What if Moses did not write the Pentateuch? What if it were
written by another man named Moses? When a child is hungry, it
is not interested in a dispute whether John Smith or James Smith
planted the apple-tree. What it wants is the apple, because it
is hungry. The patient has suffered a grievous accident, and the
surgeon must operate. In that hour ether must be used, or the
heart will not survive the agony. In such a critical moment, who
cares whether Dr. Morton or Dr. Simpson discovered the saving
remedy? It is ease from pain that the feeble heart demands. Your
friend is in trouble in Europe, and you must send him a cable of
relief. The English people claim that two Englishmen laid the
Atlantic cable, and that Cyrus Field was only their American
agent, occupying a very subordinate place, while Americans
say that Mr. Field was the father of the Atlantic cable. When
an emergency comes, and the child is in trouble in a foreign
land, the father does not care to dispute over the precedency
of inventors. What he wants to do is to send a message under
the sea. Don’t dispute over the Bible, therefore, but use the
Bible. He who analyzes a flower must lose the sweet rose. When a
pilgrim is crossing the desert, one handful of wheat for hunger
is worth a bushel of diamonds. Remember the use and purpose for
which the Bible was written. It is a guide to right living, it
shows the path to God’s throne.--N. D. HILLIS.
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