Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 1885 Page: 7 of 8
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whom he would have cuJ»ed. I know’
of no reason why his inspiration was
different from that "of the righteous
prophets. They were moved upon—
were as John the harbinger, the “voice
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voice and to understand the open the eyes of benighted men by
“wisdom1* and “words” which the Holy
Spirit taught.
VI.—IN&PIRJ&n UTTERANOflfi FRE-
QUENTLY NOT COMPREHENf|iP> »Y
THOSE WHO UTTERED THEM., t
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1. Peter i. 10: “Of which salvation
Pint. Any real or fancied difficulty
in tire way of the complete and perfect
inspiration of the men who wrote the
Bible is overbalanced by the
fact that no doctrine can be taught ex-
cept through the medium of language,
e, the Same language
and that, therefore,
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the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied ot the grace
that should come unto you; searching
what or what maimer of time the Spirit
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the ears of mortals, while they were in
“deep sleep.” The closing of the ave-
nues of thought earthward, does not
shut the windows through which the
beams of eel€p^a| truth illuminate the
mind. God, who made the ear, and
who is the Father of our spirits, can
adjust his communications to the ave-
fnies of earthly sound, or touch with a
subtler energy the imprisoned spirit
yfoft £he music of his voice.
3 Of trances, the most noted, perhaps, mat not nnto tnemseives, mu unit
is tl^at of Peter upon the housetop ( ct^ j ^ minister the things, which
x). In this he saw heaven opened, and *
heard the v<>ice of God declaring, “What
0od has cleansed, that call thou not
• common.” The trance differs from sleep
in this, that the “eyes being opened.” or
the individual being in a waking condi-
tion. he is yet capable of seeing and
hearing that which can not be seen or
In fojrce and clearness df meaning was
essential to wnrey the te*
. teacMng oMJod
the inspired ones that
ry to convey it from
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them to oth-
follow. Unto whom it was revealed,
that not nnto themselves, but unto us
are
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now reported unto you by them that
have preached the gospel unto you with
the Holy Spirit sent down from heav-
en.”
Here is apostolic authority for the
statement, that, in some instances, at
least the. prophets did not fully under-
ling with Adam and not ceasing
If Awake and in dreams, in their own
language and in tongues they dicSnot
understand, through good men and
had, in words^s sweet as hone y to i.lieir
mouths, and again in. 'dark ^.tyiags
which they did not understand, in Jew-
ish and in Christian times, G 1 lias
spoken to men through the prophets
and by his Son:
Then all law was oracularly giv - n.
all gospel breathed by the Holy Spirit,
all religion written by the fing^ik of
God, as surely as tha taMos bfc 'Mount
* Sinai!
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Any other view of this matter i cal-
Ethatffijtfr which comes
w«dof <fcd
of Chri8t wliieh was in them did signify, the final visit < >f the ^
when it testified before hand the suffer as recorded in tha^A^Sisalypse. esfcab-
ings of Uhrisfc and the glory that should lislies the possibtiiijpfof • plenary inspi-
cmm™. TT*i*ri wKnm vorooiai ration, for that which is certain in mapy
cases may he fairly presumed in every
case, or, since God lias given so many
examples of a word-for-word revelation
to man, is it not highly probable in
v - ^ . . stand their own utterances. The impos
heard by the uninspired. W kicli again # ft fifty of a man being, by his own se
.si.
can be explained only upon the Hypo-
thesis of a dual nature for man, as giv-
en above, in which there is conscious-
ness to Godward regardless of the con-
ditions necessary to a communication
through the ordinary fleshly ave-i
nues.
V.—FALSE PROPHETS.
There are also a few instances in
which wicked, if not unbelieving men,
havejtepoken contrary to their own will,
and certainly without being morally
benefited thereby.
- The most remarkable of this class is
Uaalam, whose unenviable reputation;
u a synonym for evil down to Xew Tes-1
tamcnt times. Ilis prophecies were true
hovever. The false prophet saw the stmmellp
Star rise out of Jacob, and the Shiloh1
come, to whom the gathering of the peo-
ple should be ! Xo truer or sublimer
utterances can be found than those con-
by hearing the
into con-
lection t)f words, the author of a docu-
ment which he does not understand,
and vet which is true and full of divine
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meaning, is self-evident. No infallible
accuracy could be expected of one who
•I was not fully clear in his own mind, if
left to himself, of the force of his own
words and the doctrine intended to be
expressed by them. And as, the proph-
ets themselves did not have this clear-
ness of vision, it follows that, in order
to this certainty of diction, the Holy
Spirit must have guided their pens, or
riven fo them tlieir words. The writers
were intellectually moved upon by the
Spirit's superior intelligence, as a skill-
full musician touches the keys of an in-
VII.—SUE A KINO WITH TONGUES.
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1 Cor. x.; Acts x. 46: When the
Gentiles, at the house of Cornelius.
all?
