Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-18

campaign pricd up a sicuc, which you may
nnd in a British museum, a stone. As q.
member u, presenting perhaps two feet o.
lettcred surface Il contains words IN three
languages That stone WAS the key that
unlocked the meaning Of all the hero
giyphics OF tombs and obellsks md tells
over and over again tho same events which
Moses recorded.
The sulrhurous graves Of Sodom and
Gomorrah have been Identified, The No.
mains Of the tower OF Babel have been
found. ANyrian documents lifted from
the sand and Behistun Inscription. hen.
dreds OF fect high M on the rcck, echo and
re-echo the truth Of Bible history, The
signs OF the TINT indicate that almost eyefy
fact Of the Bihlc from I'D 10 lid will find Ia
confederation in ancient city discntomtcii,
or ancient wall cleared from The dust Of
ages, or ancient document unrollei by NJ,
ch9ologiss
Before tho world rolls oh az lar into the
twentieth century as II has lnaiy rolled
intothe nincteenth. an infldel will DC man
who docs not believe his own senses, aud
the volumes now critical and denunclatory
Of the Bible, u not entirely devastated BY
the bookwortns. will be taken down from
tho shelf as tiriosities OF ignorance or lido
ey. All success to the pickaSes and crow
bars and powder blasting Of those apostles
Of archaeological exploration, l like the
ringing defiance " the old liughenots TO
the assailants Of Christianlty Pound
away, you rebclsl Your hammers break,
but the anvil Of Gods word stands"
How wonderfully the old book hangs To-
getherl IL is a library made up Of GO books
and written by at least % author. lisa
supernatural thing that they have stuck
together, Take the writings Of any other
50 authors or any 10 authors, or any
authors and put them together, aud how
long would they stay togetheri Books OF
elegant extracts complied from many
authors are provcrhially short lived. /
never knew one such book, which, to use
the publishers phrase. had life IN 81 for
five yeara.
Why Is IL that the bible, made up Of the
writings Of at least 10 authors, has kept To.
gethor for long line OF centuries when
the natural tendency would have been 10
NY apart like loose Ahects OF paper when a
gust Of wind blows upon them, IL is 10.
cause God stuck them together and keeps
them together, but for that Joshua would
have wandered OF in one dircuon, ind
Paul into another, and Ezekiel into another,
and Luke into another, aud llabakkuk In
70 another, aud the 80 authors Into ID direc-
tons Put tho writings Of Shakespeare
and Tennysou and Longfclluw, or any part
OF them, together. How long would they
stay togethpri No bool, hlndery could keep
them together
But the cannon OF Scripture Ia loaded
now with the same ammunition with which
prophet and apostle loaded IL, Bring ma
all the Bibles uf the earth into one pile
aud blindiold me 90 that ! cannot tell thu
difference between day and night and put
into my hand my one OF all that Alpine
mountain Of sacred books, and put my I'm.
ger on the last page Of Genesis, aud let ND
know II, and can tell you what 10 ON tho
next page namely, the first chapter OF En-.
odus. or while thus bilndioldcd, put my
finger on the last chapter OF Matthew. and
let me know 1t, and will tell you what Il
on the next page namely, the first chapter
OF Marx, IN the pile Of Joo,0oo,oOo Bibles
there will be no exception.
In other words, the book gives mo conf
dencc by its supernatural addiction Of
writing 10 writing, Even the stoutcst shil
sometimes ships liz cargo, and that lswhai
made our peril the greater Ia the shil
Greece Of tho National line when the oy
clone struck Us of the coast OF Newfound
| land and tho cargo Of iron had shifted al
the ship swung from larboard 70 stirhcast
and from s,arboad 10 lAIboam. But
| thanks be to God, this old Bible ship
though IL has been in thousands OF yoAn 81
tempest, has kept lis cargo OF gold ant
precious stones compact and sure, and l.
all the centuries nothing about Il ha
shifted. There thoy stand, shoulder
To shoulder, David and Solomon AMI
Isaiah and jeremiah and EzekiG ami
Daniel aud Hosea and joel and Afno
and Obadiah and Jonah and Micha AMI
Nahum aud hnbakkuk aud ZephAnihh AMI
Haggm aud Zccharlah and Malachi mt
Matthew ana Mark aud Luke aud Johl
aud Paul ald Peter, all there. Ant
with certainty OF being theru uatl
the heavens and tho earth, the creation
Of which Il described In the ilist book O
the Bible, shall hhyo collapsed and m
white houo OF the ConuueFor described II
the last book Of the Bible shall paw tn
dust Ia universal demolition. by tina
tremendous Iae. my faith il ~ onforcca.
The discussion Is abroad az 70 who wrot
those books Of the Bible called the pentn
touch, whether Moses OF lIilkiah or Ear
or Samuel ca jeremiah or another group o
anclents. None OF them wrote H. Go,
wrote the Pentaieuch, and In this day o
utenoRraphy aud typcwdtIng that ough
not TO be a difficult thing 10 understand
The great merchants and lawyers and ed
itors and business men Of our towns aui
cities dictate nearly all their letters; the,
only Sign them after they arr dictated. Tn
prophet and evangelist aud apostle wer
T.h,S.lf. staunffro rhrra ar tVratx ~ t.f.
They put down only what God dictated, n
signed 1t afterward. He has been writinl
his name upon II all through the vlcissi
tudes Of centuries.
INK EITlcACY OF PRAYRR.
But come 70 the height OF my Rubjec
WHEN l say the way TO ro-rnforce our fAlti
Is 20 pray for IL. SO the disciples lin m.
text got their Astounding faith, Lord, 10
crease our faith" Some one suggests. ID
you really thiEk that prayer amounts 4
anythingi" | might US well aak yon !
there line Of telepHphic poles from Nov
York 20 washingtoni 10 there line OF telc
graphic wires from Manchester 70 London
from Cologne to Berlin. All tho peopl
who have sent aud received messages OF
those lines know NJ their existence. y
there are millions q souls who have beer
in constant communication with the eapi
tai OF tho universe, with the throne d ihl
Almighty, wi.h tho great God himself, 10
years mud years and yeafl
There has not besa day when supplica
tious did not fash up and hlesAings did no
fash down. VIII some ignosamns VIII
has never received telegram or seat one
come and tell u that thrrris nc such thing