The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

read the Bible, and God knew that, so he
allows Mathew and Luke to write sweet
rtories about Christ with the doctors of the
law, and Christ at the well; and Christ at tho
them. Then God knew that the aged people
would want to read the book, SO He allows
Solomon to compact q world OF wisdom In
hat Book Of Proverbs. God knew that the
historian would want to read it, and SO he
allows Moses to give the plain statement Of
the Pentateuch. God knew that the poet
would want to read it, and 80 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 hand and God
touched David until in the latter Part Of
The Psalms he gathered a great choir
standing in the galleries above each other
oeast and man in the first gallery above them.
hills and mountains: above them, fire and
nail and tempest; e.hove them, sun and
moon and stars Of light; and or the highest
gallery arrays the hosts of angels; and
ing from the depths of earth to the heights
Of Heaven, like the leader of great orches-
Lord! Let everything that hath breath praise
the Lord! And all earthly creatures in
their songs, and mountains with their waving
cedars, and tempssts i'll their thunder, and
rafting hail. and stars on oil their trembling
harps of light, and angels on their thrones,
respond in magnificent acclaim: Praise ye
IL u &c eSSlJ C1luS U.l1U uoGu
praise the Lord"
God knew that the p~ensive and COMPLAIN
Ing world would want to read it. and so he
inspires Jeremiah to write: ooh. that my
head were waters and mine eyes fountains of
tears!" Goo knew that the lovers of the
wild. the romantic IN the strange would
want to real it, so He les Ezekiel write Of
mysterious rolls and winged creatures and
flying wheels of fire. God prepared it for all
zones,for the Arctic and Tropic: as we'll as
for the, Temparata ZOna Cold -h1ooJad
Greenlanders would find much to interest
them, and the tanned inhabitants at the
Equator would find his passionate nature
boil with the vehemence Of Heavenly truth.
The Arabian would real it on his drome-
dairy, and tho LaDlander seated on the swift
sled, and the herdsman Of Holland guarding
the cattle in the grass, and the Swiss girl re-
Ginning mid Anime crags. O, when I see
that the Bible is suited in stvle, exactly
suited. to oil ages. to all conditions, to all
lands, I can not help repeating the conclusion
OF my text: "The statutes Of the Lord are
right"
3. remark again: The Bible is right in its
doctrines Man. q sinner; Christ, q savior
the two doctrines. Man must come down
his pride. his self-righteousness. his world!i-
ness; Christ, the Anointed. must &, uu. If it
had not been for the satt ;ng forth Of the
Atonement Moses woald never haze de-
scr1bed tho Creations: prophets would not
have predicted; apostles would not have
preached 1t seems to me as If Jesus and
the Bib'e were standing on q platform in a
great amph,thenter ms If tae prophets
were behind Him throwing light for
ward on His sacred person, nni as IL
the apostles and evangelistS stool before Him
like footlights throwing up Their light into
His blessed countenance, and then as If all
the earth and heaven were the a%pplauding
auditory, the Bible speaks OF Pisgah n
Carmel and Sinai, but makes all mountains
bow down to Calvary. The hocks led over til,
Ludean hills were emblems Of 'the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sins of the world; ="
and the lion lesping out of its lair, was
N emblem Of 1.-The lion of Judahs tribe"
l will In my next breath recite to you the
most won 'erful sentence ever written:
This is a faithful saying and worthy Of all
accentation. that Christ Jesus. cume iuto the
when Jesus was torn in Bethlehem Heaven
sympathized with earth. and q wave of 10y
dashed clear overth batt!ements and dripped
upon the Shepherds in the words: "Glory to
will toward men," In my next sentence every
word weighs q ton "Goa SO loved the world
that He gave His only berotten Son. that
whatsoever .believeth in Him should not
any other book with such a doctrine-so high,
SO deep. so vast!
4. Again: the Bib is right in its effects.
do not care where yol put the Bible, it Just
suits the place You put it in the hand Of a
man seriously concerned about his soul. I see
people often giving to the serious soul this
and that book. 1t may very we'll; but there
is no book like the Bible. He reads the Com
msndments; and pleads to the indictment.
Guilty" He takes up the Psalms of David,
aud says: They just describe nv feel
ings." He flies to good works; Paul starts
him out of that by the enent: "A
man l. not justified by works" He falls
hack in his encouragement; the Bible starts
him u with the sentences: Remember
Lots wife" 'Grieve not the Spirit" 'sFlee
the Wrath to Come" Then the man in de-
spair begins to CIV out: what shall I do,
Where shall I go" and a voice reaches him
saying: Come unto me. all We who are
rest" 'ou
Take this Bible and place it in the hands Of
men in TROUBLES! Is there anybody here In
trouhle' All, might better ask are there
any here who have never been in troubled
Put this Bible in tn. hands Of the troubled.
You find that as some Of the best berries
grow on the sharpsSt thorns, SO some of the
sweetest consultations Of fhe gospel grow on
the most singing affection. You thought
It was only the H eavep;y Shepherd taking a
lamb out of the cold. Christ bent over You
as you held the child in your lap. and putting
His arms gently around thu little one, said:
"Of such j. the kingdom of heaven"
Put the Bible in the school. Palsied be the
hand that would take the Bible from the COL
lege aud the S,hool. Educate only n mans
head and You make him an intdel. Educate
only o mans heart md you make him L
fanatic. Educate them both together, aud
you have the n ,blest work of Col. An eiu-
Gated mind without moral principle, is a ship
without a helm, n rushing rail train without
brakes or reversing rod to control the speed.
Fnt the Bible in thsf a niiy. There it lies on the
nnscriptural divorce are prohibited. Parents
ne kind and faithful. children polite and
o5edient. Domestic SORROWS lessened by be-
ing divided. joys increased bv being multi
rIfn Nh III u l. l~-. Al.~A
long.neylected Bible and read it yourselves
and let your children read it! Put the Bible
on the rail-train and on shipb bard, till all
parts Of this lanl and all other lands shall