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

have no time for elaborate study on
TINS subject, aud yet il this day when
the aIr is diled with inddel slang and
and skeptieal security aud caricature
OF the bible you ought 20 have some
quiok and decisive ansWer for the as
sailants IfGod will help me Will
help you How DO you know the
bible is from God? Here Is the old
Testament Here is the new testa-
ment. First / take the new testa-
meat. How do / know that this
comes from 4 divine CHRISTI Jerome
and Eusebius IN The fourth, and Ori.
gen 10 the third century after Christ,
gave a list Of books OF the new testa-
ment just corresponding to our list IN
the books Of the new testament But
you say Whore did they get their
listr' They got The new testament
from Ireneeus; Irenaous got il from
Polycarp; Polycarp got it from St.
John; st. John got It from the Lord
Jesus Christ, with whom he was a
pessoas associate. Is not this
straight aud is not that clear? NY
grandfather gave a book to my
fatheri my father gave the book to
me | gave the book to my child.
Il there and difficulty in tracing
that book through the four general
uons. Here.is a person at the eud o.
the pew. put book in his hand,
and Ne passes il to the next person,
aud that one to the next, until it
comes 70 tho end OF the pew. L.
there any difficulty in tracing the
book back through the hands that
passed tito my hands that started
il: Nos, this
NEW TESTAMENT
came down in as straight and clear
a line as that Christ gave il 10 saint
John, Saint John gave il to Poly.
carp, Polycarn gave it to Irenaeus
Ifenaeus gave il to Origen, Ofigen
gave it TO Ensebius. Eusebius put il
into The hands Of thousands Of chris
tians, who pressed il TO their hearts,
You see the new testament was not
a bundle Of documents flung out OF
the window and picked up loose, and
put togetherby chance, The divine
Christ gave il to good man, and he
TO another and.sO on down, and as
a silver communion. chalice passed
along from hand to hand, just 50 the
new testament has been passed along
from generation to generation, and
all The world is invited to drink out
of it the new wine of The kingdom
Bat you say Snow, suppose the
bible did start from the heart OF the
divine Jesus Christ, aud go down in
that line, how do you know that
these men were honest p / will tel
you. They died for the truth; men
will not die for a lie. Was Matthew
honest when he wrote his hook He
died for the truth. They made O
shaft of wood aud they put on il
sharp steel points aud they pune
tured his life out. Was Mark hon
est2 For lhe truths sake he was
urugged tutUusu lho sss-----s---y-e ss.'--.-.sy
the lesh was torn from his bone.
aud he expired Was Luke honest
lie was hanged until death on sn ul
i've tree. Was Saint James honest
For the truths sake, at ninety four
years ofage, he was thrown out oi
the window Of the temple. Was Pc
ter honest? Fer the truths sake he
was cruuiHed, his head downward bJ
choice, because be said that no die
not feel worthy to die upright as did
his master
WAS PAUL HONEST
Through what shipwrecks and i'm
prisonments he went Look into the
Mamertine dungeon and ask Wheth-
er he is honest See his head rolling
over into the dust under the stro k
of the executioner, aud ask whether
he is honest Men may write lies
t oplease the public, but no man evel
died for a lie, dying willingly and
cheerfully. | appeal to your com
mon sense for the assertion of what
| say. Nov, then, you have tn,
new testament handed down from
the bosom Of Christ, and YOU see il
came down into our country snd
then you have inexorable and over
whelmning proof that the men whe
wrote-the new testament we're honest
men, because they died for the truth
and any man that is not under thi,
testimony, ready 10 receive this nev
testament IS from tue heart OF Chris
is not fair and honest in his argn-
ment. ~
Now, | leone to the old testament
How Go know that it is from Christ
Because there are things Ia it that NJ
one but God could have fOreseen
pfopheaod to come to pass hundreds
and thousands Of years In the future
Wm Il Stewards one Of the mos
prominent men Of his time, said b
way Of prophecy, "The southern re
bellion will end in thirty dayap I
lasted four dreadful years The graa
Frenehman prophesied that ther
would be a long line Of Napoleonil
glories. All perishod Valens proplr
osied that because Romulus ~
twelve
VCLTUREs IN TIE AIR
at the founding Of Rome that, th re-
I fore, the city OF Rome would sand
nnhurt for twelve centuries A ihe
cad Of the fourth century it blrned
down. Human prophecies sreheveI
tobe depended on, bat The piophe-
cles OF this book show tlla they
must be from God Who onl can ses
in the future The prophecies O
I this book are being fulfilled Whel
j Tyre, and Babylon, and Niieveh ant
Jerusalem were in full pomp an,
power. the prophets faetold, b.
| Gods direction, that fl0se eitio
should be destroyed, atd the mod
Of their destruction lt ell cam
/ true. suppose a man shonld no'
saw that 10 the futnfe ghe East rive
/ VIII overflow Brooklfn aud dehllo
Tit. and tie Hu1soa river win ever
doa New York aad destroy It, an
then there wlll be great earthquak
sad then the i've FveTs vii be isle