The Bible “Orthodox.” by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 30, 1882

The Bible “Orthodox.”

By Editor

THE Rev. George Ellis, at a recent meeting of the Unitarian Club of Boston gives his opinion concerning the Bible as follows:—

“Fifty years of study, thought, and reading given largely to the Bible and to the literature which peculiarly relates to it have brought me to this conclusion—that the book, taken with the especial divine quality and character claimed for it and so extensively assigned to it, as inspired and infallible as a whole and in all its contents, is an orthodox book. It yields what is called the Orthodox creed. The vast majority of its readers, following its letter, its obvious sense, its natural meaning, and yielding to the impression which some of its emphatic texts make upon them, find in it orthodoxy. Only that kind of ingenious, special, discriminative, and, in candor, I must add, forced treatment which it receives from us liberals, can make the book teach anything but orthodoxy. The evangelical sects, so called, are clearly right in maintaining that their view of Scripture and of its doctrines draws a deep and wide division of creed between them and ourselves.”

Mr. Ellis has our sincere thanks for announcing that the Bible is orthodox. Some people would have tried to conceal their discovery. And it has taken him only fifty years to find it out. Well, the world does move.