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THE INSPIRATION OF THE town not far from Joppa, where the THE SWATOW EARTHQUAKE:

BIBLE SPIRITUAL AND NOT VERBAL INTERESTING ADDRESS BY THE REV

BCOPLEY MOYLE.

Sanhedrin (the Chief Council of the Jews) had settled after the capture and [FROM OUR OWN COLLESPONDENT] destruction of Jezustem by Titus, the

FEBRUARY 18th Borian General, in the year 70 AD.

The sarthquake that occurred on the This Bynod definitely fixed the list of CHINA NEW YEAR

sacred books of the Jews, and the list so 13th struck Swatow and the surrounding The celebrations of this week prove that

ixed was accepted by Christians and district to a considerable depth with China New Year has not lost ita grip An interesting address on the Inspira became our Old Testament, great violence. Much life and property

tion of the Bible was delivered at SK upon the popular Imagination. Indeed

With regard to the New Testament, have been destroyed. It was estimated John's Cathedral on Sunday morting by the first books to be publicly read in the other day that about a thousand one might be pardoned for thinking that the Rev. H. Copley Moyle. He said meetings of Christians were the letters bodies were recovered which had been ita observance was growing rather than Let us try to understand what is meant of the Apostles addressed to a particular buried under the collapsing houses, and en by the inspiration of Holy Scripture church, or group of churches. The road that there still remained bodies in the diminishing, at least so far as Peking Inspiration means breathing in. It is ing of these would be confined to the wreckage and debris. In some casca it is concerned. Certainly the capital gave the work of the Holy Spirit Wo believe Church or Group of Churches to which would appear that whole streets collapso itself up to the festivities of the occasion that God inspired certain men that is the letters were addressed. The earliest that very few housca escaped some an abandon which has not best to say He breathed His Holy Spirit references to any books being read in all damage. It is unnecessary to enter into into them that they might speak for God Churches show that at first this honour detail, because the havoc wrought has been nor exporterived for several years. Ap-to their fellow men. This inspiration was confined to the first three Gospels on so large a scele and so universal. parently the restraints of former days did not do away with their human and to the Old Testament prophets. But Large houses have been so damaged that characters or render them infallible, but very early, viz, about the third decade they must be re-built from the founda- have been removed, for the discharge of it worked through their human nature of the second century, we find the four tion. As far as can be ascertained, fireworks was almost continuous. There to deliver a message from God.

Gospels in use. By slow degrees the in- Swatow has suffered most and so must Was a difference, however. The old-time

Some fifty years ago the theory of fluence of the letters of the Apostles be regarded as being nearest to the verbal inspiration of Holy Scripture was spread from the congregations to which centre of the great upheaval. It is dif cracker was replaced by the more noisy commonly held and believed. According they were first addressed to the Church Gcult to estimate what the total loss has bomb. Feasting, merrymaking, gambling to that theory every word of the Bible at large. They were quoted and appeal been. There was a succession of shocka specially selected by God. The mened to by the leaders of the Church when at irregular intervals, but none anything. and all the pleasures associated with who wrote were merely instruments used contending for the Apostolic teaching like so intense as the first, which lasted Ching New Year and with the boliday by God, and what they wrote was beuguinet herotics and innovators. They less than o minuto, time were indulged in as of yore. Withal loved to have been a direct message of were translated into various languages People out in the helds heard an on- the city was wonderfully quiet. Govern God to men, unspoilt by the human in to meet the needs of Christians of various canny rumbling noise coming from

strument through which it was delivered races, end, in consequence, they came direction east and north. Immediately mont offices were closed for several days Careful and devout study of the Bible more and more to be regarded as on a thereafter the earth trembled. The noise business were suspended for three, four has shown that this theory of verhal in higher plane than other writings. Some accompanying the shock was deafening. add five days; vernacular newspapers spiration cannot be maintained. It was of the books had to wait long before they Walls creaked and crashed, furniture evidently not held by our Blessed Lord secured a place in the list of books which reched and was thrown down people closed down for eight days; while schools or Eis Apostles, for we find that out of were regarded as authoritative. The shouted, and dogs barked, In the mean- and colleges took a four days' vacation. 275 Old Testament quotations in the first list of books recognised as authori Une thing was rather noticeable that Testament there are only 63 which agree tative is given by a heretic named Mar was the absence of flags. Usually a flag with the Hebrew of the Old Testament cion about the year AD 140. It con is flown from practically every house and Again, if there are any places where we sted only of St. Luke's Gospel and shop. On the occasion only the public might expect verbal accuracy it is surely 10 Epistles of St. Paul, Marcion, no

At Chhau An the buildings displayed the national colours in the reports of our Lord's discourses, doubt, had eliminated anything contrary.

and yet when we read them in the dif- to his own heresy.

