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Christ and the Apostles 
 Stand or Fall with 
 Moses and the Prophets 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE CASE STATED. 
 
 Unitarians, Universalists and Infidels are shouting 
 on the work of the "Higher Critics." Infidels seem 
 to be taking a complacent rest, apparently imagining 
 that men better located for their work are doing it 
 more efficiently. Men within the camp, solemnly set 
 apart for the defense of the Gospel, set themselves 
 apart, let us hope unwittingly, for its destruction. 
 
 The latest phases of incipient infidelity are wrought 
 out by our mortar-board masters of what President 
 Patton calls, "Rip and Tear Theology." These men, 
 departing from the faith and from their covenant 
 vows, make the Genesis of the Bible the Genesis of 
 their destructive work, turning the intellect of the 
 natural man loose on divine Revelati<^n. 
 
 Next in rank we have conceited and popular pulpi- 
 teers, exploiting these pleasing and seductive errors. 
 With a prudent regard for "the Seven Great Princi- 
 ples" — the Five Loaves and the Two Fishes, they 
 employ expert finesse, half revealing and half conceal- 
 ing. Their sermons contain some good ethics but a 
 
poverty of Gospel truth, and their congregations de- 
 cline in evangelical faith and spiritual life. 
 
 We now have, following in their train, teachers of 
 Men's Bible Classes, retailing these skeptical theories 
 which were fairly and frequently answered in the 
 days of Voltaire, Hume and Paine. Some sincere 
 young men are amazed, confused and confounded by 
 this treatment of the oracles of God, and some who 
 are underdone, think that men who can thus handle 
 the Bible must know everything. Thus the work 
 goes down from the scholastic expert to the bungling 
 imitator. 
 
 We are told that "we must unload the legendary 
 absurdities, unscientific statements and supernatural 
 incidents of the Old Testament before intelligent men 
 will believe it, and hold the later revelation of the 
 New Testament, especially the teachings of Jesus." 
 
 Where will this destructive criticism lead? Will 
 not consistent logic and progressive courage drive the 
 plowshare through the whole Book ? 
 
 Personally and socially most of these men are ami- 
 able, and while we must "rebuke them sharply," we 
 must also pray for them kindly with divine compas- 
 sion. Some of them have returned to the true faith, 
 but our chief hope is in counteracting their destruc- 
 tive influence on sincere disciples who are drifting 
 away from the faith. 
 
 They make God's word a patchwork, a polychrome, 
 a babel, a composit of divine folly and human cred- 
 ulity, and the most of those who begin this destruc- 
 tive work, progress rapidly in it toward the end of 
 Revelation. 
 
 Naturalism has its root in estrano-ement from God 
 
and rationalism, and it reasons out the supernatural. 
 Broad-minded reasoning is the vogue of the Broad 
 Way. These men may be intellectual giants, but they 
 are spiritual degenerates. They make light of creeds, 
 but Christ testifies that life and death are joined to 
 belief and unbelief. If error is harmless, truth is 
 worthless. 
 
 They may claim to be constructive, but their work 
 tears down and their architecture is like the sky par- 
 lors of Fairyland. They expect to destroy the mole 
 sin by destroying the cave ignorance. 
 
 They exalt the " Magnificent Manhood of Christ," 
 and hold up the exalted "Object Lesson" of His Life. 
 They are eloquent on Sociology and on the "Rise and 
 Progress" of the race. They beam with optimism 
 like those Oriental "darlings of the morning." They 
 have a smart contempt for "old fogies" and "belated 
 Puritans." They glory in the gospel of modern cul- 
 ture, and advanced civilization. 
 
 When culture, like Mary, sits humbly at the feet 
 of the Master, God blesses culture; but when she 
 becomes the harlot of infidelity, let her be Anathama 
 Maranatha. Divine truth must be spiritually dis- 
 cerned. The Gospel makes more of the blood of 
 Christ than the brains of man. God says in Ps. 119: 
 13, "I hate vain thoughts." Thank God, we have 
 many devout and masterly students of the Word who 
 match and overmatch these scholars. 
 
