Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-02

| iarity. Mohammedanism and paganism
in their ten thousand forms have
been proven false, and by great natu-
raj laws shown to be impositions. Buried
cites have been exhumed, and the truth
OF God found written on their coffin.lids.
Bartlett Robinson, and Layard have been
not more the apostles OF science than the
apostles of religion The dumb lips of the
pyramids have opened TO preach the gospel.
Expeditions have been fitted out for Pal.
estine, and explorers have come back 10
say that they have found among noun
tains, and among ruins, and on the shore of
waters, living and undying evidences of
our glorious Christianity.
Men who have gone TO Palestine nfidels
have come back Christians. They who
were blind and deaf TO the truth at home
have seemed to see Christ again preaching
upon Olivet and have beheld in vivid i'm
agination the Son of God again walking
the hills about Jerusalem. Caviglia once
rejected the truth, but afterwdrd said, III
came TO Egypt, and the Scriptures and the
pyramids converted me-" When / was in
Beyrout, Syria, last December, our beloved
| American missionary, Rev. DIR. Jessup,
told me of his friend who met sceptlc at
Joppa, the seaport of Jerusalem, and the I'M
believer said to his friend: al am going into
the Holy Land TO show up the folly Of the
Christian religion. l am going to visit all
the so-called sacred places and write them
up and show the world that the New Tesla
ment is an imposition upon the worlds Gre
dulity." Months after Doctor Jessup's
| friend met the scepic at Beyrout after he
had completed his journey through the
Holy Land. "Well, how is i'll" said the
aforesaid gentleman TO the sceptic The
| answer was: ~ have seen il ALL and tell
| you the Bible is true Yes, IL is all true"
| The man who went to destroy came back
| to defend. After what myself saw during
my recent absence, conclude that anyone
who can go through the Holy Land and re-
main an unbeliever, is either a bad man or
an imbecile. God employed men 10 write
| the Bible, but He took many Of the same
| truths which they recorded, and with
| His own almighty hand He gouged
them into the rocks, and drove them
down into dismal depths and, as docu-
ments are put in the cornerstone of
temple, so in the very foundation of the
earth He folded up and placed the records
OF heavenly truth. The earths corner
stone was laid, like that of other sacred
editices, in the name OF the Father, and of
the Son, AM of the Holy Ghost The
| Author OF revelation, standing among the
| great strata, looked upon Moses, and said
Let US record for future ages the worlds
history; you write it there on papyrus;
will write it here on the boulders."
Again, nature offers an invaluable con-
tribution TO Christianity by the illustration
she makes Of divine truth The inspired
writers seized upon the advantages offered
by the natural world. Trees and rivers
and clouds and rocks broke forth into holy
and enthusiastic utterances Would Christ
set forth the strength of faith, He points
N Rnrpld
and strike down, and clinch themselves
amid great depth of earth, and He said
that faith was strong enough TO tear that
up by the roots.
" ould Christ teach the precision with
which He looks after you, He says He
counts the hairs OF your head. Well, that
is long and tedious count il the hed d
have the average endowment II has been
found that il the hairs OF the head be
black there arc about l2J, 900, or If they be
flaxen there are about 10000. But God
knows the exact number. 1.-THE hairs OF
your head arc all numbered" Would
Christ impress us with divine watchful.
ness and care, He speaks of the sparrows
| that were a nuisance IN those times They
were caught by the thousands in the net
They were thin and scrawny, and had
comparatively no meat on their bones.
| They seemed almost valueless, whe Their liv-
ing or dead. Now, argues Christ, if my
| Father takes care OF him will He not take
| care OF youl Christ would have the
| Christian Respondent over his slowness OF
religious development go to his corn. field
| for "A lesson. He watches first the green
shoot pressing up through the clods,
gradually strengthening into a stalk, and
last of all the husk swelling out with the
pressure of the corn; "First the blade
then the ear, after that the full corn in the
| ear"
Would David set forth the freshness and
beauty Of renuine Christian characterize
| sees an eagle starting from its nest just
after the mouting season, its old feathers
| she'd and its wings and breast decked with
new down and plumes its body as finely
| feathered as that OF her young ones just be-
| ginning to try the speed of their wings.
Thus rejuvenated and repumed is the
Christians faith and hope, by every season
| OF communion with God. "Thy youth is
| renewed like the eagles" Would Solomon
represent the annoyance OF contentious
woman's tongue, he points 10 leakage in the
! top of his house or tent where, throughout
| the stormy day, the water comes through,
! falling upon the foor-dripl dripl drip!
and he says, "a continual dripping in a
| very rainy day and contentious
woman are alike" Would Christ
| set forth the character OF those
who make great professions Of pieiy
but have no fruit, He compares them TO
barren fg-trees, which have very large
and snowy leaves, and nothing but leaves.
| Would Job illustrate deceitful friendships,
he speaks of brooks in these climes, that
| wind about in different directions, and dry
| up when you want to drink out OF them:
my brethren have dealt decetfully as a
| brook and as the stream OF brooks they
pass away" David when he would inn
press US with the dependency into
which he had sunk, compares it
to quagmire of those regions,
through which he had doubtless sometimes
tried to walk, but sunk in up to his neck,
and he cried, III sink in deep miro where
there Is no standing Would Habaklxuk
set forth the capacity which God gives the
| good man To walk safely amid the widest
perils, he points to the wild animal called
The hind walking over slippery rocks, and
leaping from wild crag to wild crag, by the
peculiar make of its hoofs able calmly TO
sustain itself in the most dangerous places:
"The Lord God Is my strength, and he WILL
| nuke my feet like minds feet"
job makes all natural objects pay tribute
| 10 the royalty OF his book. As YOU go
| IN rouo IA Soma chanters of .Ioh vou feal 10