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THE VALUE OF THE BIBLE SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
The Rev. T. B. Powell, Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, preached the fol- loving sermon on Sunday (the 4th Sun- day in Advent):
· Thy Text from the Book of Psalms:
Word is a lantern unto my feet, and a tight unto my paths":
It has been said with a certain measure of truth that to the plain man the Bible is no longer the Book of Books. This attitude of the plain man springs from a common human weakness which craves for infallibility. At one time the Pops of Rame was generally regarded as infal lible, that is, that he was not capable of But when the lamp of religion and scholarship shone forth with a greater light. c claims of the Pope were re- garded as unhistorical and not founded
error.
they pour out the secrets of their hearts, and admit us to the innermost chambers of their lives. As we read their story air hearts burn within us-woard £ired with their enthusiasm, their faith in God evokes a like faith in us-wa read the": Bible because in it we End God. "Andough they saw, as we do.
The Sin and sorrow in the world, the
stream
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Of evil. gathering on from ago to age With all its rocks and all its wrecks
of life
And men's hearts hardened, and the
tender lips.
Of women loud in laughter, and the
sobs ..
Of children helpless, and the sight of * slaves."!
all, as it were, shrieking against the goodness of God, yet they, like us, had an imperishable hope in the ultimate vic- tory of the right, they put their trust in God and were not confounded.
ENGLISHMEN'S PRIDE IN THE DIBLE.
Now we, as Englishmen, have a special
on truth. And so man put the Bible in Pride in the Bible, hecause in grea: men-
the place of the Pope-they still insisted remu. be something infallible and ex contended that the Bible was free from error, that every word in it was direct from Gad. But again, the increase of divinely given knowledge came to prove that even the Bible was not free from error. Modern science threw some doubt on the Creation narratives among other things, and the plain man, surrounded by a. general sense of inserity, gave up reading the Bible. He had almost made the mistake of regarding the Bible as in some ways a grandiose edition of Olin unnumbered homely acts and words, Moore's almanac a book primarily to have been framed upon it and coloured
by.
it, consciously and unconsciously, predict the future, and in particular to
throughout the secular process of their It is give details about the cad of the worki
And even the ordinary Christian, bay Browth and their development. his difficulties. He still clings to the impossible to imagine what they would have been, what their growth and their belief that the Bible is somehow or development would have been, without other different from and more splendid this influence, constant as the air they than, other books, hut he ands it hard to breathe, and not less needful to their fali
national life." provide himself with any clear or Buf
But the writer goes on to say that the ficient reason for this belel; and as he possession of the English Bible ercates s debt to other peoples. That we has no definite idea how he ought to read
should come to races, barbarous or savage the Bible the natural result is that in
a few years ago, uproot their customs, albeit substituting for them.. the most many cases he does not read it at all
scrupulous justice, give them railways, Yet it cannot be denied that up to outpotors, wireless and the rest, and yet generation the Bible has occupied withhold from them a knowledge which is unique and a supreme place. as a res open for all at home to acquire, if it is Det imparted in childhood, would be an Nor is it only tive, a moulding and a sustaining power unforgiveable oversight. in the epiritual lives of Christian men to the least enlightened races that the ancient "In every generation, and wherever the debt is due. Nations with
civilisations have equally a claim to ex- Light of revelation has thone," says pecte that the common book of Christen- Coleridge in a fine passage, "men of all dem should in these days of vernacular ranks, conditions, and states of mind. pressey, he made accessible to them." Happily, as the Bible Society's statistics have found in this volume a correspon show, it is brought to them in great dent for every movement towards the pumbers."
