Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-30

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out, l say, at is Jesus, the fountain
opened for sin and for uncleanness. l
po back and look at the writings of
lob. and hear him exclaim, Il
know that my Redeemer liveth." Then
GO to Ezekiel, and find Christ present
ed there as "a plant of renown;" and
then turn over TO Isaiah, and Christ is
spoken of ''as a sheep before her shear
ers." 1t is Jesus all the way between
Genesis and Malachi. Then l turn over
TO the New Testament, and it is Christ
in the parable, it is Christ in the mira
Gle, it is Christ in the evangelists
story, it is Christ in the apostles epis-
ties, and it is Christ in the trumpet peal
of the Apocalypse. know there arc q
great many people who do not find
! Christ in the bible. Here is man who
studies the bible as historian. Well,
| if YOU come as historian, you will lind
| in this book how the world was made,
how the seas fled to their places, how
empires were established, how nation
fought with nation, javelin ringing
against harbegeon, until the earth was
CHASTITY with the dead. You will see
the coronation of princes, the triumph
of conuuerors, and the world turned
upside down and back again and down
again, cleft and Scared with great
agonies of earthquake, and tempest,
and battle. 1t is n wonderful history,
putting TO the blush all othefs in the
accuracy of its recital, and in the stu
pendous events it records Homer, and
Thucydides, and Gibbon could maze
great stories out of little events; but
il took Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth were made in one chap
ter, and TO give the history of thou-
sands of years upon two leaves.
There are others who come to the
bible merely as antiquarians. If you
come as al antiquarian you will find a
great many odd things in the bible;
peculiariLieS OF manner and custom,
marriage and burial; peculiarities of
; dress, tuuics, sandals, crisping-pins,
amulets and girdles, and tinlling orna-
ments. If you come to look at mill
tary arrangements, you will lind
coats of mail, and javclins and
> engines of war, and circumvalla-
ton and encampments. If you
: look for peculiar musical instruments
you will find psalteries, and shigi-
= onoths, and rams horns. The anti
ouarian will find in the bible curiosi-
: ties in agriculture, and in commerce
:, and in art, and in religion, that viii
keep him absorbed a great while
u There are those who come to this bible
u as you would to n cabinet of curiosities
; and you pick up this and say, "What
5 strange sword this ISL and "What {
d peculiar hat this isr' and "What al
y unlooked-for lamp that is?' and The
y bible to such becomes a British
= Museum.
L Then there are others who find moth
c ing in the bible but the poetry. Well
e if you come as poet, you will ind II
o this book faultless rhythm, and bolC
g imagery, and startling antithesis, ant
( rapturous lyric, and sweet pastoral
s. and instructive narrative, and devo
, tional psalm; thoughts expressed in
q style more solemn than that of Mont
2 gomery, more bold than that of Milton
n more terrible than that of Dante, NOR
a natural than that of Words worth, NOR
T. tender than that of Cowper, NOR
u weird than that of Spenser. Thi
* great poem brings all the gems G
IN the earth into its coronet, and
re weaves the flames of judgment in it
lie garland, and pours eternal harmonic
IN in its rhythm. Everything this bool
80 touches it makes beautiful, from tn
- plain stones of the summer threshin
l. floor, and the daughters of Major fill
o. ing the trough for the camels, and tn
IL fish-pools of Heshbon, up to the Psalm
IL list praising God with diapason {
10 storm and whirlwind, and Job leadip
10 forth Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiade'
Us 1t is wonderful poem; and
~ great many people read it as the
70 do Thomas Moore's "Lall
We Rookh," and Walter SCOTS "Lady {
the Lake." and Tennyson's Charge {
the Light Brigade" They sit dowr
m and are so absorbed In looking at tn
st shells on the shore that they forget
~ look off on the great ocean of God
p mercy and salvation.
1t i remark again, Christ is everythin
Id to the Christian in time of trouble
mt Who has escaped trouble? We must n
as stoop down and drink out of the bite
rs lake. The moss has no time to gro'
III on the buckets that come up out of I'll
ed hearts well, dripping with tears. Gre;
We trials are upon our track as certain ;
Sc greyhound pack on the scent of dee
n From our hearts in every directio
On there are thousand chords reachin
On out binding us to loved ones, and ev,
til and anon some of these tendrils sna
ne The winds that cross this sea of Ii
w, are not all abaft. The clouds TIL
nd cross our sky are not feathery al
10 afar, straying like focks of she'
on heavenly pastures;but wrathful al
IT. sombre, and cleaning with terror, the
wv wrap the mountains in fire, and con
1t down baying with their thunde
zee through every gorge. The richie
no fruits of blessing have prickly she,
nix Life here is not lying at anchor; it
ed weathering gale. 1t is not sleepir
i'm in soldiers tent with our arr