# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1897_S178
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

178 Einige Aphorismen

6. „Hd²ν dreH yhμ³ενσ εrτπρμeν. Wir reden nichts ohne die Schrift.

7. „Es streitet mit der Natur der christlichen Theologie, wenn man
sogar reine Glaubensartikel a posteèriori aus der Vernunft erweisen, ja,
auf dem Wege philosophischer Speculation nun gefunden haben, also selbst
à priori erweisen will.“ (Walther.)

8. „Magnae prudentiae est, aurum in luto legere.“ Es gehört
eine große Vorsicht dazu, aus dem Schmutz das Gold herauszulesen. (Hie⸗
ronymus.)

Bemerkung. Walther sagt: „Das lassen wir uns auch in Absicht
auf die neuere theologische Literatur gesagt sein.“ — Man lese nur die Ex⸗
pectorationen eines Abbott in seinem Outlook'', und frage sich: Was ist
„lutum, was ist „aurum““? „Neither the author of Genesis nor
anyone in the Bible for him, claims that his account of the creation
was révealed to him. There is no reason to think that it was so re-
vealed. unless a purely traditional theology constitutes such reason.
Even if we suppose that Genesis was written by Moses, three or four
hundred years elapsed between the latest incident in Genesis and the
time of Moses. Moreover, Assyrian tablets have been discovered
which were in existence a thousand years before the time of Moses,
and which contain analogous accounts of the Creation, the Fall, and
the Deluge. For these reasons the modern Biblical scholar, who be⸗
lieves in what is called progressive revelation, regards the Book of
Genesis as a colleetion of prehistoric traditions rewritten.... In a
sensé it is true, scientifically, that God has made man out of the dust
of the earth, — that is, out of lower and earlier forms, reaching back
through various transformations even to the inorganic, etc., ete.““
Wo ist hier das „Gold“? Selbst weltliche Zeitungen lassen sich über Ab⸗
bott, Dixon u. a. so aus: »Dixon, the theological ass, the holy hulla-
balooist of New Vork city, has taken to braying again. This time
he announces from the pulpit that men have renounced religion;

the ministry is in its decadence.“ He added that in that city only
35,000 men go into Protestant churches. He may be right, but if he
is it is because there are too many Dixons in the pulpit preaching
politics, preaching bicycles, preaching anything but the old faith of
the fathers. It is little wonder that men and women, tired of the
unreligion of the pulpit, take their bicycles on Sunday and wheel off
to E. country.“ (CViegο Tribune.)
9. „Viele vornicänische Väter irrten erst dann, wenn sie sich auf das

Feld der Speculation außer der Schrift wagten.“ (Walther.)

Bemerkung. Wie wahr, was Walther schreibt! Der Goliath der
Evolutionisten unsers Landes, Abbott, schreibt: „Evolution is deseribed
by John Fiske as God's way of doing things.“ Theology is also an
attempt to deseribe God's way of doing things. Thus to a certain