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all right to have your beliefs and to have your doubts, but, young man, let me beseech of you, believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. Don’t believe your doubts or doubt' your beliefs. It’s like a man saying he wants to reduce his weight, and yet keeps on overeating! If you want to get rid of your doubts don’t keep feeding on doubts—give yourself a diet of belief, turn to God’s Word, make’that precious, and your doubts will even vanish as the mists and darkness vanish before the rising sun. * * * * We are no longer living in an age of infidelity, but in an age of criticism. The attack has shifted from the person of God to the Word of God. The world is too intelligent today to deny the existence of God. It’s only the fool that says in his heart, “there is no God.” The wise, the intelligent, as this world goes, are no longer attacking that truth, but are now attacking the Word of God. The situation is made the more serious and terrible when we remember that as in Samuel’s day, so now even the priests of God are entering upon these attack's instead of making the Word of God more precious and secure. Let us thank God then that Prof. Green of Princeton, Bissell of McCormick, Sayce of Oxford, Winckler of Germany, Orr of Glasgow, Parker of London, all believed in these things and have as high a learning, as keen an insight and as mighty a mind as Graf, Wellhausen, . Colenso, Driver, Cheyne or any on the other side. Don’t, young men, young women, be led astray by the so-called “learning” of the other side as though all knowledge, all learning and philosophy would die with them. Remember, there is just as much learning, just as keen intellects, just as mighty minds on the side of Christ as against Him
and a mightier faith, a nobler heart, a holier purpose which is set for God and for His holy Word. Don’t let the “ipse dixit” of any man or any set of men lead you from your moor-' ings. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, * * * rightly dividing the word of truth.” Think the thing through yourself. “Study,” “search the scriptures,” “compare spiritual things with spiritual,” not with the Carnal, the intellectual and material and you’ll find the Word of God growing more precious and also more reasonable to .you, day by day. Leading Scientists Corroborate the Bible They say the Mosaic account of creation is foolish and unscientific. Prof. Dana, professor of geology at Yale, says, however: “The first chapter of Genesis and the last chapter of nature agree so closely as to /r prove that both must have been written by the same hand.” Cuvier, also, the founder of the science of paleontology, says: “Moses has left us a cosmogony, the exactitude of which is most wonderfully confirmed every day.” They say the Bible, as a whole, is unscientific, yet, Jeremiah says in the 30th chapter and 22nd verse of the book which bears his name: “The host of heaven cannot be numbered.” That sounded unscientific then, for Hipparchus, a century and a half before the birth of Christ, had actually numbered them, every one then visible, and found just 1022. Ptolemy also, the founder of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, numbered them again at the beginning of the second century after Christ and found but 1026, so near had Hipparchus come to the truth almost three centuries before. But Jeremiah says with defin- nite exactude, “the stars cannot be numbered for multitude,” and science
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