The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-28

of the Bible until our time,
when the air is full of unbelief about
the truthfulness ofpthe dear old bookP
He waited until the printing press had
been set up in its perfected shape, and
the submarine cable was laid, and the
world was intelligent enough to appre-
ciate the testimony, and then he resur-
rected the dead cities Of the earth, and
commanded them. saying: "open your
long sealed lips and speak! Memphis and
Thebesl Is the Bible true?" "TrueP'
responded Memphis and Thebes.
"Babylon is the book Of Daniel trueP
'True!" responded Babylon. "Ruins
Of Palestine and Syrinl Is the New
Testament true? "True" responded
the ruins all the way from Joppa to the
Dead Sea, and from Jerusalem to Ds-
mascua What mercy that this testi-
mony of the dead cities should come at
a time when the Bible is especially as
sailed. And this work will go on until
the veracity and divinity Of the Script
ures will be as certain to all sensible
men and women as that two and two
make four, as that an isosceles triangle
is one which has two of its sides equal, as
that the diameter of circle is a line
drawn through the center and termi-
mated by the circumference, us certain
as any mathematical demonstration.
Never did feel more encouraged than
when after preaching sermon on evil
dences Of the truth of the Bible drawn
from Oriental lands, distinguished
senator Of the United States, known
and honored everywhere, but now
deceased, came up to the platform
and said: ~ was brought up to
the faith of Christianity, but got spec
ulating on all these subjects, and had
given up my faith in the Bible, but
those facts and arguments archeolog-
ical take me back to my old faith in the
Bible, which my father and mother
/ taught me-" The tears rolling down
his cheeks evinced the depth of his emo
ton. When read of the senator's
death / was comforted TO think that
perhaps may have helped him little
in the struggle of his life, and perhaps
given him an easier pillow on which to
die. t-
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece.
diplomatized and almost came to battle
for one book, copy Of Eschylus
Ptolemy, the Egyptian king, discovered
that in the great library at Alexandria
there was no copy of Eschylus The
Egyptian king sent up to Athens,
Greece, TO borrow the book and
4 made a copy Of it. Athens de-
manded deposit Of seventeen thou
sand seven hundred dollars as secu
rity. The Egyptian king received the
book, but refused TO return that which
he had borrowed and so forfeited thu
seventeen thousand and seven hundred
dollars. The two nations rose in con
tention concerning that one book
Beautiful and mighty book indeed! Blu
Il is book OF horrors, the dominan
: idea that we are the victims OF heredi
tary influences from which there is NJ
escape, and that fate rules the world
and although the author does tell Of Pro
metheus who was crucified on the rock
, for sympathy for mankind, a powerful
suggestion of the sacrifice of Christ i
later years, IL is a very poor book CON
pared with that book which we hug :
our hearts because it contains our onl
! guide in life, our only comfort in death
, and our only hope for a blissful immoi
tality. II two nations could afford
: struggle for one copy OF Eschylus, hoy
much more can all nations afford
! struggle for the possession, and tr
2 umph Of the Holy Scriptures?
5 But the dead cities strung along th
3 Nile not onlysdemolish in1delity, bu
i thunder down the absurdity Of the mo-
I ern doctrine OF evolution, which say
Q the world started with nothing and the
= rose, and human nature began wit
I nothing but evolved into splendid maj
!, hood and womanhood OF itself Ma.
S the sculpture of the world WI
I more wonderful in the days I
), Memphis and Thebes and Carthag
o than the days OF Boston and Ne
Il York. Those blocks Of stone weig
n ing three hundred tons high up in d
n wall at Karnac imply machinery equ
IS to, II not surprising, the machinery
d the nineteenth century. Eow was tn
n statue Of Rameses, weighing eight hu
n dred and eighty-seeen tons, transport
a from tAe quarries two hundred mil
ID away, and how was it lifted? Tell I
G. modern machinists. How were tho
" galleries Of rock, still standing
10 iThebes, filed with paintings 81
!" passed by no artists pencil Of the pr
OF 'ent day? Tell US, artists Of the nil
es teenth century. The dead cities OF Egg
er 40 FAR as they have isft enough pill
ms or statues or sepulchors or temple M
nd 10 tell the story-Memphis, Migd
he Hierapolis, Zoau, Thebes, Gosh
~ Carthage--all of them developing do'
ce ward instead OF upward They h
of evoluted from lnagniheence into
ig: struction. The Gospel of'Jesus Chris
the onlyelevator Of lRaividual and 500
up national character let all the liv
ire cities know that pomp and opule
ed and temporal prosperity are no secur
,ur Those ancient cities lacked nothing
,at good morals Dissipation and sin s
nd them, and unless dissipation and sin
lite halted, they will some day slay
led modern cities, and leave our palaces
yht merchaidise and our galleries OF
yht and our city halls as fat in the dus
ow we found Memphis on. the afternoon
ON that Thanksgiving day. And II
ea cities 10 down, the nation will go do
Iol- TO-" you say, that Is impossible;
Of have stood so long--yea, over hunt
ro- years as nation. Why, what OF u
nr,, Th ohna atcod hue hundred venrs: NJ