Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-11-30

been printed, and if it is an impure
bool, how many minds must have been
made impure! But show me, of all VIII,
have read the 25O,OOO,O0O Bibles, one
thousand that have been made impure
Show me hundred, Show me fifty
Show me ten! Show me fye! Show
me one Go through all the past since
we began to print Bibles and show me
one victim! | challenge all earth and
hell to show that the Bible is an impure
! book.
They say It's cruel book. Have
| men become more cruel after reading
the Bible? All our institutions of mcr-
cy were founded by Bible readers. Did
reading the Bible intensity the mischicv-
| BUSINESS of the boy who clipped flies
wings and robbed birds nests? When
YOU can make rose leaf stab like dag
ger, when you make an iciclc of the soft
south wind, then you can find cruelty in
the Bible.
They say that the Bible is contradcto-
ry. Mr., Mill said he had found 81, 900
different Bible readings, but not one of
importance. All Bible writcrssngree
upon the essential points. The Bible
was written by many different persons
in different lands and in different ages,
and after all had been put together ii
made one great harmony.
1t Is charged that the Bible is unscicn-
tihc. It says there was light before the
sun was created, and that the moon halt
ed; briefly, it rcycrses the order of ma
turc, 50 says the sceptcs. But llerschcl,
keplcr, Ross and Sir Isaac Newton show
YOU the harmony between science and
revelation. Science is u boy; revelation
is mnn, and the boy is inclined to ask
too many questions. Noltairc wrote
that the dissolution of the golden calf
was an absuydily, and before his ink was
dry u score Of chemists in Paris had
gold held in solution. All you need to
do is to wait and you'll see science re-
spOnd to revelation. The great temple
Of nature has two orChcstras--the or
ChcstraS Of revelation and the orchestra
of science. The orchestra Of revelation
has It's musical instruments all strung,
and is ready for the burst of eternal
accord, The orchestra of science is only
striuging lis Instruments. YOU will
have to wait, but after aN lille it will be
n, in some of those Cathcdrals in Gcrma-
ny where they have one organ at one end
and one at the other, and they respond to
each other; and so it will he in the great
temple Of The univcrsc-thc orchestra Of
revelation aud the orchestra of science
will respond to each other, and into one
wreath Will be twisted the rose Of Sha-
ron and the laurel Of scholarly achieve
mcnt, and the roar Of the ocean will be
the magnificent bass Of the temple, and
the earth itself will only be found to be
only the pedals Of Il great organ Of which
the heavens are the great keyboard.
WHY WE SHOULD RETAIN THE BIBLE.
After saying that the plaintiff, inf
deity has not made ont case against
The defendant, Christianity, DR.. Tai
mage gave his reasons for demanding
that civilization shall retain the Bible
He traced its origin up to the heart Of
Jesus Christ, and answering those who
say that It may have been written by
impOstOrg he asked :--"DO men ever die
for u lie? These men died for their be-
lipfn Then he skctchcl the tragic end
Of the lives Of the apostles. and asked
"Did these men suffer for the ruihY'-
Next he found the prophecies Of the Old !
Testament fulfilled % thousand year, lat
cr In thc NcW--prophccics made when |
Tyre had q wall 800 feet i'm height and |
was proyisioncd for twenty years, and |
when Babylon was In her full pomp and |
glory--prophcsics Of their overthrow
all have proved true, Go TO the site Of |
Babylon and vou'll not find u particle Of .
vegetation. II was prophcscd that the |
Jews should be- scattered over the ia'c |
of the earth, and De q separate people,
Look nj the Jews wherever they nrc. |
and behold the tuhllmout or the prophc-
cy. The birth Of Christ happened at |
tkr very time and in thc very place that |
hud been torclold u thousand years.
More Of thc writer's Of The New Tcsla-
mcnt were iliiIcmtc men. Their writ
ings prove that they were inspired, aud |
after SEQ years the sccptics have not
been able 10 take away from those writ
iugs 80 much ASA needles point, Ge-
ologisis have tried 10 pun the book Of
Genesis out of the old IoIamcut. and |
Astronomers to take out
Joshua, because II seemed 10 interfere
with some Of their lhcoripg that Joshua
should halt the moon over AiHlon, TIM
uuutomistS ana PSYCHOLOGISTS
have tried 10 pull The book of Jonah
aud 10 hurpUon chat whap,-
1Nughlcr) Bot the book Of Jonah |
stands to-dlv, the very best illustration
Of the fact lhrl when God tells n man 10
go TO Nincyah lc can't get 10 1ar.hish.