The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-05-27

Any hypothesis that will make "un-
belevable" the record OF mans Gre
alton in the image of God will ex-
clude all the miracles contained In
the Old and New Testaments.
when all miracles are excluded.
Christ is robbed Of the glory OF His
virgin birth. of the majesty of His
deity and OF the triumph of His
resurrection.
The same logic that excludes
natural. In his comments on the
higher critic says. Jeremiah was
one OF the great prophetic souls
who walked so close to God that he
recognized in every conviction that
came to him the promptings of the
divine voice. Accordingly. etc"
Here the stiletto is deftly inserted
in the heart OF the prophecies. Ac-
cording to this critic. jeremiah did
not receive any direct communica-
tions from God. as the prophet says
he did. but simply had ''convic-
lions" which he recognized as
"promptings of the divine voice"
The same logic removes every evil
dence of the supernatural to be
found in the Testaments, Old and
New.
when the Whittlers Get Through.
When the "whittlers OF the Word
get through with the Bible it is not
quite as good as a book OF fiction
because. IL the indictment is true.
1t has to bear the odium of having
pretended to be what it is not. The
Bible Is the basis OF the Christian
religion. II the Creator, instead of
being a personal God. is so far
away that man can have no con-
seriousness of His presence in daily
life, so far away that He cannot
hear or answer prayer. He is little
IL any better than the No-God of
the materialists.
II the Bible, instead of being an
inspired book and an infaIlible
guide to our feet, is just a collec-
lion of sayings OF men. IL has no
more authority than any other book.
II Christ instead of being the Son
of God and Saviour of the world.
sent to redeem man by His blood
and to guide him by His example
was just a deluded enthusiast, IL
not a designing imposter, He can
not be of any great consequence to
society.
when Jehoiakim destroyed the
roll of the words of the Lord as re-
ceived by Jeremiah, he did not sub
stitute anything for 1t: he destroyed
it; he destroyed but he did not Gre
ate. So with the critics Of the BIZ
BILE: they play the part of Iago-
they whisper suspicious and damn
ing insinuations.
They root up faith in the minds
OF the young and tear down relig-
ious belief. but they offer nothing
in place Of that which they destroy.
An ImpreEnabie Rock.
They cannot save man from the
voyage upon the sea of life. but
they remove the moral rudder that
must guide his ship IL it, is to reach
the haven in safety, and then they
mockingly bid him bon voyage as
he ventures forth without chart or
compass.
The closing verse of our tex.
tells US that jeremiah took another
roll and. giving II to Baruch the
scribe, dictated to him all the
words of the book that Jehoiakim
had burned in the FIRE and added
TO them many like words. The
wicked king could burn the parch-
ment on which the words of the
Lord. as given to the prophet. were
written, but he was powerless to
destroy the prophecies or to pre-
vent their fulfiNment
And so, today, the critics may
mutilate the Bible passages to
which they take exceptions, but
they are powerless to- destroy the
Christian religion, to which the
Bible has given birth.
The impregnable rock of the Hosy
Scriptures still stands and will
stand. They cannot rob God of His
omnipotence or of - nearness;
they cannot rob the revealed Word
of God Of its power to save those
who put their trust in Him.
Copyright, 1897