The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-01-22

sLoly OIL the fAil is confirmed.
In n museum at Constantinople you
see piece of the wall that once in
the ancient Temple of Jerusalem sep
arated the court of the Gentiles and
the court of the Israelites,. to which
Paul refers when he says of Christ.
He is our peace. who hath broken
down the middle wall of partition be-
tween u.s." On tablets recently dis
covered have been found the names of
prominent men of the Bible, spelled
little different, according to the de-
mands OF ancient language. "Adamu"
Tor Adam, "Abramn" for Abraham,
"Ablu' for Abel, and so on. Twenty
two feet under ground has been found
seal inscribed with the words "Hag-
gal, son of Shebaniah," thousands Of
years ago cut, showing that the Pro-
phet Haggai, who wrote a part of the
BLDG, was not a myth. The Royal
Engineers have found, eighty feet be-
low the surface of the ground at Jeru-
salem, Phoenician pottery and hewn
stones with inscriptions, showing that
they were furnished by Hiram, King
or tyre, just as the Bible says they
were. The great names of Bible his
tory, that many suppose are names of
imaginary beings, are found cut into
lmperishable stones which have within
few years been rolled up from their
entombment of ages, such as Sen
nacherib and Tiglath- Pileser. On the
edge OF bronzed step, and on burned
Drlck has been found the name of Ne
Duchadnezzar. Henry Rawlinson and
Oppert and Hincks, and Palestine ex-
ploration societies, and Psychologists,
and Psychologists, have rolled another
Bible up from the depths of the earth,
and 10! it corresponds exactly with our
Bible, the rock Bible just like the
printed Bible, inscriptions on cylinders
and brick-work cut thirty-eight hun
dred years before Christ testifying to
the truth of what we read eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven years after
Christ. The story of the Tower of
Babel has been confirmed by the fact
that recently at Babel an oblong pile
or brick one hundred and ten feet high
evidences the remains of fallen tower.
In the Inspired Book of Ezra we read
or the great and noble Asnapper,
name that meant nothing especial, un-
til recently, in pried-up Egyptian sculp-
ture, we have the story there told of
him as a great hunter as we'll as
great warrior. What / say now is
news to those prejudiced against the
BLDG. They are so far behind the
times that they know not that the
Old Book is being proved true by the
prying eye Of the antiquarian and the
ringing hammer of the archaeologist
and the plunging crowbar of the geolo-
gist No more is infidelity character
lied by its blasphemy than by its ig-
norance, but oh! what a high noun
tain of prejudice against the Bible,
against Christianity, against churches,
against all evangelizing enterprises-a
mountain that casts its long, black
shadows over this continent and over
all continents. Geographers tell us
that Mount Everest is the highest
mountain in the world. Oh, no. The
mountain of prejudice against Chris
tianity is higher than the highest
crags that dare the lightnings of
heaven. Before our Zerubbabel can it
ever become a plain?
Yonder also is the Mountain of
Crime, with its strata of fraud, and
malpractice, and malfeasance, and
blackmail, and burglary, and piracy.
and embezzlement, and libertinism.
and theft, all its heights manned with
the desperadoes, the cut-throats, the
pick-pockets, the imble-riggers, the
plunderers, the marauders, the pillag-
ers, the corsairs, the wreckers. the
bandits, the tricksters, the forgers. the
thugs, the garotters, the fire-flends. the
dynamiters, the shoplifters, the klepto-
maniacs, the pyromaniacs, the Dip
somaniacs, the smugglers, the kidnap-
pers, the Jack Sheppards, the Robert
Macaires. and the Macbeths of vilainy.
The crimes OF the world! Am l not
right in calling them, when piled I'D
together, a mountain? But we cannot
bring ourselves TO appreciate great
heights except by comparison. You
think of Mount Washington as high.
especially those of you who assembled
as of old, on muleback, or more re-
Gently by rail-train, to the Tip Top
House. Oh, no! That is not high!
For it is only about six thousand feet.
whereas, rising on this western hem
isphere are Chimborazo, twenty-one
thousand feet high, and Mount Sa-
hama, twenty-three thousand feet high.
and Mount Sarota, twenty-four thou
sand eight hundred feet high. But that
is not the highest mountain on the
western hemisphere. The highest
mountain is the Mountain of Crime,
end is it possible that this mountain.
before our Zerubbabel, can ever be
made a plain?
There is also the Mountain of War,
the most volcanic of all Mountains
the Vesuvius which, not content, like
the Vesuvius of Italy, with whelming
two cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii,
has covered with its fiery scorla thou
sands of cities and would like to whelm
all the cities of both hemispheres
Give this mountain full utterance, and
It would cover up Washington and New