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Pi \ Ries Page Enak § ie June a i eee Sas f £ a ot Letaecs Li ay st a % al ot he ee a he ad) PREFACE The occasion of the writing of these brief chapters was the request of the Editor of The Sunday School Times, Mr. Charles G. Trum- bull, for a rather full statement of my personal experience in coming to my present faith, to be followed by a simple setting forth of the great doctrines ever held inviolate by the historic Christian Church. I undertook this with the co-operation of my Bible class in Baltimore, making these topics the subjects of our weekly Sunday morning studies. My readers may miss many important refer- ences under each heading, but I hope the state- ments will be found to be simple and under- standable, and that the hearts of men and women, here and there, who are looking for light, may be touched. I would remind all my fellow-Christians that when we confess Christ as our Saviour we do not arrive at a settled position, but receive from him the implantation of a new life of endless growth, a growth conditioned upon the daily due use of the various means of grace, among which the most important are a daily appropriating use of the Word of God, definite PREFACE prayer, a service calculated to bring men to Christ, the Lord’s Supper, and the recognition of the mission of the Holy Spirit in this present dispensation, especially as set forth in the Epistles. A Spirit-filled Christian saturated with the Word soon finds that those who reject the Gos- pel, however eminent in their professional at- tainments, really have no conception of the true nature of our faith and are fundamentally ignorant of the Word. May our Father bless this humble effort to magnify his Word and the name of his Son. Howarp A. Ketiy VII. CONTENTS . How I Came To My Present Farto.... 18 . 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Whe Lee as : wemtil, W, i: be ofa oe) f ‘ } Lie f ‘ si mY - Yee j ’ A is R ! e's ’ \' ) a | , ‘ ‘ nt Han ay aad i ; ha, 4 oe ‘ A Ry is f aU be aly wy , Al yy, ee mpl 3%) va ws jel Ye wi ing) i sso Pid he . y) ey ay tt te . a> EU My ye nt es re bs r toe #/ epee hee ea ’ eid Ch ae OW ho tem oa Age bn ait + ‘vas oh i in WAT oie I HOW I CAME TO MY PRESENT FAITH He : ‘i maa i ] die I HOW I CAME TO MY PRESENT FAITH N THE economy of grace it is by no means a necessity, yet it is a distinct advantage and a blessing, to have godly ancestors. My mother comes from a devoutly religious New England family on her father’s side and is of Quaker descent on her mother’s side. My mother’s father, the Rev. A. B. Hard, of Ar- lington, Vt., used to say with Cowper, ‘‘We boast an ancestry passed into the skies.’’ His love of the Bible showed itself in the deep emo- tion with which he spoke of it. As a small boy I used to observe with wonder his eyes filled with tears as he talked of it before others who felt but little interest in the subject. His sister, Jane Hard, married the Rev. Henry Coit, of New York, who was for a time Rector of St. Andrew’s, Wilmington, Del. The son of Jane Hard and Henry Coit was the founder of St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H., and its head- master until his death. My grandfather, a youthful graduate of the Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Va., was invited by his brother- in-law in 1827 to preach his first sermon in St. Andrew’s pulpit. It was then that the daughter 13 14 A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE of a slave-holding state met the young New England divine, brought up in New England ideals and trained in its clear and simple faith. My grandmother used to relate to her daugh- ters a tale of their betrothal. When she ac- cepted his earnest plea for her hand, to her surprise and confusion, his joy found expres- sion in the words ‘‘Let us pray.’’ He drew her to her knees beside him, fervently thanking our Heavenly Father and beseeching his guidance. On my father’s mother’s side are the families of Kuhl and Hillegas with an unbroken record of born, married, died and buried in Philadel- phia for over 200 years. Among them was my father’s great grandfather, Michael Hillegas, the first Treasurer of the United States. My father’s father’s family came to Philadelphia from the north of Ireland in the eighteenth eentury. ‘Two brothers, Thomas and Philip Kelly, converted in Ireland to Methodism, found it difficult to remain at home. They sought their fortunes in the New World which gave them liberty of conscience and material prosperity. Like most boys, I owe my real start in life to my mother, still living, who began to teach me the Bible, standing at her knee, as soon as I could dimly grasp the simple words and before I could read. How well I recall measuring out How I Came to My Present Farrp 15 the verses of the second chapter of Matthew with deliberate childish intonation, ‘‘ Now — when — Jesus — was — born — in — Bethle- hem — of — Judea — in — the — days — of Herod — the — king — behold — there — came — Wise — Men — from — the — East,’’ and so on. My first of a long series of Biblical puzzles was the command of John the Baptist to the Pharisees to ‘‘bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance’’; I could not figure out how fruits could be meat! During the Civil War while my father, still living, was at the front with the 118th Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, we lived in old Chester, Dela- ware County, Pa., to be near the grandparents and aunts, and we attended old St. Paul’s Church. There a devoted teacher, Miss Mattie Smith, trained us children in the kindergarten, and the habit of church-going was formed and the mental attitude of reverence was adopted from our elders under the ministry of a digni- fied, earnest, long-time incumbent, the Rev. Henry Brown. Painted on the semicircle over the chancel in old St. Paul’s in impressive cap- itals, ever since graven on my memory, stood the motto: ‘‘Holiness Becometh Thine House, O Lord, Forever.’’ I can still recall times of earnest thought on life, God, and eternity at five or six years of age. In 1863 or ’64, father, 16 A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE writing from the front, sent me a verse from the Bible, which carries me back to the reading of his letter: ‘‘My son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”’ It was here, too, in Chester, that my mother detected and diligently fostered a strong in- born love of natural history inherited from her- self, which expressed itself first in what I called ‘‘bugology.’’ My ardent hope was to discover some new species, but I was depressed by the thought that all might be found and described before I could sally forth into the field. Dr. John Le Conte, the great coleopterist of the Academy of Natural Sciences, visiting us in Chester about that time, bade mother assure me that some would surely be left for the next generation. When the war ended we returned to Phila- delphia, and new friends and school life brought in fresh interests; I have ever since in retrospect gratefully recalled a brief session in the Rev. Mr. Shin’s school on Mt. Vernon Street, aided by his fine wife and daughter. At ten years of age, my father entered me under the tutelage of the widely known Scotch school- master, John W. Faires, head of the Classical Institute on Dean between Locust and Spruce Streets. Dr. Faires was a fine, capable dominie of the ancient regime who ruled his little king- How I Came to My Present Farra 17 dom with a kindly justice, graduating into friendliness with the two upper classes. His ultimate appeal in cases of flagrant violations of discipline was the rattan, or ‘‘birch oil,’”’ as we called it. The doctor kept a salutary bundle of his rods in sight and at intervals selected a new one with careful testings as to limberness and to exclude cracks. Most of us deserved all the tannings (never too severe) which we got from time to time with immediate manifest beneficial results. Dr. Faires was assisted by one or other of his sons and by William Craig of Norristown, a scholar and a man of fine Christian character, to whose precepts and ex- ample we owed much. I could linger long over a host of boyish experiences, pranks, and the friendships of those days (1868-73), as could hundreds of other Philadelphians of earlier and later years still living, but this is more a spiritual biography. Commingled with a natural, healthy school life and the temptations and fights common to boys of all ages, I was ever conscious of the eall to yield life more faithfully to higher things, and here I began, in the fifth Latin class in 1869, the life-long habit of carrying a New Testament or some portion of Scripture in my pocket. I venture to commend this as a good practice for all boys; a portion of the Bible on 18 A Screntiric Man AnD THE BIBLE one’s very person constitutes a sort of a badge of membership or a profession, a safeguard in fact in temptation, and affords opportunities of storing up bits of Scripture in memory and so of realizing the promise implied in ‘‘Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee,’’? as well as the cleansing of the young man’s way. hy J f % 4 a ; 7 ‘e ‘ar i : ‘ ‘ iN Wp? eee ; Thy Wale 7 ne f j 1” t way | int ra " j ‘ ai a ya. * > 2 1) y 1% F tie | we ar \ i ry ' nae * vn uy i : ! . ( : v, en an Ao , ; i 7 4 : ‘ ‘oy | 4 43 ; Diba Cg Te ean : at t te a, : ‘ 7 t i ( feds Miter tl aeare ‘ oe es \ ear) . J Te af ee ty ee eo) 7 if i ve ‘ ies 5 P) * 2) v¢ ® * “sy 7 4 nN ae he Posh OE ae aaa ines ail that i See oe 7 2 ny wi cont ie! Me 40 rey ‘d ay OYE ne Mis Boe | We i ) } ey ee , vs bee ,, bt | ea Piss ‘i ay 3) 4 0g 0 7 ' ve an ' ? ‘ 7 +t , ; iy clean \ Ean . x a} er ca ed i a ry we Ont C - had i at) ¥ 4 i fee wie * urAP 4 r ee if ae wir ‘ vi) Dre Lege y, 7 hon ae me oa rae athe ey Lh 4 ee , 4 f ‘s / >» oe Be, a ane Be iy: Le EA il ee > re : iT THE WHOLE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD KT me state at once that I am sure that the Bible is the Word of God, with an assurance greater than all other convictions directing my course in this brief earthly pil- grimage. Above all those maxims regulating the practical relations of life born of experi- ence, above those logical deductions from philo- sophical and scientific premises, I place the clear light of truth shining from the pages of the Bible. The Bible, the Word of God, is my one great guerdon on my homeward journey. But some one suggests, ‘‘You mean, of course, parts of the Bible, omitting those Old Testament myths of a nomadic people and al- lowing, too, for the haze which must envelop the traditions of early ages.’’ No, emphati- cally, I am happy to say I do not have to pare and trim and make exceptions and allowances; constant use has taught me to accept the whole Bible as God’s Word just as I took the letter received today as coming direct and without interpolations from my mother in Philadelphia. Do not err by thinking that by this I mean to offer myself as a ready and efficient inter- 41 42 A Sorentiric MAN AND THE BIBLE preter of all parts of the Word, or to suggest that there are no lingering difficulties to be solved. I am happy, however, to recall that with time and an ever-growing familiarity with its rich contents and their sweet harmonies, many knotty problems that once appeared in- soluble have already melted like morning mists, while the few that remain in no wise impede the sun’s rays as they flash from heaven to earth. My belief is not the offspring of a sud- den resolution, nor is it due to any determina- tion to take the easiest course or to choose the lesser of two evils,—a course rational perhaps but certainly not honoring the Word. Rather is it the outcome of the steady growth of a life- time and a little knowledge of the Word always being added to and ever enlarging the horizon of life, continually revealing things not known to those who do not feed daily upon the Word, and yet clear as crystal to him who comes as a child to learn from an all-wise loving Father. This positive belief and clear conviction, how- ever, have not been held without due considera- tion of the positions of opponents to any such confidence in the absolute authority of the Word. At one time, indeed, some thirty-five years ago, I paid close attention to the pro- nunciamentos of sundry critics, and was not a little distressed and disturbed, until I found the Tue WHOLE Brste tHE Worp or Gop 43 key which let me out of the barren country where I had been disconsolately and vainly wandering, through a little wicket gate into a pleasant garden where flowers decked the sward and the trees bore all manner of pleasant fruits and the people of the land lived in peace, un- troubled by the turmoil round about. It happened on this wise. Finding I was getting nowhere, or rather that I was becoming spiritually mired by the criticisms, I deter- mined at last to take the brave course of set- tling my difficulties, like an honest scientist, by treating the Bible as I would any branch of science. If I propose to study botany, or as- tronomy, or geology, or microscopy, I take an accredited textbook and note the rules, and pro- ceed with my studies, always with the presump- tion that the rules are right, and that the book is a dependable guide; I resolutely shelve any preconceived notions of my own, and I apply the rules honestly to the matters arising for investigation. In this way, step by step, I make progress and gradually acquire a real knowl- edge of the particular science, ever finding my- self also in hearty accord with other scientists working in the same field. If the subject hap- pens to be mathematics, my elective, alas, at college, and my weakest point, I would never think, while still in the kindergarten of this 44 A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE greatest of all the sciences, of knitting my brows over all the puzzling symbols and ap- palling equations so abundant in the later pages, and at once rejecting the book, declaring that it is a piece of blessed foolishness, simply because I fail utterly to understand it all. And yet, some years ago I persuaded a friend at least to read the Bible and to give it a chance to speak for itself. He came back in a few weeks, with the remark that he had read it and could make no sense out of it. I asked, ‘‘ What did you read?’’ and he replied, ‘‘ Revelation’’! I reached, then, this point, ‘‘I will see care- fully just what the Bible says of itself, and will accept its own dictum as my working hypothesis in studying it.’ My discovery was as wonderful as it was simple and obvious. I found that God was named countless thousands of times in our Scriptures, and that their whole atmosphere is that of Heaven stooping down to speak to earth, that literally and emphatically it is declared that ‘‘the Lord spake’’ upwards of five hundred times, that men heard and received his mes- sages, and that he gave audible commands and men obeyed them. To ascertain more directly its claims, I looked up ‘‘W-O-R-D,’’ and found it about a thousand times. Why, there is no book in the world so vocal as the Bible! THe Wuowte BIste THE Worp or Gop 45 He also who gave us the Book identified him- self with it as the creative word. ‘‘By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth . . . for he spake, and it was done; he com- manded, and it stood fast’’ (Psa. 33); and ‘‘ By the word of God the heavens were of old’’ (2 Pet. 3). Men of old, with a more limited Scripture and with fewer advantages, certainly appreciated their blessings. Job declared, ‘‘I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food’?! Would that we to- day felt as he did about it! Read now Psalm 119, to see how God’s law, word, testimonies, counsels, judgments, and precepts were re- garded some three thousand years ago. ‘‘How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! . . . The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.’’ Unto Isaiah God said, ‘‘I am the Lord thy God . . . and I have put my words into thy mouth.’’ Or what more emphatic than the Lord’s solemn asseveration: ‘‘As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my 46 ‘A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.’’ In the New Testament I noted Christ’s decla- rations, ‘‘Scripture cannot be broken,’’ and ‘‘Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled’’ (Matt. 5), as well as his solemn affirmation regarding his own words (Mark 13). Our Lord’s weapon of defense against our arch enemy, Satan, was, ‘‘It is written,’’ **It is written,’’ ‘‘It is written’’; then gra- ciously to us, too, the Holy Spirit has given the same impregnable Scriptures he used, ‘‘ The sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.’’ The Spirit also declares that ‘‘ All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable’’ (2 Tim. 3). And lastly, but chiefest of all reasons, Christ the Son of God is himself the Word, which started to speak of him when God said, ‘‘ Let there be light,’’ and resumed again in the new creation when ‘‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God,’’ and to insure the identification, ‘‘The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”’ My course, the only sensible one, was thus made plain; so, like Christian smitten down by Apollyon, my hand grasped the sword of the THE WHOLE BisteE THE WorD or Gop 47 Word and Apollyon and his hosts scurried away for a time. Trusting it as a child, I ap- plied it, and it worked, and it has continued to work ever since. In any real sense in which any Christian is a child of God, it is because he has been ‘‘born again; not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever.’’ Right at this juncture let me add a greatly needed word of caution. This heavenly Word will not yield its sweets unless it is handled with due reverence. He who would ‘‘treat the Bible like any other book,’’ as men so glibly, and it seems almost flippantly, say, would bet- ter never open it, for he will find no food, no treasure,—the Spirit will have left its pages. Let this fundamental rule be graven on the tablets of the heart, ‘‘Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord’’ (Psa. 115), ‘‘That thou may- est learn to fear the Lord thy God always’’ (Deut. 14). With that fruitful experience of testing the Word at its own valuation, reiterated as it has been all down the centuries, I became then and there a philosopher in a new sense, a Christian 48 A Sctentiric MAN AND THE BIBLE pragmatist, for ‘‘pragmatism”’ is the hall mark of the thing that is practical and efficient; it is based on the fundamental dictum of C. S. Peirce, friend of William James who exploited it, that ‘‘every truth has practical consequences and these are the test of its truth.’’ Let me now ask, with the utmost confidence, where in this wide world is there any teaching like our Bible in its ‘‘practical consequences’’? Job’s friend Elihu went to that school, for he cried out, ‘‘ Who teacheth like him’’?? What author- ity, what other power is there given among men which when applied with an honest heart trans- forms the nature, ennobles the prostitute to love holiness and become an angel of mercy, raises the beggar and the sot from the gutter to set them among the princes of the earth? But as I write, this word ‘‘pragmatism’’ be- gins to echo through my mind as something strangely familiar; did not someone of yore, even before Peirce’s day, say something like this? I have it, in a writing more than eighteen centuries ago by another great pragmatist— this most excellent injunction, ‘‘Prove all things; hold fast that which is good,’’ and yet farther back a great Rabbi whose name was Wonderful, Counsellor, extended this invita- tion, ‘*Come and see’’; are not these last two ancient pregnant sentences the very sublimation THe WHOLE Brett THE Word or Gop 49 of pragmatism, our most modern philosophy? Is it not, too, but the supreme wisdom and ex- perience of the world in its daily affairs? Where is there in this wide universe a teach- ing like Christ’s which when applied to the woes of this sin-distraught world dispels misery and composes all human difficulties, makes lov- ing friends of nations but recently bent on mu- tual destruction, and sets up a kingdom of righteousness and establishes standards of judgment tempered by mercy? We may ask and ask again, and we may seek, as many have done for a lifetime, but it is all in vain, for but one answer is possible, namely, that our God speaks authoritatively through the Bible, that textbook of heavenly therapeutics, with an ever-present power to heal and to compose all the vexed world’s disorders, and that nowhere else does he so speak; and that all his speech is identified with Christ, his Son, who appears unmistakably here. Christians who have journeyed far and who have taken God’s Word as their viaticum, their daily food, must often be conscious of the im- possibility of presenting adequately the full grounds of their faith to an inquirer. For ex- ample, as a parallel, how can I convincingly make clear to one who has never known love, why and how much I love my mother? How 50 A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE can one in a few brief sentences tell him who has always turned to his own way, and followed the desires of his own mind, why we love our Friend and Kinsman Redeemer, our daily Guide and Counsellor? Such