The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-07

by telling YOU that science opposes the
Bible. The Bible is full of science and
everything that is in there is correct.
And the Bible was not written par
ticularly to be scientific treatise.
Now, the next argument. ! believe
the Bible TO be inspired and divine be-
cause it deals severely with the sins
Of its great Hero, and that is not done
in the present day. When We make
history, we don't deal severely with
the sins Of our great men. We make
history by cXtolling their virtues. Now
take the history Of L. S. Grant Ac-
cording to that. he never did anything
wrong. The same way with Abraham
Lincoln Nothing is ever told of him
except what was good and right. Moth
ing is ever said of any blunder that he
made.
Go to that book and you will find
that Abraham wrote a lie. II is re-
corded there. Paul and Bornabas had
a quarrel. Lot cheated his brother-in
I law in a land deal on the plains Of
Sodom. He was probably a real es-
tate man. Solomon went into pOly2
am. Now some people say the Bible
favors pOlygamy. That is a libel. The
Bible doesn't do anything of the kind.
1t merely recites the fact that some
people did 20 into pOlygamy. Thai
didn't put the sanction of God on it
| ! thank God the Bible does tell the
I truth about the characters Of those
great men.
Watch Judges.
! Then another thing: Go down in
/ your courts and watch your judges
conduct a trial The lawyers are al
ways trying TO slip in something. But
/ don't you hear the judge say irrelevant
! immaterial. What does that mean:
! Nothing can go into that record th&t
/ is irrelevant to the case or immateriaI
/ Take the Bible and show TO me any
thing in the book from cover to cover
that is irrelevant or immaterial Men
don't write like that. It would take
a God to do it, And think of its IN
! fluence on literature.
| have studied literature very hard
and ] lind that Shakespeare gave the
, world the majesty Of moral law Boz
! Shakespeare down to one statement
and every literary genius or scholar Of
the world will tell you that the one
theme and tenor sought Of his Who'll
life was the majesty of moral law.
| fird that Victor Hugo gave the
world the sacredness of childhood
that childhood was sacred thing
that seemed to be the tenor thought
of Victor Hugo. Where did he gel
his theme. 1t was from the Book Of
Books, the fountain head Of all lii
erature.
! Wordsworth gave the world the joN
of humility Call Wordsworth inrs
court and ask him where he got hi
theme and he would say from tE'
teachings of the man of Galilee.
4 Tennyson gave the world the tTl
umDh Of immortal love. Call upor
that sweet singer for his fountain
head and he would tell you from inc
old Book-from Gods word.
Another thing: The Bible is beyond
human comprehension, and hence Wa'
| beyond the power OF any human u
write. Do you understand the do
trine Of Trinity? No Do you belle"
! II? Yes. Why? Because 1t is tnet.
Do YOU understand light? No. W.
know little more about that, and W
know there are luminous rays AZ,
, colorffic rays and aCtinic rays. and W.
. KNOW that where two of them an
, the other one is, and We know tina
, light would be gone without all three
Now. another reason why belieN'
} The bible to be divine is because
must have come from one of tire
sources-a good man, a bad man o
r. God. Now. let US take the good man
- Could a good man write the Bible
No. because a good man could not b
liar and a good man at the sam
time. Whoever did write the Bib
made il say that the word came from
God? Everyone who is writing say
nat II is not coming from him, bu