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Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

thought need detain

By

us.

the constant usage of another in-

And

strument, the result must be different. dent, for the

glorious

Holy

[July,

by

that not

acci-

Spirit did not chose his instrument for this

work only

given moment, but created and pre-

at the

pared such an instrument already in the succession of the gen-

by the forming of heart and brains,

erations,

education, the leading of the daily

ward

and mostly also by

life,

To

narrate history, the

periphery,

if

ments and

all

I

may

caviler,

Holy

facts

say

was

but a poetic

an instrument

Spirit used

present,

and

in

were found the

so,

To

necessary data.

of the living God, the

Holy

in the

Holy

which

itself

Spirit did not choose a

Thomas

employ a prosaic

was deeply shaken,

Simon Bar-jonas

not an

whether, indeed, the

such as he

;

itself

but a Paul

;

is,

with

all

Andrew who

stood afar

I

why

•good, 'nobis,

by

to serve,

And

A

spirits.

this is possible

strange spirit can

The Gospels

tell

us this

myself have heard this double speaking in

one possessed of frenzy. to possession

that of psychical analy-

is

spirit.

speak through one so possessed.

and

Hence

knowledge which he himself pos-

the

organ of another

sesses, as the

definitely,

up

Thad-

not a

human person was framed

people can be possessed of other

real

lifted

but a John whose head reclined on Jesus' bosom.

the only point in question, therefore, ;

and docu-

In like manner, for the apostolic gnosis, the

Spirit.

deus, but a

in

spiritual

sing psalms for the church

Spirit did not

spirit,

whose

scrolls

moved, down-trodden, and which heroically

sis

in-

grace.

which the memory of

•off,

manner of

in the

If

evil spirits,

now our

why

not also by good

not then by the Holy Spirit

agitante calescimus

illo

";

spirits are susceptible

all

?

The

;

and

" est

if

by

Dens

in

the gifts of genius

;

all

powers of poetry and art; also the several forms of

divination,

show

that another spirit

can achieve something

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