Show id ic m II i cn i nn ni- ni BIBLE NOT MADE ADE ADEIN IN A SINGLE DA Dr Or Paden Tells of Views of Different Men Nien in Great Work SOME DEFICIENCIES FOUNE in Many Instance Not Owing to lo Work of Authors The Rev T. T-T. II of the Firs Presbyterian oh church on morning of the Bible Its different ers Us its different hooks books Its ant ami its s different views yet aiS al ai alis is S forming the Divine Word of God OOl Crom mm which the tho whole truth can b rained gained Dr Paden said God COl who at sundry times and anil Ii liver manners In In V limes pas into our fathers by the prophets hath unto us h bj bjUs in 0 these last days spoken Us its son 1 I 1 Time The nihle did not leap till full fortne rom an Inspired soul In 10 a fl splendid rio It was not tho product ofu single limit hut the product o 0 loul nul or iii generation during limo tho course 0 oi sundry souls generations It grow ilko ak rather than like Jonah's gourd Uk rather than like coral island arth cone comic of nn an anthill It IL was wan huh built rather than cathedral Ike a gro groat it It has been compare ip p a t tent church It needed o I a 0 great build Of that temple the Oh Testament ii Is tim tho nave with Us its and th flu and prophecy isles of psalm are aro the tho tho hoir-tho tho lOSt last Gospel sanctuary the very round arid behind arc the Ulos armo ho IC Apocalypse each a gem of beauty leanty ach ich supplying an Indispensable feature whole o 1 the tho majestic It follows that the tho Bible Is not the of ono one witness hut but a cloud f witnesses not ot of one class of if wit wit- esses hut of all sorts of witnesses nd ul on Us its human side not tho Ion on of one man niami or ago age but the sum stun literature It Ii nd lit substance of national that wa the tho record of the best hiest ought said ald or by those who new uv most moat of tho will of f God n solemn Centuries iiii I I mig AVI l It I ii Ito we rc were hi Imi dealing with the tho Scriptures honk book hut but with re 0 not dealing with ono s1 not with a volume and not tit it with a selected library Rh a homogenous literary production of body ut it with a ter CL Tho fhe recognition of this fact may hove the strain under which you your faith For or as has been suggested tile the sixty six books loohs which are bound together in tIlls this volume vol nine ume are arc ns as the tho intertwining strands or of ora a a. cable rather than as the tho interdependent ent links of a chain The strength of a achain achain chain is the strength of Its ito weakest link htmL but the brunt of time the weight weighton on n. n cable must be he borne lOLliO by h its greatest strands We wrong when we ve our faith In the tho value of the tho Bible Bi iii of the bUm ble on the tho unassisted strength weakest of Us Its six sixty strands the ill lil- Take the tho higher ground that tile Is an nm organism and tills this cc caution still holds good Variety through long of the marks of a u development Is one high order of organic life It Is one of characteristics of if limo tho most noticeable the Scriptures lInt alt all portions nf of the tho of equal most perfect organism uro uie not Importance Though your little is a part of your hotly body It Is not lInt worth unit und though your as much mitch as your eye of body are limbs lore are a part your physical life ns as not as LS essential to your your heart aril and lungs So Si with that body literature which we call the tho Scrip Scrip- Though time the Rook of boa bo he heri a ri part of the tho It ia iti not worth as much as tho tue took of Proverbs and though Leviticus and Numbers be he a apart part ot of tie iho Bible they tire uro not miot as essential essen thU to our spiritual life as time the Psalter or Gospel of John As s tho Scriptures were written by many men at various times V they were as it mutter U-mutter of course written In V divers for God oil unmakes a man maim manto to make a prophet Tie lIe never nc expects organ from ft a piccolo or time the strains of a a. violin from a piano or To every man mami according to his gift V Such Inspiration will not make a theologian out of David or a poet out lilt of Paul lani a spoken plain teacher of ethics ethics eth eth- ics out ont of or a seer of visions out of James a writer of Greek out of time author of Hebrews or HO so far faras farais as ais style is concerned anything else olpe out omit of Peter eter Inspiration rather rath rath- er ci than obliterates Individuality the thio spirit of the Lord Tord is there here IK Is lib lit lit- erty Nol ol Written bike Tot Fet Hook The up mako-up of the Bible is in hi many respects as recklessly Informal as time the make imp of Gods Cods world H It la iii not written writ writ- ten a text book of science a it tree tree- tise of philosophy a class resume ol- ol history an abstract discussion of eth- eth Ics a logical manual of theology or of religion even like an order udy umily It Is popular rathe than practical rather hail r P po poetical persuasive and literary rather right scholastic or logical It Is religious rather titan than scientific In iii UR its use 1150 of facts and principles and con concrete crete and suggestive rather rathor than ah- ah street In dealings With re ro- ro ligion It exhibits the tipe Vitality and anda variety a va- of u a divinely developed organism rather than the filtered and correlation of or forces which one may see In a man male scheme or inn ITIC chine In the Old Testament we begin with stories which delight the verlunt f et end and inspire the wisest man As the broadest coil and bc best Jt of modern scholars schol arm ars has bas said Bald I 1 think that we lino confidently claim that the tho account of ol creation presents the essential religious truths concerning the origin of time tho nail uni verso verse In iii a form which Is in as unrivaled tot for majestic simplicity as its it Is Inexhaustible unix Inex In II profound significance that the story of the Fall explains the entrance entrance en en- trance of ft evil Into tIle the world in-a in which lohm God made with a solemn Bathos und In a away why way which Is at once the condemnation