HOW SHALL WE TEACH?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 7, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 36.

HOW SHALL WE TEACH?

A PROMINENT Unitarian has turned upon us simple people who believe the Bible, to charge against us the increasing evils of the day. He says: “I believe from my heart that most of the infidelity of Christendom, as well as the irreligion of to-day, is to be traced directly to the dictum that the Bible is the flawless autograph of God.” He declares that when the child becomes a man, and finds out the many “discrepancies” in different manuscripts, and that many psalms were written in the days of the Maccabees, he will say, “I wanted the truth, and was taught a falsehood.” As to the discrepancies, they are too trifling to deserve attention. As to the Maccabean origin of the Psalms, that theory is absolutely contradicted by the undoubted discovery of Mr. Thirtle of the meaning of the titles of the Psalms. No psalm could date later than the time of the return from the captivity.

No; it is better to take the Bible at its own estimate: as the Word of God, of supreme authority, and of abiding force. Teach it in this way to the children, to the men of mature minds, and to the nations of the world. It is the absence of this teaching which makes infidels.—Watchword and Truth.