The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02


to our world. viii you surrender them ?
call your attention to the fact that most
of these Bible-writers were illiterate and
uneducated men, with no worldly ad-
vantages Yet their diction, in beauty
and power, puts out the blaze of Grecian
philosophy. Plain Galilean fishermen
having thousand fold more influence on
our times than Demosthenes, who seems
to be of but little use in our day save to
let his admirers tell some stale story
about h s eloquence These uneducated
fishermen, hands hard from fishing
tackle, welding an influence over all the
following ages throughout Christendom
How do you account for it? There is
only one way of accounting for it frank
ly. Divinely inspired Except on the
ground of being a divine book, how do
you account for the fact that, notwith-
standing all the unlinbered batteries of
earth and hell have been aimed at this
book century after century, they have
not knocked piece out of it as big as
the small end of sharp needle. Oh,
how the old book sticks together I'm
sanctifed geologists have been pulling
away at the Book of Genesis Yet the
Book of Genesis is there Unsanctifed
astronomers have been pulling away at
the Book of Joshua because it seemed to
interfere with their theories; but Joshua,
like the moon over Ajalon, stands still !!
Unsanctifed anatomists and physiolo-
gists have been trying to pull at the Book
of Jonah, and to harpoon that whale (;
but the Book of Jonah still stands-the
best illustration to all ages that when
God tells a man to go to Nineveh he can
not get to Tarshisn, though to stop him
God should have to upset the Mediter-
ranean Sea with a cyclone. Thousands
of unsanctifed hands have been trying
to pull out the miracles from the New
Testament, but which have they taken?
Which wine-jar of the wedding in Cana?
What piece of the torn sail of the ship
ping on Genessaret? Which fragment
of the pail of the young mans funeral in
Main? What slice of the miraculous
bread-making in the desert? What
withered leaf of the blasted ig-tree? -?
What small piece Of the shroud OF the
resurrected Lazarus? The Bible stands
complete. They have not succeeded in
stealing any thing. The books, the chap
ters driven in, clenched on the other
side by the hammers of eternity. The
imaginary lever of Archimedes not
strong enough to pry open one passage.
The Judgment Day with its fires will
come. and suppose that the last books
that will be burned up will be the Bible,
When that fire kindles on that last Bible
it will not be as fire kindled on loose
paper, burning rapidly. That last fire
will seize upon solidly-bound book,
and one flame will start at Genesis and
burn toward Revelation, and the other
flame will start at Revelation and burn
toward Genesis, and in all their course
those two flames will not have found one
chapter or one verse out Of place. That
will be the day when we can afford to
let the Bible go. What use for Genesis
when the world, whose making it de-
scribes, is burned upP No use of the
prophecies; all fulfilled. No use Of the
Evangelistic and Pauline description of
Christ; we shall be with Him. No use
of st. Johns revelation, for we shall
have our foot on the CLASSY sea, our hand
on the ringing harp, our forehead cha
pleted with eternal coronation, and amid
the amethystine and twelve-gated splen-
dors of our new home, the emerald dash
ing its green against the beryl, the beryl
dashing its blue against the sapphire,
the sapphire throwing its light on the
jacinth, the jacinth hurling its flame
against the chrysophrasus-a that
chorus of ten thousand sunsets, we shall
be very glad if we never surrendered the
Bible. And yet l do not know but that
we shall have the Bible in Heaven, 1t
would not be out of place The Lambs
Book of Life on the top of it; the Book
of Judgment underneath it. 1t is fit to
lie there. Besides that, methinks when
we have got back our dead children it
will be Joy for us to show them just
what passages Of Scripture comforted us
in the dark day of the interment. WhCn
we meet our Christian friends in Heaven
and talk over the trials Of our past life, I
think it will be very pleasant for us to
show the chapters which upheld us when
the day of trial came. Then l should
like to hear David with his own voice
read; "The Lord is my shepherd" l
should like to hear Paul with his own
voice read Thanks be unto God that
giveth us the victory" Then / should
like to hear st. John with his own voice
read of the crystal river emptying into
the crystal sea. Yes, | should like to
hear the Archangel play the grand march
of the resurrection with the same trum-
pet with which he woke the dead. Oh,
blessed Bible Good enough for earth
and good enough for heavenl Book of
light-Book of Comfort-Book of God I!
Dear old Book Spattered with the
blood of martyrs who died defending it
stained with the tears of our Christian
fathers and mothers who were comforted
by it's promises. When / have no more
griefs to solace, when have no more
sins to be pardoned, when l have no
more hope of heaven to be kindled, that
will be the day, and that the hour, and
that the minute when | will give up my
Bible. Give a Bible to each one of your
children on their next birthday; have a
Bible on the stand in your sitting-room
have pocket Bible for your own espe-
cial use, for the day will come before
long when it would be very pleasant if
some one would gather up all the chill
dren's Bibles, and the family Bibles, and
the pocket Bibles, and put them all un-
der your head for a dying pillow. That
would be pillow fit for King to die
on.
"Where shall 1 go2" said a wealthy
Hindoo, dying, who had given all his
money to the Brahmins, to the Brahmin
priests in order to have his sins par
doned. "Where will l 90 after l die"
"Well," said the Brahmin priest, you
will 60 into holy animal" "After
that" said the dying man, where will
l go2" And the Brahmin priest said:
"You will then go into bird" Where
then, after that, shall l go?" said the dy-
ing Hindoo. "Well, after that you will
go into flower" Then the dying man
threw up both hands and cried out:
" But where shall ] go last of all2' To
the solution Of that stupendous ques-
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