Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-03-05
The Bible Proving Itself.


One of the most convincing proofs of
tho divine origin Of the Scriptures is
found in the perfect unity of its various
writer's, living in centuries, and whiting
under circumstances and influences very
unlike A recent English work, by Josiah
Baten,an. has passage on this poiut.y or
4, Its various books bear testimony 70
one another. They bespeak tho same
origin. They lead to the same result.
Zach individual writer, as lie appears or
disappears, points TO some one who has
gone before, or, prophecies Of some one
who is yet to come. Successive ages are
linked together; hand joins in hand; and
all stand for fall together. The bogra-
ply, the history, the prophecy, the devo-
ton, are all true or are all false. If Elijah
never lived, what sense is there in the
prophecy Of Malachi ? How can it reach
backward to the great reforner Of Israel
and forward to the great forerunner of our
Lord? If Noah, Daniel, and Job, were
myths, then Ezekicrs praise is fabulons !;
but if they really lived aud served their
generation by the will o. God, then his
words carry conviction over seventeen
hundred years and touch matters Of inf
mite Importance. If Isaiah saw with his
own eyes the hosts of Scnnacherib struck
down without the walls of Jerusalem. then
the books of Kings and Chronicles, in
which the event is recorded, arc true and
trustworthy. David commentaries in
sacred verse the varied history of the
Jews as recorded in the Pentatcuch. If
Moses is false, David cannot be true.
josiah finds the long.neglccted Book Of the
Law, and bows before it as the Word Of
God, and all his people with him. The
whole nation is deceived, or else that
Book of the Law is genuine and authcu-
tic. Josiah tells Of the. impulse but tenn.
porary repentance Of the Nincvitcs, and
Nahum confirms his word by recording
their final and subsequent destruction.
eff Ezra aud Nehemiah really rebuilt
the temple, then Haggai and Zachariah
really prophesied. The sermon delivered
on that occasion within the rising walls
endorses all the miracles Of Egypt, and
cnumeratcs the provocations Of the people
and the fol clearance Of God. If the text
be false, the sermon cannot be true. All
hangs together If Moses is false in prose
David is false in poetry. If Jeremiah
never wrote, Daniels prayer is an absur-
dity. You have either holy, Trustworthy
divinely chosen and divinely taught men,
each delivering, it is true, his own inde-
pendent testimony, but making himself
responsible also for what had been writ
ten aforetime, or you have the blind lead
ing the blind, and all falling into the ditch.
And how can this blindness be supposed,
when their mighty words are mingled with
mighty works The question is not SIM
ply that historians, and seers, and psalm
lists, and prophets believed in one. e.another;
but that God wrought with them, and
confirmed their words with signs following.
1t is not that you have Moses standing
alone and demanding credence to the
work he speaks; but Joshua also, who
babe the sun stand still; David, who was
the man after Gods heart Elijah, who
was taken to heaven in whirlwind !;
Isaiah, who saw Christ's day; Daniel who
was delivered from the lions dcn-all
uniting in their testimony to his truth,
making his writings the text Of their ser
mons, the burden Of their prayers, the
keynote of their songs, and the guide of
their lives"
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THE SECOND DELuaE.-Thc theory Of
Nj. Adhemar concerning the next food
that is to sweep over and destroy the
earth, in the course of some six thousand
years, is attracting considerable attention,
for the reason that it assumes to be sci.
cntifc deduction. His ideas, and the CAL
culation by which he rcaches them are, in
brief, that as the northern hemisphere is
becoming colder, ice isformcd and retained
and as Fl ia thus becoming steadily