Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-28

e INSPIRED WORD OF GOD
The Eminent Di'inc Tells Ho" the
,ooLs We're writfen-It Is NIL True
and Needs no Defence-iie""o""
growing city.

3D., n3lpit were Rev. Drs Hoge, Jaoez
..'r J. Gravatt, ]. A. Morehead,
Ian Cranberry. and DR.. Kerr. presi-
,.,, ~ the society, all Of whom paruci-
.., i, the exercises Of the occasion.
Inv uore introduced the Rev. Thee.
,..,,sr ID. D., OF Brooklyn, as the ora
~ the day. and the distinguished d.
... made a brilliant address. He said. in
brethren and sisters in Jesus
..r..t-Just nfty-two years ago, while
10 n student in Princeton, l made my
e.., visit TO your beautiful city. Bishop
T.t,s WAS then assisting the then venera-
, Eishop Meade both Of them Prince
..,f,ps. in this diocese. My old friend
w. WILLIAM $. Palmer, was here in his
..,,o.,rt prime. and the genial, gifted Dr.
I,..ah stiles was then ministering to the
>,y school Presbyterian Church. My be-
,....a brother. Dr. Hoge, had not yet
.--,,erccd that more than half century
ministry. which, thank God, still shines
,,.,,p urdimlnished spiritual splendor. The
yircinian. Governor James Nc
1.s.l entertained me Hospitality In his
,..r..oD and from the steps of yonder
".,.tol dilated upon the resources ana
t-5s8ncss Of the Old Dominion.
FINDS a NEW RICHMOND.
.-b,t Richmond has largely vanished
QUAY" DR. Cuyler continued Ihe names
,t.n used 10 hear have been carved Tor
80 voar on the tomb. 4 new Rich
-.l,5 Is here. more beautiful by lar;
80 virginia. with new people. new hopes,
... aspirations: but old Shockoe Hill
IDS and the old James river still
60 along your walls. This ancient
r1ts society stil lives. and, best OF all,
a.. ol3 Book still lives in your hearts,
ca SIN guides your children; still rings
or, your pulpits. and is stil put beneath
a., diving pillows of Gods saints in TINS
community. ,-,,,.
u have come to give you long talk this
afternoon about the dear old Book. There
80. trrumerable that have come from
human hands: there is a library In Paris
raj contains 10000 of them Almighty
81 has given this world but one Book,
sr5 IL ontweighs all the libraries on the
pl1lo The name which be gives TO 1t is
eyv Word; the name we give it Is The
EI6lo" which signifies. as you know,
"fhe Book Well did Sir Walter say TO
Togkhart. who offered TO read TO him on
tis diving bed: "Lockhart. there Is but
1ra fSok. and that is the bible" So
SAID the most brilliant writer Of his gene
ration. Ii is the only book that bridges
Two eterniues, the eternity before crea-
ton and the eternity to which We are
al. tending.
WRITTEN By GODS SERVANTS.
wow. II you ask me If God composed
the Bible IN the same way that your own
jefferson composed the Declaration Of
Independence. / say no. Your great
Statesman wrote out what he had con-
c0.t,I u DIS own brain. and made it and
h.mscf immortal. The Bible was written
ly the servants of God. guided by the
Divine Spirit They spoke as they were
hyeathsl into aud moved by the Holy
Spirit join heard marvellous CONVEX
sat'1n az the Lords Supper. When he
wrote DO down he ala it under the super
ilteuderce Of the Holy Spirit. This is
divine Inspiration. When Paul wrote 10
tre Church he did so exactly Is ii was
revealed 10 him. This is revelation.
What the Book says, whether poetry
biography. or prophecy, It is Gods Word,
Whatever the Book says, God says.
"N0t a syllable OF the original writings
remains T. this wonderful? Shakespeare
lived only three centuries ago, and yet
there is not one scrap of his writing in
existence, except single receipt for some
money paid him at Stratford. The Oldest
authentic copy Of the Scriptures is fifteen
hundred years old. Shakespeare. COM
pared with the Bible. is like James river
compared 10 the Atlantic ocean.
Is NOT FOR THE FEW.
u ten YOU this good old Gospel IS not
far the tastiliOus few. II is our Heavenly
Fathers bread OF life for the hungry
mass Of humanity. 1t will interest the
smallest school-boy in Richmond as much
as the intellect Of Gladstone, a Jonathan
Liwaris. or a John Wesley. 'Pomp.' once
said a planter 10 one OF his SER
wants. What is free grace? The answer
vas' Everything for nothing Bushnell
could not beat that. An old Nirginian,
benjamin Wright, one day said to a negro,
Caesar. why Is 1t that you are always
ne happieSt man on the plantatiOng SAID
Caesar. i lays fat down on Gods
Promises. and 1 prays straight up
u am afraid the old-fashioned family
religion is going somewhat out Of vogue.
trust 10 IS not so In Richmond. You owe
leht TO- your Young Mems Christian
Association for the work IL is doing TO
.l'olrage ana promote the careful study
'. Che Bible among the young men of your
-ily, The devil runs his presses night ana
Gay 10 produce a certain style OF fiction.
Aas. that IL comes up into our homes
uka the frogs Of Egypt. There never was
time when novelists and clay-writers
nave been more determined to gid vice
a1l vanish iniquitles than now. The
Lhlo is the best book 20 train the mind
to feed the soul. ana to lift US into the
l't.est aspirations. Fathers and mothers.
r.ng up your children on the Book or
Sod
What is that that dropped out OF
your pocketr said "a New York merchant
~ young man from the country.
Woyment r. boy answered. The Bible
chants Go back TO the counting-room
ani report yourself for employment here.
4a-e are the boys we want
1T NEEDS NO DEFENCE.
Dr. Cuyler then adverted TO what Is
called The Higher Criticism" saying he
nope % had not rufIled the faith Of one
h.s hearers. as II had not ruftied his
10 not come here 20 defend the Bible. ;"
OBJ. said IT needs no defence"
The speaker closed with an earnest ex-
o9r'aton 10 all his hearers 20 accept the
Christ u the Bible.
collection for the Bible Society was
.'hen up az the close. and. after singing
..' coronation hymn the assembly was
'smtsed with the benediction. and so
-ilsei one Of the most impressive meet
N6' hela IN Richmond for many a day.
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