Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-08-20

allows Mathew and Luke TO writ, sweet
stories about Christ with the doctors Of the
law, and Christ at the well, and Christ at the
cross, 50 that any little child can un1erstln1
them. Then God knew that the aged people
I would want to read the book 50 Hs allows
! Solomon. to compact world OF wisdom in
that BOOK of Proverbs. God knew that tle
historian would want to al it, and so he
allows Moses to give the Tlain statement Of
the Pentateuch. God knew that the poet
woult want to reld it, aud 50 he allows
Job to picture the Heavens as a curtain,
and Isaiah, the mountains as weighed IN
balance, and the waters as held in the
hollow Of the Omnipotent hanl AMI God
touched David until in the Litter part of
the Psalms he gathered a great choir
standing in the gal!erieI above each other
beast and man in tn first gallery above them,
| hills and mountains: above them, fire and
hill and tempest; above thsm, sun and
moon and stars OF light, and OF the highest
| gallery arrays the SIS OF angels: and
then standing before the great choir, reach
! Ing from the depths of ear h t. the heights
| OF Heaven, ike the lea Ter of great orch,;-
| ira, he lifts his hands, crying: praise We ths
/ Lo"d! Let erything that hath breath nrli Q
i the Lord! And all ea'thlv creatures in
! their s)ng5.and mountains with their waving
| cedars and tenpes.s in their thunder. q I'd
! rafting hal, and stars on all their trembling
/ harps of light and angels on Their thrones.
respond in magnificent accllim Praise vo
the Lord! Let every thing that hath breath
nraise the T.ordln
| God knew that the pensive a1l conNlain-
! Ing world would want to read it, AMI 81 he
! inspires Jeremiah to write: "Oh that nv
head were waters and m ne eyes fountains of
tears" God knew that the lovers of tho
| wild the romantic au the strange would
! want t. real it, so He les Ezekiel write o.
mysterious rolls and winged creatures a1l
! flying wheels of fi"e. God prepared it for all
5 Al 1 n III
for, the Temperate Zone. Cold-hloo1e1
( GreeulauderS would find muHh to interest
then, and the tanned inhabitants at tho
| Equator would find his passionate nature
bill with the vehe nence of Heavenly truth
The Arabian woul1 real il on his drome-
dary, and the La1lauder seated on tho swift
sled, AMI the herdsnan o. Holland guarding
the cattle in the grass, and the Swiss girl re-
clining amid AlDine crags. o, when 1 seq
that the Bible is suited in stvle, exactly
suited, to all ages, to all conditions, to all
land , l can not help repeating the conclusion
of my text "The statues of the Lord are
right"
$. remark again: The Bible is right in its
| doctrines. Man. a si1uec; Christ. savior
the two doctrines Man must coma down.
his pride, his selfrighteousness, his wopldli-
ness; Christ, tho Amounted, must g,u u. Ifit
had not been for the satt ng forth of the
At9nement Moses would never have de-
! scribed thu G elti0n: prophets would not
have predicted; apostles would not have
prea he'd 1t seems to me as if Jesus and
the Bibe were standing on a platform in a
great amphitheater as il the prophets
were behind Him throwing light for
ward OF His sacred person, anl as if
the apostles and evangelist Stoo before Him
! Ike fColights throwing up Their light into
his blessed cnuntenance, AMI then as il all
the earth and heaven were the applauding
auditory, the Bible speaks OF Pisyah and
Carmel and Sinai, but makes all mountains
bow down to Calvary. The focLs led overth,
Judean h lis were emblemS o. ''the Lamb of
Col that taketh away tle sins of the world"
and the lion leaping out of its lair was
an emblem of 'the lion of Judah's tribe"
l will in my next breath recite to yoI the
most wonderful sent7nce ever written:
