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impossible to say that the latter school give any clear assurance o f the strength o f the foundation on which they themselves rest and ask us to rest. While recognizing to the full that many o f our British and Amer ican “Higher Critics” are firm believers in a Divine revelation, it is impossible not to feel the force o f the words o f the late Dr; W. H. Green of Princeton, when he said: “They who have themselves been thor oughly grounded in the Christian faith may, by a happy inconsistency, hold fast their old convictions, while admitting principles, methods and conclusions that are logically at war with them. But who can be sur prised if, others shall with stricter logic
carry what has been thus commended to them to its legitimate conclusion?” W e therefore draw the conclusion that when modern criticism is tested by means o f the criteria here adduced it will be found decidedly wanting, and the Old Tes tament will stand out more clearly than ever as thq record of a Divine revelation progressively given, and embodied in a national consciousness which is historically trustworthy and spiritually unique. With history, tradition, true scholarship, and real spirituality on the side o f the Church’s view o f the Old Testament there is nothing to fear, and everything to inspire the convic tion that “the Word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Bolivian Missionaries
OFF TO SOUTH AMERICA
T N event o f much interest to the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles transpired a few weeks ago, when three graduates of the Institute left San Pedro for Bolivia, on the Japanese line steamer, which would take them on the first lap of, their long journey to San Pedro, Bolivia. The stu dents are Mr. and Mrs. H. 'Cromwell McKinney, whose home was in La Mesa, Cal., and Miss Mildred Lee, o f Garden Grove, Cal., They have gone out under appointment o f the Bolivian Indian Mis sion. The party is in charge o f George Allan, founder and director o f the mis sion, who has been with the Indians of Bolivia for some eight or ten years The mission is interdenominational in character and is supported entirely by the free-will offerings o f those who are interested in the work. This group, including Kenneth
W. Powlison, another graduate o f the Institute, will bring the number o f mission aries up to twenty-one. The party landed at Arica, Chili, if all went well, and pro ceeded by rail to Oruro in Bolivia, a round about journey o f about 400 miles; From there the journey to San Pedro will be made on mule back, occupying three or. four days. Mr. Powlison, who could not sail with the party, through delay in receiving his passport, left three weeks later, going via New Orleans and Christobal. He hoped to meet the party at Arica and accompany them on the'’long trip into the interior, 7000 feet above the sea. A farewell meeting for the party was held by the students and faculty o f the Institute, and the members o f the Pacific Coast Council o f the Mission.
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