Results of the Higher Criticism.
D. S. Margoliouth, M.A., professor of Arabic in Oxford University, England, himself a higher critic, in writing on the “Higher Criticism” in the Chicago Record-Herald, remarks: “It is evident that all the hypotheses which it has produced have either broken down or been lost in a maze of hypotheses which are necessary to support the first, and that in the course of the procedure each place that seemed to offer firm ground has given way.” And that is candid and true. The learned professor tells us that we know “in consequence of the researches of the higher critics,” “very little, if anything,” “more about the structure and dates of the books of the Old Testament than was known in the eighteenth century, or to the medieval rabbis.” And he further tells us that the various schools are contradictory, one utterly rejecting the conclusions of another, and thus concludes: “We can scarcely feel sure that the opinions which are now dominant may not be similarly ousted, tho it may be difficult to predict the character of those that will be substituted for them.” The frank child of faith has nothing to fear. He has put to the proof Christ’s test, and has not found it wanting. John 7:17.