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PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH, 1924:

THE BIBLE."

SERMONAT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

still with groat courage and ever-growing spiritual perception seeking for the truth, Here, for instance, was Abraham, a man deeply in earnest over his religion, about to ancrifice his you Isaac according to the religious enatom of his time, and as be taised his knife to kill and looked into the eyes of his son, he realised, being a close to God, that somehow this could not be the will of God. That to must love the young life, as he did, and wished it life rather than death. Here again, much later on, one found prophets like Isaiah and Miesh and Amos vigorously declaring that a man could not live as he liked, oppress "the poor, and commit all unrighteousness, and then think be roblų make it up with God by offering #aeri- fees- The blood of bulla and goats and the ashes of a heifer." A spiritual Go could not be squared with initeria! gitta. it was ridivulous to think of God like, that. So, gradually, one saw developing" in this wonderful Jewish literature, in a way it had not developed many other literature in the world, that deeply spiritual canception of the High and Joly One who inhabiteth Eternity.

The Rev. J. Northcott, C.F., preach ed at St. John's Cathedral yesterday morning, taking as his text Thy Word is a lantern unto my feet, and a light unto my paths." Psalm 10. Verse 103.

The preached said: When was a little Thoy, u

very little boy indeed. I was initiated with insite tenderness into the mysteries of that great book the Bible. We started with futures. On Sunday afternoons my mother used to take from its shelf a large rather dilapidated book, the leaves brown with age, and we younger children would gather round to look at the beautiful pictures. I imagine the pictures were beautifil although I cannot remember any very beautiful ones I remember one of King Solomen holding up a fat little baby in one hand and swinging a word in the other; there was another picture of a crowd of rough, who might have been Chinese brigands.

But there was much more in the Bible but who were supposed to represent than this. It was not just the story of Joseph's cthren, letting down the in-

man' groping through the darkness to- nocent-looking Joseph into the pit and there was a really rather dreadful picture wards some faint and stationary glow of of the thud, and one of the Crucifixon. light. It was the story of a responsive Perhaps these were naturally the sort of God watching man groping in the dark- pictures which would impress themselves ess, trying for Ilis part to come to him, touch man's hand in the darkness; on a boy's imagination. Of course, later on, 1 coubt read for myself, and although, but being Himself unable to come to man like most people, i never read the Bibles He wished, partly through mar's as often as I meant to, yet my whole natural ignorance, and partly through conception of the universe from the Crea-man's deliberate sin. But a through the tion, and Adam and Eve, to that Creates one saw God as a wise and loving Day when Christ. should appear on the Father dealing with his little sons: tench- clouds of Heaven, was taken from the ing them, little by little, line upon line, as they were able to understand teach Bible.

ing them by pictures, by stories and allegories, by gifts and by punishments. gradually leading them on. So when the fulness of time was comesnil we

en over "from the Old Testament to the New, we find ourselves face to face with a Personality of such shattering Truth, and Beauty and Love that even now, after nineteen hundred years of Chris tianity, men have hardly dared to try to understand what Jesus really meant.

When you are a little boy you neve really doubt that things are just what they are said to be, and although, like other little boys. I asked a great many questions, I never really doubted that the Bible was anything but God's Book the Book God had written. I had vague idea that it had been found by Moses on the mount, and no doubt in my imagination it was found printed and pubisheld in English, and "bound much

This is not the subject for one sennon, the satus as the family Bible at home,

But life is not all plain sailing, even but for a volume. All I want to do to-day for a little boy. When I left home and is to suggest to the average man who does aut read his Bible that the Bible is went out into the wicked world I met worth reading: that if only he will start other little boys, and these other little to read the Bible intelligently its fascinn- boys whispered these dreadful words in

tions will never tire him, and its lessoDA my ear: They said The Bible is

will bring him nearer to Eternal Truth Erite. I said What do you mean!" They said How can it be? It says in than any other book in the World. F the Bible Seab put two of every kind of with the man who says the Bible heast, al exery kind of bird into the Ark ought to be edited and published with In these bustling Well how could be! Think of cateching xplanatory notes. them, think of feeding them! Besides days question whether the Bible will that, they couldn't build ships in those "ver be read by the great mass of men days, and even in these days you couldn't anil this has been done. I am told that get a ship big enough to hold all that lost."

not

Glover and other scholars at home I said There may not have been have begun sape such work as this...

Everybody ought to know that the Bible many birds and things in those days. Anyhow God arranged it. cot Noah." is not just one. Book, with every page of But my young sceptics were not so easily equal value; but that it is in itself a satished. They sai What about regular library: that it contains dramatic Jonah & whale wouldn't swallow a man lyrics like the Book of Job; noems like without Liting bin: in any cake you the Songs Salomong historical and couldn't live inside our Then look at semi-historical narratiges like Kings and that story of the ass talking to Balaam Chronicles and quite aher of merely well, users don't 'talk." I said "I am legendary and allegorical turies which not so sure about that" But there was mast he accepted like the staries of King one question to which I had no ausser. Arthur and the Knights of the Round They said It says "in, the Bible that Table, which in spirit are inmortal bat And 1 Adam and Eve were the first two people historically quite unimportant. and they had two sous, Cain and Abel, am quite sure it would be a great satis and Cain married a wife. Who was faction to many Christians, and a surprise Cain's wife!

to many who are not, if they realised that, after all these years criticism, O great scholar of the present slay disputes historical trustworthiness of the the fundamental documents of the New Testament.

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I will not say these youthful discussions rubbed me of my faith, but I realise now yery much more than lid then that they did fill my mind with all kinds of doubts which I had not thought of be- fore. What it meant really was that the There is just one thing I would add in credibility of the Bible was at stake. f conclusion. There is a populu impres.. one thing was not trur. How did 1 know sion that in these days you can find out that anything was true! And if it was all alut Cod without bothering almuit not true, why had "God put it in His Hin one way or the other. That is not true. All that has ever been discovered You must reménther I thought a great about God has been discovered by men deal of these little Lays. They were my who have sought God very earnestly, with heroes, and my friends, and I thought love and with prayer, acknowledging their about them just wins everybody thinks own weaknesses, but striving to follow about the society in which they live faithfully where the Holy Spirit has ded There them. What the world needs more than thought they knew everything.

anything else is men and women who will was no subject, politics or sport, sex or

so sock and find God to-day; theology, which I did not discuss with them, and I would have sworn the wis. dom of what they said against a team of professors chosen from the whole world.

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Indeed, not know everything after ul. they hardly knew anything. But 1. minde La further discovery. I discovered that it was just because the little boys did not

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