Absurdity of Higher Criticism
By A. E. Schauffler
It is well sometimes to let our teachers know how skeptics in these days treat parts of the Bible. The German rationalist says there was no miracle in what happened to Paul on the road to Damascus. The fact is that Paul was an excitable man: that he was journeying to Damascus over the plain, which is notoriously hot, and it was noonday and he got a sunstroke; and then in his fever he thought he saw visions and heard voices. The whole thing was a subjective delusion, and not an objective reality. That is the rationalistic explanation of this miracle. Now I never knew that sunstroke turns a persecutor into a preacher, or that it makes an evangelical man out of a skeptic. One of my classmates, who was with me in city missions, got half a sunstroke in the city of New York, and he never did another stroke of work for a year and six months. Paul gets a full sunstroke, and begins instantly to preach marvelously. If this German theory be correct, then you had better close your theological seminaries, and stand all your young men out against a brick wall and sunstroke the whole of them, and then ordain them.—Rev. A. E. Schauffler.