Show AGAINST AGAI Sl Ill IIER CRIll I It Is an nn Interesting announcement that nn an organization for tor tho Ilse defense of ot the BIble against so higher clem has been formed farmed Its name amine Is 14 limo tho League Its ItA eastern headquarters Is 18 BoHton while white Ix s Angeles lma been selected as Its It western stronghold Some years carA ago students of 01 the Ho lIes Hoton ton 1011 University protested against what they Iho considered heresy of some Onto proofs Horn sors hut hill the regents uphold upheld thin tho pro and the were tern practically rally cally driven out nut of the university It Hut the tho higher criticism of ot the Ihl Hoston Fors aroused the th Methodists allover all nil allover over ncr the country and now It Is III thought the tho time line lute has rome come to is wage wago open war Will warfare tate fare till against that form of or Infidelity The League of lC thin thu t hI Methodist l church Is la to tak the th land In Inthis inthis this light The following allowing Is the Ih lie platform of ot the organization I 1 We Wo believe Hint the th mile In a n unique and aid supernatural souse norme I is i Iho authoritative word of ot Clod 2 We behove that the when rightly rl Interpreted In is In nil full harmony with the tho established facts In all 1111 depart departments ments of mf knowledge 3 We Wo In scholarly Investigation loll tion and amid criticism In all nil departments of ot learning 4 4 t We believe that the rho abundant door clear nod and direct testimony tr of our cur Lard Iud Jesus Christ Ills His Apostles Is of vi vital till Ill Importance and ami Is III conclusive ctrl evi evidence 1 I Hence dence of or the correctness of ot tho the Oran evan evangelical I doctrine concerning tho the holy hol fi 6 Wn III II I 1 that no amount of nt technical scholarship I is ht compel competent nt fully tully to Interpret and mul the ii unless ones mind Is and anti guided ll by lIy tho the Holy Huh In UI n accordance with this his platform It ItIN IH IN the Intention of the tho members to 10 bo Ix diligent students ii In III archaeology his history Ii is isor tory lor or science philosophy biblical the tho theology elegy or other othel related topics to do lIe fend the tho scriptures against all 1111 tho ho as ns of ot unbelief and by b every means mauna consistent with charity Charily to ex cx poso 1050 error multi and seek sock the Iho banishment of ot doctrines and teachings from from rom the Methodist church i ito Ito to lo take lake the tho Lord Jesus ns nil our pattern of r C character and the tho Holy as nil our guide and to pray and labor nil ally nl and nn earnestly II for the tho of mind and the tho edification o and of ot believers If It this movement IH is Inaugurated In III Ina a R r spirit of oC and not mere more ly Iy for tor tho sake sako of oC obtaining revenge upon certain professors plC fwd and resents r and amid for Cor It should be bethe bethe the lire means menns of producing good gook It Is II high time that higher criticism be he met on onitA Its itA own oln ground This criticism re me verses with one dictum the belief lIer ot of centuries In the tho genuineness and au all authority of ot tho Scriptures It Il tells us Uil that the Iho sacred volume Is but Lilt a mor store or ot orless orless less loosely thrown together to ether collection of ot literary fragments of ot the tho l edited In later Inter ages Anti And when wo vo e ask for tor proofs of ot such lIuch startling propositions wo we 0 are 1110 referred to 10 a philological analysis of vt the text I made by b modern modem mD em scholars They rile fhe tear from the context contu t Ruth cooly cool assign them to authors who Limo 1110 supposed to have lived centuries after the tho generally accepted al authors and mid In many ruses cases eus s they the deny the tho his historical narrative and mind place tho the events among the tho worlds world collection of ot myths And all 1111 this without a 1 scintilla of proof except such Midi as liS they are aro capable ble of ot In Ingeniously extracting from their own philological deductions They fhe find a word or er an alt al which thoy tho rio assume cannot belong Jelon to a certain age ngo 08 or a 1 certain persons hence the text must be he spurious In to the tho elite of oC modern writings It is b almost Impossible to draw conclusions as its to tf authorship from rom words W II Rod and phrases alone This rids Is la an experiment anybody might try tr I very newspaper contains cottons the contributions of ot a n number of author Let Iet anyone one try tn to pick lII out these authors front from no other evidence thus than lint which vii lob Is III known as liS Internal Some years yearn ago ngo n a presidential to Congress was dissected by lJ critics arts of It were assigned to the lie president president dent Ilent and parts to 10 different secretaries but hut what one ono critic asserted was the exact style of oC the president another asserted ns to be he the style of ot such fuch and such Huch a it secretory secretary The Tho whole discussion exhibited a beautiful Illustration of at atthe the time futility of determining authorship by 11 Internal evidence alone In ha the tho case casc of oC a 11 modern composition What then theil shall be said of the criticism that denies the evidence of oC history on all the basis of ot Its lis own deductions de regarding r Hebrew and aul Greek manu manuscripts scripts about which modern know knowledge knowledge ledge Is but Imperfect after all Z The Thue Hebrew of or the tho Old DIll Testament Is IH a u dead clent language std the tho critics ore are not even Oriental born and bred In Oriental thought The Old Olt Testament Is but part of ot literature once existing Our OUI knowledge e of ot its It II gram grammar gla m mar mm and lexicon must therefore necessarily s carlly be he fragmentary With these facts before us we wo can cnn but bul wonder at nt atthe atthe the extravagant claims of ot the critics |