Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-14

w ihbooll0u NiAtplito 1fpt ''h' N'N'
will this glorious Bible have accom-
its mission.
In carrying out. then, the idea Of my
text-"The statutes Of the Lord are
right shall show you that the Bible
is right in authorization, that it is
in style, that it is right in doc
trine, that it is right in its effects.
/. Can YOU doubt the authenticity of
the scriptures There is not SO much
evidence that Walter Scott wrote 1.-The
Lady of the Lake. not so much evil
dence that SHAKESPEARE wrote Hamlet
not SO much evidence that Milton wrote
paradise Lost" AS there is evidence
that the Lord God Almighty. By the
hands of the prophets, eyangelists and
apostles, wrote this book.
Suppose IL book 10 be written
which came in conflict with a great
many things, and was written by bad
men or imposters, how long would
such a book standp Il would be scout
ed by everybody. And say that if
that
had been IN imposition: or il it had
not been written by the men who said
tEey wrote it.; if it had been a mere
collection Of fa~lsehoods, do you not
suppose that I. would have been imme-
diately rejected by the peopleP II Job
and Isaiah, and jeremiah, and Paul,
| and Peter and John were impostors,
they would have been secuted by gem
| erations and nations. IL that book has
come down through fires of centuries
| without n scar, il is because there is
nothing in it d~estructible.
How near have they come to destroy
ing the BibleP When they began their
opposition there were two or three
thousand copies OF it. Now there are
two hundred millions, as far MS 1 can
calculate. These Bible truths, not
wlthstanding all the opposition, have
gone into al languages-into the phil
osophic Greek, the flowing Italian, the
graceful German. the passionate French
the picturesque Indian, and the ex-
haustless Anglo-Saxon.
Under the painters pencil the birth
tDAl VIC Vi h,lDAlion anu lilt itSR'f tI1-
ton glow on the walls Of palaces; or
under the engraver's knife speak from
the aanlcl of the mountain cabin;while
stones, touched by the scuiptor's chisel,
START up into preaching apostles and
| ascending martyrs. Now. do you not
Suppose, if that book had been an inn
position and a ~falsehood. il would have
gone down under these ceaseless fires
of oppositionP
Further, suppose that there was a
great pestilence going Owe the earth,
and hundreds of thousands Of men
were dying of that pestilence, and
some one should lind a medicine that
cured ten thousand people. would not
everybody acknowledge that that must
be a good incidence Why, some one
would say: "Do you deny itp There
have been ten thousand people cured
by e." | simply state the fact that
there have been hundreds of thousands
of
CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN
who say they have felt the truthfulncsS
] VI llldl booh Ilb iS PoHti hH tfftif
souls. 1t has cured them of the worst
leprosy that ever came down on oul
earth, namely, the leprosy of sin; and
if | can point YOU to multitudes who
say they have felt the power of that
cure, are you not reasonable enough tC
acknowledge the act that there must
be some power in the medicinep Viii
you take the evidence of millions Of
patients who have been cured, or will
! you take the evidence of the skepti,
who stands aloof and confesses that he
never took the medicineP
The Bible intimates that there was 3
city called Petra, built ont of solid
rock. Inidelity scoiled at it. ''Wher,
is your city of Petra?' Buckhardt
and Laborde went forth in their explor.
atoms and they came upon that very
city. The mountains stand around
like giants guarding the tomb where
the city is buried. They find a street
in that city six miles long, where once
flashed imperial pomp and which
echoed with the laughter of light
hearted mirth on IFS way to the theatre,
On temples fashioned out of colored
stones-some of which have blushed
into the crimson of the rose, and som,
of which have paled into the whiteness
of the ~lily--aye, on column, and pedi.
ment, and entablature, and statuary,
GOD WRITES THE TRUTH OF THAT BIBLE,
The Bible saws that Sodom and Go.
morrah were lpstrovp1 by fire and
birthstone. Absurd" idfdels year
after year said; lit is positively absurd
that they could have been destroyed by
birthstone. There is nothing IN the
elements TO cause such II shower OF
| death rs that" Lieutenant Lynch
think he was the first man who went
| out on the discovery, but he has been
followed by many others-Lieutenant
| Lynch went out in exploration and
came TO the Dead Sea, which, by a con-
| vulsion Of nature. has overflown the
place where the cities once stood. He
sank his fathoming line and brought
up from the bottom of the Dead Sea
| great masses of sulphur, remnants of
that very tempest that swept Sodom
and Gomorrah to ruin. Who was
right. the Bible that announced the de-
| struction of those cities or the skeptics
who for ages scohed at itp
The Bible says there was a city called
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