Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-08-12
KING. OF BOOKS.
Or. TALMAGE ON THE BIBLES
BEAUTY.
The One Grand Production With
a Glorious Mission.
Clear Proof of the Authenticity of the
Scriptures.
Many Incontestable Evidences Of the BIZ
bles Truth.
KING. OF BOOKS.
n 10 The Kansas Citu Times,

Srecial to the Kansas city Times.
LAKESIDE, O., Aug. 1.--Vast throngs Of peo-
pie came here today from all parts of the
country to hear the words of the Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, d. D., Of Brooklyn. This place
is summer cncanpment on the Chautauqua
plan, wh2re meetings are held for several
weeks, aAd the visitors employ their time In
bible study and in listening 10 scientific lee
lures. Many of the guests spend the whole
summer here. The subject Of DR.. Tamage's
sermon was, "The King Of Books" and the
text from Psalm, XIX, s. 1.-THE statutes of the
Lord are right" Following is the sermon in
full:
Old books go ont of date. When they were
written they discussed questions which were
being discussed; they struck at wrongs which
had long ago ceased, or advocated institutions
which excite not our interest. Were they
books of history, The facts have been gathered
from the imperfect mass, better classified and
more lucidly presented. Were they books OF
poetry, they were interlocked with wild
mythologies which have gone up from the
face of the earth like mists at sunrise. Were
they books Of morals, civilization will not sit
atthc feet Of barbarism, neither do we want
Sappho, Pythagoras and Iuly to teach us
morals. What do the masses of the people
care now for the pathOs of Simonidcs or the
sarcasm of Menandcr or the gracefulness Of
Philemon or the Wit Of Aristophanes:
hooks LIKE HUMAN BEINGS.
Even the old books We have left, with few
exceptions, have but very little effect upon
our times. Books are human; they have a
time TO be born, they are fOndlcd, they grow
in strength, they have a middle life of useful
ness, then comes old age, they tottcr and they
die. Many national libraries are merely the
cemeteries of dead books. Some IF them
lived ilagitiOus lives and died deaths of
igEOmMy. some were yirtuOus and accom-
plishCd glorious mission. Some went into
ashes through nqu!stOra fires Some found
their funeral pile in sacked and plundcred
cities Some were neglected and died as
ioundlingS at the door of science. Sqmc eX-
irri in the authors study, others in the pub
lisher's hands. Ever and anon there comes
into your possession an old book, its author
forgotten and its usefulness done, and with
lcathcrn lips it seems TO say: Il wish were
dead" Monuments have been raised over
poets and phianthrOpists Would that some
tall shaft might DC erected in honor Of the
worlds buried books! The worlds authors
would make pilgrimage thereto, and poetry,
ami literature, and science, and religion would
cousccratc it with their tears
THE ONE GRAND OLD BOOK
Not so much with one old book. II started
in the worlds infancy, 1t grey under thcocra-
Cy and monarchy 1t withstood storms of IRE.
1t grew under prophets mantle and undcr.the
hshcrm0n's coat Of the apostles in Rome, and
Ephesus and Jerusalem, and Patmos. Tyranny
/ issued CdiCts against il, and inldcity put out
the tongue, and Muhammcdanism from its
mosques hurled its ana Eemasis but the old
Bible still lived. 1t crossed the British chan
mel and was greeted 10y Wickliffe and james |.
1t crossed the Atlantic and struck Plymouth
EOck, until like that If lIorCh il pushed with
blesscdncss. Churches aud asylums gathered
all along its way, ringing their bells and
stretching out their hands Of blessing and
every Sabbath there are ten thousand heralds
of the cross with their hands on this open,
grand, free, old English Bible. But it will not
have accomplished its mission until 1t has
climbed the iCymountainS OF Greenland, until
1t has gone over the granite cliffs of China,
until 1t has thrown its glow amid the Austria
Ian mines, until it has scattered its gems
among the diamond districts of Brazil, and all
thrones shall be gathered into one throne and
all crowns by the fires Of revolution shall be
melted into one crown, aud this book shall at
the very gate of heaven have waved In the
ransOmCd empires. Not until then will this
glorious Bible have accomplished its mission.
AUTIIENCITY OF TILE SCRIPTURES.
In carrying out then, the idea of my text
''Thc statutes Of the Lord are right shall
show you that the Bible is right in authent-
cation, that il is right in style, that it is right
in doctrine, that it is right in its effects
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wrote "Hamlct;' not 50 much evidence that
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earth, namely, lhe ieprosy OF sin,
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| you not reasonable enough to acknowledge
the fact that there must be some power IN the
medicine! VIII you take the evidence OF mh,
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