Third. Since, in every case where
the mod ns operandi is given, the reve-
lation from God was in words, is not the
presumption against him who assumes,
without a single fact in the di vine record
to-support him, that a partial inspira-
tion only lies back of the sacred vol-
ume i
Fourth. If God held conversations
with his inspired ones as well when
they were asleep as if they were awake,
is it not certain that the ordinary will
and volition of man did not, in any
sense, control it ? And as these reve-
lations are as clearly given as any oth-
ers are. does it not follow that the in-
tereoiumunication between God and
iiian was actual, and not in any
es God 1wid hears His voice 1-l the
Book, which trembles at his word.
Away with the cringing spirit that
half-way apologizes in the presence of
infidelitv. An emasculated Christianity
will never convert the world. A r*»spel
frittered away till it stands on the plat-
form with Spencer and Haecklo- is an
odious stench in the nostrils of ak good
men and .an abomination in the sight of
God!— IF. B. F. Treat uiR&eFr .
It is pleasant to feel impelled 1 • con-
tinue one's work by the growhc rawilo-
tion of its importance and vrirte; more
happy still to be constrained to goon
by dear love of the service itself: but.
best of all to be so blessedly certain of
the Lord's will and help in the matter
that one dare not give up.
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the clothing of an impression from God
tail etl iu the prophecies of Baalam. In spoke with tongues (dialects or Ian
, , »nn<Mic!\ elioit Vint rn-noated tlit» mirnoTl
this, as in some other cases, the epithet
“false** is applied to the character of lolls phenomena that had .
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the man. not to Ms revelations.
Baalam desired to curse Israel, but
was compelled to bless. His answer to
the offended king of Moab (Num. xxiv.
13), “If Balak would give me his house
full of Silver and gold, I can not go be-
yond the commandment of the Lord, to
do either good or bad of my own mind;
but what the Lord saith, that will 1
speak,** is evidence of this. And in fur-
ther description he said, “The man
whose eyes are open hath said, he hath
said, who heard the word* of the Lord,
and knew the knowledge of the Most
High, who was the vision of the Almigh-
ty, falling into a trance, but having his
eyes open.*’ 1
Here is one unquestionable case of
overruling inspiration. The prophet was
compelled to speak, against his own de-
sire. the “words Which the Lord put in-
to his mouth.” Contrary to his own will,
and consequently not of his own choice
or volition, he blessed whom he would
have cursed. I know of no reason why
his inspiration was different from that
of the righteous prophets. They were
moved upon—were as John the harbin-
ger, the “voice of God.” separated as
was Paul, to open the eyes of benighted
men by “wisdom” and “words’H which
the Lord put into his mouth.*’ Contrary
to man by the aid of human imagina
tion ?
Fifth. If false prophets were over-
ruled and compelled to speak contrary
to*their own will, is it not certain that
inspired men were absolutely
trolled i And is nut tliis® elimination
K.f vhu banian ekme|nt in the r<>mpo-
.sltiun of
the Bible, or uf human ivspon-
, , *? , -| • -sibilitv for - he dress and eons! ruction
guages), they but repeated the miracu-e Aimuiy iu _
been -iven to
the Jews rtn the day of. reiirecost. The
ability of a man to speak with langua-
ges which lie does not understand pre-
cludes the possibility of selecting his
own words. Speaking in dialects was
the only greater work performed on the
day of Pentecost than Christ had already
done. Enabling a man to express his
thoughts, or to express himself at all, in
a language that lie did nert understand,
was the most extraordinary of miracles
and an infallible demonstration of the
Spirit’s guidance, involving as it did
the selection of words where the knowl-
edge of man conld not have been
used.
So certainly as that men spoke with
tongues, so surely did God give them
the thought and the word to express
that thought. Nor is there any intima-
tion that the apostles were, at that time,
more completely guided by the Spirit
than they were at any other time during
their ministry, when they spoke or
wrote by inspiration. For, so far as in-
spiration is concerned, does it differ
from that of the prophets, of whom it is
said, “They spake as the Holy Ghost
gave them utterance.” The only differ
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Sixth. Can the fact that the proph-
ets did not comprehend some of their
own utferances be harmonized with
the theory that they furnished the lan-
guage of the communication ( On the
contrary, is not this^. a demonstration
■that God gave them a word for word
copy of Ids will, regardless of their own
will or judgment in the matter ?
Seventh. The impossibility of men
furnishing words in tonyues wlneh
they did not understand absolutely re-
quires, in all such case, plenary inspi-
ration. And if plenary inspiration is
thus established, as a necessity, in so
many cases, who can successfully call
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it in question in any case ? If it be said,
some portions of the record are trivial
and did not nead inspiration, I answei,
nothing is trivial. A man may as well
object to the creation of a grain of sand,
because it does not compare with the
Pleiades or the bands of Orion in
grandeur and beauty.
Eighth. It will be observed that the
imperfections of translations, the slight
discrepancies of various readings in the
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 1885, newspaper, April 29, 1885; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth914028/m1/7/?q=corinth: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.