The large hospital is well-nigh wrecked, POLITICAL

ferent Gospels we find that the writers The next list of books recognised as Pagodas have suffered and dwelling- Undoubtedly the holidays have inter have not used exactly the same words in authoritative is given in what is houses have suffered. Loftly structures, fered with Chinese politics. No develop all cases, but have contented themselves generally known as the Muratorian thrown off their perpendicular and un- ments, apparently have taken place, or with giving the spiri of what was said, fragment, which is a rough Latin supported failed to gain their equili- if they have the holidays make it impos but not the letter. You may notice this translation of a Greek original, sup brium. The Roman Catholic Church sible to ascertain what has happened. In even in the Lord's Prayer is the posed to have been written before the steeple was damaged the domó certain quarters 1 have heard it asserted Burtitudes, and in the Institution of the end of the second century It gives us and the crois surmounting it suf- with sonic show of ronson that the post Holy Communion, Those differences a good idea of the care which was taken fered most, while the clock/ceased tion of the President had been improved during the week. Lending colour to this would never have been allowed if the to exclude even the most edifying books to view is the report that the Tuohuns of writers had held the theory of verbal unless they could show Apostolic author the Yangtze provinces have renewed their inspiration. Or, again, take subh stories ity. The fragment begins in the middle inclinations towards peace, a report as the conversion of St. Paul, or the of a sentence which alludes to St. Peter's which is extranely probable. It was they vision of St. Peter at Jeppa, of which connection with our second Gospel. (It movement the ved lave more than one account in the in generally believed that St. Mark owes who initiated the peaco

Acts, and if you compare the threo se his information to St. Peter-) It men The town of Kityang, also, suffered suggestion of compromise with The Un counts of Bt. Paul's conversion or the tions St. Luke's as the third Gospel and much. An observer reports that he stood

to the downfall of

abandoned their two accounts of St. Peter's vision, you St. John's as the fourth, so it evidently in consternation as he saw houses round jui and they only opinions in deference to the military will probably agree that the writer acknowledged our four Gospels It about him falling down in clouds of might of the other Tuchans of the North could not have held the theory of speaks of the Acts of the Apostles as dust. A market town below Kityang It is not surprising, therefore, to hear verbal inspiration. The theory was too having been written by St. Luke, and called Pang Khan is reported to be a that, having been constrained against mechanical to suit the Christian religion it acknowledges 13 epistles of St. Paul, total wreck. The devastation wrought in their will, they are of the same opinion It was too much like the way the one of Jude, two of John, and the Re this area must be very great indeed As still. The report, however An in- book composed by God and given to men. Wisdom and the Apocalypse of Peter, by us no

like so many Mohammedans regard the Koran-15 a velation. It also includes the book of far as information has been received member of the foreign others, may bo premature." teresting sidelight on the situation is The tendency to day is to dwell more on but makes no mention of the Epistle to community has been seriously hurt, but furnished by Brigadier General Feng the inspiration of the writers than of the Hebrews, the two Epistles of St we have heard of very narrow escapes.

cheng. Last week he sailed from the words of the Bible. It has always reter, James, and one Epistle of St. People say that no such havoc has Pakow with his troops in four Ching been God's method to select certatu zuen Jonn. Posuably the writer did not know been wrought by an earthquake in living Merchant steamers en route for

time the earth or floor on which we stond felt as if Vulcan was rushing along in his caverns below and striking the roof with bis ponderous hammer, stunning the damngo is severe.

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His will has been revealed to others not find them in use in his Church, which down from their ancestors of such a That was the way by which Christianity was the Church in Rome calamity in this region. But whether

to rolurn to the glory of

of Heaven, Ho Hermas, the Epistic of Barnabas, the of the kind, there do exist terrestrial left no writings behind, no written code Apocalypse of refer, the teaching of the evidences that such catastrophes might.

all his troops at that of rules, no written advice to His follow-Apostles and the Acts of Paul were by happen in this very region. There are

