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BIBLE CRITICS MISUNDER
STOOD THERE are, of course, thous
ands of fragments of the Bi
ble of parts of it of more or less
value. Among these are certain
'palimpsests," or manuscripts, which
later fell into the hands of those
who wanted the
parchment for oth
er purposes and
erased the Bible
text and wrote oth
er books instead.
Chemical processes
have been used to
restore the Bible
text, and in some
instances valuable
readings have been
discovered.
This recital of the
an
n way in which man-
usenpts have been
.ound brings us to the mention of
i class of men of whom the aver
ige layman knows very little, and
nost of that little is wrong. These
ire the Biblical critics. "Criticiz
ing the Bible!" What columns of
rhetoric have been printed, what
floods of oratory have been poured
jut by those who, could .not have
told, to save their souls, what a
Biblical critic is or does.
There are two kinds of Biblical
critics: the lower or textual critics,
and the higher . or literary critics.
The terms lower and higher do
not mean that one group claims or
is admitted to be more important
than the other, much less that
there is an assumption of arro
gance on the part of those that
are "higher," but that one kind of
study follows the other..
'LYING .... safe and cheap
An airplane flew low over Indian
.1 ouiitain, just west of my farm,
ast Sunday, and landed in Joe
pringstroop's cow-pasture. No, it
vasn't a crash. Nobody was hurt,
t was just a couple of boys ex
icrimenting with a home-made
lane, powered with a Ford en
gine. They hope to get a Govern
nent contract for cheap, safe
planet. ,
Two other young inventors have
ust brought out small "foolproof"
lanes, that can be sold for $700 or
,00. One of them made 110 miles
in hour in a test flight. Experts
;ay nobody could crash either of
hose planes if he tried.
Safe, cheap flying is almost here,
i think it promises to be as big
m industry as automobiles. Half
he adventurous boys I know are
;oing in for flying. When every
ne takes to the air, what changes
t will make in our ways of livim
nd thinking!
LEMONS and war
Next to lemon pie my family
ikes lemonade on hot Summer
venings. A two-quart pitcher of
emonade doesn't last us very long.
The other day my wife came home
"rom the store indignant. "I had
o pay fifty cents for a dozen lit
lie lemons!" she said. "Last week
hey were only 30 cents. Tom
Kallon says the wholesalers have
'xyosted the price to him nearly
louble."
I asked a friend in the citrus
ruit trade about it, next day.
"It's the war in Africa," he said.
"Italy has bought up all the Euro
pean lemon crops and is bidding
for California lemons. They need
'em for their soldiers, to keep them
from getting scurvy."
"War," aaid my wife, when I
told her that, "is what General
Sherman said it was. No more
lemon pie until Mussolini and the
Ethiopians get through fighting."
War anywhere certainly touches
everybody somewhere.
FARMERS . . . sans character
For a hundred years and more
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The lower critic is a man of
technical skill in the deciphering
of ancient texts and manuscripts
He has critical ability, that is, the
ability to judge critically, for criti
cism is nothing more or less than
the science of correct judgment.
To the average layman a manu
script i the fourteenth century
may seem as ancient as one of the
fourth. It may be more soiled and
show greater sign of age. But the
critic does not look simply at the
wear and stain. He is a judge of
parchments, of methods of tanning
skins, of kinds of ink, of styles of
making letters. He distinguishes
between "uncial" and "cursive"
Greek; between "pointed" and "un
pointed" Hebrew. These lower crit
ics are not widely known; they are
not highly paid. Their work is a
strain on the eyes and a tax Km
the mind, and they dread publicity.
So mainly they bleed within their
armor and are silent, but all the
time their patient work is clearing
up the obscurities in translation and
giving us a better knowledge of
the Bible.
The other group of searchers are
the literary or historical or higher
critics. Who wrote these sacred
books? Ezekiel claims to have
written his own, and Baruch is de
clared to have been Jeremiah's
scribe. We may infer that most
of the books of the prophets were
written by the men whose names
they bear. But all the rest of the
Old Testament is anonymous. Peo
ple have rushed in to declare that
certain books were written by cer
tain men. Most of their guesses
are guesses.
(Next week: Our Debt to Jerome)
Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co.
the old Hubbard farm, up near
Long Pond, has supported, educat
ed and made good citizens out of
generation after generation of
Hubbards. A few years ago old
Mr. Hubbard sold the place. .1
drove by the other day and saw
an auction sale going on. The new
owners were being "sold up" to
satisfy their creditors, and the
savings bank had foreclosed the
mortgage on the land.
"Guess they just ain't good farm
ers," said Mr. Hubbard, when I
stopped by his cottage down the
road to ask him how come. 1
dropped in at the bank. "No char
icter," was the banker's harsh
judgment. "Thought they could
make a living without working and
pend money before they earned it.
Do you know any real farmer
who'd like to get a good place
cheap? There's a bargain for a
man and wife with character and
a little capital. It's no plaae,
though, for movie-hounds, joyriders
or people that want short hours
and long vacations."
I have a notion that a lot of
the distress among farmers, that
we hear so much about comes
down to that.
"ARMS selling again
I get reports from the Middle
West of a revival of activity in
farm land sales. Good farms in
Nebraska have recently sold for
from $100 to $150 an acre. One
South Dakota farmer friend writes
me that he has been offered $150
an acre for his quarter section.
An Iowa farmer whom I know
tells me that he refused $60,000
cash for his 600 acres recently.
Those prices do not compare with
the speculative prices at which sim
ilar farm land changed hands in
the boom days. They probably rep
resent more .nearly the actual val
ue of the land, in terms of earn
ing capacity in the hands of com
petent farmers.
A great deal of the farm dis
tress has come from buying land
at fancy or speculative prices.
SPECULATION . is speculation
1 have never been able to see
much difference between specu
lating in land and speculating in
stocks. The man who bought Iowa
farm land for $500 an acre, as I
saw many buying it during the
War, paying a quarter down and
giving a mortgage for the balance,
was heading for trouble just as
surely as the city speculator who
bought Radio or any other stock
at the peak of the market, on a
20 per cent margin.
The speculative buyer of farm
land has one advantage. It takes
longer to foreclose the mortgage
on a farm than it does to close
out a stock-broker's customer, and
in the meantime there,. is" always
(he chance that a benevolent gov
ernment will come to the farmer's
aid. I have not heard of any
body offering to help the small
speculators who were caught in
the stock-market collapse, but there
has been some concern about the
losses of speculators in farm land.
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