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that the aged people would want to rssa
the book, so he allowed Solomon TO com.
pact Q world of wisdom In that book OF
Proverbs. God knew that the historian
would want to read it, and % he alloss
Moses to give tho plain statement OF the
Pentateuch. God knew that to picture the
heavens % . curtain, and Isaiah the
mountains Is weighed in . balance, and
the waters as held in the hollow Of the
o,nnipotent hand; and God touched David
until In the latter part OF the Psalms, no
gathers great choir, standing in galleries
above each other-beasts and men
in the first gallery; above them, hills and
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 choir, reaching
from the depths of earth to the heights OF
Heaven, like the leader of great orchestra,
he lifts his hands, crying, "Praiss the
Lord! Let everything that hath breath
praise We the Lord" And all 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 We the
Lord! Let everything that hath breath
praise ye the Lord"
3. Iremark again: The Bible is right
in its doctrines. Man a sinner. Christ
Saviour-the two doctrines. Man must
come down-his pride, his self.righteous.
ness, his worldliness; Christ, the annoint.
ed. must 60 up. II it had not been for the
setting forth of the atonement, Moses
would never have described the creation;
prophets would not have preached. 1t
seems to me as IL Jesus in the Bible were
standing on platform in a great amphi-
theater, as if the prophets were behind
him, throwing light forward on his sacred
person, and as il the apostles and evange-
lists 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 ap.
plauding auditory. The Bible speaks Of
Pisgah, and Carmel, and Sinai, but makes
all mountains bow down to Calvary. The
hocks led over the Judean hills were en-
blems of the Lamb Of God that taketb
away the sins Of the world" and tho lion
leaping out of its lair was an emblem Of
"the lion of Judah's tribe" / will in my
next breath recite to you the most won.
derful sentence ever written:
This is a faithful saying and worthy OF all
acceptation. that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners.
No wonder that when Jesus was born In
Bethlehem Heaven sympathized with
earth, and 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 and good will toward men.
In my next sentence every word weighs
+ ton:
Go so loved the world that he gave HID
only begotten Son, that whatsoever believetll
in Him should not perish, but have everlast.
ing life.
Show me any other book with such q
doctrine, so high, so deep, so vast.
H. Again: The Bible is right in its effects
l do not care where you put the Bible, II
just suits the place. You put it in the
hand of man seriously concerned about
his soul. see people often giving to the
serious sonl this and that book. II may
be very we'll, but there IL no book like thu
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
files the good works; Paul starts him Out
of that by the announcement, IA man /.
not justified by the works. He falls bach
in his discouragement; the Bible starts
him up with the sentences:
Remember Lots life.
Grive not the spirit.
Flee the wrath to come
Then the man in despair begins to cry
out: "What shall do? Where shall
go!" And voice reaches him, saying:
Come unto me oil We who are weary aud
heavy laden and will give you rest
Take this Bible and place it in the handi
of men in trouble. Is there any body her,
in trouble! Alb, might better ask. ar,
l
trouble? Put this Bible in the hands Of
the troubled You find that as some Of
the best berries grow on the sh, rpes
thorns, so some of the sweetest consola'
tons of the gospel grow on the most sting.
ing affection. You thought that death
had grasped your child. o, no; it wa,
only the Heavenly Shepherd taking 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 Heaven.
Put the Bible in the school Palsied b,
the hand that would take the Bible from
the college and the school. Educate only
mans head and you make him an infdel
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 ant
all other lands shall have its 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. Unbind that wife from th
funeral pyre, for no other sacrifice I
needed since the blood of Jesus Chris
cleanseth from all sin.
l am preaching this sermon becaus
there are so many who would have yo
believe that the Bible is ON outlandis
book and obsolete. II is fresher and NOR
, intense than any book that yesterds.
came out of the great publishing house,
, Make il your guide in life and your pillov
in death.