The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-22
The SPLENDo2S OF THE BIBLE.
Continued from Eighth Page,)

nave nav its bower in their souls. 1t has cured
them Of the worst leprosy that ever came
down on our earth, namely. the
- 1sP n6int you to multitades who say they
6ave felt the power of that cure are you
not reasonable enough TO acknowledge the
FaSt that there must be some power in the
medicine? VII, you take the evidence of
millions of patients who have been cured
or will YOU take the evidence of the sceptic
Who stands aloof, ana contesseS that ne
never took the medicine2 The Bible init
mates that there was q city called Petra,
built out Of solid rock. Inhdelity scoffed
al IT, Where Is your city OF PetraY
Buckhardt and Laborde went forth in their
exploratiors, and they came upon that
very city. The mountains stand around
like gia ats guarding the tomb where the
city Is buried. They find a street in that
city six miles long, where once flashed
inn srial pomp, and which echoed with the
laughter of light-hearted mirth on its way
70 The theater. On temples, fashioned out
n coorel stones-some of which have
6lushed into the crimson of the rose and
some OF which have darkened into the blue
.of the sky and some of which have paled
INTO the Wilderness of the lily-ay, on col
umn, and pediment and entabiature, and
statuary. God writes the truth of that
Bible The Bible says that Sodom and
Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and
birthstone. absurd Inhdels, year
after year, said; '"It is positively absurd
that they could have been destroyed by
birthstone. There is nothing in the ele-
snents 10 cause such shower of death as
Ehat." Lieutenant Lynch think ne was
the first man who went out on the dlscoV-
cry, but he has been followed by many
others-Lieutenant Lynch went out in eX-
ploradon, and came to the Dead Sea,
which by a CONFUSION of nature, has over
flown the place where the cities once stood.
He sank his fathoming Zine, and brought
up from the bottom of the Dead Sea great
masses of sulphur, remnants of that very
tempest that swept Sodom and Gomorrah
90 ruin Who was right-the Bible that
announced the destruction of those cities,
or the sceptics who for ages scoffed at it?
The Bible says there was city called
Nineveh, and that it was three days jour
ney around it, and that 1t should be de-
stroyed by fire and water. Absurd,
years; no such city was ever built that
1t would take you three days journey to
go around Beside, it could not be de-
stroyed by fire and water; they are antag-
onstc elements" But Layard, Botta,
Bonomi, and Keith go out, and by their
explorations they find that city of Nine
ven and they tell us that by their own
experiment it is three days journey around
according to the old estimate of a days
journey and that it was literally destroy
ed by fire and by Water-two antagonis-
tic elements-a part of the city having
been inundated by the river Tigris Ghe
brick material in those times being dried
clay instead of burned" while in other
parts they. find the remains of the fire in
heaps of charcoal that have been eXcaVat-
ed and in the caicined slabs of gypsum.
Who was right, the Bible or nfidelity?
Noses intimated that they had vine
yards in Egypt Absurd" cried hun
dreds of voices, you can't raise grapes in
Egypt; of, if you can, il is very great
exception that you can raise them" But
The traveller goes down, and in the under
ground vaults of Eilithya he finds painted
on the wall all the process of tending the
vines and treading out the grapes. 1t is
al. there, Familiarity sketched by people
who evidently knew all about it, and saw
II al about them every day; and in those
underground vaults there are vases still
lncrusted with the settings of the wine.
! on see the vine did grow in Egypt Wheth-
er il grows there now or not.
Thus you see, while God wrote the BIZ
bic, at the same time He wrote this com
mentary, that the statutes of the Lord
are right, on leaves of rock and shell,
bound in clasps of metal. and lying on
mountain tables, and in the jeweled vase
OF the sea. In authenticity and in gem
lneness the statutes of the Lord are
Again The Bible is right in style I
know there are a great many people who
4 InihK II IS merely a collection of geneal-
osieal tables and dry facts. That is be-
BOOK. You take up the most
INTERESTING interest move, that was ever
a the 40Oth page to-day and to-morrow
at the 3OOth, and the next day at the first
page as now much sense or interest would
process to which the Bible is Subjected
every day: An angel from heaven. read
Hg me Blble in that way, could not I'M
other nal
ace 55I mas a door by which to enter and
door by which to go out Genesis is
the door to go in and Revelation the door
70 go out. These Epistles of Paul. The
apostle, are merely letters written foIds
ca up and sent by postmen to the dif-
ttereht churches. DO you read other let
suppose you get a business letter, and vo,,
s snow that IN 1t there are importan finan-
9 Tla! Pf Tgf tic do you read the last
p pase irs and ana then one line of the third
dUOfl9F fhn
ana another of the first? No
a3d end Deg With With Dear tY :, sir"
mere is letter written from the tbrone W
G Tyt 70 our lost world; it is full of magnif
IN t9T ber hopes pes and propositions and we dip
. ABOUT IT. Beside that. peonle read he
bip y, when they cannot do anything else
vol II 9ark day, and they do not feel
after d ionn s9ieg 90 not go to business. and
4 The ,iTYuHsihg ABOUT awhile they pick Up
tr mT t'io4e[tnelr mind refuses to eTIioV the
H. m H. VI they come home weary from
d le store or shop, and they feel If thew
90 90, not say, it is a dull book MbiIe ny
D iGie IS 70 De read on stormy days. and
read your mead aches, it is also To he
"A nerves Hltn sunshine and when your
NIL nfaith; While your vision is clear
vo %In III ms Paradise of truth; and willis
clnstorsV i of appetite is good pluck these
mis- bad iiascinated with the conciseness OF
N ruth I'm livery word is packed full of
<"rela1 T1.IS sentence is DOUBLE bar |
a ITu, Every paragraph is like an old
bnndr reil zee, with hundred roots and n
hni 80 branches. 1t is a great arch.
a frbberoo "L one stone and IL all comes down
[Pouid nas never been a pearl-diver who
IA az, satner up one-half of the treasures
h "feS verse, John Halsebach Of Viens
kyntor,UIl lwenty-one years, every SABBATH
N fbppUOt1uueG 10 his congregation the tirst
H. ! OF the book of isaiah and vet ala |
Iii - through with it, Nine-tenths ~ |
II The RGjppn literature of this age is mere |
VIII undertake m cav .1,o. ....
frst n rtrt mas been published since the |
fectIv ~ ~ ~ ns press was lifted has al |
tov,er V 81 indirectly derived much Of lie |
H. from the sacred oracIes- Goetbe
a he 'Ltled OF all sceDtics, had the wall |
felipio, mousse at Weimar covered with |
/. tparJisss maps and pictures. Milton,s |
Nam G Lost IS part OF the Rible IN |
Nj" " verse. Tasso's Jerusalem Deity
~ ~ borrowed from the Bihle Snen-
~ Lungs are limitations OF the para |
MAJ Seirnni Bunyan saw IN a dream only |
etievnSiiaiin John had before seen in Apo- |
n '"V vision. Macaulay crowns |
Nith Sn n,GIst gigantic sentences |
4djiso,Sc scripture quotations. ThronSb |
III on Spectator" there eIanrss |
MOL anu out the stream tbet
~ rom beneath the throne Of God |
ckaract crystal. Walter Scott's hest |
III der SIss are Bible men and women |
IL vt Inherent names. Meg MerriIies |
f'AtlN or Endor ~ |