The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-06-23

or Moses, the Prophets and the Palms.
This included the historic books, Joshua,
Judges. Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and 9TH
ers. They were all Prophets, and spako
and wrote not by the will of man, but as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2. The New Testament also was Civ
en- by inspiration of God. He who in times
past spake unto the. fathers by the Proph-
cts, in these last days spake unto us by
His Son. The beginning to speak of the
way of salvation was made by the Son, and
was confirmed unto US by them that heard
Him. God also bearing witness, both with
signs and wonders, and divers miracles,
gifts of the Holy Ghost, according te His
will. The Savior promised to send them
the Spirit, and that when He should
come, He would guide them into all truth,
for He should take Of the things of Christ
and show unto men. That He should bring
to their remembrance all things which He
had said unto them. Under the guidance
of this they wrote the life and teachings of
Christ. Under His inspiration they spoke.
Cor 2, 1918: Now we have received not
the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which
is of God. That we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God. Which
things also we speak, not in the words which
mems wisdom teacheth, but which the Ho-
ly Ghost teacheth. The christians of Thes-
salonica are called such as have received
the word of God. Now we know what was
the burden of the word which the Apostles
preached, and which the Christians every
where received, it was the testimony of Je-
sus and salvation by Him. This testimony
then which the Apostles gave, was the
word OF God. Paul claims to write to the
Corinthians by commandment Of the Lord,
and Peter ranks his writings with the other
Scriptures. He says, The word which by
the gospel was preached to the people o
Asia, was the word Of God, which livetf
and abideth forever. Thus we learn in the
Bible not the truth which mans wisdom aAt
will prompted him to write, but words o.
God given to man by His inspiration in al
respects as they are.
These are the claims of the Holy Scrip.
lures. Iproceed, then,
SECONDLY. To show that these claims
are established by other and sufficient ties.
timony.
I. The christian religion which is found
ed on the Bible is corroborated by history
You can trace back its existence and its
rites in cotemporaneous history to the time
of Christ, and that of the Jewish to the
time of Moses, and in the use of his books
to the beginning. This religion, then, is {
historic verify. 1t is not something tha
has come up lately; it has existed amid the
revolutions of earth, and the downfall of the
proudest empires, and is the only thing or
earth that has been gaining power from the
beginning. How account for its origin!-
Why, says one, it was introduced by priest
craft to enslave the human mind. Let us
see how easy 1t would have been TO inven
this book and palm it first upon the Jewist
people. We find among them festiva
called the Passover, which has been cele
brated by the Jewish people from the earli
est years to this day, 1t is related that the
chosen seed were bondmen in Egypt; thai
God called them to 60 out, and Pharaoh re.
fused to let them go; and God plagued the
Egyptians, and slew their first born, but spar.
ed them, and that this festival was in com.
memoration of the event. Connected with
this is the statement that God brought them
through the Red Sea, as upon tdry land, led
them through the wilderness, gave them the
law at Sinai, and talked with Moses face to
face. Now here is a history connected
with that festival which we in common with
Israel, take to be true. Upon the supposi
ton that it is not true, it belongs to the OBJ.
jector to show when, and under what circurn.
stances the people of Israel were persuaded
of its truth. OF the bondage in Egypt we
have monuments which have been hid 70,
ages among the ruins in that country, nnt
dug up in that country within the last fifty
years. Could Moses have persuaded tina,
generation that these things occurred 'ir
their histry, when every man among them
knew it was not true. The thing is absurd
But it may be supposed that Moses wrote the
account and committed it TO the Priesthood
which was in his own family, his brother be-
ing the first High Priest, or that some Of
the Priests wtote it and palmed it upon the
people in subsequent age. He must con.
vince them that they and their fathers had
always observed this festival, when they hac
done no such thing. Nor was there any
time when it could have been put upon the
people by any craft of the Priesthood.
If we come now to the christian dispen
sation, we find two similar festivities com.
memorative of historical events. The
Lords Supper, which commentaries the
death of Christ. The Christian Sabbath,
as distinct from the Jewish, which commem-
crates the resurrection of Christ The mer
who were chosen witnesses suffered the
loss of all and death itself, in witness of the
truth. How can you account for this con
duct, except on the supposition OF the histo
ric truth of the events they relate. The