The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-27
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have been all Fight
30 all tho strange things In the Bible can
81 explained II you with TO have them ex-
claimed. And you can build them Into O
beautiful and hea hfu ire for your hearth.
DR. you can with them put your immortal In.
.erests into confederation. But you had
octter decide about the veraclty OF the
Bible very soon. / want this morning 10
caution you against put ing OF making up
your mind about this book. Ever since
i772 there has been great discussion as to
who was the author Of Junius Letters.
chose letters 80 full Of sarca m and vituper'
alton and power The whole English nation
stirred up with 1t. More than hundred
volumes written to discuss that questi N,
"Whc was JuniusP who wrote Il let
a estion TO discuss, but still. after all, II
makes but little practical difference TO you
and TO me who Junius was whe her Sir
Philip Francis or Lord Chatham, or John
Horne Tooke, or Horace Walpole or Henry
Grattan, or any OF the forty-four men
who were seriously char red with the
authorship. But u is an ab orbing question,
IL Is a practical question, 1t Is an over
| whelming question to you and to me, the
authorship Of this Holv Bib'e-whether the
Lord God of heaven aud earth, or q pack
| Of dupes, scoundrels or imposters. We can
not afford to adjourn that question week,
or day, or nn hour, any moe than sea
captain can afford say: "Well, this Is
very dark night. have really lost my bear
| lngs; there Is light out there. i don't
| know whether II is lighthouse or false
light on tho hore. don't know what II Is;
but Ill just go TO sleep, and In the morning
| I'll find out.n In the morning the vessel
might be on the rocks and the beach strewn
with the white faces OF the dead crew. The
time for that sea captain TO find out about
che lighthouse Is before he goes to sleep.
o, my frields. | want you TO understand
that In our deibe ~ations about this Bible
we are not at I'm anchorage, but we are
ralidly coming toward the coast, coming
with all the furnaces ablaze. coming at the
rate Of seventy heart-throbs minute and
mu know whether II is going 70 be har-
bnr or shipwreck.
was 50 glad TO read In the papers OF the
fpct that the steamship Edam had come
safely into harbor. A week before the Per-
sian Monarch, p owing its way toward the
Narrows, O hl ndred nj es out, saw signuls
OF distress, bore down upon the vess !, and
found II was The steamship Edam. She bad
lost her prop,ller She had two hundred
passengers on board. The mercful captain
OF the Persian Monarch endeavorei 10 bring
her in but I o tow line broke. He fastened
IL again, but I sea was rough and tue tow
line broke again. Then the night came on
and the nero full captain Of the Persian
Monarch lay TO-" thinking In the morning
he could give r. scue 20 the passengers.
The morning cine, but during the night
the steamship Edam had di appeared,
and the captain of the Persian Monarch
brought his ssel into harbor, SAYING how
sad he felt because he could not give COM
plete rescue TO that lost ship am glad
that afterward another vessel saw her and
brought her into sa ETY.. But when / saw
the story Of thut steamship Edam drifting
drifting, drifting do not know where, ou'
with no rudder, no lighthouse no harbQr
no help said: THAT Is a skeptic, that Il
an intdel, drifting, drifting, drifting, moi
knowing where he drifts" And then
when / thought OF the Persian Mon
: arch anchored in harbor, said: "Tha
Is q Christian; that Is man who doe:
all he can on the way, crossing tn
sec to help others, coming perhsp
through very rough voyage into the har
Dor, there safe and safe forever" Would y
God that there might be some one 10 day VIII
', would 20 forth and bring in these souls tina
are drifting. In this assembage how man
q score shall say or hundred. or thou
) sandi-not quite certain about tho truth
,, the Bible, not certain about any thing
Drifting, drifting. drifting. o, bow
would like TO tow them inl ! throl
you this cable. Lay hold Of that csbl
Of the gospel Lay hold Of IT, invit
you all In. The harbor is wide enough
large enough for all the shipping. Come IN
o, you wanderers on the deep. Drift n
more. drift no more. Come into tho harbor
See the glorious lighthouse Of the gospe
, Peace on earth, good will to men" Com
, into the harbor. God grant that II may b
| said Of all OF you W are now drifting !
i your unbelief as II might have been said
the passengers Of the steamship Edam, an
, as II was said centuries ago OF the wrecke
corn ship OF Alexandria, ut came 70 pas
| .k.& shn., all aaaatAa.1 aaf, N tand ~