Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-27

regard TO ChriStianity. OhooE OO~
Il has changed my entire nature, says
one" lit brought me from drunk
enness and poverty to sobriety and .
rood home" says another. 1t solacsa
me when lost my child. said another.
TT gave me hope of future treasures
when my property was swept away ~
the last panic" says another. 1T has
given me a peace and a satisfaction
more TO me than AL tho world beside,
SAYS another. 1T has been TO me light
and music and fragrance and radiant
anticipation" says another. All stop
the procession of witnesses Enough
Enough! All those voices Of the past
and present have nightly increased
our faith.
Again, our belief is REINFORCED by
archaeological exploration We must
confess that good men NJ ono time
were afraid of a geologists hammer
and chemists crucible and acrchsolo-
gist's investigation, but now intelligent
Christians are receiving and still ex-
pecting nothing but confirmation from
all such sources
What supports the Palestine ExPlor-
alton Society? Contributions from
churches and Christian benefactorA j
saw the marks OF the shovels OF that
exploring society amid the ruins OF
ancient Jericho, and all up and down
the Dead sea 20 Cesaren Philippi dig
away" 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
sufrerings OF the Israeites In Egyptian
bondage as we find il in the Bible,
there In imperishable stone, representa-
tions OF the slave, Of the whips and OF
the task-masters who compelled the
making OF bricks without straw. Ex-
humed Nineveh and Babylon, with
their dusty lips declare the Bible true
Napoleons soldiers in the Egyptian
campaign pried up n stone, which you
may find in the British museum, as |
remember it, presenting, perhaps, two
feet of lettered surface.
Before the world rolls on as far into
the twentieth century as IL has already
rolled into the nineteenth an In.
fdel will he "A man who does not be.
lieve his own senses. and the volumes
now critical and denunciatory of the
Bible, II not entirely devastated by the
| book worms will be taken down from
the shelf as curiosities of ignorance
and idiocy. All success to the piclSaxes
/ and crow bars and powder blastinRs OF
those apostles OF archaeological explor.
alton. ] like the ringing defiance OF
the old Hugcnots TO the assailants OF
! Christianity: Pound away, you
rebelsl Your hammers break,
/ but the anvil of Gods Word
/ stands" How wonderfully the old
| book hangs together. II is library
made up of sixty six books and writ
4 ten by at least thirty-nine authors II
IS y supernatural thing that they have
stuck together. Take the writings of
any other thirty-nine authors, or any
ten authors, or any FIVE authors, and
! put them together, and how long would
they stay together? Books of elegant
extracts" compiled from many authors
are proverbially short-lived. ! never
/ knew one such book, which, 10 use the
publishers phrase had life In Il" for
/ five years. Why is II that the Bible.
made up. OF the writings OF at least
\ thirty-nine authors, has kept together
! for long line of centuries when the
natural tendency wonld have been TO
/ fly apart like loose sheets of paper
/ when gust of wind blows upon them7
J II is because God stuck them to-
! gether ana keeps them together But
for that Joshua would have wandered
off in one direction and Paul into an
other and. Ezekiel into another, and
| Luke into another, and HabalSulS into
another, and the thirty-nine authors
into thirty-nine directions. Pat the
writings of Shakespeare and Tennyson
and Longfellow, or any part of them,
/ together, how long would they stay
\ together? No book bindery could keen
them together. But the cannon of
/ Scripture is loaded now with the sams
ammunition with which prophet and
/ apostle loaded IL Bring me all the
\ Bibles OF the earth into one pile. and
| blindfold me so that ! can not tell the
! difference between day and night, and
/ put into my hand any one of all that
/ Alpine mountain OF sacred books and
/ put my finger on the last page Of Cen.
esis and let me know IL. and can tell
you what is on the next page, namely.
the first chapter OF Exodus. or while
thus blindfolded, put my finger on the
last chapter OF Matthew, and lot me
/ know il, Will tell you what is on the
next page, namely, the first chapter of
Mark. In the pile OF FIVE hundred mil
lion Bibles there will be no exception.
In other words the book gives me
confidence by its supernatural adhesion
OF writing to writing Even the ,tout-
est ship sometimes shifts It's car.
20, and that is what made our
peril the greater in the shin
Greece OF the National line, when
the cyclone struck us of the coast OF
Newfoundland, and tho cargo Of iron
had shifted as the ship swung from lar.
board TO starboard and from starboard
TO lnrboard. But thanl.s be TO God this
Bible ship though IL has been i'm thou.
sands Of years Of tempest, has kept les
cargo OF gold and precious stones com.
pact and sure and in All the centuries
nothing about 10 has shifted. There
they stand, shoulder TO shoulder
David and Solomon and isaiah
and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and DAN
lei and Hosea and Joel and Amos and
/ Obadiah, and Jonah. and Micah. and
Nahum, and HabbalsulS and Zephaniah.
and Haggai and Zachariah and
Malachi, and Matthew. and Mark. and
Luke, and John. and Paul and Peter
All '"ere. and with certainty Of be-
ing .nere until the heavens aud the
earth. the creation Of which IA dee
scrinc' iu the first book OF The Bible.
ehuII hive COLLAPSED and fhr .-bttr