June - the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland
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62 Jl'7'ee ["res/)y{U'rian M(((j{{.z/>ne.Testimony to <strong>the</strong> Bible.SIR CHARLES MARSTON has rendered splendid servicc to<strong>the</strong> Church in his excellent lecture as reporkd in <strong>the</strong>"English Churchman," 19th February, 1931. When <strong>the</strong> HigherCritics are attacked on <strong>the</strong>ir own ground, by <strong>the</strong> lovers <strong>of</strong> truth,<strong>the</strong>y have no ground to stand on, for <strong>the</strong> more Archroology issearched into <strong>the</strong> clearer <strong>the</strong> historical evidence becomes asrecorded in <strong>the</strong> Bible. vVe have no doubt but every jot and tittle<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scripture is true to fact as <strong>the</strong> facts arc stated, andrecorded in <strong>the</strong> Bible. The enemies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bible will jump; atany straw to make out <strong>the</strong>ir own tlleories, however contrary to<strong>the</strong> Word <strong>of</strong> God <strong>the</strong>ir spl'l'ulahons may be.The Biblical account <strong>of</strong> Creation is assailed and 'attributed toa process <strong>of</strong> gradual development which took thousands <strong>of</strong>millions <strong>of</strong> years to develop; but <strong>the</strong> extraordinary thing is that<strong>the</strong> Higher Critics and Evolutionists differ from each o<strong>the</strong>r bythousands and .hundreds <strong>of</strong> millions <strong>of</strong> years. If even two <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>m could ,agree on any known <strong>the</strong>ory, <strong>the</strong>y could claim someadvantage, but <strong>the</strong> Higher Critical Theologian and <strong>the</strong> Scientistsdiffer so deplorably that any man with <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> his reason willnever accept <strong>the</strong>ir evidence on <strong>the</strong> ground <strong>of</strong> self-complacency.The Modernist School is only <strong>the</strong> 20th century's name forAgnosticism, Arminianism, Socinianism, and Anti-nomianism,all <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m combined toge<strong>the</strong>r, and all in harmony against <strong>the</strong>Word <strong>of</strong> God.Sir Charles Marston says :-" One fundamental assumption <strong>of</strong>so-called Mpdernists required <strong>the</strong> belief (not yet altoge<strong>the</strong>rabandoned) that <strong>the</strong> art <strong>of</strong> writing was unknown in ancient times,we now know that <strong>the</strong> art <strong>of</strong> writing goes back at least fourthousand years before Christ, <strong>the</strong>refore, <strong>the</strong> Modernist statementwas to be regarded as utter nonsense. A remarkable discoveryrevealed that alphabetical writing goes back to <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Moses.They were now able to read some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> scripts which had beenfound, which for la very long time were undecipherable.Thousands <strong>of</strong> cuneiform clay tablets have been unear<strong>the</strong>d. The