 In general, what is new in "Higher Criticism" is 
 not true and what is true is not new. We make pro- 
 gress by adding new truth without destroying the old. 
 Truth has no tenses. They believe in all sorts of 
 "progress," and seem to be lured by the motto: "Any- 
 
where, Lord, provided it be forward." They use some 
 Scripture phraseology, and having a liberal conscience, 
 as well as a liberal belief, they sometimes preach an 
 orthodox sermon to quiet "the old fogy element." 
 
 They pass lightly over the great Gospel themes of 
 Ruin, Redemption and Regeneration. They do not 
 emphasize the fundamental fact that the Old Creation 
 is a moral ruin, and the remedy is not natural evolu- 
 tion, but a New Creation. They repudiate the ortho- 
 dox hell with the double logic, that God is too good 
 to damn man and man is too good to be damned. 
 They are sky-high optimists, building air castles like 
 the resplendant halls of Valhalla. The natural pro- 
 gress of the race is to bring in a Paradise superior to 
 the one that Adam lost. Their geese are swans and 
 their sparrows are eagles. They love freedom from 
 the tyranny of antiquated dogma, and they are not 
 hampered by humility. 
 
 They tell us of the divine element in human na- 
 ture, exalt Christ as the model man, and hope in de- 
 velopment. Such theories, that dishonor Christ and 
 exalt man, logically head up in Antichrist. They 
 seem to esteem any man as about right who calls God 
 his Father and all mankind his brothers. 
 
 The common Fatherhood of God and Universal 
 Brotherhood of Man ignores the Fall and the necessity 
 of a new birth. It exalts the natural man to assume 
 a character and standing that he does not possess. 
 Neither the Old nor the New Testament teaches it. 
 
 These "Higher Critics" on the Word of God are 
 generally "Lower Critics" on popular worldliness. 
 They are very liberal towards the world. They easily 
 become worldly to catch worldlings. They magnify 
 
the love and mercy of God and minify his holiness 
 and justice. They feed with husks people who are 
 perishing with hunger. Sometimes they come out 
 into the open and disclose God and Bible dishonoring 
 heresies, presuming on the ignorance or charity of 
 the people. 
 
 Churches that receive their evolutionary Sociology 
 will go out of the "Great Commission Business" and 
 lapse into a confederacy of clubs and trumpery socie- 
 ties called an "Institutional Church," house-keeping 
 with the w^orld. 
 
 These men of false science, false logic and false 
 theology are "up-to-date" in the fulfillment of the 
 Prophecies of the "last days" of the dispensation. 
 
 We do not engage in "a strife of tongues" or "a 
 squabble over trifles," but we contend about essential 
 differences, far greater than any between evangelical 
 denominations. We proclaim a grand Redemption, 
 founded on a tragedy of divine blood, as the only hope 
 of lost men. 
 
 It is unfair to look up to the " Higher Critics" and 
 look down upon infidels. 
 
 In general, as has been repeatedly shown, "Higher 
 Criticism" is the ghost of Paine, masquerading in 
 academic mortar-board and priestly gown, and Infi- 
 delity is its guardian Angel. 
 
 Honesty and consistency would lead every so-called 
 "Higher Critic" to throw off the mask and peacefully 
 leave the orthodox church. 
 
CHAPTER 11. 
 
 HIGHER CRITICISM DISPROVED BY THE BIBLE. 
 
 Christ and the Apostles stand or fall with Moses 
 and the Prophets. 
 
 The Bible of Christ and the Apostles was the Jew- 
 ish canon, scrupulously preserved, firmly believed, and 
 always honored by Christ and the Apostles. Moses 
 was a type of Christ, and he would no sooner write 
 myths and legends for truth than Christ would. We 
 believe both on infallible proofs. Acts 3: 22. I^ype 
 and antitype fit like hand and glove. 
 
 One and the same God is the author of both Testa- 
 ments. They interpret each other and stand or fall 
 tog-ether. What God hath joined together let not 
 man put asunder. The Old Testament is the New 
 enfolded, and the New is the Old unfolded. 
 
