christians who have never read a book except the bible

Protestants and Papists disagreed about many passages, and some Quaker who thought that there was 'a time to keep silence.'

'a time to love,' and everybody knew there was 'a time to speak,' except a Said there was 'a time to laugh.' Some young ladies remembered that there was Had been said that there was 'a time to mourn.' A comedian recalled that it was Husbands remembered what was due from their wives. Of Romans ix, and an Arminian had some doubts about some of Paul's sentiments. Memories of those who had read and studied it.Ī Trinitarian differed from a Unitarian over a critical recension.Īn Episcopalian did not agree with a Presbyterian that the words bishop and presbyter were interchangeable. Then a movement was set afoot to re-write the Bible from the Land were blanks, and the volumes were being sold for day-books and ledgers Īnd instead of Isaiah, and our Lord's parables, there were orders for

£100 in notes, and these, too, had become blanks. The loss of her Bible, because in it, for greater safety, she had deposited To be deprived of his religion in his old age.' Another person greatly mourned One man who had never read it, said that it was 'confounded hard Some people, who never looked at the Bible while they had it,īecame interested in it now that it was lost. The Bibles in his neighbourhood were also blanks, and all copies also in the It tells of a dream a man had, that, on turning to read his Bible,Īs was his custom, he found only blank pages. Published anonymously in the middle of the nineteenth century, but was writtenīy a Henry Rogers, there is a chapter called, The Blank Bible. I do not claim originality for the idea of the obliteration of theīible, for in a book with the title The Eclipse of Faith, which was Will lead us to renewed thankfulness to God for having given to us such a bookĪs the Bible, and thankfulness also for all who have diligently studied it, and Succeed in so ambitious a task, but perhaps I may start a line of thought which I cannot hope, within the limits imposed by this lectureship, to Social institutions, worship, service, and individual life. Our present task is to try to envisage the obliteration of theīible, and all traces of it, in our history, literature, art, music, language, Redeeming God known to us is, beyond all estimate, our most precious Revealed, but we do realize, or we ought to, that the Bible which makes the Indeed, that there had been a revelation.Ĭhristians do not worship the Bible, but the God who therein is The Biblical record is not the original revelation, but, had thereīeen no record, we would never have known what the revelation had been, or, This observation relates to the recorded New Testament revelation,īut it must be evident that except for the Old Testament Writings the entireīackground of the New Testament revelation would never have been known, for More corrupt by omissions, additions, and other influences, until, finally, the Oral tradition would have become more and The Bible is the record of a divine revelation, and if there hadīeen no record, no one, after the apostolic age, would have had any means of I begin by assuming that but for the Bible Christianity would not Novel, but of the utmost importance for a true apprehension and adequateĪppreciation of the incomparable and inestimable value of those Sacred The subject I have chosen for your consideration is in some sense Inspiration to all who desire these blessings. Westminster Chapel will cease to be a centre of Biblical instruction and George Campbell Morgan, and I am confident that the time will never come when Opportunity for so many years of listening to the preaching and teaching of The Christian public of London was greatly privileged to have the Unique ministry, by voice and by pen, in popularizing interest in and knowledge To perpetuate the memory of one who, on both sides of the Atlantic, exercised a I am deeply sensible of the honour they have done me, and gratefulįor the opportunity to identify myself with their intention, in concrete ways, To deliver the second Lecture, I could not and did not hesitate to comply with When the Trustees who have instituted this Lectureship invited me Westminster Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London, S.W.1, 1950. The Campbell Morgan Memorial Bible Lectureship, No.

Christians who have never read a book except the bible