Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-22
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our world.
Will You Surrender. Them
call your attention to the fact that
most Of the Bible writer's were illiterate
and uneducated men with no worldly
advantages. Yet their diction IN beauty
and power puts out the blaze OF Grecian
philosophy. Plain Galilean fisherman
having thousand fold more influence
on our times than Demosthenes, who
seems to be Of but little use TO us in our
day, save to let his admirers tell some
stale story about his eloquence. These
uneducated fishermen, hands hard from
the fishing tackle, welding an influence
over all the following ages and through.
out christendom. How do you account
for itP There is only one way OF ac-
counting for it frankly. Divinely in.
spired. Except on the ground Of being
a divine book, how do you account for
the fact that Notwithstanding all the
unlimbered 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.
Sus ho" tho Sio oook oticks 1OkotneTs
Cnsanctiiied geologists have been
pulling away at the book OF Genesis.
Yet, the book OF Genesis is therel Un-
sanctitied astronomers have been pulling
away at the book o! Joshua because it
seems to interfere with their theories;
but Joshu', like the moon over Ajalon,
stands still! Unsanctified anatomists
and psychologists have been trying to
pull at the book of Jonah and to har-
poon that whale; but the book OF Jonah
still stands-the best illustration to all
ages that when God tells man to go to
Ninevah he cannot 20 TO Tarshish,
though to stop him God should have to
upset the Mediterranean sea with a cy-
clone. Thousands of unsanctified hands
have been trying to pull ont the mira
cles 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 shipping on Gennes-
saret? 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 fig tree? What small
piece OF the shroud Of the resurrected
Lazarus?
The Bible Stands Complete.
They have not succeeded in stealing
anything. The books, the chapters
driven in, clenched OH the other side by
the hammers OF eternity. The imaginary
lever Of Archimedes not strong enough
to pry open OF e passage. The judgment
day, with its fires will come, and | sup.
pose that the last book that will be burn
ed mp will he the Bible. When that fire
kindies 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 ut Genesis and burn towards Rev.
elation. and the other flame will start at
Revelation and burn towards Genesis.
and in all their course those two flames
will not have found one chapter or one
verse out oiplace. That will be the day
when We can afford to let the Bible 90.
What use for Genesis when the world
whose making it describes is burned up?
No use OF the prophecies; al fulfilled.
No use Of the Evargelistic aid Pauline
description of Christ; we shall be with
Him. No use OF st. Johns revelation,
for We shall have cur foot on the CLASSY
sea, our hand on the ringing harp, our
forehead chapleted VITA eternal corona
ton, and, amid the amethystine and
twelve. gated sp'endors OF our new home,
the emerald dashing its green against the
hcryl, the bcryl dashing its blue against
the sapphire, the sapphire throw
ing its light on the Jacinth,
the jacintn hurting its flame
against the chrysophrasus-amid that
chorus e ten thousand sunsets We shall
be very glad il we never surrendered
the Bible. And yet / 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 II,
the book OF judgment underneath 1t.
Ii is fit to lie there. Besides that, me.
thinks 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 oi the in
termcnt. When We meet our Christian
friends in heaven and talk over the
trials OF our past life, think it will be
very pleasant for us to show the chap
tefs which upheld us wnrn the day vi
trial came. Then should like to hear
David, with his own voice, Iead: The
Lord is my shepherd" Then should
like 20 hear Paul, with his own voice,
read: Thanks be unto God that givtth
us the victory" Then should like to
hear ST. John, with his own voice, read
Of the crystal river emptyin2 into the
crystal sea. Yes, | should like to hear
the archangei play PauTs grand march
OF the resurrection with the same
trumpet with which he woke the dead.
oh, Blessed Bible!
Good enough for earth AMI good enough
for heaven; book OF light; book OF
comfort; book OF God. Dear old book.
Gathered with the blood OF myrtyrs who
died in defending it, stained with the
tears OF our Christian fathers and moth.
ers who were cOmiorted by its promises.
When have no more grie!s TO solncc,
when | have no more sins 10 be par Ion
ed, when have no more hope OF heaven
10 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 oi your children on their
next birthday. Have Bible on the
stand in your sitting room. Have
pocket Bible ior your own especial use,
for the day will come before long when
it would be very pleasant il some one
would gather up all the children's Bibles
and the family Bibles and the pocket
Bibles and put them all under your
head for dying pillow. That would be
a pillow fit for king to die on.