Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-22

Now, this New Testament came down
in as straight and clear line as that.
Christ gave it to ST. John; st. John
gave it to Polycarp; Polycarp gave it to
Irenaus; Iren@us gave it to Origen
Origen gave it to Ensebius; Ensebius
put it into the hands of thousands oil
Christians who pressed it to their
hearts. You see the New Testament
was not bundle Of documents flung
out OF a window and
Picked Up Loose and Put Together by
Chance.
The divine Christ gave it to good man,
and he to another, and 30 on down, and
as a silver communion chalice is passed
along from hand to hand just 30 the New
Testament has been passed along from
generation to generation, and all the
world is invited 70 drink out OF 1t the
new wine of the kingdom. But, you
say, "now suppose the Bible did start
from the heart OF the divine Christ and
90 down in that line, how do you know
that these men were honest?" | will
tell YOU. They died for the truth, Men
will not die for lie. Was Matthew
honest when he wrcte his book? He
died for the truth. They made a
shaft OF wood and they put on 1T
sharp steel points and they punctured
| his ewes out. Was Mark honest? For
| the truths sake he was drawn through
the streets until the flesh was torn from
his bones, and he expired. Was Luke
honest? lie was hanged until death on
an olive tree. Was ST. James honest?
For the truths sake, at "a years OF age,
| he was thrown out of the window OF the
temple. Was Peter honest? For the
| truths sake he was crucified, his head
he did not feel worthy to die upright, as
did his master. Was Paul honest?
Through what shipwrecks and impris-
onments he went. Look into the Mann
ertine dungeon, and ask whether he is
honest See his head rolling ovor into
the dust under the stroke OF the execu-
toner and ask whether he is honest.
They may write lies to please the pub
lie, but no man ever died for lie-dy-
ing willingly and cheerfully. / appeal
To your common sense for the asserva.
ton OF what | say. Now, then, you
have the New Testament, handed down
from the bosom oil Christ, and you
see il came right down into our century
and then you have inexorable and over
whelmng proof that the men who wrote
the New Testament were honest men
because they died for the truth; and
any man that is not, under this testi'
mony, ready to receive thisiNew Testa-
ment as from the heart of Christ, is not
fair and honest in his argument.
Now Come to the Old Testament.
How do | know that it is from God?
Because there are things in it that no
one but God could have torseen, proph-
esied to come to pass hundreds and
thousands of years in the future. Will
liam Ii. Seward, one Of the most emi.
nent men Of his time, said by way OF
prophecy, "rhe Southern rebellion will
end in thirty days" 1t lasted four
dreadful years. A great Frenchman
prophesed tha, there would be long
me Of Napoleonic glories. All perish
ed Nalens prophcsied that because
Romulus saw twelve vultures in the air
at the founding OF Rome that, therefore,
the city of Rome would stand unhurt
for twelve centuries. At the end OF the
fourth century it burned down. HUI
man prophesies are never to be depend
ed upon, hut the prophesies OF this
book show that they must be from God,
who only can eco in the future. The
prophec es of this book are being fulfill
ed When Tyre and Babylon, and Nj
nevah and Jerusalem were in full pomp
aud power, the prophets !uretoid, by
God $ direction, that those cities should
be destroyed and the mode o! their de-
strurtion. 1t all came true. suppose
man should nov say that in the future
the East river will overflow Brooklyn
and destroy it, ard the Hudson river
will overflow New York and destroy il,
and then there will he q great cart
quake. and then the two rivers will be
dried up, and then there viii be horses
dragging ploughs where Fulton street
and Broadway now stand and that there
will be harvests OF grain raised on these
tields--it would not sound so absurd to
us as the prophecies of those men who
in the name OF God stood in those great
cities, standing in their architectural
pomp with a glory which the finest man
sions OH Madison Square aud Fifth ave-
nue. cannot touch. yet prophesying their
destruction.
Yet it Has All Proved True.
This Bible said that all the luxurian,
fields around Baby Ion, that raised the
finest harvests ever known-that all
those fields around the citv OF Babylon
should become desert. 1t is desert
The traveller will now tell you that he
goes around through those cnce luXu-
RANT fields, and there is not q particle
of vegetation and the hard ground bis
ters the feet of the explorer. s. with
the city itself. II was prophesied thou,
sands OF years before that the ruins OF
that city would be the labitation
of wild beasts. All has come true. The
explorer today has 10 60 fully armed
when he looks at the ruins OF Babylon
lie finds lions and apes there holding
reserved seats in the theatre. The Bible
foretoldth that the city of Tyre should ID
destroyed-the prophecy given az a time
when the city Of Tyre had walls $50 ieet
high and provisions enough for twenty
year5-Ita, mat cay shouId come down
and that the fishermen should spread
their nets on the rains. ii vIr should
90 there this Sabbath morning yon
nets of the fishermen dryng on the rocks
which are the ruins OF once great Tyre.
The Turks. tn Tartars, the Saracens,
knowing 10 hing about the Bible, yet
age after age
Fulfilling Prophecy Literally and to the
Last Point.
Go up Chatham street, New York, TO.
morrow, and you will see the fuililinent
OF prophecies made thousands oil v 'ars
agJ. Why is it that the Jews OF New
York, and London, and Petersburg,
and Pekin, and Vienna, and Stockholm
are distinguishahle? The American IN
foreign land loses his nai!onii,y.
After two or three generations YOU can
not distinguish anything that seems
like American features. sothe Eng.is!-
man loses his nationality, and the span
lard his, and the Italian his, and tie
Frenchman his, but the Jew never.
Why? Because this book again. aud
again, and again said in ia" oli pro.
phecies that the Jews should be seal
tered al over the earth, and that they
should be kept separate. 81 wh,revtr
you find Jew to-day, whether high
enough ND tn belong 10 the syndicate,