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that we cannot understand. A man says, "I will not believe what I do not see." Then what about his brains? So in regard to life. No one can tell us what life is. We cannot define life, and if we cannot, then let us not be surprised if we find difficulties in the Bible we cannot solve. Let us make use of the Bible as fully as we can, and see how far that will take us. A man once went to Moody and said: "Mr. Moody, I cannot accept your Bible, because there are so many difficulties in it." Moody said to him : "Do you like fish?" "\i\/hat has that to do with it?" "Do you like fish?" "Yes." "Do you find any bones in it?" "Yes." "Do you eat them?" "No; I ~ut them on the side of my plate." "That is what I do with the difficulties of the Bible, and I find quite enough fish without bones." That is a good, working, practical rule. It is what is called the verifying faculty, and it is worth applying. VI. The Criticism of the Bible. . Whatever we may have to say about this, we know _it 1s frequently discussed today. Now let us not be afra~d of that word "Criticism." A man was going up a hill in a Scottish mist and saw a great figure in front of hi1!1· He was terribly frightened· but when he got close to 1t, it was his brother. There'are three kinds of criticism, and if these three are carefully kept together we need have no fear. The first is what is called Lower Criticism. That is t~e technical word descriptive of the criticism which pro vides a text and a translation. We depend upon scholar ship for these. We may not know Greek and Hebrew. We take our text from scholars and also their translation. !hat is the lower or the lowest criticism, legitimate, impo~tant, and of course absolutely essential; and for all P;achcal purposes either the Authorized or Revised Ver sion does give us a substantial idea of the original text. . _Then, se<;ondly, there is what is called the Higher Crit icism. This has to do with the authorship, date, and
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