Show SCIENCE AND HIGHER CRITIC CRITICISM 1831 it was noted incidentally in tee columns a low lew day ago that lio in fidelity is 18 on the retreat the te ten tendency devey being to approach the I 1 eltion hold held by believer in r f truth the name observation my b inside de as to what to known BB as higher criticism boim im whan its ita averis ere 14 i very loudly tor for recognition as this the belly of theological mccanc mc lanc too goow w ho bio could dot boilow it if lerps leaps and blouir were termed ig and eujen all claim to it ii la Is tiow quite evident however that lh briet bri day at 0 this school of 0 theology Is ia wan WAD inu the fatal tendency a ot it la in be coming clearer a its arguments mente are fallowes fallowed fall ivil owed out to Misi mate coucke mong on one ot of the Provat Dont scholars obo lara who recently have caged attitude on this question lon la Is P A H in 10 the review he deex explains and detent det enu his present post pol tion he baye be must reject jt a briticism critic lm which ats out with pye pre conceived ideas and nd assumptions and which limper ST as it if it were perfect or which builds conclusions upon theories which have yet to be proved he his ble founer position tion as a folly and pot poi to te cut ut that fifteen years ago go there was something to be said raid on behalf ot of the new teaching which cannot be said for it any any longer then oriental arol ceo logy fogy was still struggling to rod find na lie patu in the darkness oar knese but now discoveries co have been made that the most crushing orus bloK replies to the dogmas of the higher critics crl tice hebrew history and literature no longer stand alone enables us ug to test the historical statements alementa Bt of the pu pen and to coi lipare the documents do cumento contained in it with those thoe of other oriental nations and the result la Is that the old testament is ie vindicated he concludes that the pentateuch la Is substantially ly the me work of name it bears it is well known that higher critic adduce against this abia conclusion arguments founded on this the language lanau age ot of the books or of moses to this ibis professor boyce bayce replies as follow follo wf there is one tremendous fact to which the higher critics country resolutely close their eyes but which ought to be more than sufficient to weigh down all the lists of words and idioms that were ever over marshaled together against the evidence of the lists is the evidence of the doctrine and tradition of the christian church throughout the eighteen centuries of its existence the same method and arguments which have made of the pentateuch a later and untrustworthy compilation whose divine origin and character are discernible only to the critics themselves would it applied to 10 0 athe the gospels end in the same results in this country it is true our critical friends have hii humerto berto kept their laces faces steadily averted from the now new testament but the protestant Protes laut critics of the continent have been less leas timid or prudent and the way t long along which they should walk has long been een pointed coln led out ont to 10 them by the school and even if we confine ourselves to the pentateuch the consequences of the critical pot position are serious enough it is not only that the conception of the mosaic law which lies at the back of our own religion which was waa assumed by our lord and his apostles and which has been hold held ever 1 since I by the christian church to la swallowed up in chaotic darkness we are forced to assign the origin of the belief in the divine message and supernatural authority au authority thorit of the law jaw to successful fraud I 1 1 know we are told that what would be fraud in modern europe was not fraud in ancient israel and that with an improvement in manners and education has come an improvement in morals but the question is in not about ancient israel and its ideas of morality but about the immutable god under whose inspiration if we are to follow the teaching of christ and christianity ti the law was given to israel the higher critics never seem to me to realize that thai their conclusions are opposed to the great practical fact of the ex existence of traditional christianity and that against this fact they have nothing to set except the linguistic speculations of a few individual scholars it is not athanaa is against the world but Nesi Nest orius ortus against the church on the one side we have a body of doctrine which has been the support in life and the refuge in death of millions of men of all nationalities and grades ot of mind which has been witnessed to by saints and martyrs which has conquered first the roman empire and then hen the barbarians who destroyed it and which has brought a messa message e of peace and goodwill good will to suffering humanity on the other side there to is a handful of critics with their list of words and polychromatic bibles and yet the higher critico all has ban never saved any souls or healed any bodies it Is impossible to follow this reasoning without feeling the truth of tt it true religion in any instance wili stand the test of the scientific crucible it is so BO with the principles taught anciently and it Is the same with the principles revealed lo in this dispensation their alti ultimate mate vindication and victory are assured in the fact that they are true |