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hilt in the quivering bosoms ol
defense of their altars and hea
"With the eagle's beak
Between those eyes that i
Thou mad'st not Rome's"?
No, not from thee with thy F
of sea nnrt ohnro T7<~
? ~ 1.UJ rui ulil JIKfc
its innumerable spokes thy pav
mies, greedy pro-pretors and
sions, and heartbroken captives
earth from the Euphrates to th<
snows of Siberia to the sands i
from thee, O Roman, with thy br
today are arbitrating the dispul
not from thee, but from the hat
ed by Greek and Roman heaths
that of Crusader and Inquisito
from thy meek and holy Messi
, able sorrow for his own kindrec
the Jew, with his decalogue fi
them with lips quivering in thi
the finger of God and with His r
with the blood of the everlastir
have our noblest principles of
of the life beyond the stars wil
3. And, brethren and fathers
and these hopes of Heaven, thai
of trumpets and clash of cymbal
by the newest infidelity, the wh
man calling himself a "higher c
or less "advanced."
For a full and satisfactory dis
Tefer all interested to the lear
Green, of Princeton, and Dr. Orr,
and now, to say that the chal
criticism seems to rest on two 1
a postulate, (unproven and unpi
ophy; the other a particular co
facts that appear in the docun
writings held in common by the
Church of Christ, commonly d
ment;" principally these at lea
Testament also.
(1) The postulate alluded to
luteiy Impossible in a world doi
recording that, which, if true, m
is therebv vitiated, and if
-teaching the system must be aba
Now, with regard to this phi
observed in passing: That so Ic
thinking, mind, holds to the exi
is both imminent in nature, an<
ator of all things in heaven ar
the impossibility of miracles c<
a mind. For it is an essential
such an Almighty God, possess!
a free will, to interpose by an a
duce events in external nature,
we believe in a personal, Almigl
earth," we must also say as He <]
possible."
..The logical termius ad quern
only be the Pantheism of Spinoa
Any halting place on this sid
thought must seek its goal as
postulate is as fatally opposed t
tie's creed: "I believe in God, 1
heaven and earth," as it contra
in Jesus Christ His only Son ou
the Holy Ghost, born of the Vir
(2) And, furthermore, it may
postulate, Right-Reason offers ir
two may be stated here: The di
clent cause of human intelllgei
blind forces, themselves wholly
a3 Heat, Light, Electricity, Ma{
possibly others of like character
as universal as the race of
personal wrong-doing, of consci
guilt. For that fact, in trumpt
law that is not a part of the M;
in us, speaks unmistakably of a
eousness." From these dictates <
postulate of the skeptical highe:
of SDinoza have been and are
esrane: call the thing by eithei
and "Mr. Hyde."
(3) And this being settled, w
arated from that postulate of
element of this skepticism is 11
tap-root cut away. There is not
and die?trunk, and limbs, and
all.
As for the linguistic criticis
THE PRESBYTERIAN
! nations who opposed thee in
rthstones?
never glanced along land,
orura bedecked with the spoils
? the axle of some giant chariot,
ed high-ways for marching arnrn.nnnoii1o
?*
r.. .vuoiuo, inuuipum procesi,
stretching across the whole
i seas of Britain, and from the
of the African desert; no, not
azen tablets of the laws, which
:es of continental Europe; no,
ed and despised Jew, persecut;n,
with a fury second only to
r, falsely claiming authority
ah, who sobbed with unspeakI
on Mt. Olivet and prayed for
rom Mt. Sinai, engraven with
e agonies of death; yes, from
ross on Mt. Calvary crimsoned
ig covenant, from the Jew, .we
duty and our sweetest hopes
.h God.
, it is these principles of duty
t you and I, with a great blare
Is, are now called to surrender
ole of them, or in part, as the
iritic" may happen to be more
cussion of this demand I must
ned and able volumes by Dr.
of Glasgow. It is enough, here
lenge of the skeptical higher
things chiefly?One of them is
rovable), of speculative philosnstruction
placed upon certain
tients composing that body of
Jewish Synagogue and by the
lesignated as the "Old Testaist,
though involving the New
is this: Miracles being asboTiinated
by law, any document
ust of necessity be miraculous,
! an essential part of religious
indnn#>H
losophical postulate it may be
>ng as any logical, consistently
stence of a personal God, who
i also super-mundane, the Creid
earth, visible and invisible,
in not be maintained by such
element in the conception of
ng an infinite intelligence and
ct of that almighty will to proSo
long as, with Jesus Christ
lty God, "Maker of heaven and
loes: "With God all things are
of the postulate therefore can
:a, "All is God, and God is all."
e of that end is temporary;
water tends to its level. The
o the first article of the Aposthe
Father, Almighty Maker of
diets the second article: "And
ir Lord: who was conceived by
gin Mary," etc.
be remarked that against this
isuperable difficulties, of which
fflculty of alleging, as the suffice
the ungufded operation of
insensate and irrational, such
jnetism, Chemical Affinity and
; secondly, the undeniable fact,
nominally constituted man, of
ous transgression, of personal
it-tones, proclaims a righteous
yself. And the fear, awakened
i "power that makes for rightsf
reason the Anti-Supernatural
r criticism and the Naturalism
alike unable to find a door of
name, it is both "Dr. Jekyll"
re may go on to note that sepPantheism,
the really critical
ke the mountain pine with its
hing for it to do, but to wither
"needles," and cones; one and
m it may be safely admitted
OF THE SOUTH.
that it has succeeded, not in in
undertakes to do; but in helpii
perhaps than hitherto seen, th
transmitted through generationi
nal autographs (the divinely in:
believe them to have been), to
rious translations. Only this a
tic phenomena of the O. T., the
as the "variationa" Jr. ?>-> VT
?~ 1U cut; 1
ison of the various Mss. of the
dates any doctrine of "the Apos
ster Confession.
