Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-31

suppose we would have this audience
here to-day II we were worshipping q dead
Christi Not by good deal II we wor-
shipped dead jew we wouldn't have
been quickencd and given our life 10 our
souls. thank God that our Christ IL a
supernatural Christ. aud this book SUI
peruaiural book. and ] thank God that
live in country where II Is so free that
all men can read II.
REJECT NOT A LINE.
Il want TO show the absurduy OF the
man who says that he VIII believe the
New Testament and not the Old II you
have gotta minister who talks against
parts of the bible. you take my advice
and set up and leave him. Leave the
church and don't look behind YOU either.
"Once a gentleman took n Bible TO his
minister and said he wanted 10 show
him the minister's Bible The pastor
said: Why do YOU call II the minister's
Bible? That isn't my Bible We'll
said the man. 1 have sat under. your
ministry for some time. and when you
have thrown anything out ! have cut Il
ont OF the Bible And he had got all
Of the Book OF job cut out, all Revela-
tons. the Songs Of Solomon. and about
a third OF the Bible was cut out. The
minister said: I wish you would leave
that Bible with me- He didn't want the
people 10 SEE the book in that condition.
but the man said: oh. not | have got the
covers. and I'm going 10 hold on to
them And on he went holding on 10 the
covers. you were to hear some
men preach. you wouldn't have
anything but the covers In
few months. People say: What
do YOU DO with what you cannot under
stand% don't do anything with It. 4
man said to me once. What do YOU do
with what you don't understand i don't
do anything with it, How do YOU under
stand IT.? i don't understand IT. Well
how do you interpret IT.? i don't inter-
pref it What do YOU do with it% Don't
90 anything with IT. DO you believe t.?
'N*, ! believe It, OF course do. am
glad there Is a height | know nothing
about in the old Book--a length and "A
breadth VIC know nothing about. 1t makes
the book all the more fascinating l
thank God IL Is beyond me. II Is "A pretty
good proof that 1t came from God and
not from the hand Of man. You can take
- chapter and read it for 3G5 days in the
year and always find something new in
that chapter.
THERE SHALL BE no CHANGE.
"A man once said TO me that he did
not believe what he did not see ] asked
him; Did you ever see your brain How
do you know you have one% Did you
ever see your heart?'
Now Christ says in Mark xiii. Heaven
and earth shall pass. but not one jot
or title OF the law shall pass until the law
IS fulfilled Then, in another place:
Heaven and earth shall pass away but
My Word shall not pass away Now. /
viii put that as the old ana new cove
nant: Not one jot or title of the law
shall pass until the law shall be fulilled'
the new covenant. and then Christ comes
and adds these words: Heaven and earth
shall pass away. but My Word shall not
pass away Now. notice how that has
been fulfilled. There was no shorthand
reporter following Him around taking
down His words. there We're no papers
70 print His sermons. and they wouldn't
have printed the sermons If there had
been any daily papers. The whole church
ana all the religious world was against
Him. ! can see one OF your modern free
thinkers standing near Him. ana he hears
Christ says: Heaven and earth shall pass
away. but My Word shall not pass away
| see the scOrnful look on his face. as
ne says. Hear that jewish peasant talk
Did you ever hear such cOnceit, such
madness? He says Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but His Words shall
not pass away
SALE or BIBLES INCREASING.
MY friends. | want 10 ask you this
qucstion-have they passed away? Go
and ask your inndcls if His Words have
passed away. DO you know that the sun
shines to-day on more Bibles than IL has
ever shonc on before? Did YOU know
that the American Bible Society and the
London Bible Society issue 800 Bibles
every hour tn, NIX God the Bibles are
not going out; they are just coming in!
More Bibles have been printed i'm the last
eight years than in the last 1890 years
The Bible is printed i'm $50 different Ian
guageS-it IS going to the darkest cor
ners ~ the earth. Heaven ana earth
shall pass away, but My Word shall not
bass away Are His Words passing
away, 80. and thank God they are rot
going 10 pass away. You and | will pass
away and the world Will pass away, but
Ills Word is going 10 live and endure.
II cannot be wiped out. God broke the
bonds. and Is coming down along the |
ages. When they brought out the rev
version the American Committee brought |
1t out at HE same hour as it was put out |
In London. ii WIS thrown on the market |
on Friday morning. and that would bring |
ii out Friday afternoon. They couldn't |
sent it TO Chicago, because it was so
late, and so an enterprsing concern set
ninety different operators at work, and |
had the whole book telcgraphed to Chi |
CaGo and brought out Sunday morning.
Nearly 1900 years after Christ left the
world that happened. and yet men are
running around and telling us that the |
oh Book is going out!
HOW 70 STUDY IT.
Now, | am going to give you a few
hints, and perhaps / may hit some of Won |
a good way to study the Bible is TO take |
one book at Il time. | know some people |
who reVcr sit down TO read a book until |
they have time TO read the whole of IT, |
When they come 10 Leviticus or Num- |
beTs. or any Of the other books, they read |
1t right through at one sitting They get |
the whole sweep Of the book, and then |
they begin TO study II chapter by chapter. !
II Is a good thing to take one book
Then another good way to study the |
Bible is To take the fulfilled prophecies I |
don't know anything more fascinating or |
interesting than the fulfilled prophecies |
Uf the Bible Why You know for q |
good many years we thought that Ari- |
IONA and all those Territories that are |
now States were a great American desert |
remember that when 1 was Il little boy |
that was taught in school. but when they |
struck that pick-aXe down in the earth |
and developed the ComsioCk lode and |
Jug out millions OF dollars In silver they |
began 10 wake up. And low look at the |
cities that have sprung up |
there i'm those mountains. DO YOU know |
IL is just so with portions Of the Scrip
lures? There are very few Christians |
who seem to think Of studying IN the |
prophecies. They say il is 50 mysterious. |
and there is question about the pro- !
ohecics being fulfilled. ! ten you we |
would have better Christians, 1t seems To
me- if We would take the whole Bible.
PROPHECIES ALL FULFILLED.
"Now YOU take the four great cities that !
existed in the days when the Old Tesla
nent was written. and you Will find that |
these prophecies have been fulfilled to the |
cttcr. There are 20 prophecies in regard |
% Jesus Christ that have been fulfilled |
10 the letter il says over and /
over again that this and that needed /
o be done, that the Scriptures might be
fulfilled" There was nothing that hap
,cncd 10 Christ, the Roman soldier driving
hat spear into His side, His being
lailcd to the cross, that wasn't prophe-
,icd 4 thousand or fifteen hundred years
before. Just let me call your attention
% a few passages regarding these cities.
First. to BabylOn-Isaiah. l3th-l9th: Ana
Babylon. the glory Of Kingdoms, the
1eauty Of the Chaldees's excellency. shall
pc as when God overthrow Sodom and
iomorrah. II shall never be inhabited,
,titb.r shall If he dWelt In from gene