 We do not substitute slender inferences and specu- 
 lative conjectures for infallible evidences, making a 
 reconstructed and a fictitious Bible. Agnosticism is 
 the only true goal of this progressive criticism. 
 Its trend is toward the rejection of the supernatural 
 and all the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. 
 
 Christ and the Apostles in the heavenlies, outrank 
 the critics in our unsanctified halls of learning. 
 
 The human element in Scriptures does not impair 
 the infallibility of divine inspiration, nor justify law- 
 less exegesis. 
 
 Christianity itself stands or falls with these Old and 
 New Testament Witnesses united. If the truthful- 
 ness and authority of the one is false, that of the other 
 is just as certainly so, and our faith and hope are vain. 
 Moses made mistakes, Christ did also. Are not these 
 critics more likely to be mistaken than they ? 
 
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The Bereans tested preachers by the Old Testa- 
 ment Scriptures. Acts 7: ii. 
 
 Let us first hear a word of Jesus Christ spoken to 
 the Jews : " Had ye believed Moses, ye would have 
 believed Me." John 5: 46. He would therefore as 
 certainly say to the destructive critics today : *' Had 
 ye believed Me, ye would have believed Moses." Is 
 this not as clear as a demonstration in Euclid ? Ought 
 not this alone to be sufficient ? 
 
 The New Testament contains more than three hun- 
 dred direct quotations from the Old, and over five 
 hundred allusions. Christ quotes sixty times from 
 the Pentateuch. Christ and the Apostles certify many 
 parts of Moses and the Prophets, and point out no 
 mistakes in them. The Bible is "God-breathed," 
 with a unique inspiration, heaven high above that of 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 Here are a few of many events of the Old Testa- 
 ment, quoted and sanctioned in the New : Creation, 
 the Flood, Abel, Enoch, the Calling and Career of 
 Abraham, Sodom and Lot's Wife, Cain and Abel, 
 Bondage and Miracles in Egypt, Passage of the Red 
 Sea, Giving of the Law, the Manna, the Brazen Ser- 
 pent, Samson, the Den of Lions, and the Fiery Fur- 
 nace. Read Hebrews nth for a catalogue of godly 
 heroes and miraculous events found in the Old Testa- 
 ment. 
 
 It is a significant fact that no utterance nor record- 
 ed event of the Old Testament is discredited in the 
 New. Certainly Christ and the Apostles were not 
 like our " Higher Critics." Moses and the Prophets 
 again and again claim that God spoke to them and 
 by them, and Christ and the Apostles repeatedly con- 
 
firm the claim. David said : The Spirit of the Lord 
 spake unto me, and his word was in my tongue. II. 
 Sam. 23: 2. Christ says that David spake by the 
 Holy Ghost. Mark 22: 36. He came to fulfill the 
 law and the Prophets. Matt. 5: 17. All things must 
 be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, 
 and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning 
 Me. Acts 24: 44. Beginning at Moses and all the 
 Prophets. Luke 24: 27. O foolish and slow of heart 
 to believe all that the Prophets have spoken. Luke 
 24: 25. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, etc. 
 Luke 16: 29-31. Had ye believed Moses ye would 
 have .believed Me. John 5: 46. Christ is the sure 
 key and supreme testator of the Old Testament. 
 
 Paul says : God spake in time past by the Prophets. 
 Heb. 1:1. All Scripture is giving by inspiration of 
 God. II. Tim. 3: 16. In Acts 24: 14 he says: Be- 
 lieving all things which are written in the law and 
 in the Prophets 
 
 Peter says : Holy men of God spake as they were 
 moved by the Holy Ghost. II. Pet. i: 21. 
 
 The miraculous and virgin birth of Christ is a fun- 
 damental truth, found in prophecy and detailed in 
 the Gospels, and no man can deny this miracle with- 
 out removing the keystone of the Gospel. 
 
 Mark the significant fact that as the Holy Spirit 
 foresaw the present attacks on the Old Testament, 
 Christ and the Apostles quote and certify many of 
 those events most frequently denied and ridiculed. 
 
 " The Rib Story." Paul says the man was created 
 first and the woman was from the man. I. Tim. 2: 
 13 ; I. Cor. n: 8. 
 
