The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-06

IL l bad to give MP tue iesurie'''V"'
look forward TO that grand morning
when shall see Christ and the loved
ones gone before me; they are going TO
come back with him. That IS the
promise to the world. But the scien-
tific man Gays 1t has been discovered
that q whale can't swallow ANYTHING
any larger than mans fist. But the
Bible does not say whale; it Gays the
Lord prepared great fish to swallow
Jonah. Couldn't God create fish
large enough to swallow Jonah /
heard of fish that swallowed borse,
saddle and all-took them all IN. The
idea that God could not do IL
a friend Of mine met one of the mod
ern philosophers when he was on trip
to Europe, and he was picking away at
the Bible. He said: "Of course, the
Bible is not true: | am scientific man.
aud have taken pains to examine It,
and find il il not true. Ii says
Balaam : ass spoke; ! have taken pans
to investigate the throat and mouth q
an ass, and it is so formed it could not
sneak NV friend. who was Scotch
man, said: You make the ass. and l
will make him speak. the idea that
God could make an ass. ard could not
make him speak, or that he couldn I
speak through the mouth of an ass.
Then there is another class OF people
who say: II believe the Bible, Mr.
Moody. only ] don't believe the super
natural: | throw out all supernatural.
You might Just as well throw out the
whole Of It. There is no portion but
What is connected with the super
natural. there is the story Of the flood
the angels talking with Abraham
The supernatural commences right ID
Genesis: and then turn over into Exo-
dus. and it is full of the supernatural
There are the ten plaques gong
through the Red sea; the feeding OF the
psople with mama from II aven; The
water bursting forth from the rock IN
the desert. You 20 into the books oil
Leyiticus, and there is strange fire
which consumes the sons of Aaron
The one who wrote that book wrote
lie if that did not take place.
Then, in Numbers, there is the story
Of the bitten Israelites who locked on
brazen serpent and were healed. j
| this was not true. then II breaks dow
Christ's testimony, for he uses it as
comparison with himself. You turf
over into Deuteronomy. and there agal
is the supernatural. 1t follows RICH
along. If the writer of those books ha
told the truth. those things did occur
and they are supernatural. 50 it run
right drought the frs. five books Mex
comes Joshua. and this has more of tn
supernatural than any OF the others
And the whole book is filed up viii
the supernatural. You pass on clea
through the Bible to the last thing. ant
we meet with it.
4 Wecome to the four gospels. and the
, are more supernatural than any othe
part Of the Bible. Five hundred year
before the coming of Christ his adveu
is predicted. An angel tells Iaccharia'
in the temple, that he shall be the fathe
of the forerunner Of Christ. There wa
the warning of God to flee into EgyT
with the young child. When Jesu
was baptized. God spoke from th
: throne. saying, This IS my believe
, Son, in whom am we'll pleased. " Wa
not that supernaturalY And there
not day of Christ's ministry but whs
the supernatural was taking place. On
, day he speaks to the sea. and 1t IS
rest. Another day he speaks TO IL
winds. and they are stilled. Anoth'
day he heals the lepers and the lam
and they leap and praise God. Anoth'
II dav he makes the blind man TO SCI
Another day he speaks to dead maj
q and he lives again. All these supe
I natural things are taking place IN IL
4 daily life of Jesus Of Nazareth.
/ Look at his death. The earth quake'
h the rocks were rent. the world knew u
n Creator. and there came darkness owe
, all the earth; the sun yelled It's face an
, refused TO look upon the scene. An
| when he cried, 1T is finished. ~
+ the rocks were rent, didn't the rocl
+ ckuowledge him. DIda't they kno
, him?
Il And then look at his resurrection
he did not die martyr; he died as
substitute. Il have power to lay dow
q my life, and have power TO take
{ again. He burst asunder the bands
death. | would like to have been
A Jurusalem then. can imagine son
of the people in authority sayin
= why, what made you let him con
IupY" "He was up before we knew It
= lie said on the third day he won
rise. and there was not power enoui
in hell and in Heaven 10 prevent 1t; u
. grave could not hold him. Thar
God. we don't worship dead Je'
lOur Christ lives.
I. Then look at his ascension. lie
h much of the supernatural is connect
a with that And yet some people s
a.. they don't believe the. supernatuI
part OF the Bible.
I'll 1t is said that good sscny reforI
= die with the refOrmer. but here Is
Q | formation that is carried on rig
- through the ages. l got man W
was a good deal of skeptic, to read I
l. New Testament, and, after he had be
n reading it. he said TO me one day.
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