E. W. Bullinger
E. W. Bullinger
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September, 1897 | Vol. IV July 1897 - June 1898 | Main Index
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E. W. Bullinger
September, 1897
Religious Signs
"The Facts of Science"
"The Darwinians will have to make their peace somehow with Lord Kelvin, and we shall be curious to see how they will do it. He will not allow them a solid earth for more than thirty, or more probably twenty, millions of years in which to work out the problem of evolution. This, at what is supposed to be the present rate, is confessedly not enough, and either Lord Kelvin has to be disproved or a new factor introduced. The result must in any case be a valuable lesson against that 'cocksureness' which is the bane of modern science." (Daily Paper)What a come down! Only a miserable trifle of twenty millions of years for the descent of man from a nebula! It is too unkind. What would have been the feelings of the town-crier at Ephesus if he had been told that the divinity of the great goddess was open to dispute? Can we imagine the expression of his countenance, had anyone had the hardihood to make the untoward suggestion? And modern philosophers are in that position today.
But here is a still more bitter pill for them to swallow. Inductive Logic, upon which the biological theory of Darwin, the geological theory of Lyell, and the astronomical theory of Sir Isaac Newton himself stand or fall, is challenged by so great an authority on Logic that the work is now placed amongst the standard literature of the day for constant reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum Library. We refer our readers to the authority mentioned, viz., The Principles of Logic, by F. H. Bradley, LL.D., page 329.
Another "Life of St. Paul" is given to us; this time by Mr. Baring-Gould. The line he has adopted is "that of a man of the world, a novelist with some experience of life," etc. No wonder then that Paul is brought down from the "seventh heaven of invention in which theologians have placed him," and that the usual view of Paul is reversed.
It is sadly instructive to notice how human wisdom is wholly at fault when dealing with divine and spiritual things. Mr. Baring-Gould sees that Paul only holds his prominent position, owing to the fact that he had in Luke an enthusiastic admirer and biographer! He says the other apostles were the true founders of the Church! And he speaks truly if he means the popular Christianity of Christendom. For as we have often said the special teaching of the Holy Ghost by Paul was soon forsaken for that of the Twelve.
Mr. Baring-Gould can see that Paul's teaching was different from that of the Twelve, and that, failing to receive it, he considers it illogical and untenable! The utmost he can see in Paul's special ministry and teaching, as to the true nature and standing of the Church of God is, as expressed by another worldly reviewer, that Paul "was a great instrument in the Divine process of the education of the world." That is all! So much for the wisdom of natural man. Truly it is "foolishness with God."
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"Everybody knows that the uncompromising simplicity of Nonconformist services has been severely encroached upon of recent years; but we were hardly prepared for this—stated in an article in The Times on 'The Position of Nonconformity":—'At Paisley there is a Baptist Cathedral, with a surpliced choir—of both sexes. In a Glasgow Congregational church a liturgy is used, with choral responses, including the Ten Commandments and the chanted psalms; the lessons are read from a lectern; daily services are held, and over the altar or communion table stands a large gilt cross. English Nonconformity, which alone this article attempts to describe, has not yet gone so far, but it is feeling its way.' What next?"—British Protestant