Isms, Fads & Fakes; A Series of Sunday Night Discourses

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... CONSERVATISM, Or, Back To Our B1bles. Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. John 6:68. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. The opening of Thy words giveth light. Psalm 119:105 and 130, R. V. IT is not my purpose in this closing discourse on Isms, to waste your time and mine by considering the claims of Higher Criticism; though I have been asked by some to do so. Suffice it to say that the Church has no reason to fear the results of the criticisms of the Bible. And so long as the sixty or seventy Higher Critics are not agreed among themselves, and in fact no one of them holding the same views that he did a few years ago, thus making it easier for us to believe that in each individual case there are two higher critics, than to believe there were two Isaiahs--so long as this is so, we had better leave the subject alone. The late Doctor A. J. F. Behrends, of Brooklyn, made a thoughtful examination of the criticisms of the Bible, and shortly before his death published a book entitled The Old Testament Under Fire. Among other things he said this of the higher critics: The swords have broken at the hilt, and the lances have snapped in the hands of those who have hurled them. The Scriptures are coming out of the smoke and fury of the battle without a scar, and without the smell of fire upon their garments. In another connection, he says of the Bible: It is represented as the fixed and immovable center of Divine truth, forever settled in heaven. It provides the basis of an infallible certainty; just as the sun, by its invisible but constant and efficient energy, secures the stability of the planetary system. Such a basis there must be somewhere, if our religious convictions and hopes are to be anything more ...