The Forrest City times., 1891-04-10

overcome Of this Plague of lnfldel!ty. Is ths Bible the enemy of women? Como into tho picture gallery, the Louvre, the Lux. emborg of the Bible, and sec which pictures are the most honored. Hero Is Eve, per. feet woman, as perfect a woman as could be made by perfect God. Here is De- borah, with her womanly arm hurlng q host into the battle. Hero Is Miriam, lead ing tho Israeltish orchestra on tho banks of tho Red Sea Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving hand replenishing the wardrobe of her son Samuel. the prophet Here IS Abigail, kneelng at the foot of the mountain until the four hundred wrathful men, at tho sight of her beauty and prowcss halt, halt-a hurricane stopped at the sight of watcr-lily, a dewdrop dashing back Niagara Hero is Ruth. putting to shame all the modern slang about moth ers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her country, and faces wild beasts and exile and death. that she may bo with Naomi, her husbands mother | Here is Vashti, defying the bacchanal of a | thousand drunken lords. and Esther, will 1 ing to throw her life away that she may deliver her people. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame gildiding her phlanthropic needle and the woman with
 
 ! Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on the | head of Christ. tho aroma lingering all down the corridor of the centuries. Horc is Lydia, the mcrchaHtess of Tyrian purple | immortalized for her Christian behavior. Hero is tho widow with two mites, moro famous than the Pcabodys and the Lenoxes of all ages, while hero comes in slow of gait and with careful attendants and with special honor and high favor, leaning on the arm of inspiration, one who is the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have one, an old Christian grand mother, Grandmother Lois. Who has moro worshippers today than any being that ever lived on earth except Jesus Christ? Mary. For what purpose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth? To relieve the embarrassment of a womanly housokeeper at the falling short of a beverage Why did Christ break up the silence of tho tomb. and tear on the shroud and rip up the rocks? It was to stop the bereavement of the two Bethany sisters. For whose comfort was Christ most anxious in the bour of dying excrucia- uon? For woman, m old woman, a wrinkie-faced woman, woman who in other days had held him in her arms his first friend, his last friend. as it is very apt to be, his mother. All the pathos of the ages compressed into one utteranco, "Behold thy mother' Does the Bible an tagonize woman?
 Since you put the Bible on your stand in the sitting room, has the Bible been to you, o woman. a curse or blessing? Why is It that Q woman when sho is troubled will go to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why do you not so for Somfort to some of the great infidel books? No, the silly, deludod wom- an persists in hanging about the Bible yer ses, Let not your heart be troubled" :" "Al things work together for good" Weeping may endure for night" II am the resurrection" Peace, be still"
 Furthermore; rather than invite resist this Plague of lnfidelity because it has wrought no positive good in tho world and Is always hindrance.
 There stands Christianity. Thero stands infdelity. Compare what they have done. Compare their resources. There is Christianity, prayer on her lip; bene- diction on her brow; both hands full of help for all who want help; the mother of thousands of colleges; the mother of thou sands of asylums for the oppressed, tho blind. the sick the lame. the imbecile; the mother of missions for the bringing back of the outcast; the mother of thousands of reformatory institutions for the saving of tho lost; the mother of innumerable Sab bath schools, bringing millions of children under a drill to prepare them for respecta- bility and usefulness, to say nothing of tho great future. That is Christianity.
 Infdolity scrapes no lint for tho wound cd, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no pillow for the sick, rouses no con- fzv tlx. Iu .t, dead. Whlie Christ, our Christ. our wounded Christi our risen Christi the Christ of this old-fashionei Bible--biesscd bo his glorious nau,a foroverl our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital or to the asylum, saying: Il was sick and yo gave mo crutch, I was blind and yo physicianed my eyc-sight l was orphaned and ye mothered my soul, l was lost on the mountain and ye brought me home; in asmuch as ye did it to onc of the les,st of these, ye did it for me-"
 But I thank God that this plague of infdelity will be stayed. Many of those who hear me now by tho Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be scofrers and will become disciples, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Scriptures. The book is going to keep right on until the fires of tho last day arc kindled. Some Of them will begin on one side and some on .he other side Of tho old book. They will not find bundle of loose manuscr pts easily consumed like finder thrown into the fire. When the fires of the last day arc kindled, some will on this side from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revela- ton towards Genesis, and in all their way they will not find single chapter or a single verse out of place. That will be tho first time we can afford 10 do without the Bible. What will Do tho use of the Book of Genesis, descriptive of how the world was made. when the world IS destroyedP What will be tho use of the prophecies when they arc all fulhled? What will oe tho use of the evangelstic or Pauline description of Jesus Christ when we soc him face to face? What will bs the use of his photograph when we have met him in glory? What will be the use of tho Book of Revelation, standing as you will with your foot on tho elassy sea, and your hand on the ringing harp. and your forehead chapleted with eternal coronation. amid tho am ethystne and twelve gated glories of heavcnf The emerald dashiny it's green against the bcryl, and the beryl dashiny its blue against tho sapphire, and the sapphire throwing it's light on tho iaciuth, and tho iacnth dash ing Its fire against the chrysoprassus, and you and standing iA tho glortes of tss thousand sunseta-
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