| Show REV BEY ABBOTT ON THE BIBLE christian Chr ministers min totera at the present time seem to be under the necessity of resorting to all kinds of at eccentricities in IB order to draw audiences and gain popularity Is ii it an effort to conceal by attractive display the intrinsic worthlessness of the goods one min later is ia reported BB as savo advocating cating the in tro of at seventeenth century costumes another illustrates his hie sermons on the deadly effects of nicotine by killing oats cats in full view of the wor worshipper shipper others introduce equally startling features feal in the pulpit among clergymen who have succeeded in bringing the public eye on them in ia rev bev lyman ab bott but bin success la Is mainly due to hll his views of the authorship of the biblical books he commenced by announcing that hat the book of jonah li Is to be understood as a satirical fiction action ands and when whon taken to task tak by the religious press prem followed thie statement up by othen equally regarding other ether of the bible among the dispatches appears appear a synopsis of a recent sermon bermon preached prea obed by mr abbott and giving bin view 01 this subject one point he makes make to Is this that much of the old is ie nothing but a collection of and nara na parables blea somewhat on we the 11 jim of hepe fables fabler his ate argument to is that when we find in genesis accounts of the ore creation atlon of thi that eliod ft bod of the tower or of babe and so BO on and then discover dia assyrian tables older them thaia genesis when we further know that thab the hebrews at one time lived to ia assyria the conclusion Is id logical abal the hebrew account of theme theae events to Is borrowed tradition and consequently no more now whether this reasoning to scientific or not it in certainly bots nots convincing conTino ingi it begs bega the whole qu tion by presupposing that genesis WAO wa written alter after the captivity A mor mom probable view la Is that the history of ahm th events eventa referred to had been handed down from the progenitor geniton pro of out our gasa xa to the various branches bra nohea of the me human hum family and that the discrepancies itt is the accounts depend on the abang made by the oral transmission manna om truth being preter preserved ved to in each of f th df farent versions vera toDe and memo recording only that which he know knew to b be absolutely true the assyrian lege furnish one of the strongest proofs of the authenticity of genesis mr abbotts Ab botta treatment of is IB well illustrated in the argument he b builds on the history of samuel ifie H says according to the law only a had access to the part of the tempi known as the he holy of holies but same uel used this part BB as a bedroom hence the law is 19 dial bly disregarded he says now this is ii a subject anyone can investigate in the he third chapter of IL samuel the place will be found where thin matter la in mentioned but it 10 dot stated that you off samuel slept in the holy of holies an aa an attendant upon ell he reposed somewhere now near him in the temple what is ii wid tom in the book of samuel to ii this that the voice of the lord came to him aft w the lamp of god went out JIM in the tenox teak pie of the lord where the ark of god was waa and are brej wes waa laid down dowa to a leep 11 1 1 but bus bow can that hat be con can into tile the statement tate that the th holy boly of nolle holies was waa Samu samuel eJa bed room another objection action li le made to ur the prophet lasalaa because this moor eer pro dicta chap 45 the deliverance or of ur the people gla the hands of cyrus this the reverend gentleman thinks could not be done by anyone a hundred years yean before that ruler was born bom to which it la is a su reply that there are many predictions prediction lift la theme theae ancient algoet equally plain as aa this one some ot of which are being fulfilled in our r very day it Is IR true enough that to this instance ine tance even abe name of to abw deliverer Is ie being mentioned but up pose that this was necessary neo eary for ur um accomplishment or of the plans of th abe almighty there are bistor historical leal grounds rounda i for the he statement that th be prophets of god in the be captivity bowed ahomed this very prophetical statement tat ement to cyrus and nd that this thi was waa one reason why be concluded to tune the famous alegree that liberated the exiles could the she almighty not forsee force this and awas r not the record of that name for a lat reason must auit we limit the knowledge of god to general facts acta and suppose appose that hat the details detail ot of the future reao rean dim to him an aa to limited human knowledge history itself contradicts thle view the remarkable fact however in ie that chat ministers in our age loin join the ranks of ef those who would fain V me the word of god relegated to the lemala demain of fiction action the reason to li plain enough it li in the authority of that be la Is no longer wanted it Is a 46 bounsel 10 against the be lord and his anointed but it la in destined to fall whether I 1 it ailts lilts its ita bead in unmasked Is infidelity fidelity or under the delicate features ef f scholarly arly criticism |
