The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-07

apostles epistles, and IL Is Christ In the
trumpet peal of the Apocalypse. I know
ttcrc are u great many people who do
rot find Christ In the Bible. Here IL n
man who studies tho Bible ns u his
torian. Well. IL YOU come ms u historian
you will find In this book how the world
was made. how the seas Ned to their
places, how empires were established,
how nation fought with nation. javclin
ringing against harbegcons until the
earth was CHASTITY with the dead. You
will see the coronation of princes, the
triumph of conquevors, and the world
turned upside down and back again and
down again, cleft and Scared with
great agonics of earthquake, and tenn
pest, and battle II is n wonderful his
tory, putting TO blush all others i'm the
accuracy OF its recital and the stipend
u events IL records. Homer and Thu.
cydidcs and Gibbon could make great
stories out of little events, but II took
n Moses to tell how the heavens and the
earth were made in one chapter. and to
give the history of thousands OF years
upon two leaves.
There are others who come to the
Bible merely IA a~ntiquarians. II you
come Us an antiquarian YOU will find n
great many odd things in the Bible;
pcculiarities Of manner and custom,
marriage and burial; peculiaritics OF
dress, TUNES, sandals, crisping pins,
amulcts and girdics, and tinkling ornn-
ments. IL you will come to look ut
military arrangements, You will find
coats of mail, and javclins and engines
OF war, and decentralization and en-
campments. II you look for peculiar
musical instruments, You will find
psaltcrics, and ~shiglonoths, and rams
horns. The antiquarian will find In
the Bible curiositics In agriculture, and
in commerce, and in art, and in relig.
ion, that will keep him absorbed n
great while. There are those who
come to this Bible as you would to n
cabinet Of curiosi,ics, aud you pick up
this and say, What u strange sword
that isl" and what u peculiar hat this
isl" and what an unlocked for lamp
that Isl" and the Bible to such becomes
u British museum.
Then there are others who find moth.
Ing in the Bible but the poetry. Well,
IL You come as u poet, you will find In
this book faultlcss rhythm, and bold
imagery, and startling antithesis, and
rapturous lyric, and sweet pastoral, and
instructive narrative, and devotional
psalm; thoughts expressed In q style
more solemn than that OF Montgomery,
more bold than that of Milton, moro
terrible than that OF Dante, more
natural than that OF Wordsworth, more
impassioned than that OF Pollock, more
tender than that of Cowpcr, more weird
than that Of Spenser. This great poem
brings oil the gems Of the earth into
its coronct, and It weaves tho Anmes OF
judgment In It's garland, and poura
eternal harmonies in It's rhythm. Every.
thing this book touches II makes beauti-
ful, from the plain stones OF the summer
threshing floor, and the daughters OF
Major filling the trough for tho camels,
and the fish pools Of Hcshbon, up to
the psalmist praising God with diapa.
son Of storm and whirlwind, and Job
leading forth Orion, Arcturus and the
Plciades. 1t Is q wonderful poem and
a great many people read IL rs they do
Thomas Moorc's "Lalla Rookh," and
Walter SCOTS Lady OF the Lake."
and Tennyson's "Chargc Of tho Light
Brigade" They sit down and are 80
absorbed In looking at the shells on
the shore that they forget to look off
on the great ocean Of Gods mercy and
salvation.
Then there are others who come TO this
book as skcptics. They marshal pas
sage against passage and try to get Mat
thew and Luke In u quarrel and would
have u discrepancy between what Paul
and James say about faith and works
and they try the account OF Moses con.
corning the creation by modern deci-
sions In science, and resolve that In all
questions between the scientific ex.
plorer and the inspired writer they will
give the preference to the geologist
These men-these spiders, I will say
SUCK poison out Of the sweetest flowers
They fatten their infdelity upon the
truths which have led thousands to
Heaven, and in their distorted vision
prophet seems to war with prophet, and
evangelist with evangelist and apostle
with apostle; and IL they can find some
bad trait OF character In a man of God
mentioned In that Bible. these carrion
crows cav and flap their wings over the
carcass. Because they cannot under.
stand how the whale swallowed Jonah
they attempt the more wonderful feat
of swallowing the monster whale of
modern skepticism. They do not be-
lieve it possible that the Bible story
should be true which says that the
dumb ass spake, while they themselves
prove the thing possible by their own
utterances. / am amused beyond
bounds when ! hear ono of these men
talking about a future life. Just ask a
man who rejects that Bible what Hcav-
en- is and hear him befog your soul.
lie will tell you that Heaven Is merely
the development OF the internal re-
sources Of a man; II Is an efiorescence
Of the dynamic forces into q state of
ETHEREAL and transcendental lucubra-
ton, in close juxtaposition to the ever
present was" and the great ITO be"
and the everlasting mo" Considering
themselves wise, they are fools for time,
fools for eternity.
Then there Is another class Of per-