This is faithful saying AMI worthy of all
! a9oentat1on, that Ch"iSt Je uS cana into the
world to save Sinners No wonder that
when Jesus was born in Bethlehem Heaven
symDathized with earth. AMI O wave of Joy
dashed clear over the battlement rs and driDped
upon the sle0herdS in the words: "Glory to
God in the highest, AMI on earth peace good
will toward men" In my next sentence every
word weighs ton: "God 50 loved the world
that He gave His only berot' en- Son that
whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life" Show me
anv other book with sIC b doctrine-3o high
so deeD, so vaStl
4. AGAIN the Bible is right in It's effects.
do not care wh2r9 yo1 put the Bible, it Just
suits the place. You put j. in the hand Of
man seriously concerned abort his SOIL l SEQ
people often giving to the serious soil this
and that book. It my very we'll; but there
is no book like th9 Bible. He reals the Com
mandnents: and pleads to the Indictment,
Guilty" He takes up thu Psalm of David,
and says: The just describe ny feel
ings." He flies to good works; Pail starts
him out of that by the announce ne1t: "A
man il not it's itiei by works" He falls
hack in his Encouragement; the Bible stats
him u with the sentences: Remember
Lots wi e,o"Grieve not the Spirit ''Fleo
the Wrath to Coma" Thel thu man in de-
snar begins to crv out: "What shall do'
Where shall | go" and voice reaches him
saying: Come unto me, all We WHO are
weary and heavy ladon, and VIII give you
rest"
Take this Bible and place it in the hands of
men in trouble! Is there anybody here in
trouhle' An, might better ask are there
any here who have never been in troublel
Put this Bible in tn hands of the troubled.
Yo1 find that as some of the best berries
grow on the sharp ,st thorns, so some of the
sweetest consoation5 Of the gos0el grow on
the mos Singing affection. You thought
that death ha graSre yolr child. Oh mol
1t wa only the II avenly Shepherd taking
lamb cut OF the cod. Christ bent over YOU
as you hel the child in your Lap, and putting
H S arms gently around tn littls ons, said:
"Of su'h Is the kingdom of heaven"
Put the Bible in the rhool Palsie1 be the
hand that would take the Bible from the col
lege and the s,hool. Educate only mans
head and yol make him an infiel. E1u ate
only a mans heart and you make him
fanatic. Edncato them both together, ali
you have the II ,blest work of Col An e lu-
! Gated mind without moral principle is a shin
without helm, a rushing rail train without
brakes or reversing rod to control the SDeed.
Pat the Bible in tho ia uily. There tiles on tha
table, an Unlimited power. Pn'ygany AID
unsoriDtu"al divorce are prohibited Parents
a-e kind and faithful children polite and
! o5e1ieni. Domestic sorr0ws leSSened by he.
ing divided joys increased by being multi
nlied. Oh ia her, oh m Nthe", take d)wl that
long-ne ylectad Bbe and read it yourselves
and let your children read it Put the B bio
on the rail-train and on shiob lard, till all
parts OF this lanl AMI al othar Ian Is Shlll
have is illumination. This hour the e rises
the veil of hea hen worShi) }, and in the face
of this days sun smokes the b,ood Of human
sacrifice. Give them the Bible Unbind that
wife from the funeral prye, for n other sac
rifce is needed since the blood of jesus
Christ cleansath from all sin.
lam preaching this sermon bera1se +aare
are so many who would have you believe that
tho B BILE is an outandish book and obsolete.
1t is fre her and more intense than any book
that yesterday came out of the great publish
ing houses, Make it your guide in life AMI
your pillow in death
After the battle OF Richmond, dead
sol lier was found with his hand lying on the
open Bible. Tho summer insects hid eaten
the flesh from the hand, bit thu SIX elet0n fin
ger lay on the words: "Yea, though / walk
through the Valley Of the Shallow of Death,
] will fear no evil for Thou art with me;
Thy rod AMI Thy staff they comfort Te.n
Yes this book will become in your last DAYS,