The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-27
INSPIRATION.

to humanity itself.
INSPIRATION.
Now we have to discuss this subject
from all points of vie W, but mainly from
the direction Of objections. Men love
objections: and SO they say there are
d difficulties. and absurdities, and errors,
and contradictions in the Bible. You
have all heard such assertions. After
speaking once in the city of Boston. an
ex-minister came to me and told me
that the Bible was not true. for there
was that story which Moses told about
the quails. Israel lusted after flesh,
ard the Lord sent them quails to
eat, and they fell by the camp a day :
Journey on each side. or over ter
ritory forty miles across. aud they
were two cubts deep on the ground.
and the Israeites ate them for full
month. | have in my possession an in-
fidel paper which MAS published In Bos'
ton. in which there il about a column
of arguments and figures on this quail
story giving an estimate Of the num-
Der of bushels of quails that were piled
up over the country. and showing that
when they were divided among the host
of Israelites. each one would have
PISS. 643 bushels of quails. which they
were to eat during the month; giving
each poor lsraelite SO $50 bushels OF
ouails to eat at each meal for thirty
DAYS. and therefore the Bible was not
true,
| said to this gentleman, The Bible
does not say any such thing - lie re-
piled that it certainly dill but | an
swered that it did not say any such
thing. He insisted that it did. well
said |. find it And when you ask
an infdel to ind anything in the Bible,
Won generally have him. He could not
find the place: so | turned over to the
eleventh chapter of Numbers, ana
there read that instead Of the birds
being packed like cordwood on the
ground three feet deep, the account
says that the Lord brought the qulIls
from the sea. and let them fall
by the camp. az it were two cublts
high. - or about three feet high upon
or abors the face Of the earth. That Is
instead of flying overhead and out OF
reach. they were brought IN about
three feet high. where any one could
take "A many of them as he chose. And
this sceptical friend had got the birds
hacked solid. three feet deep, over I
territor; forty miles across. As 4
I should say that h)ck of wild gees'
flew as high as a church splre' and
some one should insist that they were
hacked solid from the ground up,
hundred feet high This is a sample o
the arguments inhlels bring to prove
that the Bible is not true
The book, TO my mind bears the mark
of inspiration in the foresight which !
exhibits. This book foretells things
You cannot do that. You cannot tel
what will be next year. or next week
THE spirits" cannot tell who VIII b.
the next president, or governor, or EN-
peror. They may tell a great man,
things which are past. They may tel
you who your grandmother wa
and may copy the Inscription
, on your grandfather 5 gravestonC
and may tell things which ar
p written N the family record. The
may reveal many, many things IN III
9 past-for the devil knows about ia
past-but they cannot foretell the fl
! ture. did hear of one spiritual me
= ium who foretold her own death, an
Z s1e died within a few hours, but whe
they got the stomach. pump they pump
!. ed out of her stomach poison enough
kill two or three. That kind
+ prophecy requires 10 omniscient for
5 sight.
: Years ago, | talked with an infidel
). Plymouth, Massachusetts,, and he wan
q ed me 20 give him some evidence TIL
. the Bible was true. After some col
- yersation. loaned him little volum
Q an abridgement of Keith on Proph
cy.- Some ten years after, as toe
u nv seat in a railway traia, he can
a and sat dow beside me and began
- talk. and be said: IF you want tn
q. book YOU can have ii; but no one Ell
can have it at any price. " Il HI
>. knocked his inlidelity into atoms, al
he was a believer in Christ. and
member of the Churchill l.. Hd'
inJs
l. Ir Is said that there is larger Pr
a portion OF the boys aud girls OF \,
,e Jersey than of any other State in {
ID Union who go to Sunday-school.
a. appears by statistics recently taken tn
a there are Just about 100000 children
the 1897 Sunday schools of New j
Ill sey.
* The American branch of the Eyang
IN zeal Alliance will hold a national me