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Proverbs. God knaw that the historian
would want to read it, and SO he allows
Moses to give the plain statement of the
Pentateuch. God knew that to picture the
heavens as curtain, and Isaiah the
mountains as weighed in a balance, and
the waters as held in the hollow of the
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 and
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 choir, reaching
from the depths of earth to the heights OF
Heaven, like the leader of a great orchestra,
he lifts his hands, crying, "Praise the
Lord! Let every thing that hath breath
praise ye the Lordv And oil earthly
creatures in their song, and mountains
with their waving cedars, and tempests
in their thunder, and rafting hail, and
stars on all their trembling harps of light,
and angels on their thrones, respond in
magnificent acclaim: "Praise ye the
Lord! Let every ything that hath breath
praise ye the Lord" Er
g. remark again: The Bible is right
in its doctrines. Man a sinner, Christ
Savour-the two doctrines. Man must
come down-his pride, his self.righteous-
ness, his wo,ldliness; Christ, the annoint-
ed. must go up. If it had not been for the
setting forth OF the alonemeut, Moses
would never have described the creation;
prophets would not have preached. 1t
seems to me as if Jesus in the Bible were
standing on platform in a great amphi-
theater, as if the prophets ware behind
him, throwing light forward on his sacred
person, and as if the apostles and evange-
lists stood before him, like foot
lights throwing up their light into
his blessed countenance, and then as if all
the earth and Heaven were the ap-
p'auding auditory. The Bills speaks of
Pisgah, aud Carmel, aud Sinai, but makes
all noun. ins bow down to Calvary. The
flocks lei over the Judean hills were en-
blems Of the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins Of the world" anil the lion
leaping out of its lair was an emblem of
''the lion of Judah's tribe" / will in my
next breath rscito to You the most won
derful sentence ever written:
This is faithful saying and worthy Of all
acccptation. that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, us
No wonder that when Jesus was born in
Bethlehem Hea zen sympathized with
over the battlemenis and dripped upon the
shepherds in the words:
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace and good will toward men.
In my next sentence every word weighs
| ton:
/ go so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believetli
| in Him should not perish, but have everlast-
Ing life.
Show me any other book with such a
doctrine, so high, so deep, so vast.
4. Again: The Bible is right in its effects,
do not care where you put the Bible, il
| just suits the place. You put it in the
| hand of man seriously concerned about
his soul. 1 see people often giving to the
| serious soul this and that book. 1t may
| be very we'll, 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 the good works; Paul starts him ont
| of that by the announcement, "A man is
not justified by the works. He falls bach
in his Encouragement; the Billie starts
| him up with the sentences:
| Remember Lots life.
GHive not the spirit.
| Flee the wrath to come.
| Then the man in despair begins to cry
| out: "What shall / do? Where shall
| gos" And voice reaches him. saying:
Come unto me all ye who are weary and
heavy laden and will give you rest.
Take this Billie and place it in the hand:
of men in trouble. Is there any body here
| in trouble! All, might better ask, or,
there any here WHO have never been il
trouble? Put this Bible in the bands o
the troubled. You find that as some o
the best berries grow on the sh rpes
thorns, SO some of the sweetest consola
tions of the gospel grow on the most sting.
ing affection. You thought that death
had grasped your child. o, no; it wal
only the Heavenly Shepherd taking a laml
out of the cold. Christ bent over you al
| you held the child in your lap, and put
ting his arms gently around the little one
| said:
OF such Is the Kingdom of Eenven.
| Put the Bible in the school Palsied b.
the band that would take the Billie from
the college and the school. Educate only
a mans head and you make him an infidel
Educate only mans heart and you MAX
him fanatic. Educate them both to
gether and you have the noblest work o
God.
Put the Bible on the rail train and OF
ship board, till all parts Of this land an'
oil other lands shall have it's illumination
| This hour there rises the heather worship
and in the face Of this days sun smoke
the blood of human sacrifice. Give then
the Bible. Unhind that wife from tb
funeral pyre, for no other sacrifice
needed since the blood of Jesus Chris
cleanseth from all sin.
/ / am preaching this sermon becaus
there are. so many who would have yo
believe that the Bible is an outiandis
book and obsolete. It is fresher and NOR
intense than any book that yesterda
came out of the great publishing house: