Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-02

would have gone down under these cease
less fires Of oppositionG
Further, suppose that there was o great
pestilence going over the earth, and
hundreds I'll thousands OF men were
DYING on THAT rEsTILENcf,
and some one should find medicine that
cured IA, 600 people, would not every
body acknowledge that that must be
good medicne2 Why, some one would
say; "Do you deny itf There have
been 10000 people cured by IT," !
simply state the fact that there have been
hundreds OF thousands OF Christian men
and women who say they have felt the
I truthfalness Of that book and Its power
( in their souls. IL has cared them OF the
worst ieprogy that ever came down on
our earth, namely, the leprosy OF sin;
/ and II can point you 10 multltudes who
say they have felt the power OF that cure,
are YOU not reasonable enough to ac-
knowledge the fact that there must be
some power 10 the gnediciner VIII you
take the evidence of millions OF patients
who have been cured, or will you take
/ the evidence of the skeptic who stands
aloof aud confesses that he never took the
medlcineP
Tine bible lntlmates that there was n
city called Petra, built out Of solid rock
| Inhdelity scoffed at 1t. "Wherc
| is your city of Petray" Buck
hardt and Laborde went forth in their ex-
ploratlons and they came upon that very
city. The mountains stand around like
giants guarding the tomb where the city
Is buried. They find street In that city
six miles long, where once flashed I'M
perlal pomp and which echoed with the
laughter Of llghthearted mirth on It's
way
10 THE TuEATEg.
on temples fashioned out OF colored
stones, some OF which have blushed into
the crimson OF the rose, and some Of
which have paled into the Wilderness of
the lily--aye, on column, and pediment,
and entablature, and statuary, God writes
the truth Of the bible,
The Bible says that Sodom and
Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and
birthstone. "Absmd, ~ inddels year after
year said. at is positively absurd that
they could have been destroyed by brim-
stone. There Is nothing In the elements
TO cause such shower OF death as that.
Lieut. Lynch think he was the first
man who went out on the discovery, but
he has been followed by several others.
Lieut.. Lynch went out In exploration and
came To- the Dead Sea, which, by con-
yulsion OF nature, has oyerllown the place
where the cities once stood. lie sank his
fathoming line aud 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 destruction of those cities or the
skeptics who for ages scoffed at it2
The bible says there was city called
Nineyeh, and that IL was three days Jour
ney around 1t, and that 1t should
be destroyed by fire and water.
"Absurd,n cried out hundreds Of voices
for many years, 'no such city was ever
built that IL would take three days
journey to 20 around. Besides, IL could
not be destroyed by lire and water; they
are antagonistic elements. But Layard,
Botta and Keith go ont, and by their ex.
plorations they lind that city Of Nlneveh,
and they tell us that by their own expe-
riment It Is three days journey around,
according to the old estimate OF days
journey, and that It was literally de-
stroyed by fire and water--two antagon-
istlc elements--a part OF the city having
been inundated by the river Tigris, the
brick material In those times being dried
clay Instead OF burned, while in other
parts they find the remains Of the fire in
heaps OF charcoal that have been eXca-
waited and In the calcined slabs of gypsum
Who was right, the bible or in1delity?
Moses intimated that they had vine
yards in Egypt, absurd" cried hun.
dreds OF voices; "you can't raise grapes
in Egypt or, II you can, IL is very
great exception that you can raise them"
But the traveller goes down, and in the
backgrounds vaults Of Elllthya he finds
painted on the wall all the process of
tending the vines and treadlng out the
grapes;
IT Is ALL THERE,
Familiarity sketched by people who evi-
IDENTIFY knew all about ID, and saw it all
about them every day; and in those un-
foreground vaults there are vases still en-
crusted with the settings OF the wine.
You see the vine did grow in Egypt,
whether It grows there now or not.
| Thus you see that while God wrote the
bible, at the same time lie wrote this
commentary, that "statutes OF the Lord
are right" on leaves of rock and shell,
bound In clasps OF metal, and lying on
mountain tables and In the ioweled vase
OF the sea, In authenticity and IN gem
uineness the statutes Of the Lord are
right
.. Again; The bible is right In style.
know there are a great many people
who think IL Is merely a collection OF
genealogical tables aud dry facts That Is
because they do not know how TO read
the book You take up the most In
teresting novel that was ever written, and
| II you commence at the 400th page to-day,
and tomorrow at the 900th and the mex,
! day at the first page, how much sense or
interest would you get from Il? Yet that
is the very process TO which the bible Is
subjected every day. An angel from
heaven, reading the bible In that way,
could not understand IT. The bible, like
all other palaces, has door by which TO
enter, and door by which TO go out.
| Genesis is the door 10 go In, and Revela-
ton the door to 90 ont
These Epistles OF Paul the Apostle are
merely letters written, folded up and
| sent by postmen 10 the different
churches Do you read other letters