Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-08

chapter or a book ten times and on the
eleventh time you will see some new light,
some new Interpretation of a word some
new phase of the doctrine advanced.
Let us thank God that we live in Amer
lea and in the day and land of the open
Bible. The open Bible has been a greater
1t has made America and England what
they are today. A closed Bible has made
France the uncertain, struggling people that
1t is France closed the Bible, and the ma
ton went back hundreds of years.
There are people who say that the Bible
is going out of date. Why. my good friends.
1t Is just coming in. The printing presses
are putting forth more Bibles today than
ever before. There are more of these good
books in the world today than ever before.
The output is growing each year. And
who ever dreamed in the days of Christ that
His words would be so scattered through
the world? There were no shorthand men
then to take down his syllables ana TO put
them in type. There were no publishers
then eager to get contract with him 70
publish His sermons. There was no market
for them He had no vast multitude ready
to read every word that fell from HIS lips:
Yet today His words are translated into 500
different languages ana scattereu u the
| four corners Of the earth
Flashed Across a Continent.
Suppose He should have said to His
disciples that some day He should pull
down the lightning from the heavens and
| use II to send His word across a continent.
| He would have been scoffed to scorn. yet
| that thing has happened in this generation.
When the revision of the New Testament
was issued it was arranged to have 1t ap-
pear simultaneously in London and New
| York. It appeared in London in the morn
| ing and in New York in the evening or the
same day. That was on Friday. me
| problem in New York was how to get the
| new version out to Chicago in time to be
sold before Sunday. If sent by train II
| could not reach there before the afternoon
of Saturday. when everything was ,s closed,
| the next day. So some enterprising men
put their heads together and arranged a
| plan. That afternoon the telegraph was
| clicking out those words of Christ accord
ing to the new version. and before night
| they had all been received in Chicago, set In
type and printed and on the market the
next morning. The impossible had hap
pened-almost the supernatural
| People ask me sometimes: How can you
| prove that the Bible Is inspiredT l have
one answer for them: Because 1t inspires
| me-
Then there are those who are confidently
| waiting for a new Bible to be produced. If
you walt here in Washington for new
Bible before you accept the word you VIII
| be older than Methuselah.
His Closing Words.
| 1T is the great medicine book of the spirit.
In 1t you will find cure for all Ills The
soul has its diseases as well as the body.
and needs its nostrums as well as the or
| gans and the tissues In this book you will
find a prescription for every ailment that
the soul complains of. Search it through
and through not only for your own sake,
but for the sake of others. Go into training
and read your Bible systematically. Mark
the passages that strike you being spe-
cially comforting. Then some day you will
hear some one say that they feel SO badly
| In their hearts about something. You can
| take your Bible and give them dose of
| God that will cure them quicker than any
patent medicine ever cured a patient.
| why not have 5000 preachers in this city
| OF Washington Instead of a hundred? Why
does not every member Of the church con-
| stitute himself or herself minister to the
spiritual Ills of all the rest of the world
| about them? Then, indeed. we shall find
| the grace that Is taught in this book.
| Let us pray
&c. suddenly. and without warning, the
great exhorter turned from his audience of