Milford chronicle., 1893-09-22

, the SAND and Behistun inserintiop mn
dreds OF feet high up on the rock. echo IN
! re-eoho the truth of Bible history m
signs of the time indicate that almost eve,
fac5 of the Bible from lid to lid win find +
corroboration in ancient city diseutombe,
or ancient wall cleared from the dust
ages, or ancient document unrolled bv n
chmologist.
Before the world rolls on as far into III
twentieth century as it has already rolls
into the nineteenth, an inlidel viii he n y,s
who does not believe his own senses. an
the volumes now critical and denuncistor
oi the Bible, if not entirely devastated n
the bookworms, viii be taken down fron
the shelf as curiosities Of Ignorance or idio
cy. All success to the piekaxes and crr,,,
Dafs and powder blas,iag Of those anostIa
Of archaeological exploration. ike IN,
[ ringing defiance OF The old Huruenots T.,
lhe assallants OF Christianity; "PounG
4 away, you rebels. Your hammers breal-
but the anvil of God word stands.u
1 How wonderfully the old book hangs IN.
/ gether! 1t is a library made up of e6 boor,
and written by at least 30 authors. IT, is !
( supernatural thing that they have stuck
together Take the writings of anv other
% authors, or any 10 authors, or any +
authors and put them together. and how
long would they stay together2 Books of
elegant extracts" compiled from MANY
authors are proverbially short lived. /
never knew one such book, which, TO use
the publishers phrase, had life in it'' for
i've years
Why is it that the Bible, made IN of the
writings Of at least 80 authors. has kent to-
gether for long line of centuries when
the natural tendency would have been to
fly apart like loose sheets Of paper Who, n
gust OF wind blows upon themf 1t is he.
cause God stuck them together and laars
them together But for chat Ioshtfa yvouid
have wandered Oft in one direction orJ
Paul into another, and Ezekiel into anofbey
and Luke into another. and Habakj.ll in.
TO another and the 80 authors into 30 direc.
uQns fu5 tho writings Of Shakespeare
and Iennys0n and Longfellow, or any Dart
Oh 1nein' together. How long would they
stay togetherf No book bindery could keen
them together.
But the cannon Of Scripture is loaded
now with the same ammunition with which
prophet and apostle loaded it. Bring ma
al the Bibles of the earth into one pile |
and blindfOid me so that I cannot tell tbe I
lidefence between day and night, and put |
into my hand any one Of all that Alpine /
mountain OF sacred books, and put my fn- /
ger on the last page of Genesis, and let me /
know It, and / can tell you what is on the
next page-namely, the first chapter OF Ey-
1dus or while thus blindfolded, put my
lnger "a the last chapter of Matthew. and
ct ing knew it, and will tell you what is
IN the next page-namely, the first ehapter
u 9ark. In tho pile Of 500000000 Bibles
here will be no exception.
ia other words, the book gives me conf
.ence by its supernatural adhesion of
writing to writing. Even the stoutest shin
ships its cargo. and that is what
made our peril the greater in the shin
ireece Of the National line when the cv-
lone struck us off the coast of Newfound-
AID and the cargo of iron had shifted as
be snip swung from larhoardl So starboard
nd from starboard to larban1. But
hanks be to God this old Bible shin
lough it has been in thousands of years Of
ampest, has kept its cargo of gold and
reeious stones compact aud sure, and in
I the centuries nothing about it has
lifted. There they stand, shoulder
shoulder, David and solomon and
jaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and
apiel and Hosea and Joel and Amos
ld Obadiah and Jonah and Micha and
ahum and Habakkuk and ZephaniaE and
aggai and Zechariah and AIalack md
atthew I'd Mark and luke and John
Id Pau nd Peter, al. there and
ith Sainty of being there until
lie heavehr and tho earth, the creation !
which is described in the first book of /
c Bible shall have collapsed, and the
bite horse of the Conqueror described in
C last book Of the Bible shall paw tho
.st in universal demolition. BY that y
smendous fact my faith IS ree enforced
The discussion Is abroad as to who wrote y
osa bOokso of the Bible called the Penta- u
lch, whether Noses or Hilkiah or Ezra ~
Samuel or jeremiah or another group of =
clients. None of them wrote it. God | +"
ote the Peutateuch, and in this day of 81
biography and typewriting that ought
60 be difficult thing to understand.
e great merchants and lawyers and ed
Us and business men Of our towns and az
les dictate nearly all their letters; they Il
ly sign them after they are dictated. The 10
'pheJ and evangelist and apostle were iu
lovah's stenographers or typeUriters. ia
ey put down only what God dictated; he u.
ned il atterward. He las been writing M
name upon it all through the vicissi- is
les of cepturies az
THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER. pc
tut come TO the height Of my subject tic
en- ! say the way to re-enforue our faith "
% pray for it. So the disciples in my -
{ gov their abounding faith, Lord in
use our faith. Some one suggests, DO
really think that prayer amounts to ,
l might as well ask You is Gu
re line of telegraphic poles from New on
* to Washington; is there line Of tele- pr
phic wires from Manchester To- London. on
II Cologne % Berlin. All the people tra
, have sent and received messages on in,
SO lines know Of their existence. So tin
20 are millions of souls who have been
onstant communication with the capi-
If the universe, with the throne Of the
lighty, with the great God himself, for
$ and years and years. TO
lere has not been a day when supplica- fac
S did not flash up and blessings did not Eli
dawn- VIII scnle innraiuus who fell
never received q telegram or sent one ~
g and tell us that there Is no such thing -
Geographic communication? VIII some iis.i
who has never offered q prayer that oAls
heard and answered come and tell lie
there Is nothing IN prayerf Il may nob
9 as we expect it, but as sure as an i
st prayer goes up q merciful answer ing
come down. use
iring the blizzard Of four OF five years VIII.
you know that many Of the telegraph olo,
8 were prostrated, and I telegraphed to -
ago by the way Of Liverpool, and the allu
'er after awhile came around by an. are
: wide circuit, and the prayer we offer
come back in way we never imag- 1t
and If we ask to have our faith in actl
ed, although it may come by a widely der.
rent process from that which we ex- thei
ID, our confidence will surely be aug care
ed. -,
, put 1t IN every prayer you ever make
cen your next breath and your last c;
Lord, increase our faith"-faith in pect
st as our personal ransom from pres ipo
guilt and eternal catastrophe; faith ,,,;fl
e omnipotent Holy Ghost faith in the
}, the truest volume ever dictated or
en- or printed or read; faith in adverse
dences, harmonized for our best vel lae'
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