Show New and Old Ever at Odds By Rev Thomas B Gregory c PUB I irrepressible b the tb new n w thought and the old l between een THE I the nbc tx tu twentieth century and the dark dartt ages has broken out again The Garrett darrett Biblical Institute at t E anston and the Methodist minis ministers ministers ministers oCt In the th state of Washington n arc are In hi the midst of a Dos sanguinary battle over Oer the matter of ot the higher criticism Last Tuesday during daring one of ot the I sessions of the t th e Methodist Methodise conference at a Olympia the Rev Rdv t v Dr H D Brown Drown I of ot the Battery street church Seattle succeeded in introducing h a Do highly sen sea sensational I ratIonal set of resolutions The Th resolutions after paying their respects in very plain language to the friends of ot the tha th higher criticism called as with a bugle blast for tor a boycott of those Wh will Vi l persist in Ia advocating the new newfangled tangled way of Interpreting g the oracles of God f The climax of the resolutions was reached when it was demanded that the Garrett institute at Evanston and the Boston Theological Seminary be b put under the ban S SP UAL BATHES EATHER THAl LITERAl The aforesaid institutions have been 0 late tor r the manner in which they handle handl Biblical i subjects The professors at these objectionable schools have the hardihood to teach that the story of ot Jonah and the whale is an allegory and that many man of if f the miracles recorded in scripture are to be explained In a Do spiritual rather rath r than In a literal sense The Tue transfiguration transfiguration transfiguration for fox example took place in the j hearts of the te disciples rather than upon the mountain top lOp and the story sory of the loaves loes and fishes means not lot that Jesus Je us really raly fed hungry hun y mei meI and women upon five loaves of ot bread and amI two fishes and had ha twelve baskets full left lef over oer but that In lifes moral and spiritual deserts the truth of Christ is 15 able to t more than tha satisfy us In the matter of the creation of the th world toe Evanston and Boston pro professors professors would allow alow a large latitude They are ar bold enough to tell teU their pupils that the old story In Genesis cannot be taken literally If I the book boole of at Genesis Geneis is to be taken in the literal sense then ten science is a lie le But science cannot be bea a lie Ue Its t ts facts speak for themselves and In the light of these hese facts we are simply obliged to t interpret Genesis In a nev ne way or or else ignore It altogether The schools which the Rev Dr Brown BroIl of Seattle would boycott together with wih many others not specifically within the scope of the reverend rever nd resolutions make bold to tell tel the young oung men who came to them for Instruction Instruction instruction tion that the Bible is to ba b studied st Just as a any other collection of writings Is to be studied in the light U ht of reason history and s lence The Bible Is noi no one book boole but many It I did not come into existence all al at once and all al ther r as Minerva Is supposed to have hav leaped and from the cleft clef brow of Jove It came ame slowly part by part representing representing when it was waa finished many authors and many maug maYy ages Tho The Bible Is a growth It has ha a history each of or its is separate books bok had its is contemporary men and manners and the friend friends of the higher crit criticism crt critIcism would study It i In the light of all al these facts fact In defending their stand for the higher h r criticism cri its expounders at Evanston and anG elsewhere are careful to out that no denial of Biblical l in inspiration Inspiration is implied In Tn their method of interpretation Int It ItIs is not that love and reverence reverence the sacred scriptures less lesS but more that they are found strenuously sten strenuously contending for the larger larer views of the higher hl her criticism Times change and men change with wh them but truths never and when the latest late t and largest generalizations generalization g of f science have been reached it i will wil certainly appear that no noBl Bl le truth Is destroyed destro ed or even hurt What Whit Is desired Is truth truth about hg Bible as well wel as about other things There Is no fear of the te result resul The rim he honest fearless scholars who are studying the Bible In fr the light of f truth will wi certainlY by and by many theories about the book bok many things in the book which we ve have been taught to look upon us as lS being bing true will wi turn tur out to be false but human nature will wi ever remain human and the eternal in the Bible will wi ever be recognized and adored by y the eternal In our own souls Such Is I the tho position taken by such auth men as Dr Charles W V Stewart of the Garrett Biblical Institute lr Dr lr D DA DA DA A Hayes and others Said Dr Hayes Ha es last evening This man Brown who proposed the resolution at Olympia probably be believes believes leves that the whale swallowed Jonah and that the world was created crated In six times hours Only from front the conference e in the far west is crit criticism crt or scoring of ot the higher criticism heard any more Conferences from fromal all al the rest of the country have sent forth delegates to ta study the new system and invariably they hey have reported that the th higher criticism has come to stay i I |