"The Serpent Temptation." Paul says the ser- 
 pent beguiled Eve. II. Cor. 11:3. 
 
 "The Sacrifice of Isaac." Paul certifies this in 
 Heb. 11: 17. 
 
 " Balaam and the Ass." Peter says, the dumb ass, 
 speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of 
 the Prophet. 11. Pet. 2: 16. 
 
 And now we come to those who dishonor the Holy 
 Oracles of God and the Son of God, by calling Jonah 
 a fictitious and a humorous book, as one has said : 
 " Comparable to the Biglow Papers." 
 
 Christ declares that Jonah was a sign of his death 
 and resurrection, and that Nineveh repented at his 
 preaching. Matt. 12: 39-41 and 16: 4, also Luke 11: 
 30. Therefore, no man can deny the historic truth 
 of that book without impeaching the knowledge or 
 veracity of the Lord Jesus Christ ; solemn and fearful 
 fact! 
 
 Is it possible that these men, calling themselves 
 Christians, can suppose in serious and thoughtful 
 moments, that they are guided by the Spirit and do- 
 ing the will of God ? 
 
 Our momentous contention is, that Christianity 
 itself must stand or fall with Moses and the Prophets, 
 as certainly as with Christ and the Apostles. 
 
 CHAPTER IIL 
 
 WAYMARKS AND REMARKS. 
 
 Some good brother may say : " Let us not stop to 
 argue with these critics, but go right on preaching 
 the gospel and saving souls. 
 
Vve reply, that when these men have undermined 
 the faith of the people, we cannot save souls. Their 
 preaching saves no souls. 
 
 Some may not see it at first, but pointing out the 
 mistakes of Moses is pointing the way to absolute in- 
 fidelity and final perdition. There is no salvation but 
 by the obedience of faith, near the cross and away 
 from this destructive criticism. 
 
 The " New Evangelism " does not and cannot save 
 souls. This counterfeit gospel does not convict of 
 sin and lead to repentance and Christ, for pardon does. 
 No "great revival " is possible in the presence of this 
 false criticism. 
 
 The great enemy of souls may say : " Jesus I know 
 and Paul I know, but who are ye?" 
 
 Ethical, elocutionary and evolutionary evangelism 
 is vain, be it never so proudly "up-to-date." Strong 
 preachers are biblical preachers, with sermons that 
 hold the Bible in solution. No painted scenery of art 
 and man's device, can take the place of the crimson 
 cross of Calvary. The Holy Spirit has greater power 
 than cultured brains and silver tongues. 
 
 Progress in the wrong direction is like speed in a 
 blind horse rushing to a catastrophe. The develop- 
 ment of the " inherent forces of human nature " into 
 a golden age, is man's theory of the ages, but crea- 
 tion, providence and redemption mark God's wondrous 
 plan. We are not promised a scientific, social and 
 man-made millennium. Jehovah is not the slave of 
 evolution. 
 
 The Bible differs from all other books because God 
 wrote it. Its divine authorship, established by many 
 infallible proofs, ensures its truthfulness and estab- 
 
lishes its authority. It is quick and powerful, a liv- 
 ing organism, and the effort of profane hands to 
 dissect it is death. 
 
 The Holy Spirit is given to guide us into all truth, 
 and we are commanded to hold fast the form of sound 
 words. II. Tim. i: 13. 
 
 Divine truth is absolutely imperial. You may 
 wrest or twist it, but you cannot make it adapt itself 
 to your sinful wish or will. It is the bright and 
 changeless searchlight of God Almighty. It is the 
 complete analysis of the whole man. The "modern 
 world " out of Christ, with all its culture, civilization 
 and stupendous achievements, is as far from God as 
 the barbaric states of antiquity. 
 
 The natural man is a natural failure. A man in 
 doubt of such fundamental truth or in a " transition 
 state," is never called of God to preach the Gospel. 
 Rom. 14: 23. 
 
