i'm error.
Much credit was taken by the discov-
erers OF this fact, as though something
new had been revealed by their efforts.
But this knowledge was already in the
| Word of God had we had eyes to see
it. In Proverbs 1927, speaking of the
time God formed the world, ii is writ
| ten of him setting a circle on the
deep 1t was there all the time. but
our eyes, being holden by the teach
ings of science, failed to see it there.
Again, science until comparatively
recent date taught that there could not
be light without the sun, and thar
therefore the first chapter of Genesis
must be wrong because it taught there
was light before the sun. But science
has since discovered that light does
exist apart altogether from the sun.
1t has never TO my knowledge offered
an apology for any of the hard things
said against the Scripture in the days
of its ignorance, but it is n comfort to
| the believer TO know that no new facts
which have been brought to light by
| the research of any scientist have ever
teaching of the Bible, but on the con-
trary each new absolute fact discov-
cred, instead Of contradicting, has
merely confirmed what is already writ
ten in the Word of God.
So 1t is with the messages from his
tory. The further away from the
events the more clearly we may see
their meaning and gather the lessons
for our own days. Therefore no his
tory written by man can be absolutely
true. Human historians are not only
hampered by lack of perspective, but
they are hindered by prejudice. The
heroes of American historians are
never so heroic when presented by his
torians of other nations. Writers of
history make their heroes supermen,
but when we turn to the Bible we find
true history and the heroes presented
in true colors, showing them to be men
of like passions as ourselves. Even
David, the man after Gods own heart,
| Is shown as he was.
So 1t is with the message from phi
losophy. The unnumbered contradic-
tions of the philosophers should warn
people against putting too much Gre
dence in any of them.
When we turn to the Bible we have
the only true history In the world,
written not only as n record of events
as they occurred, but we have given
to us the reasons and the outcome of
oil
the lessons that history would teach
We find there, too, the only Book
wherein, when IL touches science in
any of its branches, it touches 1t with
a sure hand, so that from cover to
cover there is not to be found one SOL
itary unscientific statement.
All other things are marked by
change and decay, but the Bible stands
as IL was written, needing neither re-
writing nor revision in any of Its
parts.
Therefore, TO have clear thinking
concerning the questions which rise in
every mans mind, and to have abso-
lutte certainty in the answer - those
questions, we should give ourselves
to diligent, reverent, daily and obe-
dent study of the Word of God. If
man will know how to live TO the
fullest and best of his capabilities and
IL he would know how to walk safely
amidst all the host of errors beSettine
both the world and the church h,
should begin at once to study the hi
bic; for therein and therein alone h,
will hear the voice saying. This Is th.
way, walk We In Il. when ye turn I.