Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-13

number OF hours, perhaps, but by the
earnest supplication that he puts up to God.
There is no exception to the rule. Show me
Christian man who negleots this kind OF
| duty and will show you one who is 1ncon-
sistent. Show me a man who prays. and his
strength and his power cannot be exagger-
ated. Why, just give man this power OF
prayer and you give HIM almost omnipo-
| rence.
Another word of counsel have to give.
Be faithful in Bible research. A great many
good books are now coming out We cannot
| read half of them. At every revolution OF
the prin nting press they are coming. They
| cover our parior ta bies and are in our sit
ting-room and libraries. Glorious books
they are. We thank God every day for the
| work of the Christian printing press. But
Christ sometimes allow this religious litera-
ture to take their attention from coos
| Word, and that there may not be as much
| Bible reading as there ought to be.
| How is that with your own experience!
| just calculate in your minds how much re-
| lgious literature you have read during the
year. and then how large a portion ot tne
| Word of God you have read, and then con-
trast the two and answer within your own
| soul whether you are giving more attention
to the books that were written by the hand
| of man or that written by the hand of God.
! Read the Bible and it brings you into the
association of the best people that ever
! lived You stand beside Moses and learn MS
| meekness beside Job and learn his patlence,
| beside Paul and catch something of his en-
| thusiasm beside Christ and you feel his
love.
A Rebuke to the Bibles Assailants.
And yet how strange it is that a great
many men have given their whole lives to
the assauIting of that book. cannot under
stand il. Tom Paine worked against that
look as though he received large wages and
was inspired by the very powers or dark
ness confessing that all the time he was
writing he did not have the Bible anywhere
him
have endeavored to destroy 1t. Ten thou
sand men now are warning against the truth
of Gods " ord. What do you think of them?
think it is mean, and will prove it. will
prove it is the meanest thing that has ever
been done in all the centuries.
There is a ship at sea and in trouble. The
captain and the crew are at their wits end.
You are on board. You are an old seaman.
You come up and give some good counsel,
which is kindly taken. That is all right.
midst of all the trouble, you pick up the
only compass that is on board and pitch it
over the tatfrail? Oh, you say; that is das
the vessel of the world going on with 1,60O,-
100000 OF passengers, tossed and driven in
the tempest, and at the time we want help
the lnf1del comes and he takes hold of the
only compass and he tries TO pitch it over
board. 1t is contemplate beyond every
thing that is contemplate. Have you any
better lightf Bring 1t on If you have. Have
you any better comfort to give us? Bring it
on if You have. Have you any better hope?
Bring it on ii you have, and then you may
have this Bible and l shall never want it
again.
But L can think of meaner thing than
that, and that is an old man going along on
the mountains with staff in one hand and
lantern in the other.
A More Contemplate Deed Still.
Darkness has come on suddenly. He is
very old, just able to pick hls way out amid
the rocks and preciptces, leaning on his staff
with one hand and guiding himself with
the light in the other. You come up and
say: Father, you seem to be lost. You are
long way from home" "Yes." he replies.
And then you take him by the hand and
lead lin home. That is very kind of you.
But suppose instead Of that you should |
snatch the staff from his hands and hurl it
blow it out? That would be dastardly. con-
temptible until there is no depth of con- |
tempt beneath it. If you have a better staff, |
give it to him. II you have a better light, |
give it to him. |
When God has put the staff of tha Gospel |
in our hands and the lamp OF Gods Word to |
light our feet, are you going to take from us |
our only support and our only illumina tion2 |
love the sting of the wasp and the rattle |
snake better than / do the men W no wants |
to clutch the Word of God from my grasp.
There are people here who have been read |
ing it a good while. 1t is precious book to |
their souls. 1t has been SO in times of dark |
ness and trouble. i
Cling to your Bible! If this Bible should |
be destroyed, if all the Bibles that have ever |
been printed should be destroyed we could |
make up Bible right out of this audience. |
one cluster OF promises ana from that old |
Christian mans experience another, Dut |
them all together, and think 1 would have 4
a Bible.