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that being the only mode OF admis-
sion. and that he saw there In the
wnste basket for kindling for the fires,
a manuscripts of the Holy Scriptures
That night he copied many of the pas
sages of that Bible, but 1t was not un-
til fifteen years had passed of earnest
entreaty and prayer and coaxing and
purchase on his part that that copy of
the Holy Scriptures was put into the
hand of tho emperor of Russia-that
ono copy 30 mnrvelously protected.
Do you not know that the catalogue
of the books of the Old and New Tes-
taments as we have II is the same cata-
logue that has been coming on down
through the ages? Thirty-nine books
of the Old Testament thousands OF
years ago. Thirty-nine now. Twenty
seven books of the New Testament
now. Marc.on, for wickedness, was
turned out Of the church in the second
century. and In his assault on the BIZ
BILE and Christianity he incidentally
gives catalogue Of the books Of the
Bible-that catalogue corresponding
exactly with ours-testimony given by
the enemy of the Bible and the enemy
of Christianity. The catalogue now
Just like the catalogue then. As
saulted and spit on and torn to pieces
and burned, yet adhering. The book
to-day, in three hundred languages,
confronting four-flfths of the human
race In their own tongue. Four hun
dred million copies Of it in existence.
Does not that look as II this book had
been divinely protected. as II God had
guarded it all through the centuries?
Is it not an argument plain enough
to every honest man and every honest
woman, that a book divinely protected
in this shape is ip the very shape that
God wants It? 1t pleascs God and
ought to please u.s. The epidemics
that have swept thousands of other
books into the scpulcher of forgetful-
ness have only frightened the fame Of
this. There is not one book out of
thousand that lives five years Any
publisher will tell you that. There
will not be more than one book out Of
twenty thousand that will live GEN.
fury. Yet, here Is book, much of 1t
sixteen hundred years old, and much
of it four thousand years old, and
with more rebound and strength In it
than when the book was first put upon
parchment or papyrus. This book
saw the cradle of all other books,
and it will see their graves. Would
you not think that an old book
like this, some of it forty CEN
turtles old, would come along hobbling
with age and on crutches2 Instead Of
that, more potent than any other book
of the time. More copies of it printed
than any other book-Wulter Scott's
Waverly novels, Macaulay's History
of England" Disraeli's "Endymion,"
the works of Tennyson and Longfel-
low, and all the popular books of our
time having no such sale in the last
ten years as this old WORKOUT book.
Do you know what u struggle book
has In order TO get through one CEN
tury or two centuries? Some old books,
during fire in a seraglio of Constan-
tinople, were thr own into the street
A man without any education picked
up one of those books, read IL, and
did not see the value of It, A scholar
looked over his shoulder and saw 1t
was the first and second decades of
Livy, and he offered tn e man a large
reward If he would bring the books to
his study; but in the excitement of the
FIRE the two parted, and the first and
second decades of Livy were forever
lost. Pliny wrote twenty books Of
history; all lost. OF one hundred and
thirty comedies of Plautus, ell gone
but twenty. Euripides wrote hun
dred dramas, all gone but nineteen.
Aeschylus wrote hundred dramas,
all gone but seven. Verro wrote the
laborious biographs of seven hundred
Romans, pot fragment left. Quin-
lillian wrote his favorite book on the
corruption of eloquence, all lost
Thirty books of Tacitus lost Dion
Cassius wrote eighty books; only
twenty remain. Berosius' history all
lost.
Beside that, am opposed to this eI-
purgation Of the scriptures because, If
the attempt WINS successful, 1t would
be the humiliation Of the Bible. Inf
del biologists would say, ''out with
the Book of Genesis infdel astrono-
mers would say, ''out with the book of
joshua" people who do not believe in
the atoning sacrifice would say, "out
with the Book of Leviticus;" speople
who do not believe In the miracles
would say, ''out with all those won
derful stories in the Old and New Tes-
tament;" and some would say, tout
with .the Book of Revelations;" and
others would say, ''out with the entire
Pentatcuch," and the work would 90
on until there would not be enough Of
the Bible left to be worth as much as
last years almanac The expurgation
of the scriptures means their annihi-
lation.
am also opposed TO this expurga-
ton of the scriptures for the fact that
in proportion as people become self
sacrificing, and good, and holy, and
consecrated, they like the Book as it
is. have yet to find man or woman
distinguished for self-sacrice, for con-
secration to God, for holiness of life,
who wants the Bible changed. Many
of US have inherited family Bibles
Those Bibles were in use twenty, forty.
fifty, perhaps a hundred years In the
generations. To-day take down those
family Bibles, and find out II there are