Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-12

workable velopment. Inc garuen oi
Eden Is a fairy story, and no more to be
halieyed than the Arabian Nights, or
Gnlliyers Travels, or Robinson Crusoe:
Weall started as baboons, and are blood
relations TO that monkey squirming
ahout on the top OF that hand organ.
Lazarus was not dead when Christ pre-
,teuded 10 raise him he was only play,
ing dead. The water was not changed
into wine at the wedding. but Christ
brought in some wine that he had tounu
elsewhere to make up for the deficiency
Christ did not walk on the sea, but on
shore, 30 near that it seemed as II de
really were on the water. What Is Still
more alarming is that Christian men
dare not meet this ridicule. There Is
not one Christian man in five that can,
unb.anched, stand in the presence OF all
this raillery, saying: 81 believe IN the
whole Bible, and in every single state
ment that it makes" Christian men
try to soften the Bible down to suit the
skeptics. The skeptics sneer at the
dividing OF the Red Sea; the Christian
goes to explaining that the 'Wlnd
blew hurricane from one direction
good while, until all the water piled up;
and besides that it was low water any
how, and so the Israelites went through
without any trouble. Why not be frank
and say: II believe the Lord God Al
mighty came to the brink OF the Bed
Sea. and with his right arm swung back
the bilIoHs on the right side, and with
his left arm swung back the billows On
the left side, and the abashed waters
stood Up Hundreds of Feet High
while through their CLASSY wall the sea
monsters gazed with sffrighted eyes on
the passing Isrselites." "Oh,, you say:
"these rationalists would langh at me"
Then let them laugh. The Samaritan
skeptic laughed at Elisha; but when,
under the rush OF the people to get
their bread, the unbeliever was trampled
to death, whose turn was 1t 10 laugh
thenP The nationalist comes to you say
ing: show about Jonah and the whale?
Do YOU really believe that fish story?
There were never so many Nantucket
fishermen after one whale as
there have been rationalists ttinglng
harpoons at the Mediterranean sea mon
ster, and from that one whale they have
got enough oil to light ten thousand
souls to perdition. A skeptic tells you
that Jonah would have been killed In
the process OF swallowing, and that he
could not anyhow have lived three days
in such close quarters, but would have
been smothered by poor ventilation.
Now the good Christians Immediately
90 to work and try to explain this W hole
thing by natural laws, so as to please
the rationalists, and say that whale Is
an air. breathing fish, that every little
while it comes TO the surface, and that
the whale that swallowed Jonah did the
same thing, and thus got supply for
itself and for the prophet. Why not
rather saw that God can do anything,
and He could take Jonah through the
whales throat, although the throat
would not have been halt large enough
ordinarily to let him pass, aud could
have kept him alive in the whale five
years without any air, il He had chosen
10. Who made the whale. God. Who
made Jonah? God. Then He could do
anything He pleased with either OF
them.
The moment you go to explain away
the miraculous and supernatural,
You Surrende the Bible.
Take the supernatural out OF the Bible
and you make it collection OF Lies and
humbugs, in preference u which |
choose K,op's fables They are wha,
they pretend to be-fables. But if, al.
ter ali that the Bible declares, Jesus is
not God, Lazarus was not raised from
the dead and the water was not turned
into wine, the red sea was not divided
then the Bible is the worst fraud ever
perpetrated in Gods universe. My OBJ.
iect to-day is not to argue the truthful.
ness OF the Bible, but TO make you, who
are in favor OF it, willing 70 be laughed
at. Surrender nothing! Compromise
nothing! Trim off nothing to please the
sceptics! II you cannot stand the jeer
OF your business friends you are not
worthy to be one Of Cnrist's disciples.
You can afford to wait. The tide will
turn; Gods word will be vindiCated;
though it may seem TO be against the
laws OF nature, and the rnles OF rea-
son, TO morrow measure OF fine
-four will be sold for a shekel; and then
as the people rush out of the gates to
get the bread alas for the nationalist! He
will be trodden under foot and will 90
down to shame and everlasting con-
tempt. "Stop," you say, suppose he
graduated at Harvard; suppose he grad.
uated at Princeton; suppose he is at the
head OF one of the German universi
ties?" can not help that. One rule
for all-for great brain and little brain;
for the high forheaded Greek professor
a. 1t
ale that believeth and il baptlsed shall
he saved; and he that believeih not shall
be damned" BY the announcement OF
Gods word stand or fail, come scorn,
criticism or anathema An iniallible
Bible. A supernatural religion A di
vine Savior in whom men must be-
lieve or be lost. In behalf of Gods
word aud the old fashioned religion OF
our fathers, and the cross Of Christ on
which have hung my hopes for eter
nifty, / proclaim everlasting war agains.
rationalism. Know all men in America
and Europe to whom these words shall
come. where We stand: An infal!ibie
Bible! a supernatural religion! Savior
in whom men must believe or be lost.
Further, learn from the scene in
Samaria how God provides bread to stop
a famine. II God had opened the gate
that morning, and but few loaves OF
bread had come in, it would have been
mercy. But 10, the -four pours in.
Every possible vehicle is employed in
bringing it. What is in that pail? Flour.
What is in that SACK -Four What is
piled up in the markets? -Four. So
common that it is cheap. A peck for
FIVE shillings! You know that all the
nations are famine-struck hy sin. They
are dying for bread. Here comes
through the gates glorioas snpply-not
one leaf but
An Abundance for All.
pardon for all. strength for all, synpa-
thy for all! Will you have this brea !
that comes down from heaven, and
which if a man eat he shall never
hunger? Word came to the esuperinten-
dent OF Sabbath school in New York
that he was wanted in a garrett in one OF
the lowest streets. He went there and
found boy dying in the straw. He
said: "Why have You sent for me?'
The boy said: 'Iattended your Sunday
school," The superintendent asked:
L. Ha hny