The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-05

and stop two yseisi y God can engineer
stop them witAeat socident or collision, can
not he control tNo carriages Of light, and
by putting dovn 8 golden brake stop the
mooa7 Undee NJ explanation, instead Of
being skspk3eal abost this sublime passage
or the Dibles yoa. win, when you read it, feel
more like going down Oh your knees before
Gdv. GSd g yoaa Fss g. sn, stana p tn thou i st
ofAjaloi."
Then there 4 tie Bible statement that a
whale SWALLOWED Jonah and elected him up.
on dry land inthrss days. II you go to the
museum at Nsataekst, Mass, you will find
the skeleton ol Q whale large enough to
swallow man. said to the janitor. while
! w0s standing b the museum. "Why 1t
does not seem ffom ths looks ofthis skeleton
very very improbaSs., does I III" Soh, % no., he re- se
piled, sit doss not" There is cavity in
the mouth Of the common whale large
enough for n1a to live in. There have
been sharks fotAd again and again with an
entirs human body 10 them. Besides that.
the Bible says nothing about b whale. 1t
says, "Ths Lctd prepared q great fish,
were sea mohsters In other days TINT make
the modern whale seem very insignificant
know in one place in the new testament it
speaks Of the whale as appearing in the oc.
currelloe have just mentioned, but the word
may just as well be translated ''sea mon.
etcr"-any kind Of Q sea monster. Procop.
ius says. 10 tho year $50, sea monster was
slain which had for iifty years destroyed
IL. xlsssssa monster thnt took care
Of Jonah may have been one Of the great
sea monsters that could have easily taken
down q prophet. and he could have
lived there three days IL he had kept in mo.
tion SO as to keep the gastric juices from
the end Of three days the monster would
naturally be sick enough to regurgtntc do.
tiah. Besides that, my friends, there is ono
word which explains the whole thing 1t
says: "rhe Lord prepared agrcnt fish" l.
ship carpenter prepare a vessel to carry
Texan beeves to GLASGOW. | suppose it can
carry Texan beeves; Il ship carpenter pre-
Northern ports, suppose it cnn carry coal;
II ship carpenter prepare vessel to carry
passengers to LIVERPOOL; suppose it can
carry passengers to Liverpool: aud ii the
Lord prepared fish to carry one passenger,
suppose it could carry q passenger ansl the
ventilation have been all right.
30 all the strange things in the Bible can
plained. And you can build them into n
beautiful and henlthiul fire for your l'carth.
or you can with them put your immortal in
terests into confagration. But you had
better decide about the vcrncity of tho Bible
very soon. want this morning to caution
you agninst putting off making up your
mind about this book. Ever since 1872
there has been great discussion rs to who
wis the author of Junius' Letters, those let
tiers 80 full Of sarcasm and virtuppration anl
power. The whole English nation stirred
up with it. More than 100 volumes written
to discuss TINT question: who was
,Junius?" who wrote the letters OF
to discuss. but still, utter all, 1t makes hut
little practical difference to you and to me
who .lunius was, whether Sir Philip Francis,
or Lord Chatham, or John Horne Tooke.
or Horace Walpole, or Henry Grattn,l, or
any ono Of the forty-four men who were
seriously charged with the authorship. But
it is an absorbing question, it is II practical
You and to me, the authorship of this Holy
i'ible-whether tho Lord God OF
l.eaven and earth or pnck OF
dupes; scoundrels or impostors We
can not afford to adjourn thnt question
week or a day or On hour, any more that
sea captain can afford to soy: ''Wcll. this
is very dark night. | have really lost my
know whether it is lighthouse or false
light on the shore; don't know what it +;
hut III just 60 to sleep, and in the morning
Ill find out" In tho morning the vessel
might be on the rocks and the bench strewn
with the white faces Of the dead crew. Tho
time for that sen captain to find out about
the lighthouse is before he goes to sleep. Oh,
my friends. l want you to understnnd tl,at
in our deliberations about this Bible we nre
not Mt calm anchorage, but we are rapidly
coming toward the coast, coming at the rate
Of seventy heart throbs q minute, and
must know whether 1t Is going to be harbor
or shipwrcck.
! was so glad to read in the papers Of the.
fact that the steamship Edam had come
safely into harbor. A week before, the Per.
sian Monarch, plowing its way toward the
Narrowe, a hundred miles out. saw signals OF
distress, bore down upon the vessel and
found it was the steamship E,lam. She had
lost her propeller. She had 200 passengers
on board. The merciful captain of the Per
sian Monarch endeaveed to bring her in,
but the tow line broke. Hefastcne,litngnin,
but the eca was rough and the tow limo broke
agnin. Then tho night came on md the
merciful captain Of the Persian Monarch
lay to" thinking in the morning he could
give rescue to the passengers. The morning
cnmc, hut during the night the steamship
Edam had disappeared, and the captain of
the Persian Monarch brought his vessel into
harbor saying how cad he felt because he
could not give complete rescue to thnt lost
ship. ] mn glad that afterward another rves-
sci saw her and brought hermit safety. But
when saw the story of that steamship
lnpn MI rsE lift I