Article March 23, 1907 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Edward Everett Hale

[Rev. Edward Everett Hale in The Christian Register.]

Say what you choose and think what you choose of the verbal inspiration, of plenary inspiration, of universal inspiration; separate the history of one book from another as carefully as you please, the certainty professed by all men is that in the Old Testament we have an unending variety of the religious thoughts or hopes or guesses, really of thousands of people. In the New Testament we have even more, we have the book on which the practical ethics and social conditions of the twentieth century have been forming themselves, or pretending to form themselves, as nineteen centuries have gone by. While the minister is reading the Bible, he is, or he may be, bringing the hundreds of people before him into the closest possible relations with hundreds of men whose statements about God and man have gone far in creating the daily life in which we all live.

[The Universalist Leader.]

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