The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-03

attention of large audience for an houl
and half. His argument was scholarly
and logical. He said in substance among
other things: What about the Bible? Ii
1t Gods word? Did he give it? How
about Genesis? How about the old books
that are SO old We can only know Of BY
conjecture?
! There are many things in this book
that man could not have known alone OF
his own knowledge. We believe God
inspired 1t. We do not claim that God
inspired all the words in the Bible. He
did not inspire the lies of the devil.
Take the words of Jobs three friends.
God was not the inspiration of the IDEAS
thep expressed, out God caused a true
| record to be made.
| We are certain the God we know of is
the creator, the author Of nature. the
author of This book we may call reyea
ton. He has written two books, nature
and His book.
II His book tells us nything about
| nature 1T will tell US the same story that
nature tells u.s. The sun, the ocean the
sky, the earth, the air, the stars, which
are before our eyes will tell us the same
| story this book does
BY the evidence of ono we prove the
divine truth Of the other. Let us apply
the list of nature. Let US try it by four
tests.
Astronomy.
&-6eology.
3.-Meteorology.
4.-History aud Prophecy as fulfilled
in our day.
Science has declared that matter is not
eternal-that it must have had Gre
alton, beginning Scienoe stops at that.
But the book tells US, ''In the begin
ming God created.'' 1t also tells us the
earth was without form and void. The
findings of science and Gods work are
the same.
Gods words expressed in regard to the
phenomena of nature are the same
theories and conclusions that the greatest
students and scientists of today are
reaching. The word declares thousands
of years ago just what science is finding
out today. VINO could have revealed it
then but God?
For ages science had declared the earth
to be fat. That didn't make it so. 1t is
now acknowledged it is round There
were all sorts of ideas about what held
the fat earth up. Gle sstteth upon the
sphere oil the earth,' the Book told us
centuries ago.
God who knew, gave to men what they
did not know. Nature is now writing
the same great truths the book has told
for ages. Up to 100 years ago Yale
taught that the earth was the centre CT
things. In Job 27O0 years ago we were
told: He turned the .eaetn to the
moving" A perfect Z. soription of the
revolving earth. BY the computations
of the most radical skeptics at least 1000
years before men knew 1t, the book of
Job declared it.
Mr.. Frohook continued Mt length,
taking up the points as outlined above
and made most eloquent argument to
prove the divine Inspiration of the Binle
under the four heads mentioned. His
description of the history of the Jewish
race as prophesied in the Bible and full
filed in our day and his, arrayiug the
silent witnesses of carved stone and
moulded clay that modern excavation in
Egypt and Bible lands is bringing to
light as indisputable and enduring proofs
of the divine nature of the great Buck
was most brilliant and eloquent.
Last night closed the public exercises
of the Institute. 1t has been a most sue
cessf"l meeting and much praise is due
Rev. VIM. Wood. tie pastor of the
church at South Portland, and Mrs.
Wood for their untiring efforts in Lehalf
of the meeting. and the unboundsd
hospitality of the people of the church.