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you have the basso and alto, and soprano
and tenor-they are not in collision with
each other, but come in to make up the
harmOny-sO it is in this Book, there are
different parts of this great song of re-
demptiOn. The prophet comes and takes
one part, and the patriarch another part,
and the evangelist another part, and the
apostles another part, and yet they all
| come into the grand haTmOny-the song
| of "MOses and the Lamb" If God had 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 ali classes of people.
For instance, little children would read the
Bible, and God knew that, SO he allows
Matthew and Luxe TO write sweet stO-
ries about Christ with the doctors of the
law, and Christ at the well. and Christ at
the cross, SO that any little child can I'M
derstand them. Then God knew that the
| aged people would want to read the book,
and SO he allows Solomon to compact a
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 Pentateuch.
God knew that the poet would want to
read it, and so he allows Job to picture
the Heavens as a curtain: and Isaiah the
mountains as weighed in a balance,
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 the
leader of great orchestra, he lifts his
hands, crying "Praise We the Lord. Let
every thing 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
rattling 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
would want to read it, and so he inspires
Jeremiah to write: ''Oh, that my head |
were waters and mine eyes fountains Of
tears" God knew that the lovers the !
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 fire. 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
see that the Bible is suited in style, exact.
ly suited to all ages, to all conditions, to
all lands can not help repeating the con-
clusion of my text: ''The statues of the
Lord are right"
I remark again, the Bible is right in it's
doctrines. Man sinner, Christ Saviour
the two doctrines. Man must come
down-his pride, his self-righteousness,
his worldliness. Christ, the anointed,
SO IL IL Ilau ucI Deeu IOT UQ0
setting forth of the atOnement, Moses
would never have described the creation;
prophets would not have predicted; apos-
ties would not have preached. 1t seems
to me as if Jesus, in the Bible, were stand
ing on the platform in great amphithea-
ter, and as 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 blessed
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 ''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 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, good will toward men," In nv
next sentence every word weighs ton:
''GOd so loved the world that he gave hiss
only begOtten son, that whosoever be-
ieveth 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 the Bible, it
just suits the place. You put it in the
hand Of man seriously concerned about
his soul. I see people often giving to the
serious soul this and 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:
tThey just describe my feelings" He flies
to good works. Paul starts him out Of that
by the announcement: ga man is not
justified by works. He falls back in his
encouragement. 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 l
go?" and voice reaches him, saying:
''Come unto me, all We who are weary and
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
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