The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-23

in the Old Book, length and breadth
we know nothing about. 1t makes the
book all the more fascinating. thank
God 1t is beyond me. 1t Is a pretty good
proof that il came from God and not
from the hand Of man. You can take a
chapter and read IL for 365 days in the
year, and always find something new in
that chapter. Now, talk about believing
I'm the New and Old Testament. What por-
tion is there in the New Testament that
you cannot find in the Old? In Matthew
alone there are 100 quotations from the
Old Testament. There are SO chapters in
the Four Gospels, and there are 142 quota
tions taken from the Old Testament.
There are 240 quotations in Revelations
taken from the Old Testament. 1t is alb
surd for men to take one portion OF the
Bible and throw out the rest.
Another thing, there is not thing in
that Old Testament that men are cavill-
ing about that God did not set His seal
to when He was down here. Men say,
"You don't believe in the story of those
five cities being destroyed by fire, Sodom
and Gomorrah and those three Others ?"
Certainly. They were buying and selling
until Judgment came and swept them
away. "And so il shall be in the coming
of the Son of Cod" Men say, "You don't
believe In the story of Elijah being
fed by that widow do your" Certainly.
Christ said there were many widows
in the days of Elijah, but Elijah
was fed by only one widow. Why! Christ
believed it, He referred to it Himself, He
set His seal to it. The Son of God be-
lieved 1t, and "shall the servant be above
his master?r Men say "do you believe
the story about the Israelites being fed on
man na9' Certainly. "As Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son Of. Man be lifted up"
He connected that with His own cross.
And then at last they look as wise as owls
and say, "You certainly don't believe in
the story Of Jonah and the whale?" Yes,
believe In that. When give that up +
am going to give up the resurrection. As
you get along in life and you have perhaps
as many friends on the other side of the
river ss you have on this side, you will
get about as much comfort out
OF the story of Jonah as any
other story in the Bible. May God
help us TO hold on to IL! Jesus connected
that with His own resurrection In Mat
thew they said thrice, "Show us a sign"
And He said that the only
sign should be the story. of Jonah i'm
the whales belly. Christ believed that
Jonah went into the whales belly, and
are you going to be His disciple and be
wiser than He? Men say, at is ply
sical impossibility for a whale TO swallow
a man." II says, " God prepared great
fish," That is enough. II God created
whale, couldn't lie create a fish large
enough to swallow a man? He can
create fish large enough to
swallow the whole world at one
swallow. II is astonishing how
men are sneering and jeering at the idea
that God couldn't do II. A friend OF mine
was going back to Scotland, and he heard
acouple OF these littlemodern philosophers
discussing the Bible. One said, "The
Bible says that Balaam's sss spoke. Now,
I am scientific man, and have taken
the pains TO examine an ass mouth, and IL
Is so formed tnat il couldn't speak, lie
was going TO toss the whole Bible
over because Balaam's ass couldn't speak.
NV friend said he stood IL Just
as long as he could, and finally he said,
"Ah, man you make an ass and I will
make him speak" The idea that the God
who made the ass couldn't speak through
his mouth Did you ever hear such stung
And yet this was one OF your modern
philosophersi
Then there is another class OF people
land ] am sorry that I am now talk.