Human Words and Divine Inspiration
By Editor
He is a happy man, who can correct the errors of others without condemning himself, and a wise one, who never, while correcting an error, falls into the same error. A writer in the Baptist Flag very properly deprecates the using of popular quotations as though they were Bible texts, and relates the story that Robert Hall once prepared a sermon on the words, "In the midst of life we are in death," and was not aware that the words are not in the Bible, until the sermon was finished. The writer then says: "Very many other popular sentences are often repeated as if they were quotations from the Bible," and the first example of this that he gives is: "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." We fear that the Flag writer prepared his article without consulting the Bible, for Prov. 13:12 contains the words quoted. It is truly a bad thing to regard human words as the words of Inspiration, but it is a question if it is not equally bad to regard words of Inspiration as only the words of man.