The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

lam also amazed as he variety Of The
Book. Mind you, NOT coutradiction q
collision, but variety. Just - IN the song
you have the basso and alto, and soprano
and tenOr-they are mot In collision with
each other, but come In to mako mp tho
'harm0ny-so 1t Is in this Book, there arc
different parts Of this great song Of re-
demption. Tho prophet comes and takes
ono part, and the patriarch another part
and the evangelist another part, and the
apostles another part, and yet they Al
come into the grand harmony-the song
OF "Mosos and the Lamb" nGod bad In.
spired men Of the Same temperament TO
write this Book it might have BEEN
monotOnOus; but David, and Isaiah, and
Peter, and Job, and Ezekiel, and Paul,
and John, were men Of different tempera-
ments, and so, when God inspired them to
write, they wrote in their own style. God
prepared the Book for all classes Of people.
For instance, little children would read tho
Bible, and God knew that, so he allows
Matthew and Luke to write sweet sto-
ries about Christ with the doctors Of tho
law, and Christ at the we'll, and Christ at
the cross, SO that any little child can un-
derstand them. Then God knew that the
aged people would want to read the book,
and so he allows Solomon to compact .
world Of wisdom in that 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 Pcntateuch.
God knew that the poet would want to
read it, and SO he allows job to plctur
the Heavens as q curtain; and Isaiah tho
1n1n
and the waters as held in the
hollow Of the Omnipotent hand; and
God touched David until, in the lat
ter 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 mountains;
above them, fire and hail and tempest;
above them, sun, moon and stars
of light; and then, on the high
est 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 tho
leader Of great orchestra, he lifts his
hands, crying 'Praise We the Lord. Let
every thing that hath breath praise ye the
LOrd;" and all earthly creatures in their
song, and mountains with their waving
rafting hail, and stars on all their tremb-
ling harps Of light, and angels on their
thrones, respond in magnificent acclaim:
"Praise We the Lord. Let every thing that
hath breath praise the Lord" God knew
that the rensive and complaining world
would want to read it, and SO he inspires
jeremiah to write: ooh, that my head
were waters and mine eyes fountains OF
H. H.
wild, the romantic, and the strange would
want to read it, SO he lets Ezekiel
write Of mysterious rolls, and winged
creatures, and flying wheels Of fro. God
prepared it for all zones-fOr the arctic
and the tropics as well as for the temper
ate zone. Cold-blooded 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 Arab
ian would read it on his dromedary, and
the Laplander seated on the swift sled,
and the herdsman Of Holland guarding
the cattle in the grass, and the Swiss girl
reclining amid Alpine crags. Oh, when I
see that the Bible is suited in style, exact
ly suited to all ages, to all conditions, to
all lands, L can not help repeating the con-
Lord are right"
I remark again, the Bible is right in its
doctrines. Man sinner, Christ Saviour
the two doctrines. Man must come
down-his pride, his self-righteOusness,
his wOrldliness. Christ, the anointed,
must 60 up. If it had not been for the
setting forth Of the atonement, Moses
would never have described the creation;
prophets would not have predicted; apos-
ties would not have preached. It seems
to me as if Jesus, in the Bible. were stand
ing on the platform in great amphithea-
ter, and rs if the prophets were behind
him, throwing light forward on His sacred
person; and as if the apostles and evan
gelists stood before Him, like foOt-lights
throwing Up their light into His blessez
cOuntenance; and then as If 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 fOcks led
over the Judean hills were emblems
Of s'the Lamb Of God that taketh away
the sin Of the world;" and the lion leap
ing out Of its lair was an emblem Of "the
lion of Judah's tribe" I will, in my next
breath. recite to you the most wonderful
sentence ever written: "This is 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 SYM
pathized with earth, and . wave az 10y
dashed clear over the battlements and
dripped upon the shepherds in the words:
''Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men," In my
next sentence every word weighs a ton:
'God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son.. that whosoever be-
lieveth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life" Show me any other
book with such q doctrine-so high, 90
deep, so vast.
Again, the Bible is right in its effects. I
do not care where you put the Bible, 1t
Just suits the place. You put it 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 we'll: but there is no book like the
Bible. He reads the commandments, and
pleads to the Indictment "guilty." He
takes ND the Psalms Of David and says:
SThey Just describe my feelings" He flies
to good works. Paul starts him out Of that
by the announcements: "a man is not
justified by works." He falls back in his
The Bible starts him up
with the sentence; ''Remember Lots wife.
Grieve not the Spirit. Flee the wrath to
come" Then the man in despair begins to
CRY out: "What shall do? Where shall
go:" and o voice reaches him, saying:
s'Come unto me, all ye who are weary anc
heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest"
Take this Bible, and place It in the
hands Of men in trouble: Is there any
body here in trouble: All! might better
ask, are there any here who have never
been in trouble: Put this Bible in the
hopda ~ the troubled Won find that a.