It Is Well Said by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 1, 1905

It Is Well Said.

By Editor

The editor of the California Christian Advocate, referring to Dr. Lyman Abbott's recent declaration of disbelief, well says: "It unmasks the whole school of evolutionary skeptics. . . . They want to eat the bread of the Bible, while they sow the fields with cockle and tares. . . . Rationalism begins mildly, and continues to widen its orbit until it breaks away from all standards and scatters into a meteoric shower. It usually denies, first, the miracles, then the authority of the Bible, then the divinity of Jesus Christ, and finally winds up its career in an atheistical display."

That is the unfailing trend of that egotistical system of Bible study which styles itself the "higher criticism;" and such pronouncements as that of Dr. Abbott's before the students of Harvard University, are the logical fruit of the system. They are not eating "the bread of the Bible" in a way that can satisfy soul hunger, or do them any lasting good. The attitude of such toward the Bible is fittingly described in the following words of Holy Writ: "Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?" Eze. 34:18. When man takes it upon himself to enlighten his Maker, and rectify the work of His hands, there is no sacred apartment into which he will hesitate to go with his "strange fire" and foreign incense; and his course means just as certain destruction to himself finally, as did the action of Nadab and Abihu in the temple of old.