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

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For the truths sake he was dragged
through the streets until the flesh was
torn from his bones, and he expired !
Was Luke honest? He was hanged un-
iii death on an olive-tree Was st.
James honest? For the truths sake, at
ninety-four years Of age, he was thrown
out of the window Of the Temple Was
Peter honest? For the truths sake he
was crucifed, his head downward, by
choice, because, he said, he did not feel
worthy to die upright as did his master
Was Paul honest2 Through what ship
wrecks and imprisonments he went!
Look into the Mamertine dungeon, and
ask whether he is honest. See his head
rolling over into the dust under the
stroke of the execuhoner and ask
whether he is honest. Men may write
lies to please the public, but no man
ever died for lie, dying Willingly and
cheerfully. | appeal to your common
sense for the asseveration of what l say
Now, then, you have the New Testament,
handed down from the bosom of Christ,
and you see it come right down into our
century and then you have inexorable
and Overwhelming proof that the men
who wrote the New Testament were
honest men because they died for the
truth. And every man that is not, under
this testimony, ready to receive this New
Testament as from the heart Of Christ, is
not fair and honest in his argument
Now | cone to the Old Testament,
How do l know that it is from God
Because there are things in it that no
one but God could have foreseen, pro-
phesied to come to pass hundreds, thous-
ands of wears in the future. William ii.
Seward, one of the most eminent men OF
his time said, by way Of prophecy
"The Southern rebellion will end in
thirty days" 1t lasted four dreadful
years The great Frenchman prophesied
that there would be a long line OF Napo-
leonic glories. All perished. Valens
prophesied that because Romulus saw
twelve vultures in the air at the found
ing of Rome that therefore the City OF
Rome would stand unhurt for twelve
centuries. At the end Of the fourth CEN
tury it burned down. Human prophe-
cies are never to be depended upon; but
the prophecies in this book show that
they must be from God, who only can
see in the future. The prophecies of
this book are being fulfilled, When Tyre
and Babylon and Nineveh and Jcrusa-
lem were in full pomp and power the
prophets foretold, by Gods direction,
that those cities should be destroyed and
the mode of their destruction. 1t all
came true. Suppose man should now
say that in the future the East River Will
overflow Brooklyn and destroy it, and
the Hudson River will overflow New
York and destroy it, and then there will
be great earthquake, and then the two
rivers will be dried up, and then there
will be horses dragging plows where Full
ton street and Broadway now stand, and
there will be harvests of grain raised on
these fields, it would not sound SO alb
surd to us as the prophecies of those
men who, in the name of God, stood in
those great cities, standing in their archi-
tectural pomp, with a glory which the
finest mansions on Madison Square and
Fifth avenue can not touch, yet prophe-
swing their destruction. Yet it has all
proved true. This Bible said that all the
luxuriant fields around Babylon that
raised the finest harvest ever known
that all those fields around the City of
Babylon should become desert. 1t is
a desert. The traveller will now tell you
that he goes around through those once
luxuriant fields, and there is not parti-
Gle of vegetation, and the hard ground
blisters the feet of the explorer, So with
the city itself. 1t was prophesied thous-.
ands of years before that the ruins of
that city would be the habitation Of wild
beasts. All has come true. The explorer
to-day has to 60 fully armed when he
looks at the ruins of Babylon. He finds
lions and apes there, holding reserved
seats in the theater. The Bible foretold
that the City of Tyre should be destroyed
the prophecy given at a time when the
City ofTyre had walls $50 feet high and
enough for twenty years; that
that city should come down, and that the
fishermen should spread their nets on
the ruins. If you should 60 there this
Sabbath morning, you would find that
very thing done. The nets OF the fisher
men drying on the rocks which are the
ruins of once-great Tyre. The Turks,
the Tartars, the SaraCens, knowing moth
ing about the Bible, yet age after age full
filing prophecy literally and to the last
point. Go up Chatham street, New York,
tomorrow, and you will see the fulfill
ment of prophecies made thousands of
years ago. Why is it that the Jews Of
New York and London and st. Peters
burg and Pekin and Vienna and Stock
holm are distinguishable? The Ameri-
can in foreign land loses his nation
ality; after two or three generations you
can not distinguish any thing that seems
like American features, So the English
man loses his nationality, and the Span
lard his, and the Italian his and the
his; but the Jew never.
Why? Because this book again and
again and again said in the old prophe-
cies that the Jew should be scattered all
over the earth and they should be kept
separate. So wherever you and a Jew
to-day, whether high enough up to be-
long to the Syndicate, or low enough
down to hawk "old clo'" through the
streets, there is fulfllment of the pro-
phecy. The Bible thousands of years
before said that Messiah should come,
of certain tribe, Of a certain family, in
a certain place, at a certain time. A per-
son corresponding with all the minute
description given in the prophecy came,
whom we call our Savior. He came of
that very tribe, of that very family in
that very place, at that very time. Fore
seen thousands of years. Who foresaw
it? Man or God? No man pretends to
foresee a thousand years, No man pre-
tends to foresee a hundred years If
these things were foreseen and were fore
told it must have been by Divine inspi-
ration. I.u
But you say the prophecies are only
part of the Old Testament. Then /
answer: Do you think that these prophe-
cies which, by inexorable argument, you
must admit to be from God-do you
think the Lord would admit these pro-
phecies to be bound up with pack Of
lies and passed down from generation to
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