! VERBAL INSPIRATION 4 By J. H. Sammis, first editor, King's Business T I KING'S BUSINESS, February 1912 f i t "The Book contains, not is, God's Word," they say; "Men thought His thoughts; He did not speak, but they; The concept, or the substance, is divine, But reason must assay the ore we mine." That can't be true which one's disposed to doubt, The word is human, so he rules it out; He has a notion, say, respecting sin, The thought's divine, and so he reads it in. Thus with his scissors, and his pot of paste. Each suits a revelation to his taste; Amends the Sacred Text, and writes instead What God Almighty would or should have said; Explores the depths of the Unfathomed Mind, And naught beyond his plummet's reach can find. Then tenders us, what time his task is done His Jack-o-Lantern for our glorious Sun. Not so the Scripture: "God spake all these words — Words which the Spirit teacheth" — words — words — words, Prediction, precept, history and song, "Thy word," (not thought), said one, "was in my tongue." Till tunes are played with neither note nor horn; Till souls of men are without bodies born; "A wordless thought" shall be a thoughtless word A fool's conceit to contradict his Lord. Our Holy Writings are inbreathed of God, The word, the letter, the tittle and the yod. He taught the prophet, and impelled his pen, From "In beginning" to the last "Amen!" And woe to him whose vain presumptuous thought Shall add thereto, or dare diminish ought. San Francisco CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A graduate school offering standard B.D. and Th.M. degrees Committed to the separatist position and em bracing the premillennial system of Biblical interpretation Strong emphasis upon theology, Bible, the original languages, practical theology Competent faculty of seven, excellent quar ters and rapidly-expanding library New catalog available upon request Write to: The Registrar 1225 Franklin Street San Francisco 9, California
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