4. We may pass on, therefo;
what the apostle said to Timot
things which thou hast learnt
knowing of whom thou hast le
ments we have received, of cc
the Synagogue and the Church,
lowsliip to acquire and to reta
document that can possibly b
sources, ancient and modern,
brethren, have also an endors
tials of these holy writings, to
a very great value. Paul's end(
ficiently considered. He attest!
neuctos," or breathed of God.
probably impossible for Paul to
aposin! oi me circumcision,"
the "Apostle to the Gentiles, "]
they were moved by the Holy
need not ask from Peter. And
John the beloved. But let us h
of him who is their Lord and ^
so doing, fathers and brethren, ;
that superhuman wisdom that
ful anticipation of the "strateg
defend the Word of his Fathe
For example, as we all know,
heaven and earth by the powei
our Lord goes back to this "crea
his re-asserted doctrine of Monc
of God the Creator, including th<
a portion of Adam's. And by as<
tered by our first father, our Loi
at this early period of his existe
with his Creator, being in fact
to U3.
In like manner He deals with
uge. For, knowing perfectly w<
the great flood, as historical fi
belief to warn them of evil con
of Himself, just as the antediluv
The supernatural destruction
morraa He also appeals to as a r
His hearers so understood
lieving wife as a special warnini
the Mosaic authorship and hi
He understood that and so He
to warn them. In another conn*
very hearers (Peter, John and 1
I would have told." That is to
to be duped by idle opinions ar
Passing over much for want <
ticipation of the attack by the <
long-suffering Book of Deuteroi
be said that this Book has be*
tiles." But how doe3 our Lor
crisis of His earthly life when tl
utmost to mislead the "second
Adam," He appeals exclusively
rejected Book as His means of
tan's suggestion that He should
a miracle, our Lord quotes Deu
nature in us higher than thai
Implying that He is then and
part of him. And when Satan v,
Ps. 91, 11 and 12 the propriety
presumptuos (the very opposite
tation) again, Christ endorses 1
that such action is unwarrant
idence. And, finally, when in
proposes that Jesus should do
of this world," our Lord defei
time to this very book as to tl
He plainly disagrees with the cr
One thing more seems to r
Jonah and the whale? This is
understand Dy certain persons,
out of court," we have been tolc
people of the wise old saying:
last."
As for the main question In
absolute control of our Almight;
I will agree heartily with the got
with a sneer: "And so you belii
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validating the documents, as It
lg to bring to light, more fully
e history of the text in being
3 and centuries from the origi3pired
autographs as Christians
the printed coDies in nnr
nd nothing more. The linguis>n
are of much the same force
text, as seen from a comparlater
revelation. Neither invaltles'
creed" or of the Westminre,
and finally, to take note of
hy: "But continue thou in the
and hast been assured of,
arned them." The O. T. docuturse,
from the Jewish people,
, working together in good fella
the very best text of each
e obtained from any and all
But you and I, fathers and
ement covering all the essenwhlch
endorsement we attach
arsement, we have already suf3
them, each, as being "theopA
stronger endorsement it is
have made. Nor is Peter, the
one whit less positive than is
For holy men of God spake as
unost." More than that we
to the same effect we can cite
asten to take the endorsement
laster as well as ours. And in
you and I will agree in adoring
appears in our Lord's successtic
points" at which he might
r against "the gates of hell."
the account of the making of
r of God in the early chapters
tion myth," so called, and bases
igamy upon the successive acts
i production of Eve's body from
bribing to God certain words ut'd
leaves us to infer that Adam,
ince, was in closest communion
inspired of God, and a prophet
the story of the Noachian delell
the belief of His hearers in
act, he avails himself of that
[sequences from their rejection
ians rejected Noah's warnings!
of the cities of Sodom and Go
natter of fact, and knowing that
Him, including Lot's unbe?.
No Jew of that date doubted
storical reality of that event,
availed Himself of their belief
;ction He said to some of these
the others), "If it were not so,
i say, "I would not permit you
id unfounded beliefs."
)f time, let us consider His an:ritics
on the much-abused and
nomy. With emphasis may it
en "trodden down of the Gend
regard it? Why, in a great
le powers of darkness did their
Adam," as they had the "first
to this reviled, belabored, and
defense against Satan. To Sasupply
Himself with bread by
t. 8, 3, showing that there is a
1 which feels hunger, thereby
there attending to that higher
rrongfully seeks to deduce from
of the child of God becoming
5 extreme from the first temp>y
citing Deut. 6:16, indicating
ed temptation of God's provlutter
desperation Satan boldly
homage to him as "the god
ats him by appealing a third
le rule of a godly man's duty,
itics in toto as to Deuteronomy,
equire attention?the stnrv nf
almost a Joke we are given to
"It has been fairly laughed
I. Our reply is to remind such
"He laughs best, who laughs
volved in this story, viz.: the
y God of all creatures, you and
)d, old deacon, who being asked
sve that a whale, having a gul