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annals of railroad engineering. He has served 57 years o f continuous service, has never received a mark, blemish, or personal injury and has never had a wreck in his years of service. He has never received a mark o f demerit from his superior officers and he is held in high esteem by his fellow-workers, towermen, trackbosses, as well as com muters, bankers and school children and all who have come to know him. Here is one of Bennie Locke’s' characteristic stories: “ Number Six was twenty-five minutes late out of Scranton one day, and I had my little prayer as usual, when I stepped into the cab. A fter I had asked for the safety o f our train, I said, ‘Lord, help me to bring her in on time.’ “ It was a stiff climb up the Pocono Mountains for the first part of the trip and it never seems so steep as when you are late. I couldn’t gain a second on the way up, but after we dipped over the summit, things began to break just right for me.
“ It was a beautiful day with the air perfectly clear, and we almost flew down the mountain. I just held her steady and let her go. “ When we struck the level again, I eased her into the last notch and looked at my watch. W e were coming nicely and gaining right along. “ At last the old train shed at Hoboken loomed ahead, and as we pulled under the edge o f -it, I looked at my watch again, and we were just on the dot.' “ As I stood wiping the sweat off my face, there was a tap o f a cane on the outside of my cab, and when I looked out o f the windpw, there stood the-president of the road, all smiles, and he said tom e , ‘A good run, sir! A very good run!’ That meant more to me than anything that could have happened in this world. “ And, brother, when I make my last run and pull into the Great Terminal, if I can just hear Him say, ‘A good run, sir! A very good run!’ the toil and the struggle down here won’t matter.”
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At Last—A New Bible! Editorial Book Review o f “ The Supplementary Bible” B y K. L. B.
HEN there came into -our hands a beautifully bound volume bearing the words “ The Sup plementary Bible,” we were startled by the title, but hastily glancing it through we were delighted to find what we had often desired to have—a most valuable compilation o f the
ing to men. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He would be a very changeable God if He spoke to devout men in one age and refused, in another age, to speak to men equally devout. We are emphatically assured that God is no respecter of persons. He would be far from impartial if He revealed Himself to a few ancient He brews but refused to communicate with any of His other children. Such a view reduces: God to a tribal deity of the Israelites,” A M odernistic E nterprise This is subtle teaching calculated to impress many earnest Christians who are not familiar with the doctrine of inspiration as it is taught in the Scriptures. One need but glance through the list of “ seventy^ distinguished churchmen” to be satisfied that this is a modernistic enter-, prise of the most subtle nature, and if these claims to inspiration are to any large extent accepted, an entering wedge has been driven that may easily lead to the intro duction o f the most pronounced rationalism as the latest word from heaven. If inspiration is continuous, “ The Supplementary Bible” must become a loose-leaf edition to which its committee of seventy may make additions as they see fit. Who are “ the seventy” ? They are selected from the ranks of Baptists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Epis copalians, Brethren, Friends, Disciples, Methodists, United Brethren, United Presbyterians, United Lutherans, Unitarians, and Universalists, There are doubtless some men here who would not care to be classed as Modernists, yet they have not been careful as to the company they have kept in this undertaking, for there are plenty of pro nounced Modernists and we do not find the name of a sin gle ' well-known evangelical scholar. Perhaps some have
greatest poetry relating to Biblical subjects. The devo tional poems of many of the greatest -poets are found arranged under such topics as God, Jesus, devotion, church, life, mortality, immortality, sin, salvation; provi dence, the state, mighty men, manhood, worldly wisdom, labor, love, virtues, heaven. While there are many senti ments expressed with which we could not agree, such a work, especially as a reference book for Christian workers, is of great value. But why designate it “ The Supplementary B IBLE ” ? The preface soon enlightened us. The names of “ seventy distinguished clergymen” appear upon the fly-leaf and we are told that the work is made up o f the greatest utter ances of 800 writers from the time of Christ to the present day; The editor, Dr. William Barrett Millard, acknowl edges that “ in the world of literature the Bible is match less” and that “ the Bible never can be supplanted.” A startling statement then meets us: “The time has come, however, when the Bible should be supplemented. Two millenniums have passed since St. John laid down his inspired pen, but the still small Voice has never ceased speaking to those who have ears and can hear.” Can it be that Dr. Millard and his associate' editors regard the writings they have selected as “ inspired” in the same sense as the contents of the Scriptures ? W e are left in no doubt. “ One of the clearest teachings,” we are told, “ is that inspiration is continuous.” We are informed that the Bible “ nowhere says that God ever stopped speak
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