Article May 25, 1907 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Robert W. Vankirk, S. G. Barnes, Frederick E. Dewhurst

[Robert W. Vankirk in The Standard.]

The Old Testament is the record of the religious experience of the best men among the Hebrew people. Their communion with God, their aspirations after holiness, their dreams and visions, their ecstasies and raptures, were all manifestations of the divine life in their souls finding outward expression. ... The New Testament marks an advance upon the revelation of the Old, because it furnished the record of this higher revelation. In the Gospels we have the story of Jesus' earthly life, his doings and teachings, through which he revealed the mind and heart of God. ...

In the Acts and Epistles we have the record of the religious experience of the earliest disciples of Jesus—those to whom Jesus had become "the way, the truth, and the life" in their search for God. If we seek to formulate from writings writings an external revelation or law, which is to be forever regulative and binding upon Christian life, we shall misconceive their aim and misdirect their message; but, on the other hand, if we shall see in them the records of an exalted religious experience which we are to seek to reproduce and even surpass in our own souls, and if we shall find in them an inspiration which gives a clearer view of God and a closer fellowship with Him, then indeed will they prove themselves to be a vertiable revelatin from God. [Rev. S. G. Barnes in the Hartford (Conn.) Seminary Record.]

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