| Show FORGETTING THE BIBLE Voltaire vastly lit i overestimating his own can Importance unit and e ns M men of ot his generally do Haltered fluttered with the th thought that UH us n a ie me lit of or his literary activity In the th sot nor norvice vice Ic of or atheism tn the he Bible would be become become come tin fin obsolete book hook Hut But he it hi de do deceived himself societieS houses etc flourished after his lUll limo Us IS never noVer and auth millions of ot copies were cere distributed before beCore his bit bitter ter criticism thousands thou would satisfy h the hue demand Hut But what oreti orell Infidelity was as un um unable aide able to tn the Ito spirit of nt Indifference ence of or our age threat threatens ens to about t rue Tho mo no UI longer read rend ns nil generally a mM used to tobo ii bo bl the tha diatom custom resident President Hall Hallof of or Clark university hui recently culled called attention to tn this fact of ot that subject he lie Stilt said to n a representative of If the ew York Sun Hun that It luau hUll been found by b practical tests school students are I defective In their knowledge o of ot HIP Ih lit especially tho lie Old Testament nt fin Tho reason reasI was wall according to tl I President Hall hail tint tho the Bible Dible Is III less Ils read r lit iii the time home than It wax a 1 tow few years earll ago II O the till number of or if children who have n IL I Mr fair knowledge e of ot It H Ii I growing le less s antI and less lel This he lie said aull shown shoN tho the la is tl becoming chin lete Jeh He lIe further stated slated that professors son sors of ot literature even nn In colleges have complained that bitt students who have hive matriculated show nn alt amazing lack of or knowledge of oC tho the In hits bin opinion ion he Ito said acknowledge a 1 of ot the should bo lie a CL u requirement In Eng English lish of at all nil flint Ignorance of the th contents COli tents of ot tho the Scriptures s U III Ii to nn an alarm tog Ing III extent Is III mailo evident In iii many ways YuLI but hut never more snore no than thanIn In tho the cuso of oC n it United States official appointed for Cen or the tho purpose of looking after He Ito did not know that murder was nn on time the Decalogue In a n controversy 1 friend on oti the tho ho ito maintained although the time law of oh the land pro pin pronounced death upon the slayer of hu human man nian beings 4 was waa no Scripture to prove that hat bit lint had prohibited 11 II file r When shown the tho commandment contain against murder In lit the tim Decalogue J he hewa wa witH quite surprised Yes Yell the III Is as nil Dr Hull says obsolete to many man mati In I Ii laid 1111 aside n nil as n a worn out garment Hypocrites unable to tn 0 endure sacred doctrine heap to Lo themselves teach teachers teachers ers otter Cler n 0 ter their o own n lusts and pet Ilet those that suit them ns its they do ilo their horses hor el their th lr dogil And tho the ot of It 11 Is ia that notwithstanding their pro profound profound found of or if the th word of ot God and their freezing Indifference to 10 nil that does not stimulate their vanity anil pride they the consider themselves In Infallible fallible Judges jud es of or tho the faith nod all of 01 fellow men Ignorance und and arm arro arrogance gance ruc firo twins dangerous when whelm let IH loose leose together |
