The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-28

bile a CONCLUSION. The great systems OF er-
ror ar falling before these discoveries,
which have only demonstrated the rum VI
the Bible. and so REINFORCED Christianity
Nobarnmedanism and paganism In their ten
thousand forms have been proved false.
ord NV GREAT natural laws shown TO
he itnrositions Buried cities have
been exhumed, and the truth OF God found
written on their coffin-lids. Bartlett, Rod
inson and Iavard have been not more the
anostiss of science than the apostles of reli-
eyion The dumb lips of the pyramids have
Snanad 10 ;,reach the gospel Expeditions
beva bsen fitted ont for Palestine, and ex-
T,lorers have come back to say that they
have found among mountains, ana among
ruins. and on the shore OF waters, living
and undying evidences OF our glorious
christianity.
Men who have gone to Palestine iufidels
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 magma
ton the Son of God again walking the
mills about Jerusalem. Caviglia once re-
iected the truth, but afterward said; II
came TO Egypt, and the scriptures and the
ryramids converted me-" When l was in
Bevrout. SYRIA, last December, our beloved
American missionary, Rev. DIR. Jessup,
told me of his friend who met a skeptlc at
.JoDpa, the seaport of Jerusalem, and the
unbeliever said to his friend: 81 am going
into the holy land to show up the
folly of the christian religion. | am
going to visit all the so-called sacred
places, and write them up, and show the
world that the New Testament Is an lmpo-
sition upon the worlds credulity." Months
after, DIR. Jessup's friend met the skeptic at
Beyrout, after he had completed his jour
ney through the Holy Land. "Well, how
is itr' said the aforesaid gentleman TO the
skeptic The answer was: 81 have seen it
all. and tell you the Bible is truel Yes, it
is ali truer' The man who went to destroy
came back to defend. After what l myself
saw during my recent absence, / con-
clude that anyone who can go
through the Holy Land and remain
an unbeliever. is either a 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 gouged them into
the rocks and drove them down into dismal
depths and, as documents are put In the
cornerstone of a temple, so In the very
foundation of the earth he folded up and
placed the records Of heave My truth. The
earth's cornerstone was laid, like that or
other sacred edifces, in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Chest. 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 1t there on
papyrus; will write it here on the bould-
ers."
Again. nature offers an invaluable coutri-
button to christianity by the illustration
she makes of divine truth. The inspired
writers sized 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 to
- ont nd
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-
longed walk through his mag Ificent park,
pointed out a sycamore, and with a wave
of the hand said, in your visit to the Holy
Land did you see any sycamore more i'm
pressive than thstl7 I confessed that | had
not 1t branches were not more remark
able than its roots. Ii was 70 such g
tree IS ttst Jesus pointed when he would
illus1rz1s 5hs power q faith I've
might SET ulIo the sycamore rT=se. BE thou
pa1tlEs5 III by 1hs root ADo be thou cast in
u tine saE, End Il would obey you One
rsiRsan WHY Christ hRs fssz4nslao tbs world
1t nD miner 1ssehai. IL hsGz1ss instead q
using Hsvars argument liz YVES always tell
mr. how sarnEsbtl-lE II the E-GTI1aAa world
WIS like uuaD s.i-1EIhl-lg n I5F natural
vEcr;ad. Oh these wonderful Likes Of our
L0r51 Like g-Eln Il mustard seed, Like
:. treasure md Il 3 dald L1ks Marcia Z
seeking roo5ly ps2r-s4 Like Unto net that
was czsz za1o Ihs szz- Like unto house
holder
Would Christ teach the precision with
which he looks after YOU, he says be counts
the hairs 81 your head Wen. that is a long
and tedious count il tie head have the
average eadowm ut. 1t has been found
that If the hairs Of the head be black there
are about 10000. Or if they be flaxen there
are about 600 But God knows the
exact number: THE hairs of your head
are all numbered" Would Christ impress
US with the divine watchfulness and care,
be 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,
Christ, if my father takes care of them will
he not take care of you. 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, grad
ually strengthening into 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 anG
beauty of genuine christian character he
sees an eagle starting from its nest just
after the moulting season, its old feathers
shed 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 replumed is the
christians faith and hope by every season
of communion with God. "Thy youth il
renewed like the eagle'sn Would Solomon
represent the annoyance of contentious
wcman's tongue, he points to the leakage il
the top of his house or tent, where, through
out the stormy day, the water come:
through, falling upon the fioor-dripi drip
dripi And he says: "A continue
dripping in very rainy day and conten
tious woman are alike" Would Christ Sc
forth the character of those who make grea
profession of piety, but have no fruit, b.
compares them to barren fig trees, which
have very large and snowy leaves, anC
nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrat
deceitful friendships he speaks of brooks il
those climes, that wind about in differen
directions, and dry up when you drink GU
of them: "My brethren have dealt deceit
fully as brook. and as the stream of brook
they pass away" David, when he woult
impress us with the despondency int