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How the Bible was Made,

"F now tne BLDG was Mad0,
- Rev. Dr., Negtop. in his new book entitled
HBible Wonders" Z tells thus of the way the
Bible was niadenodt diiw ydt5gla,. ~ tu II
,,Itis wonderG'' how Dong time it took to
make a. Bible. Whsho men make books 1t
doestnpt generally take them very long some
times il does, "Dt:, Allibone has been engag,
ed for sixteon years an bis great work, 10 two
large volumes. called the Dictionary of Au-
''stRors." A 'Englishs rTrit writer, named Gib6on,
T;s E;sa '"SGi} sSs bssE,i sag q hss Ths
Adam CIarkespcnt ltwenty3six years ito twri.
ting his commentary; Bancroft thirty five
years on his history, and Noah Webster thir.
ty.six years on his dictionary. -H''a' o7' ""
- BqtIwhqt are tlrese tpithe, time that, DC.
cupicd in making the Bible? we read that
God was cnkaged sixi ddy ys in i6,hk,ng the
world ,But.in makipg the, Bible he, was en-,
gagged 6ftcen hundred years Yes from the
time Moses wrote Gcnesis, the fra; book il \
the Bible,f till st John wrote the Revelations \
the last bh'k in the Bible, all these long years
fad passed away. That was wonderful.
land then it is slwoudcrful how many men
were employed to write the Bible. There
we're, Moses, and Samuel, aud David, and
Ezra. and 1siah, and all the prophets in the
Old Testament, And in the New Testament,
Matthew, and Mark, aud Luke. and John,
MD Paul and Peter, and others. There
~efe more than thirty persons altogether EN-
ployed in this work. Aud it issnot only the
pubber of writers, bit the grcat difference
of oftTss ,ns t S j. lIS SG@e p
ter, Some Of them we're kings, as David and
Solomon Some were princes, las DanielA
Some we're ,shepherdsy land some were farmers,
and some tent-makersJ And yet they all
agree in what they write How wonderful
this is 1! How can we explain it? There is one,
thing about the Bible that explains it, 1t
is this God didaflithe thinking in the Bi.
ble. Il The thoughts ip, the Bible are oil Gods
thoughts. Those thirty men only did the
writing They wrote down just what God
sold them. This is thereason they agree. u
We know that this is so. not only because.
nobody could have found out the things 10
the Billie unless God had told about them.
hut because the Bible tells us that it was
mad' in This way. SsEbns St. Paul says. Gan
scripture ,s given bysinspiration Of Cod" G
Tim iii 6)--And&whasisin liz inspiration II
means to breathe into,l Suppose, when you
30 home from school to morrow, your mother
should say Come here, Johnny, want to
tell YOU asccrct," You 90 up to her. She
] puts her, lips'clpse up to your ear, and whis
pors, johnny, father says if you are good
my, Till yonr next birth day, he'll buy you
beautiful watch" Now. while your mother
is Whispering these words to ynu She's breath
| inc into yonr ear isn't she? Well that is
inspiration, She is, inspiring you with the
Thought of that beautiful watch. In this way
(f" inspired the men who wrote the Bible
Gnd breathcd into their minds, or whispered
into their ears what they we're to write. St.
Peter tells us that, "they spake as they were
Mosea Sy S$sns 'Ss 1d Thay gss sad 3 and
wrote Just what the Holy Ghost told them.
The time it took to make, the Bblcis won
derfu'. So the many men who helped to
make it is wonderful. And it is wonderful,
too, how ,,aqy different parts, or pieces, it il
mpdoioH III Ithb Dlai Testaaeht! there brs
thirty nine different books In the New Tes-
tamept there areNtwenty seven, Thirty-nine
and twenty seven make how many? Sixty,
six. The Bihlosis q, bnok Of ,sixtysix differ
cnt tracts, all bohnd Up together. And yet
they are not thrown together helter.skeltsr,
without any order. No; but they fit into
each other exactly. They have a beginning.
n middle. and an end. The Bible is like a
beautiful piece Of ,noshic york. Did you ev.
er see piece of this work Z 1t doesn't mean
work dohe BY Moses The word ''mosaic,"'
comes FROM a Greek word, which meane ele.
CANT, or polished work. "a mosaic work is a
figure, picture" If tshnhething made, not by
using paints or different colors, but by put.
ting ttogethheria great many, little pieces of
st9ne, [oy, gpss, pft saifEsrspt colors'i Thsae
works, are oyerY ouriq,,sn and, look very beaIti
fuL The different colored piecos4of stone, or
! gnss, all unite together and makes the pic.
,ure. Aud Just in the same way the differ.
ets books, ,or pieces;rout of which, ,the. Bible
istn'adefaliunite together make one beauti.
i ful'pjGpYrg of Jesus and His' salvation '
i The, first wwSlInderSbo&t Tho Bibleisth way
in which It was nndc. Remember, under
this wonder thrco words: the time, tue men
SnS,P' P'eeesdmra 'sIG4mnq bslNnH p "sfa
| 1s5ai y IsgDil. ,Ht-r>--t ~ ssiHas GI!H Ais
,aHENRY eWARD BEEoHER has delivered
himself ola stirring protest against tho neg.
leot ofsthaC Confsdeatepdead at Gettsburg by
the,sovsra'nsat 'hd Northern people lie
went over.the battle field recently, and was
slookedas tho exposed rs,n,ihs AID robbery Of
the shallow gravospand trenchas in'whtoh tho
poor Southern slain were not dcoently buriod,
and Wise proper reiator,nant hasaeyor been
cared for since, while with the IIaiop dosl
Y the,contrasyl been tho oase. Helrofors d
4 thb fsbt that awS eaisbnrden the, gbbet ten;
deEly AMI. give isepu,ture 70 .murderers,' and