The Bible and Its Characters
By Editor
THERE are plenty of people calling themselves Christians, who profess great faith in Christ and the New Testament teachings, but believe in the Old Testament only as it concurs with their sense of propriety. Accordingly they reject the Bible account of the creation and fall, ridicule the stories of Samson and Jonah, and in many cases rend the word of God asunder and repudiate the former part as obsolete, and unreliable. The inconsistency of this course while holding up Christ and the apostles who appealed so strongly to these ancient Scriptures, and held such faith in their truthfulness and importance, is shown in the article by Dr. Spear in this paper. The selection is an unusually long one, but none too long since it is all good. We bespeak for it a careful reading. And henceforth let us be consistent; for the Bible and all its characters and factors stand together.