Show the historic clement in the he scriptures rev J B thomas D D of brooklyn recently delivered a lee lec ture in fit boston on the of elem element ent in scripture from rom which the following lowine fol ex tracts ore taken the bible Is as et ns as ii well ell fig ds n f fiill welt elt bobre I 1 the he gabol saoi cor bor er crumble ln in tile lie hand had it II is 3 overhung by a 11 cloud of sub subjective 1 active personal experience moro more or less indefinable and able it Is wrought into the foundations of various ecclesiastical orl la Is passed bya by a heavy growth of gloss clogs and comment it Is tile tho nucleus of an immense body of devotional literature it Is new in III strange languages find in new translations in our own and yet el is no more in danger of or losing loging jim its identity or or of outline by reason of th there epo concomitants than the lighthouse light house by reason of the he 11 0 ads of light it shells sheda or iho tree by reason of the fruit it bears unlike the alered book of which the original outline Is gon gone ef the substance sub siance wrig belne trang transmitted witted lii distinguishably into the para parasitic gille growth of corn in en t that lias infested and consumed it it bears but Is 3 not over overborne borup like flower and bee sealed up for future generations eit lons in tile the am amber ber of geology the old testament was H us depp deposited sited in the ho I 1 hebrew it b r ew which congealed escaip ine henceforth tho the mutations Ut alloS of a living tongue and tile now new testament in the more fluent greek copied by many independent writers whose very errors were to become in in time by interlacing testimony or of the truo taxiways text tax iwas waft u unwittingly n W It tingly hidden from the tampering or curious cur fou hoarded in dio dig sheets under prosaic monkish essays until the greek language belne being dead beadi and movable lapi ready to hide it from mutilation iby by stereotyped stereotype ila publicity bil city it came forth the ilia now new and tile he old testament linked thenceforth in double and abiding testimony became one book the book to t wok its iti marjelou marv marve elou loui mysteries dij nij stories in the earth I 1 trust a further study of tile the contents of the bible ilif may vindicate tile the suggest lou as reamona reasonable bi a that thore there Is ij more inore thon casual CO coincidence I 1 n in the fact that men who ha hayo a seen deepest into the mystery 7 caught most of the prophetic breath of the coming morning such guch ili as bacon kepler nawton faraday anti and others othora were students of the book in which they believed the be heaven were truly reflected and tho the caitha enith lit mysteries i an opan ecret 11 1 jt 1 Is to observe how inevitably candid inquiry brings men cian back by however circuitous I 1 a road to the cardinal doctrines of life now new Telf testament ament fig BS tho the tine arco coal 1 pt 11 Ifer human aar herbert beit Spencer building hla his colossal system of synthetic philosophy after so wide anil and careful exploration 11 fandi n ds the he tremendous pyramid converging ton point choso whoso heso top stono itono bt at last must be ba tho the truth which a child might at tho the beginning get from scripture for in ills his data of lea lie ho sums up till all in tile huni lie ble hope find alth that s boino 1 I n a re reason ason cd forai of the ethics of tile the now new nent in amny ny yet become tile the life core of society ile iio thus decla declares that it this wonderful book which has oded tho the modern era cm Is 1 still in advance of it nod and reaching toward ilia sub linie lical as yet considering how slowly moral ideas are evolved and tile tho specialty depressed condition of it U t if all society when tile tho now testament was wai written the tha problem still remains tin solved how out of tile the least cultivated nation of that inferior axe there issue nil ill ideal to the nine dine century looks up as still transcending II 11 its be bet st attainments attainment the conclusion beems fair that rome element cleme t unexplained andas and as yet inexplicable enters into tile the origin of these phenomena the book did not full town down from jupiter ilki tho the Rp heslan image it grow on earth it was not written upon the sky in fire but in human ILin language guage in tho the earthly page but though written by hand of man that hand seems seeing to have leon been under tho ilia wing of the ch erub lra I 1 its t fruits und and its 19 unaccountable orlean place it beyond the theran range goof of more bairan tin roan phenomena how diversified in authorship to in era em la in locality rind and in form compendious statements of scientific truth rutho gineal genealogies ogles state stale documents like the tha chronicles idyls idels like ruth statutes like leviticus epics like job I 1 lyric y r le and didactic verso in psalms Iaal ins concrete earthly wisdom iti III proverbs pessimistic sighs in ee EC clesla commingled history poetry and oratory as I 1 ho he prophets unstudied memo A 9 cos pets equally artless re a of find travel experience in the ties which uncover the social bodal and individual heart history of the time and tho gorgeous vision of the evening passing through to morn more ni K K ita ua dut but tile the record is ns as it is diver seand being so BO comprehensive hen lien sive how flow compact and clear in outline remember the grim crid cisin of carlyle upon tile i donate ver verbiage blige of our tiling compared with tho the severe sent sententiousness endrius of the pentateuch in the hands of four our modern chroniclers lie he says the account of lie burning of a brunswick theatre theare tabes more epco than the creation of at a world ak orld 11 yet again though so BO allem all embracing brac how flow symmetrically complete it does not like th the a voluble hero dolus pour an flood or of gossip through IN hi pages it 11 finds 11 ds till nil history vertebrate and along that line it moves rev revealing ealing he w whole structure or 0 he typical past the calaide I 1 is s the ilia inas sive egyptian Ch chaldean alacan and civilizations the ho various changing fortunes of the world at large tire are not ov overlooked er looked but put in their incidental anti and subordinate place and I 1 so a tile the perspective of history unknown to tile the classic writers or of a far later dayis recognized and preserved I 1 need scarcely re here re dwell for a moment upon the further thought a so a well nell emphasized in our car time tha cornce stone of tho the system which mr buckle sir john lubbock and 0 others have wrought to such top heavy proportion that our car civi civilize liza flon Is normally the prod product net of antecedent cedena material and in intellectual tl Cu conditions editions dit ions it III I 1 plain that wl without hout telescope and microscope ope opening a ing on r the two worlds bidon hidden bidlen one by its greatness ind and the other by Us its smallness from froia oui our na natural tural vision the inductive convie of the all pervading unity would not have naturally arisen while the bound arles of the earth were werts unknown its symmetrical structure truc ture could not be learned until by long preparation the ilia social boll vu as fit for the he seed it 11 could not grow crow imperfect statutes alone could beill imperfect israel they were not the best but the best beat possible considering the life hard hardness of their theirl heart icart 11 I 1 think it not inapt therefore to conclude that the marvelous m ir insight I 1 which V hach penetrated tho ilia fluent secret of this ibis complex of nature natura an and d before such viston vision could in the order of natural do da which paw faw whole plant leaf lower flower and fruit to la the so ed before it crewl rew was somehow at lenat least touched with in an element clement incommensurate with known and ex elored causes il 10 it rash to suggett that the tha eye chic I 1 gets 11 today to day help le yond ita itself f to range among the tho atari anav 1 then havo have been enlarged by I 1 1 hiim who imade made the stars also alm ilm und who formed the oyo eye |