reasoning from daily experiences and personal contacts is readily held valid in our estimations of men; then why not, I ask, in an appreciation of God and his Word? An argument of this kind, by its very nature unpresentable, is cumulative, and keeps on growing until wrought into the very fibers of one’s being, until its denial be- comes equivalent to the very negation of life. It is this that oftenest brings conviction to those who may be dumb when asked for any reasoned presentation of the grounds of their faith. I know that the Bible is the Word of God because in it I learn of his Holy Spirit of whom Christ said, ‘‘Ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you,’’ while the world cannot receive the Spirit of Truth ‘‘because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him,’’ wherein hes one of the paradoxes of the Christian life. The world is settled in its conviction, upholding the axiom that only ‘‘seeing is believing.’’ The Christian triumphantly exclaims, ‘‘Nay, my brother, in the realm of the affections and in the commerce of the Spirit, always, believing is Tur WHOLE BrstE tHE Worp or Gop 51 seeing!’?’ And he turns gratefully to his Teacher as he recalls the promise, ‘‘ Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.’? We are thus dealing, my brother, my sister, with that greatest of gifts received of the Father after the ascension of Christ to take his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on High, the promise of the Holy Ghost, poured out abundantly like the refreshing rains, the Wit- ness under whose loving tutelage we grow con- tinually in the knowledge of Christ, that heri- tage of the Church who is too little known and claimed today. I believe that the Bible is the Word of God because of the very mystery of the Person in the Old Testament who at last stands revealed in the blaze of glory of Christ’s coming to de- stroy the works of the Devil and to bring to naught him that had the power of death; that is to say, the Devil. Step by step through the successive ages was he revealed ever more and more clearly, and yet when he came he was so different, so above all expectations, that none knew him until finally he opened up the Scrip- tures and the minds of men and pouring out his Holy Spirit as the efficient agent trans- formed all who heard and received the message, into new-born men. I accept the Bible as the Word of God be- 52 A Screntiric MAn AND THE BIBLE cause of its own miraculous character, born in parts in the course of the ages and yet com- pleted in one harmonious whole, the continuous development and enlargement of that great taproot of all prophecy, the promise to the woman of One who was to be the Redeemer of our race and the curse of the serpent,—‘I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel’’ (Gen. 3:15). Here from the mouth of God himself begins faith’s highway leading from the primal fall down through the ages to Christ and full redemption. Without the Bible, all God’s precious parables in Nature, his other book, are utterly lost, and nature, exploited merely for lucre or for the pride of science, is degraded and ruined. When all men duly honor the Bible we shall have a restored nature, smil- ing and beautiful and rich in spiritual lessons for anointed eyes, more precious than all ma- terial gains. I testify that the Bible is the Word of God because it is food for the spirit just as definitely as bread and meat are food for the body. We feel hunger and take food and are refreshed and go forth to work and to do that we could not accomplish without food. Likewise do we hunger for God. ‘*My soul longeth, yea, even Tur WHOLE BIBLE THE WorD oF Gop 53 fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God . . Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee.’’ And as our Lord said to the woman at the well, ‘‘ Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. . . . If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.’’ So we come to our Father’s table and find food and drink to the satisfying of the spirit, and as we feed reg- ularly we are transformed daily into the knowl- edge and likeness of him; and should any one seek to entice us to other tables, we turn won- deringly to our Host and say to him like Peter of old, ‘‘ Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.’? _ Its very paradoxes convince me that the Bible is the Word of God, for although they are often abundantly illustrated in our Father’s other book of nature, they are clearly opposed to the wisdom by which men of the world regu- late their lives. A Christian, however, notes them daily, rejoices in them, and continually discovers fresh ones for his guidance. To seatter is to increase. To withhold is to court poverty. Believing is seeing. 