Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-08

dict for Christianity, and we nave ialon '"
believe that those which are still In prosecu-
tion will come 10 as favorable conclusion
The great systems of error are falling before
these discoveries They have crushed every
thing but the Bible. and that they have es-
tablishei Mohammedanisin ana pagahisnl
in their ten thousand forms have been proven
false, and by great natural laws shown 70 DC
impositions. Buried cities have been ex-
humed and the truth Of God found written
on their coffin lids. Bartlett, Ro5in@on ana
Layard have been not more the apostles OF
science than the apostles of religion Inc
dumb lips of the pyramids have opened TO
preach the gospel Expeditions have been
fitted out for Palestine, and explorers have
come back to say that they have found among
mountains and among ruins, and on the shore
of waters, living and nndying evidences OF
our glorious Christianity.
THEY HAVE COME BACK BELIEVERS.
Men who have gone to Palestine infidels
have come back Christians. They VINO were
blind and deaf 10 the truth at home have
seemed 10 see Christ again preaching upon
Olivet and have behed in vivid Imagination
the Son of God again Walking the hills about
Jerusalem. Caviglia once rejected the truth,
but afterward said, Il came to Egypt, and
the Scriptures and the pyramids converted
me- When | was in Beyrout, Syria, last
December. our beloved American missionary,
Rev. Dr. Jessup. told me of his friend who
met a skeptic at Joppa, the seaport of Jeru-
salem, and the unbeliever said TO his friend;
II am going into the Holy Land 10 show up
the folly Of the Christian religion. am GO
ing to visit all the SO called sacred places
and write them up. and show the world that
the New Testament is an imposition upon the
worlds credulity.n Months after Dr. Jes-
sup's friend met the skeptic at Beyrout after
he had completed his journey through the
Holy Land. We'll how is itf said the
aforesaid gentleman to the skeptc. The an
swer was: II have seen il all, and ! tell you
the Bible is true Yes; it is all truen The
man who went TO destroy came back 10 de
fend
After what myself saw during my recent
absence conclude that any one who can go
through the Holy Land aud remain an UNI
believer is either bad man or an imbecile.
God employed men to write the Bible, but he
took many of the same truths which they
recorded and with his own almighty hand
he gclged them into the rocks and drove
them down into dismal depths, and as docu-
ments are put In the corner stone of tenn
Pile, 50 in the very foundation Of the earth he
folded up and placed the records Of heavenly
truth The e0rths corner stone was laid,
like that Of other sacred elitices, in the name
of the Father. and OF the Son, and 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 IL there
on papyrus will write it here ON the bowl.
ders
THE STATELY SYCAMORE.
Again, nature offers an invaluable contri-
button 10 Christianity by the illustration she
makes Of divine truth. The inspired writer's
seized upon the advantages Offered by the
natural world. Trees and rivers and clouds
and rocks broke forth into holy aud enthu-
siastic utteranees. Would Christ set forth
the strength of faith, he points to the syca-
more, whose roots spread out, and strike
down, and clinch themselves amid great
depths OF earth, and he said that faith was
strong enough to tear that up by the roots.
At Hawarden, England, Mr. Gladstone.
while showing me his trees during a pro-
ionged walk through his magnificent park,
pointed out sycamore, and with wave OF
the hand said: "In your visit to the Holy
Land did You see any sycamore more impress
sive than thatfH confessed that had not.
Its branches were not more remarkable than
= roots IL was 10 such tree as that Jesus
pointed when he would illustrate the power
Il faith. "Ye might say unto this sycamore
rec, Be thou plucked up by the root aud be
4hou cast into the sea, aud it would obey
Jou.n One reason why Christ has fascinated
he world as no other teacher is because in
,tead Of using severe argument he was al
ways telling how something in the spiritual
World was like unto something in the natural
world Oh. these wonderful "likesr OF our
Lord Like grain OF mustard seed. Like
a treasure hid in field Like a merchant seek
ing goodly pearls Lake unto a net that was
east into the sea Like unto householder.
EXPRESSIVE SMILES.
Would 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 If the head have the aver
age endowment IL has been found that il
the hairs Of the head be black there are about
l20,0O0, or if they be tiaxen there are about
10000 But God knows the exact number:
''The hairs Of your head are all numbered.
Would Christ impress us with the divine
watchfulness and care, he speaks OF the spar
rows TINT were a nuisance in those times.
They were caught by the thousands in the
net. They were thin aud scrawny and had
comparatively no meat ON their bones They
seemed almost valueless whether living or
dead. Now, argues Christ. if my Father |
takes care OF them, will he not take care OF
your Christ would have the Christian, de- |
siJaiideat over his slowness OF religious devel-
opment, go to his corn field for a lesson. He |
watches first the green shoot pressing up |
through the clois. gradually strengthening
into stalk, AMI last Of all the husk swelling |
out with the pressure of the corn; First the |
blade. then the ear, after that the fun corn
in the ear. "
Would David set forth the freshness aud |
beauty Of genuine Christian character, he /
sees an eagle starting from its nest just af-
ter the Noting season. its old feathers shed,
and its wings and breast decked with new
down and plumes its body as finely feath-
cred as that Of her young ones Just begin.
ming TO try tile speed Of their wings Thus
and replnmed is the Christians
faith and hope, byeyery season of communion
with God Thy youth is renewed like the
eagles" Would solomon represent the an
noyanee OF contentious woman's tongue.