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T h e K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
September 1932
m e ALPHABET o f SCIENCE U-u ^ C—
a n d ¿L iN gP IRAT ION o f ike BIBLE By H ARRY RIMMER, Los Angeles, Calif. Copyright by’Îfcesearch Science Bureau, Inc.
roll of sciences by their alphabetical order, to see what may be deduced and demonstrated by the method. U nearthing A ncient R ecords “ A ” is for Archaeology, the science that studies relics of ancient peoples and orders, to learn their histories from this original source. The simplest definition of archaeology would perhaps be in these words: The science of dead races and forgotten civilizations. The science of dead races! How that thrills the imagination of the philosophical stu dent! To go back over the musty years, until they have numbered in their processions thousands, then to call forth from the dust of those ages the mouldering bones and the lasting relics formed by those bones in the days when they were covered by flesh, is one of the most thrilling adven tures of the age in which we live. This “ scientific resur rection” is going on all over the earth today, and we are now in possession of the very secrets of those days, that the original possessors guarded until they were presumably safe in the keeping of the tomb. This safety, however, was only apparent, and not real. The science of archaeology has been busy for a century. In that time, we have uncovered the relics of kings and slaves, potentates and servants, men, women, children, and even animals, that have testified to the amazing marvel of the infallible Word of God. Certainly, if there is a science today that is established sufficiently to claim the reverent attention of man, it is this one with which we introduce our subject. Written words, engraved upon eternal stone, languages that have been forgotten for three thousand years, records that in all reason should never again have seen the light of day—all these testimonies, and many more, have been assembled by archaeology to establish the truth of the Bible. In this science, perhaps more than any other, the Bible stands vindicated and championed by un answerable fact. C ritics of the O ld S chool As an instance of this, we will remind the reader that, in the generation just passed, it was the popular opinion of the critic, loudly announced as historical fact, that the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch was an exploded fable. This school of thought was so widely established, that even today we meet a surprising number of men who still hold to its theory, not knowing that the scholarly world has moved ahead in the past forty years, leaving them hope lessly marooned on the little island of ignorance that they so peacefully occupy in their infidelity and error! Such a man as this we recently met in Grand Rapids. While there, I was asked to speak to the members of the finest civic club in the city. They desired to hear some things about the science of archaeology. When the meeting ended, however, another minister who was present came to me and took exception to the statements I had made about Moses writing the Book o f Genesis. He said,
ou r e m e m b e r , do you not, the Primer of our child hood days? Years ago, before education got scientific, spe cific, and phonetic, we all began our studies of the English language with the once-venerated, but now somewhat des pised alphabet. The Primers of the days gone by are memories now, but it has been a source of amusement and enjoyment to many to collect these old souvenirs of a by gone day, and to renew the scenes that memory dimly re tains, by reviewing their yellowing pages. Generally speaking, the Primers of our childhood fol lowed the same rule—they sought to instruct by the use of verse. We still have one that had the entire alphabet in rhyme, and as this is a record of a past generation, the verses all managed to couple the thoughts of the juvenile student with well-known incidents in the Bible. This par ticular book began, “A. In Adam’s Fall, We sinned, all,” and ended on the same strain with, “ Z. Zacchaeus, he, This sounds more than quaint to our modern ears, and we suppose that if the Primer were in fashion today, it would be a so-called “ scientific” volume, starting, perhaps, with, “ A is for Ape, the parent of man,” and probably ending thus, “ Z is for Zoology; the only true religion for modern man.” Be this as it may, there is an alphabet of science. By that we mean there is a science, practically, for every letter in the English alphabet. Indeed, for some of these letters, there are many and varying fields of special correlated bodies of accurate observations, each constituting a differ ent and separate science. Each science in the alphabetical list somewhere touches and accredits the inspiration of the Bible. How can this be possible? Ages before these sciences were dreamed of by modern man, the Bible was a completed volume, and its writers all mingled with the dust of the earch. Centuries of research and a matchless machine technology have since added to the body of knowledge possessed by man; how could the ancient ones have known these recently discovered facts? The answer is obvious; they could not have so anticipated our current wisdom by their own devises and intelligence, therefore the conclusion is inescapable: One who knows the end from the begin ning must have inspired the writers. Well did this One write of Himself, “Who, as I, can foretell coming things ? Behold, before they come to pass, I tell you of them.” If then, the Bible can be proved to be in harmony with the sciences of this age, its claims to inspiration are all proved by that one amazing fact. So we will proceed to assemble our Primer of Science and Scripture, and call the Did climb a Tree, Our Lord to See.”
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