The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-25

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n inns discourse upon the geology of the
bioie' or God among the Rocks, |
charge agitated and affrighted Uzzahs
10 calm their pulses about the upset
ting OF the Scripture. Let me see, For
several hundred years the oxen have
been jerking the ark this way and
that, and pulling it over rough places
trying to stick it in the mud of deci-
slon' and kicking with all the power of
their hoofs against the sharp goads,
and trying to pull it in the cool shade,
away from the heats of retribution
from a God who will by no means
clear the guilty" Yet, have YOU not
noticed that the book has never been up
set9 The only changes made in it
were by it's learned friends in the re-
vision of the Scriptures. The Book of
GENESIS has been Numbered against by
the mightiest batteries, yet you can not
to-day hnd in all the earth copy
of the Bible which has not the fifty
chapters OF the first copy of the Book
OF Genesis ever printed starting with
the words, I'm the beginning God"
and closing with Joseph coffin. Fierce
attack on the Book of Exodus has been
made because they said it was cruel to
drown Pharaoh, and the story of
Mount Sinai was improbable. Butthe
Book of Exodus remains intact. and
not one of US, considering the cruclties
which he would have continued among
the brick liilns of Egypt, would have
thrown Pharaoh } plank if we
had seen hint drowning. And Mount
Sinai is to-day pile OF tossed aud
tumb led basalt, recalling the cataclysln
of that mountain when the law was
given And, as to those Ten Com
mandments, all Roman law, all
German law, all English law,
all American law worth any
thing are squarely founded on
them. So mighty assault for centuries
has been made on the Book of Joshua.
1t was said that the story OF the de-
tanned sun and moon is an insult to
modern astronomy, but that Book of
Joshua may be found to-day in the
chapel of every university in America
in defiance of any telescope projected
from the roof of that university. The
Book of Jonah has been the target Of
ridicule for the small wit of ages; but
there it stands, with its four chapters
inviolate, while geology puts up in
its museums remains of sea monsters
capable OF doing more than the one
which swallowed the recreant prophet.
There stands the l,0S9 chapters of the
Bible, notwithstanding all the attacks
of ages, and there they will stand
until they shrivel up in the final
fires, which biologists say are al
ready llindled and glow hotter
than the furnaces of an ocean
steamer as it puts out from New
York Narrows for Hamburg or South
ampton. should not wonder if from
the crypt of ancient cities the in
spired manuscripts of Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John, in their own chirogra-
ply, would be taken, and the epistles
which Paul dictated to his amanucnsis,
as we'll as the one in the apostles own
handwriting. At the same ratio of
archaeological and geological contir-
nation of the Scriptures, the time will
come when the truth of the Bible will
almanac, which tells you the days and
the months of the year and the unbe-
levers Will be accounted harmless
lunatics. Forward the telescope and
the spectroscope and the chemical bat
teries, and critically examine the os-
tracois of the ocean depths and the
bones of the great mammals on the
gravelly hill tops. And the mighter,
and the grander, and the deeper and
the higher the explorations, the better
for our cause. AS sure rs the thunder
bolts of the Almighty are stronger
than the steel pens of agnostics the
ark of God will ride on unhurt, aud
Uzzah need not fear any disasters up
setting. The apocalyptIc angel hying
through the midst of Heaven pro-
claiming to all nations, and Kindred,
and people, and tongues the unsearch-
| able riches OF Jesus Christ are might
Ter than the shying off of yoke OF
oxen.
How much the rocks have had to do
with the cause of God in all ages. In
! the wilderness Gods Israel were fed
with honey out of the rock. How the
rock of llorcb paid Moses back in
gushing, ripping, sparkling water Tor
| the two stout strokes with which he
| struck it! And there stands the rock with
name guess the longest word IN the
! Biblc-sela- hammahlekoth. and 1t was
worthy of resounding, seS qiupeua'
liam nomenclature, for at that rock
saul was compelled toquit his pursuit
| of David and go home and look after
the Philistlnes, who were making
flank movement. There were he rocks
of Bozez and Sench, between when
Jonathan climbed up and sent hylng IN
retreat the garrison of the uncir-
cumcised. And yonder see David ana
his men hidden in the rock Of Adullam
and Engedi.
! And now for your solace and your
| safety, ask you to come under the
] IN. shelter, aud into the deep cletts,
and the almighty defense of II rock that
is higher than you, higher than any
Gibraltar, higher the llimalayas-the
"Rocis of Ages"-that will shelter you
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