Show CRITICISM Bible students will notice with n a 1 great deal of or that the tue modern criticism which calls lUel teel higher Is already on the decline Tor rM Torn rMa a n time It seemed ns as It if It Il would sweep everythIng before It II reducing the tunes tures to 10 time tho level of or Greek or Scandinavian mythology edited very cry badly mostly by unknown persons Dut But theIr old oltI assertion has hns been tested and found to rest reat on no solid foundations The Tha apostles of or this new gospel have hue been heen icon found to hive h e very er little claim to ho the title of ot critics In Germany the tho reaction against title this criticism Is U said to 10 be bo gaining in force torce There eminent scholars are prot pro lag Ins ng that Its teachings on Important point are arc In direct opposition to the testimony of They are aro demonstrating that the Jehovah war wor worship ship ahll of or the tho Jews Jows was not ns as some ot or orthe the critics maintain an nn adaptation of if f he time star and of or other Semitic people Higher criticism claims to be able to say ea from the time variations In iii style of ot he time ancient records that hint they were or orIginally written by different authors or I that one compiler rather made up lila hl books l and chapters by joining together er fragments of or different books In lila his possession They claim to bo be atio to lo o designate with accuracy which verse terse ers was written m by this aUthor and by that lint and what Is added 1 by the time com corn compiler idler Now It Is evident that such Ruch an aim undertaking would bo Lo almost ble blo If It the he question wore wIre to 10 dissect a modern literary work written In plain English and anti edited by 11 one How hIom much more moro hazardous must jaunt the tho task be lie when the time question Is ot or documents thousands of or years ears old oltI and written In Ina ina a 1 language time the peculiarities and amid deli delicate cote cate of ot which now are corn com speaking unknown The rhe un unfairness Unfairness fairness of or this method hns hums been recur lero from the first by b some nail and it tl U la commencing to be more generally un understood understood A writer In a German clen title tine paper quoted In the Literary Di Dl Digest DIgest gest characterizes this timia method of or emit crit criticism as an a n dream dr He Ito says ys The Time results of or the en school are based busO on a n subjective critical c lion Ion of or the time II u method that hat hits has been tried trl and was by h the time Homer Humer philologists of or long ago alto It Is plainly plain to 10 0 be seen that a n similar ieee reaction tion lion Is I setting In among the Pentateuch scholars of the time day 1111 time the hIstory of the time Old Testament text which we no longer In Its It older form feint and also the Increasing abundance of or theological knowledge of or the ancient Orient In iii which the history of Israel lilt lies embedded teach tesch us must nOlt plainly plain I that time the Idea hint the sources ran can be readily read II as fiR the his en n school chool attempt ID hi a theta them Is a dream and amid 1 that a II building erected on such a can have no Ito permanence The Th he problem eon con concerning the chAracter and origin of ot Is Jg Israels rul religion la ii I far from being solved and the coming decodes decades will witness a II battle all alone aion the line In this de department The position taken by b Hommel and anil other In antagonizing ul J criticism on the basis basil of ar data le Ie a the program of or a n anew new hew nl tendency thAt alms aims to a n grouter greater or lr r isis lew extent to 10 restore the traditional of ot the th Old Testament and a nl as such the Ih warmest welcome ns nil suShi sueh eon oon have hava havano ha hano no permanence Still It must not be bo that It lists has been without Its usefulness The lithe during the g a ahas has hal ha brett been surrounded by 11 and enveloped In many erroneous Idea Ideas of ot man It needed to p pase a through a purifying fire fine that thal II ti genuine gelil might shine forth In value Higher criticism his baa furnished such a lame It can tan cannot not miot tall fall to tl Coastline much of af the he nl ci moat Idolatrous reverence that has IMS been accorded the book ook 1 Naturally a tuII when all that which can burn hurn In the fire of If crill the lames flame amee will wiil die tilt out Hut the Scripture s will mull re remain remain I main the tha eves ever faithful testimony of 01 the dealings of or God with HI Ilia children In itt lies ate that are PIt pest It wilt will testify to 10 t the e present t generation of ot the truth that I is II eternal and ud unchangeable be J t cau 1 Ig from Him hUm who 10 lives for over ever and anti ever |