Amen

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11.

Dr. J. W. Weddell, in the "Examiner" (Baptist), has the following which every lover of the Bible will endorse:

"Set the old Book back where it belongs, on its proper basis, in the reverence and respect of the people, and in the resistless might of the Spirit of the eternal God. You have dealt with it historically, and it is well, for the divine Word must have a human setting; but it is more than history, and it deals with more than time—it deals with the eternities. With what a fine disdain the prophets leap the barriers of the ages! How calmly Jesus says, 'Before Abraham was, I am!' You have treated it scientifically, and a true science will always render accord. Yet who by wisdom can find out God? You have put it through the petty processes of induction, and, like Christ standing in Pilate's court, it has meekly submitted; but there has been something beyond, and from the skies, that induction, as we know it, could not grasp.

"Come, brothers, let the Bible stand on its God-given basis and do its predestined and miraculous work, four rocks of truth that do not move: a revealed Word, to be thankfully received; an inspired Word, to be eagerly listened to; an inerrant Word, to be implicitly trusted; and a living Word, to be daily loved and deeply revered as the voice of God to the soul.

"Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." 1 Sam. 7:12. Up to here—high-water mark, the place of victory."