Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-08-12

| Third remark again: The Bible Is right
! In Its doctrines. Man sinner, Christ saw
ior-the two doctrines. Man must come down
| his pride, his self righteousness, his world
| liness; Christ, the anointed, must go up. III
| il had not been for the setting forth OF the
! atonement. Moses would never have describ-
/ the creation; prophets would not have predict
| ed; apostles would not have preached. 1t
seems 10 me as # Jesus in the Bible were
standing on platform In great amphithea-
| ter, as III the prophets were behind him, throw
| ing light forward on His sacred person, and as
| If the apostles and evangelists stood before
| Him, like footlghts throwing up their lights
| into His blessed countcnance, and then as II
| all the earth and heaven were the applauding
! auditory. The Bible speaks Of Pisgah and
Carmel, and Sinai, but makes all mountains
bow down TO Calvary. The flocks led over the
Judean hills were eInblcms OF 'tbe Lamb OF
| God that taketh away the sins of the worldW
| and the lion leaping out OF his lair was an en-
| blem of 'the lion of Judahs tribe.n
| THE GRANDEsT WORDS EVER WRITTEN.
will In my next breath recite to you the
| most wonderful sentence ever written: This
| is a faithful saying and worthy Of all acccpta-
| ton, that Christ Jesus came into the world to
! save sinncrsn No wonder that when Jesus
was born In Bethlehem heaven sympathzed
| with earth and a wave OF joy dashed clear
| over the battlements and dripped upon the
| shepherds In the words: ''Glory to God In the
| highest and on earth peace, good viii towards
men," In my text every word weighs ton:
| "God so loved the world that he gave his only
| begotten son, that whosoever believeth In Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life."
| Show me any other book with such a doctrine,
| SO high, so deep, so vast
Fourth--Again: The Bible Is right in its ef
| fects. ] do not care where you put the Bible,
| 1t just suits the place. You put 1t in the hand
| of man seriously concerned about his soul.
| / see people often giving to the serious soul
| this and that book. 1t may be very well, but
there is no book like the Bible. He reads the
| commandments and pleads to the Indictment.
| "Guilty." He takes up the Psalms OF David
| and SAYS. "They just describe my feelings"
| He flies to good works. Paul starts him out of
| that by the announcement: "a man is not jus
| titled by works. He falls back in his diseour-
agemcnt; the Bible starts him up with the
| sentences: "Remember Lots wife, 'Grieve
not the Spirit" 'sFce the wrath to come"
| Then the man in despair begins to cry out:
| "What shall ] do! where shall gop' and
voice reaches him sayingi "Come unto me
all ye who are weary and heavy laden and 1
| will give you rest" .
| CONSOLATION TO ALL SUFFERERS.
Take this Bible and place 1t in the hands OF
men in trouble. Is there anybody here In
| troubled All, might better ask are there any
| here who have never been in trouble. Put
| this Bible in the hands of the troubled. You
find that as some Of the best berries grow on
| the sharpest thorns, so some Of the sweetest
| consultations of the Gospel grow on the most
| singing Affections. You thought that death
|
| the heavenly shepherd taking lamb out of
| the cold Christ bent over YOU as you held
the child in your lap and putting his arms
gently around the little one, said: ''Of such
| Is the Kingdom OF heaven"
| Put the Bible I'm the school. Palsied be the
| hand that would take the Bible from the col
lege and the school. Educate only mans
head and you make him an infdel. Educate
| only mans heart and YOU make him
fanatic. Educate them both together and you
have the nobIest work of God. An educated
mind without moral principle is a ship with
out helm, a rushing rail train without brakes
or reversing rol to control the speed Put the
| Bible in the family There it lies on the table,
| an unlimited power Polygamy and unscrip-
! tural divorce are prohibited Parents are
kind and faithful. children polite and obedi-
| emit Domestic sorrows lcssoned by being di-
| vidcd ioys increased by being multiplied. o,
| father, d. mother, take down that long-neg-
| lectel Bible and read IL Yourselves and let
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| Shlpboard till all parts OF this land ana all
| other lands shall have its illumination, This
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