Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-16

,s,au; Grasp g. Faith.
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~, ,..u,. !,i, :.aui c.,va ;.,,;,l;r
;cnc:sl OF King David was
r nc hero OF the text. The
,,,., opened Battle agains; A;m
troops rctr.atru. The coward,
.4aa}.ar and tlilrn uI bis comrades
ID, the battle and Swcpt thu iicla,
,,c,, with God Oh their side arr.
.,r t,tan . Whole battas,oa with
,5-,,;- them. ''iiaH back. snou;pd
.u.nant!rr OF the :'hliis,lnc army.
... AN a!on. tilr host, Fall buck"
,,. having swept inc !i;:.l, throws
.,.,. w The ground 10 test. bu. the
81, nud sincwS of his ha.:,l had hcc,
w.. scnt afoui,d the hiitoi the sword
d. IN. Ai!t was embedded in the flesh.
"I' .ae -o'd wire of The hl!I had broken
..e,,, he skin OF The palm OF the
a.. .,d he could not drop t;is sword
Is Ne had SO gal;antiy welded.
a.. AID ciaHc unto III" sword" That
AT F! call E,as"'nccna iightiag Tor
ra tod OF Israel, and we want
,,r. VI il. J pronnsc tn snow YOU This
mag ;,ow Elcazar TOOL, ho!d uf the
ii ouu how Lhc sword took hold OF
p,l,y. look at E|eaaar's hand, and
nrc 20 the conclusion that he tool,
..,o,d with Il very tight yrp. The
e.,td- who tied had no trouble IN drop
rs .,er swords. AS they tly over the
~; hear their swords changing in
rt erection. II is easy enough FOR
mi D drop their swords, but Eleayar's
and lave unto the sword
.... NY friends, in this Christian con-
.r ye waut Il tighter sripoi the Gospel
,naors, 4 tighter grasp of the two
tsrd sword OF the truth. 1t makes me
| i'd 10 see these Christian people who
ola oa!y a part Of the truth and let the
r.sA 20, so that the Phillistincs, seeing
F. 5r .aesancd grasp, wrench the whole
sosi away from them. The only safe
. 5,ns for rs to do is to put our thumb on
. b. book of Genesis and sweep our hand
-at.ad the book until the New Tcsta.
.ut ONES into the palm, and keep on
seeping our hand around the book until
f. be tips of the fingers clutch at the
lords, "In the beginning God created
la heavens and the earth" | like an
patel great deal better than do one
b those nambypamby Christians who
+ old part Of the truth and let the rest
.. By miracle God preserved this Bible
ast as it is, and it Is a Damascus blade.
The severest test to which sword can
be nns in sword factory is to wind the
biada around . gun barrel like a ribbon,
bad then when the sword is let loose il.
sieS 5ack to its own shape. So the
|wori of Gods truth has been fully
|es;rd and 1t Is bent this way and tina,
|E8y and wound this way and That way,
PE! It always comes back To- its own
|5ape, Think of it! A book written
|gh'een centuries ago, and some Of it
hoEsands Of years ago, and yet in our
Eme the average sale of this book is
bore than 10000 copies every week,
nd moro than q million copies Il year.
say now that book which is divinely
aspired and diyinely kept and divinely
is a weapon worth holding q
Whit grip Of. Bishop Colenso will come
Yong and try to wrench out of your hand
[Ae i've books of Moses. and Strauss will
0ne along and try to wrench out Of
|c.r hand the miracles, and Rcnan will
Fome along and try to wrench ont of your
Pano the entire life of the Lord Icsus
FhrSt, and your associates in the store,
F- the shop, or the factory, or the bank
g house will try to wrench out Of your
Fand the entire Bible, but in the strength
ii inc Lord God of Israel. aud with
F.!sazar's grip, hold on to it. You givs
Ep toe Bible, you give up any part OF it,,
end YOU give up pardon and peace and
! te and Heaven.
| see hundreds, perhaps thousands, OF
Eouag men in this audience. Do not be
hshamed, Young man, to have the world
know that you are friend of the Bible.
|Ghis book is the friend of all that is
good and it is the sworn enemy of all
|'nat is bad. An eloquent writer recently
gives an incident of very bad man who
stood in the cell of a Western prison.
[Yls criminal had gone through all
styles Of crime, and he was there waiting
'ot the gallows. The convict standing
there at the window OF the cell, the
writer says, 'slooked out and declared, q
AIN an intidel. He said that to all the
men and women and children who hap
pened TO be gathered there. Il am an in
ade!, ~ and the eloquent writer says
Every man and woman there believed
a!n. And the writer goes on to say
If he had stood there saying, Il am {
yar'stan,' every man and woman would
nsya said. He is liar"
This Bible is the sworn enemy OF al
MS wrong, and it is the friend of al
nat is good. Oh. hold on to it. Do no
axe part Of it and throw the rest away
7od on to all of it. There are 81
naHY people now who do not know
10Y ask them if the soul is immortal
iaa they say, "Iguess tits, don't know
,se'ffnaps it is, perhaps it isn't" Is thu
o'oie true? swell, perhaps 1t is, ant
'rfuaps 1t isn't; perhaps it may be Zig
a.4siyel Y, and perhaps it may be partly
1Ai perhaps it may not be at all" The.
'Esp!se what they call the Apostolic
!SeH; out If their own creed were writ
IL out it would read like this: 81 be
we III nothing, the maker Of lieavc!
'al Earth, and in nothing which it hatl
sas' which nothing was born OF nothing
aAa whlch nothing was dead and buried
I 1s descended into nothing, and ARCS
a ' nothing, and assembled to nothing
a '"N now sitteth at the right hand 0
,osa'ns; from which it will come t
S,se nothing.
a., oeiieve in the holy agnoStic chnrc
~, '.N III the communion of the nothingar1
~, ,.,' and in the forgiveness of nothing
H. lou Il. the resurrection of nothing, an
wa, voc Me that never shall be. Amen
tuat IS the creed of fans of Thousand