As he is a follower of Li Shun, tho tagonist of the peace movement initiated. from The Kangtare, General Ni Szu-changers, but He promised that the Holy some regarded as authoritative, but the indications at least that in districts not Tuchun of Anhui, looks upon him with Spirit should come upon them and should general approval of the Christian Church far from Swatow the crust of the earth suspicion and this old warrior may feel guide them into all truth. The adoption was not conferred on them, and they did is not very thick There exists a con- it incumbent upon him to stop Feng of certain writings to form what we call not secure recognition in the list which siderable belt going right athwart a 16 the New Testament was a very gradual finally came to be recognised as our New sncocesion of counties whore we moet Yu-chang's further progresĄ, stated, too, that

Feng has circularised process, and was not complete till the testament. It is notable that no General with thermal springs in considerable pro the governors this subject of panace, end of the 4th century, Council of the Church ever drew up a fusion. From a place in Lukfung county if true, seems to justify Let us briefly glance at the history of list of the books of the New Testament, called Ho-thien, where there is a thermal Proceedings erding his intentions en- the way by which the Old and New which came to be is we have them now spring, you come to Mienfu, in Kityang the doubts tertained by the northern Tuchuna This Testaments came to be regarded as sacred at out the end of the 4th century. The county, where there are thermal springa. in brief, is the situation as it is believed The earliest sacred writings of the Jews last books to secure recognition were the Following a course north and east you to exist at the time of writing were the law of Moses. In the time of Epistle to the Hebrews and the Revela come to another spring near Wükingfu. morrow an entirely different im

impression Ezra and Nehemiah this was ampli taon. The books which are included in Since the 13th, on which the earthquake hed and explained, and combined with our New Testament were those books took place, this spring has increased con- may be conveyed.

the early history of the Israelites, it which had commended themselves to the aiderably in volume. Continuing in the PLAQUE PREVENTION, S

Though deaths are reported daily there was published as we now have it in the Christian conscience of the Church and same direction you come to Thang Hang, is good ground for asserting that the first live books of the Bible which were believed to have the authority where the water of the various hot It becomes evident on studying these of one or other of the Apostles springs is collected into a large pond pneumonic plague is well under control. Since last 1 wrote no further place of early books that some editor has com This brief sketch of the history of the used by the people for their daily ablu- importance has been attacked, though it bined two or more stories, c. if we formation of the Old and New Testations, etc. Going on your way north- is be expected that reports will show that study closely the first two chapters of ments will, perhaps, belp us to see that eastward you come to the county towa of Fengshun, where those springs appear towns and villages not hitherto known fienesis it becomes evident that they can there is nothing mechanical about the profusion and the inhabitants use the to be inte

infested demand the attention of thin two quite distinct stories of the inspiration of the Bible. It is not a the plague prevention staff. The en Creation in one man and woman are book dictated by God to men, but it is a waters for washing and cooking purposes, fidence expressed in the opening sentence created on the sixth day in the other, message from God to men given through Pursuing in this same course you strike is supported by Knowledge of the facta man is created before woman, and it is buman means under the guidance of the the Hon river, in the bed of which hot that local

Bra being removed, only when a helpset cannot be found Holy Spirit. It refients the minds, the springs are met with that US Officials 10 for the man that the woman is created characters, the knowledge, and the ignor. Then, turning due north, YOU CROSS districts are being removed, and that Or take the story of the Flood. Here, ance of the men who were used as mes the Kwangtung border into Fukien

established closer co-operation

again, it is clear that the editor has sengers. It makes no claim to infal where, at the county town of Fungting. between military and authorities combined two versions of the story, for libility. Many people would no doubt there are more of those thermal springs and the medical mon working in the in one place we read of every beast like an infallible Bible; it would save I have not traced these springs farther, plague region. To day, it is interesting thou shall take to thee by sevens and them much trouble by affording them although it would be interesting to do so. to learn, two hundred huts have been of beasts that are not clean by two, and unerting guidance on every question I should like to know, for instance, if despatched by rail to Fengchen for the Noah did according to all that the Lord without the trouble of thinking; but it this chain or belt of springs continues an o station. These commanded him. But later on we is never God's plan to save us the trouble till you reach the Fukian, seu-coast and

