We take the present opportunity of thanking the Members of the Bible Students’ Class for their patient continuance in their monthly task of searching God’s word, the results of which have been of such interest and profit to our whole circle of readers.
There can be no manner of doubt on the minds of any who study the current of present thought that all authority is being gradually but surely rejected by the masses, and that the few who recognize the voice of God speaking through His word are standing out more and more distinctly from the rest. Some Christians think they will escape the difficulty of taking sides, by accepting all they consider vital, the Gospels as well as the Epistles, and maintaining at any rate a reserved attitude towards the Old Testament scriptures.
To do this is to give up the whole point, nay it is more, it is to impugn the veracity of Christ Himself. For in a remarkable manner which we have already pointed out in these pages He has as it were gone out of His way, to set the stamp of His authority upon the Old Testament Scriptures, and more especially upon many parts which are disputed. To suppose that our Lord was imposed on by mere Jewish tradition, or to think that, knowing the falsehood of the narrative, He yet treated it as true, is alike impossible.
It is vain therefore to attempt to believe in half a Bible. It must be all or none. Every part is so interwoven with the other, and the whole is so harmonious that to reject any part would be like cutting a segment out of a perfect circle.
On the other hand let us not be afraid to confess that there is much we may not understand. The first point is to get a good hold and a clear understanding of, and a warm love towards HIM of whom all Scripture is full. And then with the guidance of His Spirit reverently to study the word.
Those who accept the word of God as the sole authority on Divine things, cannot surely have much to separate them, and in these evil days it is well for such to draw as closely as possible together so as to present a solid front to the ever advancing foe. May God enable many a reader of these pages to become a valiant soldier for the truth, laying on the whole armor of God and being able, having done all “ to stand.”
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