 Without sound doctrine we can neither have a true 
 gospel of salvation nor a healthy spiritual life. These 
 critics do not make the Bible a blessing. We prize, 
 and God uses, reverent scholarship, but Luther feared 
 that our secular universities would become " the gates 
 of hell." Unsanctified learning is now playing the 
 devil with some of our schools and churches. The 
 Bible was written mainly for plain, unlettered men, 
 to be understood by the spiritual faculty, rather than 
 for great scholars and expert critics. It is a sealed 
 book to the natural man. I. Cor. 2: 14. There are 
 perils as well as advantages in freethought and the 
 right of private judgment before God. " Liberal 
 mathematics " will wreck a bank and " liberal theol- 
 ogy " a soul. Seek true things more than new things. 
 
John says : Whoso goeth onward and abideth not in 
 the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. II. John 9. 
 We need the humility and simple faith of children. 
 Luke 15: 17. 
 
 God confounds man's conceit by choosing for use 
 five most contemptible things in man's eyes. I. Cor. 
 i: 27-29. A preacher sent from God is a specialist, to 
 hear the Word at his mouth and transmit it to perish- 
 ing men. How supremely egotistical and rash for 
 him to debate with God. 
 
 How can these amiable, intelligent and perhaps 
 devout men as theists, who wish the church no harm, 
 satisfy their consciences while acting such a part? 
 How dare they take Balak's gold and preach to please 
 Balak ? They should see that they are perverting 
 the church from its historic faith and its divine mis- 
 sion. They despise and condemn civic treason, but 
 do they not violate their allegiance to Christ and the 
 Church ? Some have returned from the mists of error 
 and the pride of learning to the orthodox faith ; let 
 us pray earnestly that more may follow. They may 
 claim that they do not injure the Bible, but they at- 
 tack the very foundations of the citadel with masterly 
 skill. If we could flash before their eyes the blessed 
 hope and fearful menace of the Coming of the Lord, 
 it might startle them.- 
 
 We are commanded to contend earnestly for the 
 faith, and what are we to think of a man who does 
 not care enough about his faith to contend for it. 
 
 Rationalism, which is the attempt to overshadow 
 the mind of God with the mind of man, has ruined 
 the church of Germany, and it is now paralyzing the 
 church of America. Feasting takes the place of fasting. 
 
They cannot destroy the Bible, for it has the power 
 of an endless life like the " Eternal Word," but they 
 may destroy their own and others' souls. John tells 
 us that we are guilty if we bid them God-speed, or 
 even eat in fellowship with them. They have helped 
 to bring- in "an age of unrest," connected with the 
 perilous, grevious and difficult times of Prophecy. 
 11. Tim. 3: 1-8. 
 
 The decline of old time and influential confidence 
 in the inspiration and authority of God's Word, is the 
 radical cause of the general increase of worldliness 
 in the Church and the fearful prevalence of general 
 lawlessness, unrestrained vice and gigantic crime in 
 the world. The fear of God and of hell has declined. 
 
 When Jehudi's penknife cuts in pieces the Oracles 
 of God, it cuts loose the restraints of divine right- 
 eousness and human virtue. Faith is the first thing, 
 the mother grace, and when this declines all the others 
 decline and lawlessness reigns. 
 
 The truth and veracity of Moses and the Prophets, 
 as well as that of Christ and the Apostles, is the doc- 
 trine of a standing or a falling Church. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 CLOSING APPEAL. 
 
 God has some as true, wise and faithful Witnesses 
 as ever lived ; let me appeal to them. 
 
 But little good and no transformation can be effect- 
 ed unless men and women are clean vessels and pos- 
 sess courage and the genuine martyr spirit. 
 
 Our work is difficult, stubborn, odious work. Let 
 
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US steer clear alike of the fatal pessimism of barbar- 
 ism, and the silly optimism of civilization. We must 
 not deal out the malicious fault-finding of an enemy, 
 but the faithful wounds of a friend. We must preach 
 Christianity with humanity. 
 
 But tenderloin is not the stuff for these times. Cul- 
 tivate moral stamina and be ready for either the plow 
 or the altar. The unbelief of the age should be met 
 by a living and an invincible faith, its overwhelming 
 worldliness by still greater unworldliness, and its in- 
 difference by heaven-enkindled and quenchless zeal ! 
 
