The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-23
Mr.. Moody's Sunday Morn
ing Discourse.
THF INSPIRATION OF The BIBLE,
Human Inability to Understand the
Scriptures an Evidence Of Its Divine
OrIgin-Thc Sermon Of January Fl
at Music Hall.


to get In that series OF meetings sn awak-
ening that would last him all his life. ]
told he might as we'll try to eat enough to
last him all his life. told him he might
as well try to eat enough at one time as to
try to get an awakening that would last
him all of his life. That is a mistake
that people are making; they
are running to religious meetings and
they think the meetings are going to do
the work. But IL they don't bring you
into closer contact with the word OF God,
the whole impression will begone in three
months In the cx. Psalm, David prays
nine times that God will quicken him ac-
cording to His laws, according to His
judgments, according to His precepts,
according to His word. Now, If you get
that kind Of IN awakening you have got
something that is going TO abide, because
Gods word is going to abide forever.
That Is substantial.
Now, another thing-you need to take
the whole Bible and not q part Of II.
There are great many people that are
living on few chapters and verses. They
don't take the whole Of the Scripture.
want to say before forget it, that Sun
day school teachers are making woeful
mistake il they don't take the whole
Bible into their Sunday school classes. /
don't care how young your chill
dren are, let them understand 1t Is one
book, that there are no two books-the Old
Testament and the New are all one.
Don't let them think that the Old Testa-
ment dosen't come to US with the same
authority as the New. II Is great thing
for boy or girl to know how to
handle the Bible. What is an army good
Tor haxy 10 hov nj "A In
their swords? Now, speak very strong
on this, because I was brought up in a
Sabbath school that didn't have a single
Bible in it. We used to have these old
question books. Do you know what they
are like? There are questions, and the
answers are given just below; so that you
don't need to study your lesson. Mother
had Bible, it was a family Bible, but
she was SO afraid that we would tear 1t
that she kept it In the spare room, once in
great while we were allowed to look at
it, The thing that interested me mos
was the family record--when Dwight was
born, when father and mother were mar
ried. Those were the most interesting
things to me, you know. So when got
to be a man and my beard began to come
out, was bigger then than am now, in
my own estimation. / knew II all. Oh
yes! You couldn't tell me much. was
wiser than my grandfather or my great
grandfather, or all the grandsires behind
me. / came down here to Boston from the
country and went into Bible class where
there were a good many Harvard stu
dents. Their families belonged to the
church, suppose, and they came home to
spend the Sabbath, or perhaps they came
home every day. Twas put into this class
OF young men. They handed me a Bible
and told me the lesson was in John. /
hunted all through the Old Testament for
John, but couldn't find II. saw the fell
lows hunching one another, "Ah, greenie
from the country" Now, you know
that is just the time when YOU
don't want to be considered green. The
teacher saw my embarrassment and handed
me his Bible, and put my thumb in the
place and held on. ] didn't lose my place.
said then that il ever got out of that
scrape, i would never be caught there
again. Why is 1t that so many young
men from IS to 20 cannot be brought into
Bible class? Because they don't want to
expose their ignorance. There Is no place
in the world that is so fascinating as a
live Bible class. believe that we are to
blame that they have been brought up in
brought up with these quarterlies. The
result is, the boys are growing up without
knowing how to handle the Bible. They
don't know where Matthew is, they don't
know where the Epistle of the Ephesians
Is, they don't know where to find Hebrews
or any of the different books of the Bible
They ought to be taught how to handle
the whole Bible, and 1t can be done by
Sunday school teachers taking the Bible
into the class and going right about it at
once. You can get Bible in
this country for almost a song now.
Sunday schools are not so poor
that they cannot get Bibles. Some time
ago there came up In large Bible class a
question, and they thought they would
refer to the Bible, but they found that
there was not single one In the class. So
they went to the pews, but could not find
one there. Finally they went to the pull
pit and took the pulpit's Bible and settled
the question. We are making wonderful
progress, aren't wei Quarterlies are all
right I'm their places, but IL they are going
to sweep the Bibles out of our Sunday
schools, think we had better sweep them
out.
Now, word about the whole Bible. 1
believe 1t is a master stroke of Satan to
get us TO doubt any portion OF the Bible.
II he can get us to doubt just one thing in
that book he has accomplished a great
point, and 1t Is going TO be the overthrow
OF many a mans and woman's faith. III
had the right 10 cut this out Of the
Bibleand Mr.. Sankey that and Mr.. II. that
1t wouldn't be long before the whole Bible
would be cut up. Once gentleman took
Bible to his minister and said he wanted
20 show him the minister's Bible. The
pastor said, "Why do you call 1t the minis
ters Bible? That isn't my Bible" Well,
said the man, 81 have sat under your min
istry for some time, and when you have
thrown anything out have cut IL out Of
TIE Bible" And he had got all OF the
Book OF Job cut out, all Revelations, the
Songs OF Solomon, and about third Of
the Bible was cut out. The minister said,
al wish you would leave that Bible with
me-" He didn't want tho people TO see
ho hoot I'm that aoudftion Rt,f IN ma n,