Psalm XC: A Sermon Preached in Union Church on October 18 by Dr. John Darroch The authority of many of the psalms in the psalter io unknown or disputed, "About this one there is practical unanimity; it is agreed by almost all commentators that it was written by "Moses the man of God" as the traditional note at the head of the psalm in our Bible If this be so it is the oldest psalm in the book and is as old as the book of Genesis itealf. The world has very few records that will compare, in point of antiquity, we have read this, morning. Since Darwin published his book on "The Origin of Species" and the evolutionary theory, was munched, the thinking of learned man has been dominated by the Views expressed in that book. Mankind,, according to this theory, pagan low down in the scale of intelligence and gradually, through untold ages, struggled upwards to reason and light. Seiontists expect the earliest writings of any nation to be rude and lacking in culture. T can remember commentaries in which the question was discussed whether Moses could possibly have written the books attributed to him Because it was doubtful whether the art of writing was invented at the time in which he lived. We have travelled far since those days and everyone knows that writing was almost as common in the days of the Pharaohs as in our own time when every schoolboy curries a fountain pen and an eversharp Pencil in his vest pocket.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.