Show HIGHER CRITICISM A mr uini gave its ita sunday readers as suitable bul bui table matter for the ard lords s day a piece that ought not to be passa casad by in si lonee etwas ll 11 was modestly headed A mistake about the sun but douht really to haye read A an a error io in the word of god f 13 tor for that idea it intended to convey the article attempts to explain away the miracle of the arrest of the course couro of the sun aud and the moon related in n the tile book of joshua the event is id thus reco recurred raed josh x 1214 12 14 revised version then joshua to the lord in the day when the lord delivered up the Am amorates orites before the children of israel and ha said in the sight of israel sun stand thou still upon gibeon Gl beon and thou moon in the valley of aijalon spass and the sun stood still and the moon sta staved ay 22 until the nation had j avenged them themselves ol oj their enemies Is northis not this written in the book of jas basher her er and the sun stayed in the midst of the heavens and hasted not to go down for about a whole day and there was no day like that before it or alter it that the lord hearkened unto the voice of a man for the lord fought for israel now we are told that accordi according ug to the rules of what is styled the higher criticism the portion of the text which let in given to in verse is part pan or of an ancient poem put m which joshua recited and that thai what follows is an a I 1 it of 0 f a later editor of the book who wao marcs didul misunderstood the whole hole thing the author of the mistake Miu tabe about the I is eardly bold enough in hla his of the situation on that re mar markasie kabie day in the liao history of israel au an effort at bringing the facts f out according to the rules of tile the higher criticism must be attempt dil at ai all ha we turn to t the sacred text it is isa a day dayon on w ach a decisive battle iti is dought five ot of the principal rulers of palestine are combi tieu aga against instone one ot of bisrat l s allies joshua hastens to his support the combined forces ot of the make firo resistance but are finally forced to flee in wild a rhu rho bun to ie already nearing the western horizon ui kd k d tilt the bloon to Is rising over the plain in the east the fhe question comes to the mind ot of israeli brilliant general hhall these kings escape and be given an opportunity to io form botak a still more 10 lo miu alile al lance against israel or shall the victory be complete at once but what could he do evoking was coming onalu their pursuit would be impracticable la in coil predicament that bistier big tier critt ciatu tolls tells us ue general joshua sudden IY lyie kemem members beffi a piet e of buttry i auau an old book whereupon he calls calla his bis soldiers together aud and recites it tor lur their edi euing fica tion before returning to camal camp lie Is there any probability whatever in a 0 I 1 this k kind ind ju just 8 t fan fancy ancy tit at jens jena or gustavus adolphus Adolp df bus at leepole stopping his bis via sor wic corisue rious armies for a tow few moments ablie listening list Ui toning to a piece of poetry 1 the idea to absurd on its very surface O 0 ober ber sacred writers must alai be mist mistaken aken if the higher criticism to is bight J Q n the dealoia we are informed inform eti that the israelites did out not abt obtain tin lou of the promised land through their own sword but through the power ut ul the febe lord and ache light or his count le nance cenance s psalms Pi alms aliv 8 3 isaiah refe refers re to the miracle of this as the 11 strange strang a act his hia strange woth work isaiah 21 anese tan be authors auth ro had bad evidently nu no idea that the narrative in ID the book oi 01 joshua la is all a mistake had they known anything bout about the higher criticism leej the would have been aware that the 1 l abt and d the strange tt range work by which the armies of live kings were rout routed ati was only a piece of poetry but the question is ie whom are we t tj believe the me sacred writers or the higher criticism there ought to be no doubt on this subject it is not true that as a general rule angs songs quoted are held to oe a ot of wort more d to te than the A DO bent narratives in which they are embodied often these were composed lor the occasion embodying the event narrated the book of Ja casber is by eppi eminent dent authorities hold held to be a collection or of state poems in which the poem made upon this occasion was preserve 1 the poem was no do doubt quoted by the editor of tile book of joshua as aa he found it in the book of jagher as aa proof of the reality ot of that strange event for and thle this is ie the argument the fact of its being incorporated in the collection ot state poems la is a proof that the event it commemorates took book place had the miracle not take lake place there would 4 have been no poem about it in that collection in support of this view it may be stated that josephie Jos ephue as aa is 1 well known considers the book of isobar to have been a record of jewish history as the events happened hap ned fram year to year the very grund r und on which the 61 higher criticism Y bases its gup supposition position is nothing but an assume tion 4 there is no DO need for anybody to refute refine to accept the miracle as it is recorded it is ie surely no greater wonder than the into existence of this vast universe of which the sun and the moon are only as atoms it would seem to be a small email matter for the almighty power that formed all these bodies to regulate them according to JEF alb lowill will bishop watson has haa well ot observed served that the llie machine of vie universe is lu in the hand band of god he can top stop the motion of any part or the whole with less trouble than any of us can stop a watch 11 how absurd then exclaims T H horne are the reason aes ues of those men who vrho believe in the existence of an omnipotent onni potent god yet deny the possibility 1 of the exer exercise cibe of his power in other ways than those which are known to their limited experienced experienc el |