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the PEAK HOTEL, as manager, cases PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of purposes at Nankor, and permit of one are not clean the one and beaste that of thinking. Bishop Butler, one of the also how far south beyond, Lukten

or impre haing removed from the block are not clean there went in two and two ablest writers of our Church, who lived county they are found. (Some of your It is desired to balance the accounts be hald m THURSDAY, the 28th day The Plague develop in any of them unto Noah into the Ark, as God had com in the 17th century, wrote. Neither readers may be able to give thin infor Doubtless takenmanded Norb The time during which obscurity, nor seeming inaccuracy of mation. The supposition is that where of the Hotel as from that date. All February, 1918 at 8 pm at the Offen of the response to the large body of foreign the flood prevailed is different in the style, nor various readings, nor early these thermal springs exist the earth persons to or from whom monies are due PuBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of medical opinion, which favours Fengchener prevail for 160 days, it is Eve parts, nor any other things of the like suiter during an earthquake such as we two versions. According to one version the disputes about the authors of particular crust is thinner and is more likely to are therefore requested to send in their HIS EXCELLENOX He Governor, of Ons Lot rather than Nankow as the location of a

of months after the beginning of the food kindle could overthrow the autho have experienced. In the present in elaicos or pay the mums due from them of CROWN LAND Causeway Bay quarantino station Another indication

Mike in the Colony of Houghong, for form of the Governments cartes is the der when Ark reet on Arare, more than two rity of the Scripture

stance, however, Swatow appears to ban 4. FINDLAY SMITH 75 years with the option of tenemeriting of two magistrates for allowing are visible, and two months mers before preconceived notion of the way that God and so must have been nearer to the months still pass before the mountain tops We must not come to the Bible with a suffered more than any other locality Proprietor,

CROWN BENT to be fixed by the Barreror

the pest to reach their districts: PRAK HOTELS of HIS MAJESTY the King, for ano farlier

is one way of dealing with unsympathetic the waters disappear. According to the will reveal Himself, but we must humbly centre of this monster upheaval, which berm of 75

officials, while those who smist are to be other versions, the rain Lanta forty days study how He has revealed Himself in took place probably in the sea, not far given decorations Plaque

The medical staff and nights, and 40 days after it has these aderent pages. When we speak of distant from Swatow PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Prevention ceased Noah sandy cut the raven and the the Inspiration of Holy Scripture We learn from the Chang Ngo San Fo working ander the CommanJESTO is further strengthened by dove, seven days later the dove is sent we are not using an exact sex that m official in Swatow has reported the addition of Dr Diller. President out a second time, and seven days later the expression, but are describ- of the Union Medical College, who has the ground is dry. In one version the ing the general character of these to the Defence Commisioner, Lan Chi placed his services at the disposal of the name God (Elohem) is always used, but writinga es being in some way of Divine uk that another earthquake shock was Government Accompanied by three in the other the Hebrew has always origin. Great mischief has undoubtedly experienced in Swatow on the 20th inah., Chinese assistants, he will procent 210 Jebovali, which is put into English by Leen done in the past by making claims but it was not so bag as the previous Fengchen to co-operate with Dr. Eb the word Lord printed in capitals, for the Bible that to be substantiat- Bhocks This will remove the difficulty crested by the second group of books which came rd. The effect of making claims which the Taal of confidence in Dr. Ho which to be recognised as having authority was are not correct is to alienate thoughtful we can know it. Let a man read the foreign legations have hitherto enter generally known by the Jews as The and honest men who are repelled by false carefully the 14th 15th, 16th and 17th ~~ Prophets " and consisted of the books of pretensions, especially when made in the chapters of St. John's Gospel and ask himself if there can be anything more Joshua, Judges, Samuel Kings, Isaiah, | supposed intercels of religion, The North Chins Flood Relief Associa Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve minor Waclaim for Bible that it contains convincingly Divine, or let him read the tion (Christian) has been gratified by the prophets. By the year 200 BC all these the Word of God to a degree unequalled simple story of St. Mark's Gospel and receipt of £10,000 From the Straits Settle books were regarded as inspired. The in any other book or in any other tak himself if the Evangelist must not wouts and Federated, Lalsy States Gov third group of books consists of the literature In doing so we may admit

have been Divinely guided to select those erament, and by large villa of grain from political books-Pralina, Proverbs, and with Luther regarding certain parts of stories which give us such a vivid pictură Danish missionaries, which the railways Job also the Song of Solomon, Ruth, the Bible, that the gold and the silver of the life of our Lold

transported d almost free of cost to Lamentations, Esther and Ecclesiastes, and precious stones are mingled with

Do not suppose that modern criticism the unhappy districts in Chihli,

Danid, Era, Nehemiah and Chronicles, wood, clay, said stubble. And we must and discovery have in any way-less These books, gradually secured a place always bear in mind that God's revela, the value of the Bible, On the contrary, amongst the writings which were regard tion given to us in the Bible is the truth and historia accuracy ed as sacred, but some of then-Esther gradual and progressive one the Old pages have been wonderfully, vindicated ading up to the final revela, by modern investigationa. Certainly Boute the Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes-Testament

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