 Skeptics and formalists may blame and despise you, 
 but the " man with the Ink Horn " will mark you for 
 honor in the coming crisis. 
 
 If, like some of the old prophets, you receive a sol- 
 emn burden from God to denounce as well as renounce, 
 you must have their invincible courage, utter self- 
 sacrifice and mountain strength. Any coward can 
 admire and praise Jesus Christ, but it takes a royal 
 liero to follow Him. Do not look around to catch the 
 smiles, or shun the frowns of the world. If the world 
 is against you, you must be against the world, and if 
 no friendly faces shine upon you, look heavenward 
 and forward. It is not necessary for a Christian to 
 defend his reputation, or keep his head on his shoul- 
 ders. Paul kept the faith and lost his head, but God 
 will give it back some day, gloriously crowned. A 
 setting star may rise again, but a falling star never. 
 
 Be patient, and wage a civil war. Let no provoca- 
 tion of stupidity, mendacity or malice provoke you to 
 -copy the tableaux of Balaam and the ass. " And 
 Balaam said unto the ass. Because thou hast mocked 
 
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me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now 
 would I kill thee." Num. 22: 29; II. Tim. 2: 24-26. 
 
 Let them exhaust their wits, but not }-our patience. 
 
 If you stand between the devil and the deep sea, 
 your way out is perpendicular. Turn away, then, 
 from all of earth's ambitions ; accept the cross and 
 grace of Jesus ; be willing to be nothing and nobody ; 
 endure hardness, reproach and persecution cheerfully 
 for Christ's sake, and make you mark on eternity. If 
 a man suffers nothing for his religion, he may well 
 fear that he has none to suffer for. 
 
 Stand on the Holy Bible like a rock on a rock. 
 
 Call the church to repentance with both tender and 
 terrific tones, in view of her quickly coming Lord. 
 Rev. 22: 12. We neither want the wild lire of Jehu 
 nor the cold caution of Thomas, but the wisdom, zeal 
 and self-sacrifice of Paul. Some one says, however, 
 that a man now who does not sometimes get mad in 
 these days, is a hypocrite or a fool. Surely patience 
 and toleration should not degenerate into indifference 
 and cowardice. Woe unto them that are at ease in 
 Zion. Amos 6: i. 
 
 The pulpit is a throne of blended grace and judg- 
 ment ; reign in it as a legate of the skies, a vicegerent 
 of God. We are not to preach merely " what we 
 think," as a result of reasoning, but what God says, 
 and repeat it with divine authority. Do this and you 
 carry the " Keys" of the Kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 As the old Prophets, Christ and the Apostles and 
 the Reformers foretell : two great moral forces will 
 contend in the conflict of ages, sometimes one domin- 
 ating, sometimes the other, until Christ comes. 
 
 Our scaffold sways the future. " The morning com- 
 
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eth and also the night," Keep a sacred Bridal heart 
 and spotless Bridal robes. Amid these stirring times 
 and closing scenes never preach the Gospel " in cold 
 blood," but " shake your heart out at them." Deliver 
 the stored energy of the truth and Holy Ghost from 
 your heart like thunder and lightning. We need not 
 shout, wear plumes or flaunt banners yet, but it is 
 supreme honor to live and be faithful amid these clos- 
 ing scenes. War makes heroes, and the combat deep- 
 ens. Crowns are won in battle, and the last great 
 battle is on. It is better now to be a faithful son of 
 God than to be the son of a hundred kings. Hear the 
 heaven-descending promise : ' Behold I come quick- 
 ly," the star-crowned harbinger of day. 
 
 Point every eye to that grand impending event on 
 which the age hinges , and which dazzles contempla- 
 tion ! Heaven will not hold back our glorious Re- 
 deemer much longer. Put on a shining morning face 
 and keep on the watch, as men of the girdle, the staff 
 and the lamp, fired with the sacred passion of the 
 second life and the age to come. 
 
 I am an Optimist, give me time, " a little while." 
 Watch for — 
 
 " The King that comes in mercy, 
 The King that comes in might, 
 To terminate the evil. 
 And diadem the right." 
 
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