"THE ONLY BOOK."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 2 June 1913, Page 2

"THE ONLY BOOK."

JUDGE COOPER ON THE BIBLE.

(By TeleEmßh.-BMOlal OorrwDonaent.) Auckland, June 1. A vigorous address on the value of the Bible *as delivered at the Auckland Y.iI.C.A. by Judge Cooper to-day. In the course of his remarks, his Hon our said: "There is a pestilentinl literature in circulation nowadays which aims at destroying all that is good in tho family, and all that is good in man. It is cheap, and its effect, is to kill fa,th God, in man, and in morality. specious arguments of this cl.ass of I:iterature look, to the uneducated, like true X of kating a fact but a stujy of tho Biblo is enough to show that tho conclusions which they reach are w X mn not spcflking -of thut higher cl«s of critica l its ■ greatness. I believo that fair criticism is not by any means to be disC °"i a noti'ce that thero has, of late years, been a relaxation in the ings of the PM?1«" his Hoi our when drawing to a close. it essential that, if we are to keep ourselves m the forefront as a nation, we must hold fn the Bible. We must believe that it is relWon that exalts a nation, and wo must endeavour to see that the people are P™P e ]' lv educated concerning tlio BlWe. and lm>o a pi4per knowledge of its history a d added.' was f 0 again emphasised the fact that, if young men wished to improve their SB issyrw ' h " that every great movement for tho uplifting of men owed its inception.