Unity of the Bible to Its Inspiration
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vibrations are too rapid or delicate to be detected by our sense of hearing; then a more delicate organ, the eye, must take note of them; they appeal to the optic nerve instead of the auditory nerve, and as light and not sound. Thus, light really sings. “The lowest audible tone is made by 16.5 vibrations of air per second; the highest, by 38,000; between these extremes lie eleven octaves. Vibrations do not cease at 38,000 but our organs are not fitted to hear beyond those limitations.” And so’ it is ,literally true that “the morning stars sang together.” Here is Divine phraseology that has been standing there for ages uninterrupted. And now we may read it just as it stands: “Thou makest the outgoings [or light radiations] of the morn ing and evening to sing,” i. e., to give forth sound by vibra tion. “Solomon, in Eccles. 12:6, has left us a poetic description of death. How that “silver cord” describes the spinal mar row ; the “golden bowl”, the basin which holds the brain; the “pitcher”, the lungs; and the “wheel”, the heart! The circulation of the blood was discovered twenty-six hundred years afterward by Harvey. Is it not very remark able that the language Solomon uses exactly suits the fact—a wheel pumping up through one pipe to discharge through another? 9. Last o f all, th e un ity of th e bible is organic . And this means it is the unity of organized being. Organic unity implies three things: first, that all parts are necessary to a complete whole; secondly, that all are necessary to com plement each other; and thirdly, that all are pervaded by one life-principle. Let us apply these laws to the Word of God. (1). All the parts of the Bible are necessary to its com pleteness. Organic unity is dependent on the existence and co operation of organs. An oratorio is not an organic unit. Any part of it may be separated from the rest, or displaced by a new composition.
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