Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-09-20

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The nsxs maa put upon the witss~
Stand y the lats Earl II kilsters. ard |
s<k kiza pk4s 10 thlDks u Car,stiallIty.
and be replies. why do Yea ask Ne
that, DID sen NOT hear ~ preach CHRIST
in tho Nldnishs MASON u Loadsnr
Oh go. I rsmemberr Bat see
many witnesses present today Ia tbs
courtroom. aud call you - the vitisass
stand. bus hare only second q time
for any enc Of yen. AZ you p2ss along
inst give one sentencs In regard 90
Christianity. ~upisr God Il has
changed my entiFs nature" ksys
one. IL brought me from drunken
nsss aud poverty 10 sobriety and q
good home says another. iii soliced
ne when Loaf my child. says another,
IA gave nae hope of future treasures
whsn my property Wa swept OF By tho
last panic" says another. III hasgiven
me peace and satisfaction more g. mo
than al the world beside. says st.other.
ia has been 20 me light and music and
fragrancs and radiant anticipation"
says another. Ahi stop the procession
Of witnesses. Enoughi Enough! An
those voices Of the past and tho present
have nightly '..crc2sed our faith
TESTIMONY oF THE RocxR
Again, our belief Is REINFORCED by AZ
cheo,ogical exploration We music con-
fess that good men az one time were afraid
Of geologist's hammer and chemist y cru.
chile and archsologist's Investigation,
bat now intelligent Christians srs re-
ceiving and still expecting nothing but
confirmation from al such sources. What
supports the Palestine Exploration soci-
etyf Contributions from churches and
Christian bensfactors. Issw the markz
Of the shovels Of that exploring sociefy
AMID the ruins Of ancient Jericho and
all up and down from the Dead SEA TO
Cmsarea Ph;lippi. "Dig awayr says the
church Of God. .'and the deeper You dig
the better like"
The discovered monuments Of Egypt
have chiseled on them the story OF the
sufferings OF the lsraslites in Egyptian
bondage. as we find IL in the Bible
there, In imperishable stone. representa-
lions Of tho slave, Of the whips and
Of the taskInasters who compelled the
making Of bricks without straw. Ex-
humed Nineveh and Babylon. with their
dusty hips. declare the Bible true. Ma
poleon's soldiers in the Egyptian cam
paign pried up a stone, which you may
find in the British museum. stone, as
l remember IL. presenting perhaps two
feet of lettered surface. 1t contains words
in three languages. That stone was the
key that unlocked the meaning of all
the hieroglyphics Of tombs and obelisks
and tells over and over again the same
events which Moses recorded.
The sulphurous graves Of Sodom and
Gomorrah have been identified. The re-
mains of the tower of Babel have been
found. Assyrian documents lifted from
the sand and Behistun inscription hun
dreds OF feet high up on the rock echo
and re-echo the truth Of Bible history.
The signs Of the time indicate that al
most every fact of the Bible from lid TO
lid viii find its confederation in ancient
city disentombed. or ancient wall
cleared from the dust of ages, or ancient
document unrolled by archeologist.
Before the world rolls on as far into
the twentieth century as it has already
rolled into the nineteenth an infidel
will be q man who does not believe his
own senses. and the volumes now crit
ical and denunciatory of the Bible, IL
not entirely devastated by the book
worms, will be taken down from the
shelf rs curiosities ofignorance or idiocy.
All success to the pickaxes and crow
bars and powder blasting of those apos-
ties Of archaeological exploration like
the ringing defiance Of the old Huguenots
to the assailants Of Christianity: Pound
away, you febelsi Your hammers break.
but the anvil of Gods word stands"
How wonderfully the old book hangs
together. II is library made mp Of %
books and written by at least 80 authors.
II Is a supernatural thing that they have
stuck together. Take the writings cf any
other 30 authors. or any 10 authors, or any
8 authors. and put them together, and
how long would they stay togakher?
Books IT selegant extractss compiled
from many authors are proverbially
short lived sever knew one such book
which,. to use the publishers phrase,
'had life In IT for five years.
Why Is it that the Bible. made up Of
the writings Of at least 30 authors, has
kept together for long line of oentu-
ries when the natural tendency would
have been to fiy apart like loose sheets Of
palsr when gust Of wind blows upon
themi 1t Is because God stuck them to-
gether and keeps them together. But for
that Joshua would have wandered off in
one direction, and Paul into another, and
Ezekiel into another, and Habakkuk into
another. and the 30 authors into 80 direc-
tons
Put the writings of Shakespeare and
Tsnnyson and Longfeliow, or any part
II them. together. How long would they
stay togsther7 No book bindery could
keep them together. But the cannon Of
Scripture 10 loaded now with the same
ammunition with which prophet and
apostle loaded IL.
Bring me all the Bibles of the earth
into one pile. and blindfold me 70 that
cannot tell the difference between day
and night. and put into my hand any
one Of all that Alpine mountain Of sacred
bookz. and put my finger ON the last page
NJ Genesis and let me know IL. and
can tell you what " on the merit Y,>ee--
namely. the first chapter Of Exodus; or
while TINS htindfoldef nut nv finger On