54 A Screntiric Man anp THE BIBLE He who would gain his life must lose it. The chiefest honor is not to serve self but others. I yield up my liberty in order that I may be free. When I am weak, then am I strong. The richest are often those the world de- clares poor, and despises. The truly blessed are the meck, the poor in spirit, the peacemakers, and those who hun- ger and thirst after righteousness. For such maxims the world has no real use. The Bible appeals to me strongly as a phy- sician, because it is such excellent medicine; it has never yet failed to cure a single patient if only he took his prescription honestly. It is in the realm of spiritual therapeutics just what we so long to find for all our bodily ailments, a true panacea, a universal remedy; why, it even brings the dead to life! There is surely no other cure in the world for that pandemic lep- rosy of the soul called sin. The world is always running out of the bushes, crying Eureka, I have found a cure, but its failures are but piti- ful witnesses to man’s incompetence. Few of my scientific friends are aware that their science flourishes best in a land where the Bible is honored, for there alone is the guaran- Tre WHOLE BisteE THE Word or Gop 55 tee of liberty and its attendant blessings. Where the Bible is dishonored, life becomes cheap and science an early victim, or it survives in a destructive form. My dear friend and sci- entist, our ‘‘science’’ 1s but folly when God is left out and if he is not in all our thoughts. What sense is there in boasting that science is our mistress to be cultivated for her own sake apart from all question of utility? What is there in the mere knowledge of the groupings of things and in the formulation of scientific dogmas of the laws governing matter that you are drawn to it so irresistibly? And why is such science any more worth your entire life’s energies than it would be in a haphazard way to throw a handful of sand on the floor and then to spend the rest of your life studying just how the grains happened to fall? If you are not a Christian, you do not know whence that impulse to investigate nature comes. Let me tell you that the inborn uncon- querable impulse to investigate nature is the too often unrecognized and unacknowledged tribute the spirit unconsciously pays to nature’s Creator, the dim but still imperative voice of the spirit harking back to him before whom she once walked in the Garden with clear vision. ‘Alas, God calls, while like the muckrake we often gaze at the earth, failing to lift our eyes 56 A Scientiric MAN AND THE BIBLE heavenward to him who holds the crown poised over our heads, to him who alone is the Inter- preter of all things. I fear that with all our twentieth century boasting of progress, it is in reality a question between little science and big Science, between creature and Creator. ‘‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”’ Where then shall we land if we never even make a beginning? If we serve the creature rather than the Creator? Also as one has well said, those who profess to worship the Creator by means of the creature, soon come to lose sight of the Creator im the creature. The Bible, unlike any other book in the world, is a living Word, and as such is its own valiant defender. All the arguments of the best of men and all their skill in assembling them ef- fectively are but feeble apologies compared to the mordant power of the Word itself; the best human helps are those which have constant re- course to the Word. Does not everyone ob- serve that wherever the Bible is quoted, its words shine out like diamonds from the printed page? I do not decry human aids, for they are often excellent and needful, but I rejoice most when a beginner accepts and begins to study the Word with prayer; that puts the responsibility upon God. Hungry, disappointed older Chris- tians are always weak in the Word. Tue WHOLE BIBLE THE WorD oF Gop 57 Is there any judgment yet to come for the sins of men? Is there in this universe a bar of justice higher than man’s? Upon the answers to such queries depends all that is worth pre- serving in what we call civilization. On these questions our Bible is ringing, clear, and defi- nite, utterly rejecting the prevalent notion that our concepts of sin and righteousness and judg- ment are merely evolutionary, while it lifts each of these fundamental notions up into the light of Heaven and the throne of God. Sin, righteousness, judgment, and mercy are named about twenty-five hundred times in the Bible, woven as they are into the warp and woof of its entire economy. Man’s notion of sin rises no higher than that of some hindrance in his convenient social adjustments, a sort of herd morality. The Word adjudicates sin as high treason against the very throne of God and of the moral order of his universe. Righteousness expresses God’s character in his moral govern- ment of his servants; judgment declares, ‘‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die,’’ while mercy stands without wringing her hands and weep- ing for the lost sinner. Is it possible to reconcile these conflicting elements and to save the sinner, lost and con- demned? The Bible is God’s only authentic answer,—impossible to conceive apart from 58 A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE this revelation of the Father’s great love. Men continually relegate their fellows to the scrap- heap as worthless, ‘‘But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, . . . hath quickened us together with Christ,’’ and saves the lost and hopeless. On such a revelation of the mystery of God and of his Christ I take my stand for time and eternity. Surely a heavenly light shines from its pages; joy, contentment, peace, and a happy family life are fostered wherever it is honored, and nations are established in righteousness. In Bible lands alone do little children get their full meed of affection and grow up sweet, pure, and lovable into noble manhood and woman- hood, and there alone, too, are parents honored and lessons of respect for constituted authority learned. The Bible alone brings the hungry soul into sweet concourse with the mind of God and so gives strength to bear trials and even to rejoice in misfortunes. Where else are the graces of humility, patience, gentleness, long- suffering, forbearance, patience exalted? It is the great revelation of God as man’s ‘‘'T'remen- dous Lover.’’ It is the book of broken hearts: God’s heart broken on the cross as he became the Saviour of the world; man’s heart broken as God’s Spirit reveals to him so great a love, and laid at the foot of the cross. Tar WuHowe Biste tHE Worp or Gop 59 This, then, is the end of the Father’s great quest begun in the Garden at the fall, when the saddest ery ever heard was wrung from his breaking heart, ‘‘ Where art thou?’’—the voice of God seeking his lost son. At last he found him, and the search ended with the joyful ery, ‘“‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’’ And that Son has ever since been busy bringing many other sons by new birth into glory. Reader, if you do not yet know hin, let me extend to you the great invitation in three simple words, ‘‘COME AND SEE.” For this is a ‘‘whosoever’’ message for whosoever will may come and share in all the joys for time and for eternity. Concluding, let me offer a brief syllabus of some reasons for accepting the Bible literally as the Word of God. It is the one book in the world which reveals a God infinitely above our own natural imagin- ings, worthy of our love and worship, and inex- haustible in his wonderful nature. The heart of man the whole world over ever hungers for God. St. Augustine cried, ‘‘Lord, thou hast made us for thyself and restless are our hearts until they rest in thee.’’? The Bible message is God’s perfect answer to that de- spairing ery of our Spirit-starved humanity. The Bible is a miracle—one coherent message 60 A Sclentirico Man AND THE BIBLE written by God’s prophets over a period of centuries, comparable to nothing else on earth. It treats nature with a dignity and compre- hension comparable to no other book ever penned. It treats the book of nature, too, as a world of parables of the spiritual life, as the spirit of man, disclosed in his language of metaphor, trope, parable, and allegory has always unpre- meditatedly held it to be. Alone does it reveal sin as the act of a traitor in rebellion against God. In opposition to false science and false re- ligions it fixes the origin of sin at a particular time and in an individual, Satan, and at the very outset promises sin’s cessation forever when that arch traitor shall be rendered for- ever impotent; then eternal peace will reign. It reveals God’s righteousness in Christ, his judgment of sin, and his great mercy to every sinner who trusts him. It is an intimate revelation of Christ, God- man, the only Saviour of the world, to all his followers the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Tt reveals God’s gift of his Holy Spirit—our ever-present Guide on our earthly pilgrimage. It is the one book in the world which is al- ways young and fresh and inspiring. The Bible has stood the persistent assaults THe WHOLE BIBLE THE Word oF Gop 61 of Satan and all its enemies through all ages, and it goes on shining with ever-increasing luster. Whatever there is in civilization that is worth while rests on the Bible’s precepts. If only half the people would accept and ap- ply the Bible whole-heartedly myriads would be won to Christ and the terrors which threaten our nation today would all vanish, and peace with her attendant blessings would reign. Everywhere and in all its teachings the Bible claims to be the authoritative Word of God, and as such I accept it. Well has one said: This Book, this holy Book, on every line Marked with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedewed with drops of love; This lamp from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of Time Stood, casting in the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men with tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe, and live. ¢ j NAS Va Ut Ms ied Big de i woe yy Mant | a mal i as : i i mi an m f oh . 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The Empire was rooted in the Greek and Persian Empires preceding it, by force of arms, won favor by its earthly splendor, and was not without its gods and goddesses and a justly celebrated code of laws. It had also its earthly head, the emperor who was deified and actually worshiped. Its legal enactments were the elaboration of the three fundamental sound maxims basic in our own laws today, alteruwm mon ledere, suum cuique tribuere, honeste vivere (Do thy fellow no harm, give every man his due, live honestly). The kingdom, perpetu- ated by force and based upon positive law, took no cognizance of any inward spiritual man, but demanded outward conformity only. The advent of the second Kingdom, on the contrary, was without violence and observa- tion; in place of the clash of arms and the shouts of the spoilsmen over their prey, its 137 188 A Sorentiric Man AND THE BIBLE gentle King came fulfilling a prophecy, seven hundred and fifty years old, declaring his method and his final triumph. ‘‘He shall not ery, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.”’ The Heaven-sent ruler of this second King- dom, by the deliberate acts of the civil and re- ligious rulers, was quickly slain and left his Kingdom, as the world thought, broken beyond repair, thus inaugurating the age-long warfare between them and demonstrating their utter in- compatibility one with another. ‘These two kingdoms had nothing whatever in common but the claim of each to universality. Both re- mained to be tested, the one finally chosen and the other rejected. The Roman Kingdom quickly exhausted its possibilities and went to seed, having nothing further to offer; Christ’s Kingdom, without a visible throne, continues growing through the ages and manifesting its life in the midst of all other earthly kingdoms, regenerating lost hu- manity wherever received,—the one Kingdom of which all the subjects are loyal. The kingdom of the world appeals to the head alone, the heavenly, makes its appeal primarily to the heart. The first ever ignoring the sec- Tur Lorp’s Return 139 ond is busy continually refashioning and read- justing its laws and, ever just on the eve of perfecting itself and humanity, never draws any nearer to the goal. The heavenly Kingdom declares that the cause of earth’s failure lies not in the laws, but in the corrupt human nature which makes the laws and then adjudicates them ;—as one has said long ago, ‘‘What the Jaw could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh.’? The kings of the first were innu- merable by reason of their mortal infirmity; the second yields its allegiance to its unseen King, the Lord of Glory who has promised to return to resume his throne upon earth and to rule the world, and upon this grand finale de- pends the promised victory of the second King- dom, apart from which there remains no hope but sin and death, hatred, wars and destruction and utter misery to the end. The Christian Bible is the code of laws of the second or spiritual Kingdom; let us see, there- fore, what it has to say about the return of this King slain so long ago. Let me note as I begin that this truth re- garding the return of our Lord to reign in per- son here upon earth is variously held by our fellow Christians with major and minor differ- ences. As a rule, in our common orthodox churches it is not often referred to, or if at all 140 A Screntiric MAN AND THE BIBLE with considerable uncertainty and diffidence, in spite of the fact that the most ancient creed of the church clearly proclaims that ‘‘He shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead; whose Kingdom shall have no end.’’ While the Episcopal Church at the very beginning of the year has an advent Sunday consecrated by a glorious collect and Sunday by Sunday reminds her worshipers in their fel- lowship and service that as often as they par- take of the communion of the body and blood of Christ they ‘‘do shew the Lord’s death till he come’’ (1 Cor. 11: 26), the note of triumphant expectation is not often heard outside of these formal statements, nor does this particular doe- trine seem to react seriously upon any consid- erable number of her members as a controlling influence in their daily lives. Part of the diversity in Christendom relates, however, not so much to the fact of Christ’s coming as to the time; unfortunately these op- posing views have had to be labeled with special names which react as usual as fixatives and a hindrance to the entrance of the truth wherever it may lie. There are, for example, those who believe that there will be a thousand years of peace upon earth (the millennium, Rev. 20: 2-7), but do not expect Christ to return to reign until the thousand years have passed,—these are Tuer Lorp’s Return 141 called postmillenarians; others, often called ad- ventists or premillenarians, or in the older writings chiliasts (Greek chilia, a thousand), look daily for our Lord’s return to inaugurate his blessed reign upon earth and purge the world at once of all iniquity; again others even continue to venture to fix a date for his coming, as on numerous occasions in the past. It is my own belief that the New Testament teaches us clearly that he has been likely to return at any moment ever since his departure and that it is the privilege of the Church, the expectant bride, to stand upon the watch-tower scanning the horizon for signs of his near ap- proach while ever holding herself in readiness to welcome him. It is my privilege here to submit my reasons to those who will consider them. My earnest request, surely not a troublesome one in view of the importance of the matter, is that anyone who has not reached an unalterable conviction on this head will first con the two sets of references in the Old Testament to the coming of the Deliverer, one set the most nu- merous setting forth his advent with power and great glory to establish his Kingdom on earth, the other not at a first inspection so obvious but still equally definite, proclaiming a Messiah destined to be persecuted, and to suffer death 142 | mix i 1 ; ; j som) AHS SALT, , Aig De Lia ey Pie? § cea g ‘ 5 ats } spay i, i ¥ , Mi i } Pal , My fe rT) ’ » ij eat va Aaa * ols bas ‘) ‘eg ithe? at) aks oe r wih his ey pei 4’ Ay ai a ** A “ ig’, \f2 st Z ay i? 7 i io Ay i” | Me % 5 Gb Aataey Ait On h 4 iii 249 4227 . 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