and consolation of humanity that bitt the narrative of the Flood is a parable of which will never Judgment and mere till the completion become antiquated of that exhibition of itt judgment and Lild mercy of which it is 13 the type These narratives convey their lessons in a fonn which Is Intelligible to tho 1120 least educated race and to the tho youngest child and rud yet will ne never ner r cease m to grow In moaning for the most cultured raco and Jio race They proclaim with dl- dl vino authority which man to know but litt which apart from revelation Lion tion he tue could only have guessed Dot rino Time The la is usually devoid of f elaborate rate rrie ami iii complete expositions of doctrine doe doc trine or theology You will search the 6 V Scriptures scripture In vain for fr any knit and V statements of things most commonly believed a aS nr found In our creeds and catechism our articles and confessions of faith not 10 lo j speck speak of such elaborate systems n os have been wrought out omit by hy our croni croci or scientists Tile Tho mat man rh f rial out of which such systems aro ro built may ho 10 In the hut but the I c if gIves o. Us its Imprimatur to no tOuch such s- s torn tern Jt it Is no more the tho chief end of the tho Bible to cli men scientific tho- tho than It Is the chief end oi of tilt thi globe to teach them scientific n The Tho the tho earth was TO ni livo on iho tho r pori iio oi ni divine grace and growth therein i is ills Hi- chief thing In uso of the ti n must i in life The a mi world wont of dully bread So may wo-may liken the tho Scriptures t. t to microcosm or little world for the tho Pol of Ro has all the tho and variety of lilA tho hook book of nature n must t that v p tinny the unity natty of nature or undervalue un of mitt tho scientific turo's methods and laws on i n 0 schoolboy should know kiloW that our has relations with other we may lUCY certainly profit by our stu lio- lio In lit geology ii in Us Its most tini child physical geography t-ci- t ci of are to me the thC theology and like other theology they thov aro oton exceedingly useful lImit But after all the theold old earth is a thousand times mor liso- liso ful fui and amid interesting than all our therO It and the tho old h hook ok tt tru n thousand anit more valuable than all ail the philosophies of history or of theology man lOCh ever from roan It alu nIl What an interesting and world wo we have I am oven read to accept the lie optimists optimist's declaration that it I Is of or all possible tile the host hoj t world possible possible- Of course there is often a deal of ot irregularity In the tho way it is thrown together the various strata which compose its roth rock foundations are arc quite often tilted an and sagged fagged fissured blown out and spilled around or displaced oils dis placed eroded and drifted in a way that Is enough to disturb tile tho cock ness of a professional geologist It Is much I tIu he way with the tho rock foundation ot or our the way vay they are thrown together or apart is enough to make even a systematic theologian or om even evenn n 1 dogmatic rationalist modest V you oti try to survey tile the surface of the tho earth you have still greater ia- ia of f phase and diversity of value Rach zone hits has Its distinctive feature Its own worth to the human race tho tilo variety we find In our own zone of lifo life is close at hand and more to our purpose What diversity wo have In va various various va- va rious rooms and furnishings of our Fathers Father's land arid and forest mud land hIlt hill country anti and mountains wild gorgos quiet valleys springs brooks and crocks creeks and rivers emil and lakes lakos end and Poured round all cli old oceans ocean's gray and melancholy waste a relief ono one finds in diversity Who wants want world wand laid laki nut like ilko the tho blueprint ofU of ofa a U prairie Imagine a world built four square of square brick Wit will square windows square doors and square rooms Inhabited by ly people as much alike as so runny many unmarked Jice iee It would be br monotonous t on u s u s I. I C o. o monotonous N o Monotony iy I In ii lii lilt There is no such monotony II ui tho Bi III- lute ble Its chapters arc aro not V so ninny many sim similar Im- Im lIar ilar bricks or Its books so ninny many unbroken un un- broken until tod anti orderly strata In JO Inmany many instances our chapter have about the since same to the body of book time that a or a farmers farmer's fence rows to the natural J TIle O be lse noted on nit tho face fave of nature are scarcely scarce scarce- ly more marked than the diversities of manner and matter flIntIer to bo 10 found In imi the Scriptures Patches of green pasture with their springs and streams of living water roaches of mu grey desert where the tue writer water Is far to fetch an and one Is grateful for the shadow of ot a rock inthe in inthe the weary land rich fruitful hill coun- coun gospel and mountains of vi vision vi- vi sion masterful conquering steadfast mountains lik those of the Iho Apocalypse brooks by 13 tile the way Wity wells trolls with Christ sitting by on the tho curbstone rivers all a rivers river's diversity from its mountain mono moun Lain tain lIme home to sea an and poured round ill all tho tue ocean of Gods God's e As in Genesis or you may find stories naive enough to Interest the most imaginative child so in Job or 11 10 you may find dealings With life as asit it Ls which will Interest tho most man ilian As In Proverbs you may find a manual I for so o in lii the Psalms you may find a manual of pray pray- er or As In the Decalogue you ou may Und the tho A R Vii CH CS of cit law Jaw so sc In hO time the Story of the you may the tho A H 13 HO's HOs O's Os of time the Gospel If you wish you yon youcan can decipher tho out old Hebrew fingerboards finger boards which point towards Christ if you prefer you can fall lu in with the evangelists and listen to the tho Christ Himself For God who nt at times anti and In divots divers manners in times past by ty the tho prophets hath In these lest last Lays days spoken unto us its by His Son iO Otil |