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MY BIBLE AND I “We’ve traveled together, my Bible and I, Through all kinds of weather with smile or with sigh, In sorrow or sunshine, in tempest, or calm, Thy friendship unchanging, my lamp and my psalm. “We’ve traveled together, my Bible and I, When life had grown weary and death e’en was nigh, But all through the darkness of mist or of wrong, I found thee a solace, a prayer or a song. “So now who shall part us, my Bible and I? Shall isms or schisms, or new lights who try, Shall shadows, for substance or stone for good bread, Supplant thy sound wisdom, give folly in stead? “Ah, no, my dear Bible, Exponent of light, Thou sword of the Spirit, put error to flight And still through life’s journey, until my last sigh, We’ll travel together, my Bible and I.” — Selected. A French Jew; Dr. Faithlovitch, an arch aeologist and traveler, recently spoke in the Temple B’nai B’rith of this city. He re ported having visited alleged remnants of tribes of Israel in Abyssinia who are said to have migrated thither 2500 years ago. He said 50,000 of them had embraced the Chris tian faith and the doctor plead for Jewish missionaries to work among them lest they should all become Christians. “He then contrasted the zeal of Christian missionaries with that of the orthodox Jew much to the shame of the latter.” The Moody Bible Institute reported 518 meetings, 130,330 hearers, 9851 individuals personally dealt with, 1006 professed con versions, 4665 gospels and 47,332 tracts dis tributed. All in a four-months’ summer open-air campaign.
After an amused laugh, Dr. Fitch said: “I never supposed you men, interested in the things of today, would be concerned about the doctrine of the Trinity. Miracles. “If you are a theist, you believe in the possibility of miracles. It is a question of probability altogether. Christianity is not a religion of fact, but, like all other great religions, is a religion of ideas. If the bodily resurrection of Jesus could be proven, it would be an interesting physical fact, but would mean nothing in the ethical and spiritual.” FirsfT ' Miracles of healing. These pre sent nothing in the least difficult if you grant a perfect being such as Jesus was. We have the miracles of healing in Chris tian Science today. 1 “Second. The Psychological Miracle.. The conviction of Jesus that he was sinless. This is the great miracle of the. New Tes tament. As the ordinary man rises in spir itual attainment, you get the acutest con sciousness of sin. With Jesus, you get the Opposite. This is the great miracle. I assert nothing of the resuscitation of his body. That his life went on is: at) inscru table fact. He lives, He never died. His kind can’t die any more than God can die. “Third. Magical Happenings. Peter and the coin in the fish’s mouth. Stilling the tempest. Five loaves and three small fishes. Given a perfect person as Jesus was, and then these things may happen. “The question of miracle is a question of probability, and that is your question.” Divinity of Jesus. When Jesus said, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” he meant God is like me. Doctrine of Election. “It is Darwin’s survival of the fittest carried over into the spiritual. Otherwise it is a hellish doctrine.” The Atonement. “The atonement is an eternal process.” The Sabbath. “The Sabbath was written into the Bible, and was not imposed by the Bible.”
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