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Many people have a mistaken impression that the so-called higher criticism has injured the integrity of the Bible. Higher criticism is simply a study of the frame in which the word of God is presented to us, and it cannot affect in the slightest degree, the picture within the frame. This distinction is sharply drawn in the higher criticism, but unfortunately there is a difference between higher criticism and higher critics. If the Bible has suffered from its critics, it has been from those who have transcended the bounds of higher criticism and who have disregarded its very first...
...reverend scholars. When we are told that the Bible contains one error, or two errors, we often ask, how then can we be sure that there are no more? But the Bible does not err in anything that it claims for itself, namely, that it is a revelation of God's mercy and love and truth. Occasional anachronisms and inaccuracies in the text cannot by any imaginable possibility affect the spiritual integrity of the Bible. But, the question comes again, can we be sure of the authenticity of the story of the resurrection, if we are obliged to admit that...
Criticism has tended to strengthen the faith of mankind in God. Behind the Bible stands Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Christ makes the Bible what it has been to man and without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...
...striking are the events in Jesus' life. He feeds the multitude and then goes off to the mountain alone in His turn to be fed and refreshed by communion with God and nature. It is only at such a time as this when, exhausted and parched by his constant labors with with men, He turns to God that He may acquire new strength and to nature that He may receive again that wonderful freshness of inspiration and beauty which the study of His purity brings to all. In the morning He returns to His work strong in His confidence...
...hardly recall this alternating life of Jesus Christ without remembering a dear spirit, Frank Bolles, taken from us but a short week ago. His vocation was with men and his work dry and parching enough to have shrivelled the enthusiasm and imagination of any man. But called by God, it would seem, to fill this position, he turned it into an office of kindness and humanity. Many a poor student felt through him the very kindliest influence of the University. He made the position what it now is and yet without an avocation he would have been unable to carry...