Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-13


orchestras the orchestra of Revelation and
the orchestra of science. The orchestra o
| revelation has its musical instruments all
strung and it is ready for burst of eternal
accord. Science is only stringingits instru
ments. You will have to wait, but after q
while 1t will be as in some OF those cathe
drais IN Germany where they have an organ
at one end of the cathedral and another at
| the other end and they respond to each
other; and so it will be in the
Great Temple OF the Universe:
the orchestra of revelation and the orches-
ira OF science will respond to- each othe +,
and into onewreath will be twisted the rose
OF Sharon and the laurel of scholarly
achievement, and the roar of the ocean will
be the magnificent bass of the temple wor.
shippers, and the earth itself will be found
to be only the pedals of a great organ of
which the heavens are the keyboard.
Now Mr.. Ingersoll has not
Made Out His Case
aSasidnlssi the Rihls blssiSiRR iiRR einideIty has
defendant, and Il might in the court of
your reason move for q non n-suit, but will
not take advantage of the circumstances,
and will tell you some things why we be-
lieye this book is the right book and the
book from God, and an infallible book and
an indestructible book. Mr.. Ingersoll rep
resents us as very gullible people, ready to
believe everything, and the more inrprob-
able the occurrence the better We like it,
and that the manuscripts OF the Bible are
unaHthentic, picked up here and there ac-
cidentally. Let us see. There are the two
Testaments, the old and the new. Take
the New Testament first. Why do / adopt
it? Why do | take it? Why do | believe
it? Why do receive it with all my heart?
You can trace it right out. Jerome and
Eusebius in the first century, Origen in
the second century, gave lists of the writers
of theNew Testament, that list just cor
responding with our list of writers of the
New Testament, showing precisely as We
have it they had it in the third and fourth
centuries.
From IrenGus. Where did he get it?
From Polycarp. Where did Polycarp get
it? From st. John, who was personal
associate of Jesus. The line is just as clear
as anything ever was clear. My grand.
father gave book to my father, my father
gave it to me. give it to my child. No
| difficulty in tracing that down from gen.
Grafton 30 generation. Just as commun-
| ion chalice is handed along from one to
another the chalice filled with the wine OF
| the sacrament; just so this New Testa-
ment was handed down from one to an
| other and we drink of the new wine OF the
| kingdom. But say some: Suppose they
| did write it, they may have been lying I'M
posters" All, | have to tell you no man
ever died for lie cheerfully and triumph
| antly. These men died for the truth
"Well," you say, "Eou have got through
with q small part of the Bible, how about
the
The Old Testament:"
| I accept the Old Testament, because the
| prophecies described things hundreds and
| thousands of years ahead-minutely and
accurately described them. Who can for
see? God only. How far can you forsee
A thousand years ? Not a hundred years,
not five years, not an hour. William ii
Seward, one of the most eminent men ol
his time, made a prophecy. He said
/ "The South will be conquered in thirty
DAYS" The war went along four dreadful
wears. He said: at will be a job that
will be accomplished before breakfast "
Instead of that it was after midnight-four
wears midnight You see human proph,
ecies amount to nothing. The great
Frenchman declared that the Napoleonic
glories would go down from generation Z
generation. Where are those glories Al
vanished. But here are prophecies o.
things that occurred hundreds and thous
andS of years aftcrward. l want you u
remember that
Tyre and Nineveh and Babylon and
Jerusalem
were in full pomp and glory when these
prophecies declared that they were goinG
to be oyerthrown. Architecture in som
of those cities that make yourEhouses OF
Madison Square and Fifth avenue utterl.
insignificant. And yet these prophetic
were made at that time in regard to the de
struction of those cities. Suppose now
nan should appear in our streets and say
'The East river will overflow and destroy
Brooklyn, the Hudson river will overflow
and destroy New York, and then there vii
be an earthquake, and the two rivers viii
dry up and there will be harvestS OF grain
corn, raised there, and where Fulton stree
and Broadway are, there will be pastur
fields" Why, the man would be pro
nounced insane. Yet these men, thes
prophets, stood right amid those glories
ancient tines and said they were all goin
| to perish and the city of Babylon was t.
become dcsolate. All proyed true. Ex
plore the place now. You cannot find
particle of vegetation there and the groun'
blisters the feet of the explorer.
Thousands OF Years Ago FOretold.
Tyre, they said, should be destroyet
right in the midst OF its pomp and power
With a wall $50 feet high and provision
for 20 years, the prophet says: This
all going to come down, and the fishermen
| will dry their nets where this city nov
stands True to-day. II you should
this afternoon to its ruins you would nm
fishermen drying their nets on the rocks
1 Turks, Tartars and Saracens, who kno'
nothing of the Bible, age after age fulhllin
the prophecy. To tomorrow throus
Chatham street, New York, and see tn
fulfllment of prophecies thousands Q
years ago. Why is it that Jew IN Ne'
York, or Brooklyn, or st. Petersburgh, o
Stockholm, or Vienna, or Paris, or Canto
is always distinguishable. An America
goes TO Europe and stays there grea
while and he loses his nationality. A
Enplishman comes to America and stay
here long while, and after two or thre
! generations You do not descry the feature
of the Englishman. The Norwegian lose
his nationality in any other country, tn
} Swiss loses his. the Frenchman loses his
the Italian loses his, the Jew never. Why
Because this book, thousands Of years ag
said the
Jews should be Scattered
all the world over and be separated. Th
Bible foretold great Messiah should come
Ii described Him, it told from what trlo
He would came, from what tamlly, NJ VIVA
time and in what place. Ages passed, o
and the Messiah come, correspondln
exactly with the description hundreds
wears before, born in the very tribe ths
was foretold, in the very family, at tn
very time, in the very place. Now sa
any honest-minded man will confess tina
ali this prophecy must have been fror
God, divinely dictated, so that the prophs
| cies YOU are ready 10 receive this Eornin
are the Word of God. But you see ther
/ are many things that are not in the propht
cies. Suppose you found letter OF your
! in an envelope with ten or fifteen lynn
and indecent letters how long would 70
allow your honest letter to stay IN tina
} envelope? You would snatch away you
letter or you would destroy the entlr
envelope. And do you suppose God woul
allow His prophecies to be fastened q
with the writings OF Job and Deuteronomy
and the Book of Psalms, and other parts 9
} the Bible not belonging to the prophecies
J | if they were bad things, If they were lyin
impositions. The fact that God allows q
the other parts OF the Old Testament to
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