CHRIST AS A HUMANE TEACHER 7 1 



makes the following appropriate statement: "When 

 we say that God is the Author of the Bible, and 

 that it carries with it a divine authority because it 

 is the Word of God, we do not mean that God is 

 the Author of every saying in it, and that every 

 statement recorded in it is God's mind. Nor when 

 we say that God directed the prophets what to 

 write, and how to write it, do we mean that He 

 also so guided every piece of their behavior, as 

 that they never went wrong." 



The clergyman of one church will contend that 

 the Lord commands him to say and do a certain 

 thing, "while the clergyman of another church will 

 contend that the Lord commands him to say and 

 do something entirely different. 



The fact that a thing is done in the name of the 

 Deity does not make it right if it is not the ex- 

 pressed will of God. We see this illustrated when 

 a Hindoo mother makes a living sacrifice of her 

 infant by throwing it under the wheels of the 

 Juggernaut to be crushed to death in order to ap- 

 pease the supposed wrath of her god ; or when the 

 Indians, not a century ago, offered their annual 

 living sacrifice to the Great Father by sending one 

 of their tribe over Niagara Falls in a canoe. The 



