The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 15

;

Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

1904.]

rebelled against him, he afflicted

them

423

when

wrath, and

in his

chastened restored them again to his favor, the whilst they

sought the day of the coming of the Son of his love. midst of that sacred history

my spiritual ear in my own soul in whispered soul

in the soul of Israel's seers

Till at length, in the

me

see,

;

Holy

to be

my own

which

most inspiring and

is

pages of the Niew Testament, the Expected One, the Desire

how

the tracks of his footsteps

the

Son of

his

who, as

Spirit,

it

and on Golgotha

;

unique love, for

one, died the death of the cross.

the

in

shows me the place where the manger stood

me

points out to lets

me

himself brings out to

of the fathers

him repeat what he

and

;

refreshed by a perspective which

is

beautiful.

God

which discloses the depths of

the Psalms,

the prophets I hear

;

In the

hear the Holy Spirit singing to

I

And,

finally,

were, reads off to

me poor doomed

it is

the

same God,

me what

he caused

preached by Jesus' disciples concerning the riches of that

cross,

and closes the record of

this

drama

in the

Apocalypse

with the enchanting Hosanna from the heaven of heavens. Call this,

if

you

will,

an almost childish

your larger wisdom, but

and such

to me,

it

was

cannot better

I

in the

faith,

it.

Such

fall

away

God

in the Bible

;

The majesty

point in question, and that only.

spoken,

all

controversy

doubt departs

;

ended

is

If ;

of

the;

my

Bible

it is

still,

The human

himself must

the narrative, sing, prophesy, correct, comfort, in the ear of the soul.

is

bygone ages, and such

the Scripture of the church of the living God.

authors must

outgrown by

and

tell

jubilate

Lord God

is

the

then the Scripture; has

when

it

affirms, the latest

even the habit of turning to the Scriptures, in

times of need or despair, for help and direction from God,

seems to

Thus

I

me by no means

unlawful, but a precious usage.

stand with Augustine, and with Comrie,

along his lines exclaimed

:

"

When

I

who

entirely

read the Scripture,

I

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