The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-05

write this Book 1t might have bee1
monotOnous: but David, and Isaiah, anu
| Peter, and Job, and Ezekiel, and Paul,
! and John, were men Of different temp"ra-
mcnts, aud 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 the
Bible, and God knew that, so he allows
! Matthew and Luke to write sweet sto-
RES about Christ with the doctors Of the
| law, and Christ at the well, and Christ at
the cross, so thnt any little child can un-
| derstand them. Then God knew that tho
: aged people would want to read the booK,
I and so 10 allows SOlom6T 70 compact
! world Of wisdom i'll that Book GT proverbs.
! God knew that the Historian wOLd want
! 10 read il. and so he allows Moses to glye
! the plain statement Of the Pentatcuch|
! God knew that the poet would want to
| read H., and so he allows Job to picture
| the Heavens as a cti-tain: and Isaiah the
mountains as weighed IN balance,
! and the waters as held in tho
! hollow OF the Onnipotent hand; ana
! God touched David until. in the lat
! ter part of the Psalms, he gathers a
! great choir standing in galleries above
! each othcr--beasts and men IN the hrss
! gallery: above them hills and mountains;
| above them. fire and hail and tempest
| above them. SUN. moon and stars
/ 3. light: and then, on the high
est gallery, arrays the hosts OF
! angels; end then. standing before this
! great choir, reaching from the depths OF
earth 70 the heights Of Heaven, like the
leader of great orchestra he lifts MS
/ hands. crying "fraise ye the Lord. Leb
every thing that hath breath praise ye the
Lord" and all earthly creatures IN their
song. and mountains with their waving
| tedars, and tempests in their thunder ana
rattlina hail, and stars on all their treTnh-
ling harps If light. and angels on their
thrones. respond ip magnificent acclaim:
"Fraisa We the Lord. Let every thing that
hath breath praise the Lord" God knew
that the pensivc md complaining world
would want to read ii. and 50 he inspires
! Jeremiah to write: "Oh, that my head
were waters and mine eyes fountafns OF
tears" God knew that the lovers the
wiia, the romantic, and the strange would
| want to read it, so he lets Ezekiel
write Of mysterious rolls, and winged
creatures. and flying Fheels of fire. God
prepared it for all zoncs-for the arctic
and the tropics as well as for the temper
ate zone. Cold-blooded Grecnlanders
would fiud much to interest them, and the
| tanned inhabitants ar the equator would
find his passionate nature boil with the
vehcmcnce of heavenly truth. The Arab
ian would read it on his dromedary, and
the LHplander seated on the swift Sled
and the herdsman of Holland guarding
the cattle in the grass, and the Swiss gir}
reclining amid Alpine crags. Oh, when |
see that the Bible Is suited in style, exact
lv suited to all ages, to all copdltions, to
all lands,I can not help repeating the con
| clusion Of my text; The statues Of the
Lord ere right"
| remark again the Bible IS right in its
doctrines. Man q sinner, Christ saviour
Ike two doctrines Nan must come
down-his pride, his righteousness,
his worldlineSs. Christ, the anointed,
must 90 up If it had not been for the
setting forth Of the at0ncmcnt, Moses
would never haze described the creation;
prophets would not have predicted: apos-
Ties would not have preached. 1t seems
TO me as if Jesus, in tn, Bible, wore stand"
ING on the platform in great Glapinthca-
ter, and a. If the prophets We're PENN"
him. throwing light forward on His sacred
person; and rs il the apostles and evan
gelists stood before Him. like foot-lights
throwing up their light into His blessed
countenance: and then as if all the earth
The Bible speaks of Pisgah and Carmel
and Sinai, but makes all mountains bow
down 10 Calvary. The fOcSs led
over the Judean hills We're emblems
0t "the Lamb OF God that taketh away
the sin Of the world" and tine lion leap
ing out of its lair was an emblem OF 'th"
lion of Judah's tribe" l WILL III my next
breath, recite to you the most wonderful
sentence ever written: This Is a faithful
saying, and worthy of all accept9tloh' tha'
Christ Jesus came into the world II save
sinners" No wonder that when JESUS
was born in Bethlehem Heaven SYM
pathiZed with earth, and wave of JOY
dashed clear over the battlements and
dripped upon the shepherds III the words;
"GlOry to God in the highest, and on earth
peace. good will toward men" In my
next sentence every word weighs ton:
God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever be-
lievcth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life." Show me any other
book with such a dOctrine-so high, so
deep, so vast.
Again, the Bible is right in its effects.
do not care where you put tie Bible, it
Just suits the place. You put it in the
hand of q man seriously concerned about
his soul. see people often giving to the
serious soul this and that book. 1t may bo
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
to good works. Paul starts him out Of that
by the announcements: ga man is not
justified by works" He falls back in his
discouragement. 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 a voice reaches him, saying:
Como unto me, all We who are weary and
heavy laden, and l 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
hands of the troubled. You find that as
some OF the best berries grow on the
| sharpest thorns, so some of the sweetest
consultations of the Gospel grow on the
most stinging Affections. You thought
that death had grasped your child. Oh,
no; it was only the heavenly shepherd
taking the lamb out of the cold. Christ
, bent over you as you held the child in
your lap and putting his arms gently
around the little one said: "Of such is
, the kingdom of Heaven" Put the Bible
in the school. Palsied be the hand that
would take the Bible from the college
and the school. Educate only mans