Trash

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 40.

Trash.—A writer in the Homiletic Review tells a story of how a city pastor went one week to help a struggling rural congregation, greatly to his own blessing and that of the rural congregation. He left to fill his own pulpit, a prominent educator who seized the opportunity to characterize the Bible as “myth,” “legend,” and “superstition.” The city brother heard of it before he returned home, and remarked to his rural brother that this professor had, “with a certain class, undone the work of ten years.” And it was true. The writer asks, “Is it any wonder that the ‘Spirit-life’ of our churches ebbs low? Is not the low spiritual life of our churches due in a measure to this kind of scholarship(?) that some of the would-be critics are putting forth?” The writer candidly calls that kind of scholarship “trash.” The judgment will call it worse than that.