TEARING DOWN THE BIBLE.
By Editor
A SUBSCRIBER sends us a clipping from the Chicago Tribune which notices a book by a Dr. Selleck. This book, we are told, tears down many of the popular ideas of orthodox Christian literature and higher criticism, and runs along the same line as Foster's "Finality of the Christian Religion." The author declares the Bible should be studied merely as "a piece of literature," a "collection of ancient writings, not a single book, but a library of sixty-six different books." And these he assumes to place in various classes, from worthless fiction and contradictory dreams to maxims of practical conduct. He also stoops to consider some of the doctrines of the Scriptures. Now, all this we have heard of before. It has been one of the amusements of the unbelievers of the ages to throw stones at the rock of the word. It reminds one of a small boy throwing pebbles at the Sphinx, or the great Pyramid of Ghizeh. The pyramid stands and the rock stands. The stone-hurlers and critics cause a momentary stir, their names are heralded abroad because of their daring, but in a little while their pebbles and books are relegated to oblivion while the grand old rock of the word stays on. The Bible is composed of sixty-six books, but still it is one Book, inspired by the one Spirit, and as the one Book it will live.