The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-04

s'n oi the world!' Then 60 and see
inc mamma provided for the Israelitcs In
the wilderness, and say: Jesus. the
bread OF life" Then look at the rock
winch was smitten by the prophets
rod; and, as the water Cushes out. I
say: 1T Is Jesus, the fountain
opened for sin and for uncleanliness "
! 60 back and look at tho writings of
JOB and hear him exclaim: 81 know
that my Redeemcr livcth." Then go
TO Ezekiel, and i find Christ presented
there as plant Of rcnown;" and then
tnrned over to Isaiah, and Christ Is
spoken OF las sheep before her shear
ers 1t is Jesus all the way between
Genesis and Malachi. Then | turn over
TO the New Testament. and il is Christ
IN the parable, 1t is Christ in the mira
Gle, IT Is Christ in the evangelist's story,
II Is Christ in the apostles epistles, and
IT Is Christ in the trumpet peal of the
Apocalypse. know there are n great
many people who do not find Christ in
the Bible. Here is man who studies
the Bible as n historian. Well, IL YOU
come as historian you will find in
this book how the world was made,
how the seas fed to their places, how
empires were established. how nation
fought with nation, javcln ringing
against harbegeon, until the earth was
| CHASTITY with the dead. You will see
the coronation of princes, the triumph
of conquerors, and tho world turned up
side down and back again and down
| again, cleft and SCARED with great
agonics of earthquake, and tempest and
battle. il is a wonderful history. put
ting to the blush all others in the ac-
curacy of its recital, and in the stipend
Gus events 1t records Homer and
! Thucydides, and Gibbon could make
! great stories out Of little events. but it
took Moses 10 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. ii you
come as antiquarians you win find a
! great many odd things in the Bible;
peculiarities of manner and custom.
marriage and burial; peculiaritics Of
dress, TUNES. sandals, crisping pins,
amulets and girdles and tinlIling orna-
ments. If you come to look at military
arrangements you will find coats of
mail and javelins and engines of war,
and decentralization and cucampmentS.
If you look for peculiar musical inStru-
mcnts you will find psaltcries, and
shigionoths and rams horns. The an
tiQuarian will find in the bible curiosi-
ties in agriculture, and in commerce,
and in art, And in religion, that will
| keep him absorbed n great while.
/ There are those who come 10 this Blbic
rs YOU would 10 cabinet Of curiositjeS,
and YOU pick up this and say, "What
a strange sword this is" and what a
peculiar hat this is,'' and "What an I'M
/ lookcd-for lamp that Is" and the Bible
TO such becomes a British museum.
Then there are others VINO find moth
ing in the Bible but the poetry. Well,
! if YOU come as poet, You will find in
this book fautlyss rhythm, and bold
imagery, and startling antithesis and
rapturouS lyric, and sweet pastoral and
instructive narratives and devotional
psalm: thoughts expressed III style
more solemn than that of Montgomery,
more bold than that of Milton. more
terrible than that OF Dante, more nat
ural than that of Wordsworth, more
impassioucd than that OF Pollock, more
tender than that of Spcnsc". TINS great
pcem brings MI the gems OF the earth
into its coronct, and it wcaves the
flames of Judgment in its garland, ana
pouls eternal harmonics in its rhythm.
Eycrythir- this book touches 1t
makes beautiful, from the plain stones
Of the summer thrcshinS hoor
and the daughters of Manor
filing the trough for the camcis, and
the fish pools of lIeshbon, up TO the
Psalmist praiaing God with diapason "i
storm and vhirlwind, and job .eading
forth Orion, Arcturus and the Plciades,
II is a wonderful poem, and y great
many people read as they do lhon"S
Noorc's "Lalla Rookh," and Walter
Scott's Lady of the Lake" and Tommy
sons Charge OF the Light brigade
They sit down, and are 50 absorbed IN
leaking AT the shells on the shore thai
they forget 70 look of on the grea'
ocean of Gods mercy and salvation
Then there are others who come 70 TINS
book as skcpticS, They marshal passage
against passage, and try to get Matthe"
and Luke in quarrel. and would nav,
n d,scrcpoucy between what Paul ana
jane say about faith and works; an'
they try the account of Moses concern
inc the creation by modern decisions
IN science, and resolve that IN al
Questions between the scientific eN
nlorer and the inspired writer they W'.'
Give the preference TO the geoIoGiSI
rhcsc mcn-thesc spiders, ! Will say