Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — The Purpose of Inspiration. [ARTICLE]

The Purpose of Inspiration.

Rev. J. E. Lindholni In Sunday Afternoon for Ang. What is the end and purpose of inspiration? To make great truth known to men that shall profit them for discipline, for instruction in all the provinces of life. “There is a spirit In man and the inspiration of the almighty ' giveth it understanding.” What kind of understanding does inspiration give j according to Scripture? Every kind > treedful for human progress. If theologians, poets, artists, scholars, philosophers, inventors are to day sometimes and justly spoken of as inspired, even sp did inspiration make Bezaleel and Aholiab skillful architects; “the spirit mightily moved” Othniel, Gideon, Jephtha, Samson, and made, them as he made Washington, valorous generals. The matter of inspiration is great, edifying and saving truth. “Hear O Is real, the Lord our God to one Lord.” “God is not a man that he should lie.” “We are also God’s offspring.” “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have nut charity, I am become sounding brass, or a sounding cymbal.” “We know in part.” “Honor all men.” “Do good unto all men.” “The Lord loveth righteousness, His countenance will behold the thing that is just.” “His eye to purer than to behold iniquity.” But ou this evident point we will not dwell. As we consign some writing to the waste basket and flame because it does not contain truth, but platitude and twaddle, so did the maturing judgment of the church deal with the writings of her children. What was tame and destitute of force, or prolix and wearisome, as was the epistle of the Apostle Barnabas, was in time rejected and left to molder.