So, in conclusion, let us bear in mind' better felt in their own hearts the needy that in a sense you and Fare scrip
oul has found supply, the feeble a help,tures of God. As the apostle says. "We the sorrowful a comfort:"
sure we have given it to the world. Lot me quote to you part of a leading article which appeared in The Times: No hook that ever was printed has had an inducose so profound, so universal, ‚and' no enduring over all the races of British blood, as the English Bible. Their con ceptions of the sublimest and most sacred truths, their morals, their politics, their public and private habits of thought, their. manners which are the reflection of these things, their literature which presents and embodies them, their daily conversation
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are living Epistles, known and read of al men." We human beings are living. Psalms, prophets, gospels; thousands wil read us who never read the Bible. Let us steadily recollect that the Bible is meant, to lead us to Christ; let us turn to it with added zeal, as part of our daily reading For what the Bible has done for others it can do for us. As we read and pray over it the spark of faith will be kindled anew in us, and in part we shall see God as they saw Him. But if we fait to catch the glimpses they saw, and to hear e voices they beard it would be
deceived, and that there were ho visions and no voices. God grant that the day will come for all of us when we shall sce God will speak to us personally from the the true value of the scriptures, when printed page. Then, indeed, we shall be able to say that we believe, not because of what others have said to us, but" because we have seen for ourselves, and do know.
DEGREES OF INSPIRATION. " Now if the Bible is to be restored to its rightful place in our own lives we should, I think, be mindful of two things The first is that God generally works by a process of evolution, that is, from the lower to the higher, and this is true of the books of the Bible. It is quite de finitely wrong to assume that every verse in the Bible is of equal value. Inspira-wrong for us to conclude that they were. tion not divine dictation, and marcover, there are degrees of inspiration. Accord ingly the early books of the Bible give us men's primitive ideas chout God, they represent the infant. school of religious education. And then gradually God was Able to reveal Himself more, and man's eternal search after Him was more ade quately, rewarded; by the time we get to the prophetical books, we find the revelation more advanced and perfected. than it was in the times of Abraham Gad Moses. When we come to the New Testament the revelation stands forth in all its beauty and completeness. God revealed His character utterly and finally in the person of Jesus Christ, for God. is Light. But the whole process from the days of Adam was both slow and gradual, with the human element very strong. We de well then to face the many difficulties of the Old Testament by the light years at the rate of 750,000 per have gained from the study of the New, always remembering that the Bible is not a text-book of science, nor a compendium of philosophy, but a revelation of Ciod.
And the second thing we should hear
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THE JAPANESE CENSUS. LEADING FIGURES.
According to the census taken on October 1st, the total population in Japan | Proper was 58,735,704.
Against the last record of 55,043,053 the present population. indicates an in- trecke. of 3,773,051, or of 6.7 per cent. The population increased in the past Eve Japan
The density of population in Proper is 2,485 per square ri (157 per square kilometre), showing an increase of 153 per square ri against 2,272 of the
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in mind is that the Bible is God's book census taken in 1020.
Of the whole population 30,012,820 were suse it is, in a unique and universal
men and 29,723,584 women. The former suse, man's book. The authors, the
exceed the latter by 988,938 in number, editors, the compilers of the various books, are now seen by the light of care or 100 females per lót males. In Europe, ful scholarship to be men of flesh and with the Exception of Sweden, women blood, linked to us by the possession of exceeded men, but it is otherwise, in a common humanity. It has been justly America and Canada,
The population of Formosa said that they are not like the dolls of 3,004,236, of which 2,060,183 were men and aventriloquist, or like children repeating 1,939,103 women, showing an increase of from memory a leason, they have leamed 339,923, or.9.3 per cent. as compared with but not understood, quoting catch-words and phrases which are not a part of them the last census. Saghalien had a popu selves, and find no answer in their own lation of 203,204 consisting of 192,202 males experience. Rather, they are living men, and 81,302 females, indicating an increase sharing our joys and sorrows, our hopes of.07,605, or 92.2 per cent, against the last and aspirations, our needs and our fears, record. facing the problems and perplexities of life; facing the crooked questions which are the common heritage of humanity: saying what they feel and know, and speaking with the conviction which is borg, of personal experience. That is the real secret of the religious power of the Bible. It teaches religion, and leads men to God, because its writers were mea who had religion-" soul is kindled only by soul." And as these men of old write,
(Korea is not reported yet); The population of the principal cities was as follows:-
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Populations..
2,114,609
1.995.303 7681
Yokohama Nagasaki
405,888 180,071
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