The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1880-12-02

NAuhNk toatut Nel NlONu. 1T fIrfF J.
destruction. Yet it hiss Ell proved 1
true This bible said A. aiT tse 4
luxuriaut lelds around Baby.on that
raised the lnest harvests eyerl lovs 1
that all thosel fields arouaa hel
city Of Babylon should beeote
desert. tits q desert The trad |
leF will now tell you that he p,
around through those once luxnr
ant aei Is, and there Is not a particle |
of vegetation, and the hard ground
blistefs the feet OF the explorer. S.
with theclty itself Il vas prophe-
sled thousandsof years before that
the rains or that city would be the
habitation OF
WILD BEAsrs
All has coms true. The explorer of
to day has to 20 fully armed when
he looks Al the ruins OF Bnbylon.
He 6uds lions aud apes boLfns re.
served seats ia the theatre. Tie BIZ
be foretold that the city Of Tyre
should be destroyed-the prophecy
given at time when the city Of Tyre
hadswalls $50 feet high and proyis-
ions enough Tor twenty yesrs-that
that city should come down, aud that
the ishermen should spread their
nets on thc'fuihs. IL you should GO
there this Sabbath mosning, YOU
would 6nd thas very thing done,
The nets OF the l9hermen, drying on
the rocks which are the ruias OF a
once great Tyre. The Turks, the
Tartars, the Saracens, knowing moth 4
ing about the Bible vet age afser
age fulfilling prophesy literally and
to the last point Go up Chatham
street, New York, to morrow and
you will see thc fuldlImcht Of proph
eeies made Thousand Of years ago
WlIyi III that the Jews OF New York
and London, and St Petersburg and
Pekin, and Vienna, and Stockholm,
are diStlnguishable2 The American
in foreign land loses his national
ity; after two. or threo generations
you cannot distinguish,anything that
seemed like American lectures. So
the Englishman loses bis nationality,
the Spaniard his, the Italian and the
Frenehmah his, but
THE JEW
never Whyg Because this book,
again, and again, and again, said IN
the old prophecies that the Jews
should be scattered all over the
eartn, and thai they should be kept
separate. So, wherever you fnd a
jew to day, whether high enough up
20 belong to the syndicate, or low
enough down 10 hawk "old clon
through the streets, there Is fulfill
mcnt OF the prophecy. The bible,
thousands OF years before, said that
a Messiah should come, Of a certain
tribe, OF a certain family, in a certain
place, at a certain time A person
corresponding with all the minute
descriptions gwen in the prophecy
came, Rh0A weeall our savior. He
came Of that very tribe, Of that very
family, in That very place. ct that
'-=.s-s ,r--fssss btsl--fitts =
years Who foIesau It. man or
God I No man prctcnds to ioFesee
4 thousand years. H these thing
were foreseen, and we're forotold, III
must have been by divine inspb
ton.
But, you say, the propLecles are
only q part Of the old testahent.
Then, ! answer: Do you lhing that
these prophecies which, by inJxora-
ble argument sou must admil to be
from God--do you think thb Lord
would admit oil these prophecies to
be bound up with a pack oflies and
passed down from generation and
generation thousands OF years p
Would you allow an hoses. letter
Of yours to be put into an envelope
With ten or frleen
LING AND IEDEcEEf LETTERS
FiRdiHg your letter there you would
takeit away OF burn up the whole
envelope Now do YOU suppose
thesb prophecies wodld have been
Allowed by the hand OF Almighty
God to continue ages after ages and
for thousands Of years, in the COM
panionship OF Genesis, and Deuter
onomy, aud Job, and Proberbs, and
the Psalms, and al the other Books
Of the Old Testament, IL they we're
| lying imposIhons., Do you think
the Lord would allow bis fair daugh-
ter, Prophecy, 10 be afllaneed to this
brigand Falsehood9 One fact thai
| these prophecies, which, BY over
whelmning argument, ven admit
10 be from God-ths TACT that
these tremeRdous prophecies have
been allowed 10 eontinue fog thou
sands 81 yaafH. the cohpahionsais
/ OF Aosa ossf b6oks 81 &c Res
Test aeat proves Is llsY maat Sc
lo0od hooha
NbW haHa ahewn g Tpn hoN tne
new Testament Hae hanaed down
rom tho heart ot 0hnsE o OF
world. Ihage sAowu you, also how
TIC Old Testament was handed down
from ths heart Of God 70 oar world
WILL YoU SURRENDER,
thea / call your attention to the
fact that most of those bible wrltrs
wefe illiterata and uueducAted men
with No woFdlp alyantags, Yet
their dicdon 10 beauty and power
nnis out the blaze Of Grecian philos-
uphv. Plain Galilean fisherman,
having q thousaad fola Aore infn
ence il our times thar Demosthenes,
who seems t. be Of bat little use in
our day save 10 let bis admirers tell
some stale story about his eloqnence.
These aneducaled dshcrmen, hands
lhafd from the fishing tackle, weld.
ine an influence ever al the follow
ling.aqes aud throughout christen
don! How do you account for tf
/ There is only one way 81 accounting
Tor it-Divinuly Ihspirodi Except OF
Fthe ground Of being g divine book,
haa do you apcount for the fact thsi
Recommending al the unlimbere9
batteries 81 earth and hell have been
aimed at tlhs book century ai.el
century. lnsy have not knoeked !