The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-23
GOOD FRUITS.
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| tiOnality. An EngIishman comes to
America and stays here a long while,
and after two or three generations YOU
do not descry the features of the English
man. The Norwegian loses his nation
ality In any other country; the Swiss
| loses his; the Frenchman loses his; the
Italian loses his. The lew never
Why? Because this book thousands of
years ago said the Jews should be scat
tered all the world over aud be separat-
ed. The Bible fOretOld great Messiah
| should come. 1t described Him, it told
from what tribe He would come, from
what family, at what time and in what
place. Ages passed ON and the Messiah
came, corresponding exactly with the de-
scriptiOn given hundreds Of years before,
born in the very tribe that was fOretOld,
in the very family, at the very time, in
the very place. Now, | say any honest
minded man will confess that all this
prophecy must have been from God, di-
vinely dictated; so that the prophecies
| you are ready to receive this morning
are the Word of God. But you see there
are many things that are not in the
prophecies. Suppose you found a letter
| of yours in an envelope with ten OF
fifteen lying and indecent letters, how
to stay in that envelope? You would
snatch away your letter or you would
destroy the entire envelope. And do
you suppose God would allow his prOph-
ecies to be fastened up with the writ
ingS of Job and Deuteronomy, and the
Book of Psalms and other parts of the
Bible not belonging to the prophecies if
they were bad things-if they were
lying impOsitiOns? The fact that God
q a 10 Of ha
Testament to go side by side with the
other prophecies proves great deal to
every faiT-minded man. God would not
allow His fair daughter of prophecy to
be affianced to this brigand of false
hood.
Now you accept the Old Testament
and you accept the New Testament,
what will you do with them? Will you
surrender them? | want OOu to bear in
mind that the most of this Bible was
written by illiterate men, uneducated
men. Where do they get their power?
Why, when Thomas BabbingtOn Ma
cauley stood up in the British Parlia-
ment and wanted to finish a sentence,
or when he sat in his study writin
on the History Of England" and want
ed to finish great sentence-why was
it he quoted from the fishermen of Gal
lice? Why was it that those fishermen
of antiquity? They were diYinely in
spired. Besides that, you are to remem-
Der that this Bible has been under fire
age after age, and yet it has not been
damaged, nor has it lost one chapter
nor one verse. After all the lombard
ment of centuries they have not knocked
piece out of it as big as the small end
of a sharp needle. Oh, how the book
sticks together Unsanctified geOlOgists
Ip.fI hs,lI g l. NE I.,VN
were going to pull that out. The Book
of Genesis is there still. Unsanctified
astronomers laid hold of the Book of
Joshua because it seemed to interfere
with some of their theOrieS-the moon
over AgelOn standing still. Unsancti-
fled anatOmists and Psychologists tried
to pull the Book of Jonah away, and to
harpOOn that whale, but the Book of
Jonah stands to-day, the very best illus
tration of the fact that when God tells a
man to go to NineVeh he can not go to
Tarshish; that he will be upset if neces-
sary. God will send cyclone upon the
Mediterranean. Men have tried to pull
away the miracles of Christ. How
many have they pulled out? They have
taken absolutely nOthingl Here is
perfect Bible. 1t seen s that instead of de-
| strOying the Bible the chapters have been
driven in and clinched on the other side
| by the hammer of eternity. The fact is
that the book, so far from being destroy
ed, is going on until the fires of the last
| day, and when the fires of the last day
| are kindled they will not find a bundle
! of loose letters utterly consumed, but
compact book; and when the fires begin
to burn on one side they will burn from
Genesis toward Revelation; then the
other fires will burn from Revelation to-
ward Genesis and they will in all their
course not find one chapter or one verse
out of place. That will be the only
time the world can afford to do without
the Bible. What use then of Genesis
with its description of the making of
the world which is all destroyed? What
use then of the prophecies all fulfilled?
What use then of the Eyangelistic and
Pauline description of Jesus Christ
when we see Him face to facep What
use then of the photograph when we
have Him in glory? What use then of
the Book of Revelation when we stand |
with our foot on the CLASSY sea and our
hand on the ringing harp, or forehead !
chapleted with eternal coronation,
amid the amethystine and twelve-gated |
glory of heaven, the emerald dashing its
green against the beryl, the beryl dash
ing its blue against the sapphire, the
sapphire throwing its light on the ia
cinthe, the jacinthe dashing its fire
against the chryS0prasus, and we stand
ing amid the chorus Of ten thousand
sunsets!
All, my friends, that is Just the time
we will be able to do without the Bible,
and yet think they will have the old
book in heaven. l do not think the last
copy will be destroyed. think they
will have it in heaven. 1t is good
enough to be there. The Lambs Book |
of Life on the top of it, the Book of
Judgment under it. Oh, yes! We can |
not spare it then, after ali. 1 want to |
hear some of these passages read in |
heaven after we have gathered up our
dead children. 1 want to hear. these
passages read, and Iwant to point them |
out the passages that cOmfOrted US on |
the day of interment. We meet our |
friends in heaven. want to talk over |
the trials of this life, and say: "Ah, |
those were the promises that cheered |
u.s." Iwant to hear David with his own |
voice read: "The Lord is my shepherd"
| want in heaven to hear Paul read with |
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