Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-02

talns, and searching for diamonds In
realm utterly rf1ed and ransacked.
TINS book IS the hive of all sweetness.
1t is the armory OF all well-tempered
weapons. 1t is the tower containing the
crown jewels Of the universe. 1t is the
lamp that kindles all other lights. 1t is the
home OF all majesties and sDlendors. III
is the marriage ring that unites the celes-
| tial and the terrestrial, while all the clus-
/ terlng White.rObed denizens OF the SKY
! lowering around rejoice at the nuptlals.
This bOOk-it is the wreath into which are
! twisted all garlands; it is the song into
which are struck all harmonies it is the
river into which are poured all
the great tides OF hallelulah; 1t
is the armament in which suns
/ and moons and stars and consultations
and universe and eternities wheel and
/ blaze and triumph. Where is the young
mans soul with any music in 1t that IS
not stirred with Jacobs lament, or Ma
| HUNS drge, or Habakkuk's dithyrambic,
! or PauPs march of the resurrection, or
johns anthem, where the elders, with
doXOlOgy on their faces, respond to the
/ trumpet blast Of the arcnangel as he
stands with one foot on the sea and the
other foot on the land, swearing by him
/ that liVeth forever and ever that time
/ snail be no longer?
| am also amazed at the variety OF this
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/ collision, but variety. Just as IN the
! song you have the basso and alto and
! soprano and tenor-they are not in col
/ lision with each other, but come in TO
make up the harmOny-so 1t is in this
book; there are different parts of this
| great song OF redemption. The prophet
/ comes and takes one part, and the patri-
| arch another part, and the evangelist
another part, and the apostles another
/ part, and yet they all come into the grand
| harmOny-"the song of Moses and the
| Lamb" II God had inspired men OF the
! same temperament to write this book, it
might nave been mOnOtOnous; but David,
and Isaiah, and Peter, and Job. and
| Ezekiel, and Paul, and John were men
OF different temperaments, and so, when
! God inspired them to write, they wrote in
! their own style.
God prepared the book for all classes OF
! people. For instance, little children
| would read the Bible, aud God knew that;
| SO he allows Matthew and Luke to write
| sweet stories about Christ with the doc
| tors of tue law, and Christ at the well,
and Christ at the cross, so that any little
| child can understand them. Then God
! knew that the aged people would want to
read the lbOOk, SO he allows Solomon to
compact a world of wisdom in that Book
| of Proverbs. God knew that the histOr-
! ian would want to read it. and so be al
| lows Moses to give the plain statement OF
! the Pentateuch. God knew that the poet
! would want to read it, and so he allows
| Job to picture the heavens as a curtain,
| and Isaiah the mountains as weighed in
! a balance, and the waters as held In the
! hollow of the Omnipotent hand, and God
| touched David until in the latter part Of
| the Psalms he gathers great choir
standing in galleries above each other
beasts and men in the first gallery; above
! them, hills aud mountains; above them,
fire, and hail, and tempest; above them,
sun, and moon. and stars
| OF light: and on the highest
! gallery arrays the hosts OF angels;
and then standing before this great cnoir.
reaching from the depths of earth to the
! heights of heaven, like the leader of
! great orchestra, he lifts his hands crying:
| praise the Lord. Let everything that
| hath breath, praise We the Lord" and all
| earthly creatures in their song, and noun
| talns with their waving cedars, and tenn
| pests in their thunder. and rafting hail,
aud stars on all their trembling haTps of
| light, and angels on their thrones, respond
IN magnificent acclaim: PRAISE We the
Lord. Let everything that hath breath,
praise the Lord"
God knew that the penslve and COM
planning world would want 10 read it,
and so he inspires jeremiah to write /:
son, that nay head were waters and mine
| eyes fountains of tears" God knew that
the lovers of the wild, the romantic, and
the strange would want to read it, SO he
| let's Ezekiel write ofmysterious rolls and
! winged creatures, and flying wheels Of
! fire. God prepared 1t for all ZOnes-fOr
the Arctic and the Tropic, as well as for
| the Temperate zone. Cold blOoded Green
| landers would ind much to interest them,
and the tanned inhabitants at the equator
nd hta hNsI
with the vehemence OF heavenly truth.
The Arabian would read it on his dr0me-
Diary, and the Laplander seated on the
| swift sled, and the herdsman OF Holland
| guarding the cattle in the grass, and the
Swiss girl reclining amid Alpine crags.
80, when | see that the Bible is suited in
style, exactly suited, to all ages, to all
conditions, to all lands, cannot help re-
peating the conclusion OF my text; "The
statutes of the Lord are right
3. remark again: The Bible is right
In Its doctrines. Man sinner, Christ a
saviour-the two doctrines. Man must
come down-his pride, his seli-righteous-
ness, his worldliness; Christ, the
anointed, must go up. If it had not been
for the setting forth OF the Atonement,
Moses would never have described the
creation; prophets would not have pre-
dicted; apostles would not have preached.
1t seems to me as if Jesus in the Bible
were standing on a platform in great
amphitheatre, as if the prophets were be-
hind Him, throwing light forward on His
sacred person, and as if the apostles and
evangelists stood before Him, like foot
lights throwing up their light into His
blessed countenance, and then as il
all the earth and heaven were the
applauding auditory. The Bible speaks
of Pisgah, and Carmel, and Sinai. but
makes all mountains bow down 10 Cal
vary. The tlocks led over the Judean
hills were emblems of "the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sins OF the world, :"
and the lion leapIng out of its lair was an
emblem of ''the lion of Judan's tribe" |
will IN my next breath Tecite to you the
most wonderful sentence ever written:
This is a faithful saying ana worthy Of
all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came
into the world TO save sinners" NOwon-
der that when Jesus was born in Bethle-
hem heaven sympathized with earth, and
a wave OF joy dashed clear over the bat
Elements and dripDed upon the shepherds
lnthe words: "Glory TO God in the highest
and on earth peace, good will towards
men," In my next sentence every word
weighs a ton: "God so loved the world
that lie gave His only begotten Son that
whosOeyer beleyeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life" Show
me any other book with such doctrine
so high, so deep, so vast
(. Again. The Bible Is ripht in ito