Show BIBLE STANDS I SCIENTIFIC TEST Comes From Under Scalpel ScalpelS S Bearing B aring New Authority Says Rev Mr Simpkin PROOFS OF ARCHAEOLOGY ORIENTAL DUST HEAPS CONFIRM THE BOOKS TEACHINGS Rev P A Simpkin of ot the Phillips Congregational church addressed a large gathering of ot the Jobb of the Y M I C A building yesterday att aft afternoon noon His theme was The Contributions Contributions Contributions of Science to the Certitude of the Bible At the conclusion of or his hI ad address address dress Iress it was decided to organize a Bible class elass A number of men who were pres present present ent ut announced their willingness to join such a class and preliminary r steps were taken talC n to commence study at once Rev I Mr Simpkin will w act as is Instructor and meetings will w be held at regular inter intervals intervals vals The first meeting of the Bible class will be held at the Y M lL C A building Sunday Dec 16 By special request Rev Mr Simpkin will deliver an address ad address address dress on the code next nest Sunday This code was one of the many interesting features of his sermon yes yesterday yesterday yesterday Were Diametrically Opposed A few years ago science and the Bible were diametrically opposed said the speaker yesterday The Bible had hadn hada n a hard time But it has emerged Into a new day It owes much to the scientific scientific title critic for it has come from under the tIle scalpel and microscope as Infinite in its message and on its human side bearing a new authority in the reset resettled tied faith of the majority of its closest students and its most scientific critics I think that one of the great gifts of our time has been that coming from the hands of the critical scientists They have compelled the Christian church Into an appreciation that the message of ot the intellect Is found in the Book Bookas as well as that of the heart Gives the World Truth Archaeology has worked wonders for forthe forthe forthe the Bible Oliver Wendell Wenden Holmes once said I believe in the spade It has fed the world and provided it with water coal iron copper gold and is s now giving gi givins ing ins it truth Unless you ou have been reading the literature of archaeology or have become familiar with its work vork by study in the museums of the worlds great centers you cannot appreciate i the value of this contribution by science I Ito to this Book and its truth Until this work was done by the devoted students of the oriental under which the treasures of the th centuries have lain Jain almost all of the early books of the Bible stood naked and unconfirmed The time the people and the he great characters were so unrelated to any an tangible fact that men had bad to take the statements as they were made wholly on faith Now in face of the denials of culture scholarship and letters in inthis inthis Inthis this early age are the discoveries of the past twenty years An Age of Letters Perhaps the most significant in its bearing on the history of Palestine and the Jew Te was the discovery of the Tel for it was the beginning of those discoveries which have shown that the Mosaic age was almost as lit Ut literary literary as our own Canaan was the cen center center center ter of a correspondence which reached from one end to another of the civilized world The tablets were discovered while the grave of a scribe of Ameno plus the fourth was being searched for treasures A number of clay biscuits were found instead of papyri and these were covered with Babylonian mark markings markings markings ings These when translated were shown to be letters written by b King in ir which he discussed af at affairs fairs pertaining to county and state That was the beginning of the new now newlight newlight light We now know that when Abra Abraham Abraham Abraham ham reached Canaan he found the same law und and same literature and he realized that he had moved moed to another part ot ot Chaldea We now know that battle battIe described were not born of romance but are history We now know that when Machpelah was bought for fora a grave the transaction was carried out In accordance with the Babylonian law Attest Fidelity of Bible Letters written during the period of Abraham have been found to be those of the common people in which trivial affairs were recorded They do away awny with the claim that had ha neither writing nor reading The unfailing tes testimony testimony testimony of the discoveries is to the tile fi 11 fidelity fidelity delity of the pictures and customs in inthe Inthe inthe the records of ot the Bible The latest evi evidence evidence dence deuce too goes to prove beyond be ond ques question question question tion the truth of the races civilization fp In the Euphrates valley Discoveries made show that the Babylonian litera literature literature ture had a widespread influence The code of Hammurabi Han is the oldest code of law in the world Its discovery is more important than that of the Tel tablets D E Morgan made the discovery of tha the code in 1892 1 2 and when the tablets bearing the code were translated it was w v s found that law had bad existed thousands of years ago |