The Bible of the Future

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

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The Bible of the Future

In a recent address at Ithaca, Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, of Cornell University, speaking of the Bible of the future, goes on to state that the present Bible is only so many different books written by many different authors, and that as a standard of faith and practise it will fade away; that he could see the day when the present Bible, the King James Version, would only be read by scholars as they read Chaucer and Spencer, as an example of literary style. And then it will be a new Bible, containing all the books of the synagogue and the early Christian church which have been eliminated. It will contain every religious book that has been venerated. But its character, of course, will be simply that of a relic. There is no question but what Professor Schmidt’s words would come true if this old world went on at its present rate of “progress,” but before that time shall come, all the traditions of men and all opposers to God will have been brought to the test of His own presence and glory, and His words will be demonstrated true, “Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.”