Opinions were freely expressed, discussion arose, and arguments were not wanting to sustain the doubts that had arisen as to the genuineness, the truth, of the God they had adopted. Neighboring nations had their gods. How was it, if their gods were not more potent, that they should win so many battles, and enslave the nation of the true God? The same or similar arguments that Abraham brought to bear on the Chaldean gods were now beginning to be used against Jehova. David, besides being an excellent soldier, a brave general, was a dreamer, a man of imagination. God was to him a sublime vision, a reflected glory of the past. To him, an intense admirer of the beautiful, trees, hills, and valleys, and the phenomena of nature in general, were the wonders of his imaginary God. He was a musician, a poet, a dreamer, in his moments of leisure. Everything he beheld courted, kindled his admiration, awoke new feeling in his sensitive nature, from a pretty flower to a beautiful woman. The conversations which he holds with his visionary God are the simplest and most confidential. He pours out his grievances and his delight to him. "Thou hast put gladness in my heart.... I will both lay me down in peace and sleep" (Ps. iv, 8, 9). That Christian translators of the Bible presume to interpret certain passages and words to mean, to foretell, things or events that occurred one thousand years later, is an assumption, and warrantable neither by the text nor by the actions of the persons writing them. David is supposed to have written the Psalms. When he speaks he refers mainly to himself, addresses himself personally to his Lord. He, David, is himself interested. Then again he speaks of man and things in general, without ever alluding to any one thing or body in the coming future. David's Psalm ii is headed "The Kingdom of Christ." The writer had no more idea of Christ than he had of Peter the Great at the time that that Psalm was written. David wrote one hundred and fifty Psalms as printed in the Bible. In the headings, the superscriptions, the solicitude of Christian believers, trying to torture meanings and significations out of sentences or expressions, led them to commit gross errors, as false as they are ridiculous. Judge for yourself: Psalm ii, 1--The Kingdom of Christ. "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?" Verse 10: "Be wise, now therefore, O ye kings; be instructed ye judges of the earth." Psalm xlv, 1--The majesty and Grace of Christ's Kingdom. "My heart is inditing a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made touching the king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer." Verse 10--The Duty of the Church, etc. "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house." Psalm xlvi, 1--Confidence Which the Church, etc. "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."