The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-08


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 and mount
aims; above them, fire, and hail. and tempest;
above them, sun, and moon, and stars OF lighti
and on the highest gallery arrays the host OF
angels and then, standing before the great
choir, reaching from the depths of earth to the
heights Of heaven, like the leader of great or
chestra, he lifts his hands, crying: Praise the
Lord. Let everything that hath breath, praise
ye the LordIh 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 magnif-
cent acclaim: Praise ye the Lord; Let every
thing that hath breath praise the Lord"
God knew that the pensive and complaining
world would want to read it, and so he inspires
Jeremiah to write 'Oh that my head vera
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 of mysterious rolls, and winged
creatures, and flying wheels of fire. God pre-
pared it for Eones-for the Arctic and the Tropla
as we'll as for the Temperate zone Cold.
blooded Greenlanders would find much to
interest them, and the tanned inhabitant
at the equator would find his passionate nature
boil with the vehemence of heavenly truth.
The Arabian would read it on his dronedary.
the herdsman of Holland guarding the cattle in
the grass. and the Swiss girl reclining amid
Alpine crags. Oh, when see that the Bible is
suited in style. exactly suited, to all ages. to all
conditions, to all lands. cannot help repeating
the conclusion of my texts 1.-THE statutes OF the
Lord are right
Third remark again The Bible is right in
its doctrines. Man sinner; Christ a savior-tha
two doctrines. Man must come down--his pride
his self-righteousness. his worldliness; Christ
the anointed. must go up If 1t had not been for
the setting forth of the atonement Moses would
never have described the creation proph-
cts would not have predicted; apostles
would not have preached. It seems to me as If
Jesus in the Bible were standing on platform
in great amphitheater, as if the prophets were
behind Him, throwing light forward on His
sacred person. and as if the apostles and evan
geists stood before Him. like footghts throw
ing up their light into His blessed countenance.
and then as if all the earth and heaven were the
applauding auditory The Bible speaks of Pts
gah and Carmel, and Sinai, but makes all noun
tains bow down to Calvary. The hocks led
over the Judean hills were emblems of sthe
Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the
world" and the lion leaping out of his 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: "Ths 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
Betnlehem heaven Sympathlzed with earth, aud
wave OF JOY dashed clear over the battlements
and drpped upon the shepherds in the words.
GLORY to God in the highest, and on earth peace.
good will towards men," In my next sentence
every word weighs ton: "God SO loved the world
that He gave His only begotten son, that who
soever believeth in him should not perish. but
have everlasting life" Show me any other book
with such doctrine, so high, so deep. SO vast.
Fourth-Again The Bible is right In its
effects do not care where you put the Bible
man seriously concerned about his soul. see
people often giving to the serious soul this aud
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 justified by works" He falls back
in his Encouragement; the Bible starts him up
with the sentences: Remember Lots wife,
"Grieve not the Spirit" "Flee the wrath to
GOMEZ Then the mau in despair begins to cry
voices reaches him. saying. "Come unto me, all
We who are weary and heavy laden, and will
give you rest" Take this Bible and place it in
the hands of man in trouble. Is there any
body here in trouble2 All, might better ask
are there any here who have never been ia
trouble. Put this Bible in the hands
of the troubled. You find that as some
of the best berries grow on the
SHarpeSb LuOruS, so SOME Oh the SWeebeSJ conSo-
ations of the gospel grow the most singing
affection. You thought that death had grasped
your child. Oh. no! Il was only the heavenly
shepherd taking lamb out Of the cold. Christ
bent over you as you held the child in your Jap,
and putting His arms gently around the little
one, said: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven
Palsied be the hand that would take the Bible
from the college and the school Educate only
mans head and you make him an infdel Edu.
cate only mans heart and you make him q
fanatic. Educate them both and you have the
noblest work of God. An educated mind without
moral principle is ship without helm, rush
ing rail train without brakes or reversing-rod to
control the speed. Pat the Bible in the family.
There 1t lies On the table, an unlimited power.
Polygamy and unsoriptural divorce are pro.
hibited. Parents are kind and faithful. children
polite and obedient. Domestic sorrows lessened
by being divided. joys increased by being multi
piled. o father, O mother. take down that long
neglected Bible and read it yourselves and let
your children read i'll
Put the Bible on the rail train and on ship
board. till all parts of this land and all other
lands shall have its illumination, This hour
there rises the yell of heather worship and in
the face of this days sun smokes the blood OF
human sacrifice. Give them the Bible. Unbind
that wife from the funeral pyre, for no other
sacrifice is needed since the blood Of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin.
lam preaching this sermon because there are
so many who would have you believe that the
Bible Is an outlandish book and obsolete. 1t la
fresher and more intense than any book that
houses Make it your guide in life and your pill
low in death.
Fremonts Book.
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