New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-09

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| NONREIJEVERS IN THE SUPERNATURAL"
There is another class Il is fashionable for peo-
| pic TO say. Yes believe the Bible. ou' not the
| supernatural. | believe everything tld' wi
| spends with this reason OF mine lheE so ~
reading the Bible, with penknife cutting out ''.s
| and that Now II have right to cut ou' oe'-
tain portion Of the Bible. don't know why one oi
! nv friends has not right to cut out aho'ne' anu
another friend to Gu, out nn0tneF Pb If everybody
on, out what ne wanted 10. Every aduiterer woui9i
everything about ndnedyd VERY drumkard
would he cutting out what ne did N, nov ma Nan % saw
he will nave nothing to do with the supernatural:
will not believe the supernatural IL H Uu az va
burn Your Bibles al one. You take the supcrnat-
urai out of book and YOU nave taken Jesus sss
Christ out 1t; have taken out the Dest pal!
Of book There Is no part Of NE 6 Gaoes Int
does nor sach a o his fac and God akc
with him. That IS supernatural III tha' ono nv,
ue and ou, goes Genesis In Exodus you find The
ten plaques which came upon Egypt II 'h LIS Is
in Leviiicus # is said that fire consumed the sons
of Aaron. That was supernatural .veh, nr hoi -
that was true we must throw out the "noiS
book In Numbers is the story OF the serpent AND
so with every book In the Old p.r
not one in which you do not hnd something super
natural
! SUPERNATURAL THINGS ABOUT CHRIST
There re more supernatural things about Jesus
Christ than In any other portion OF the ihoe' ana
tho last thing man is willing to give up Is me
four Gospels. Five hundred years before HIS pir'h
| the angel Gabriel came down and told Daniel that
| He should he born. And while was speaking In
prayer even the man Gabriel. whom had seen III
a vision at the beginning. being caused to fly
| swiftly touched me about the time of the evening
oblation." Again Gabriel comes down TO Nazareth
and tells the Virgin that she should be the mother
of the Saviour. Behold. thou shalt conceive in
| thy womb and bring forth son. and shalt can
ma M q
into to the the temple and n told b ea ne
runner of the Messiah. Zacharias was struck
dumb for nine months for his unbelef. o.roa %
the shepherds at bethlehem, telling them Of the
birth OF the saviour, Into you is horn this day
the Lord" For three and half years Jesus trod
the streets and highways of Palestine Think OF
during those years One day He speaks to me
10 the sea. and 1t obeys Him. When He died the
sun refused 10 look upon the scene; this old world
| drunken man. And when He burst asunder the
bands OF death and came out Of Joseph's tomb
Worship v%as dead Jew II we worshipped jew
ceve %0pS life "1 IN onr sous thank God our chris
is supernatural Christ. and this book SUPER
GsOk ss hat hanf @s Sd v fed G
| Paul Timothy that all Scripture was giTen
ny whnt he 81 said we some saT 40 YOU
believe all Scripture is given by Inspirations Yes
But don't believe all the actions and Incidents
| It tells Of were inspired For instance when the
| devil told lie he not inspired TO tell a lie
| and when a wicked man. like Ahab. said anything
| he not inspired. but some one was inspired TO
write 1t. and all was given by inspiration. and is
| proitabl
| want to show how absurd It is for any one 10
| cay he believes the New Testament and not the
| Old II is an interesting fact that Of tho thirty
nine books Of the Old Testament our Lord made
quotations from less than twenty-five. Possibly
| He may have quoted from all Of them. For We
have only fragments reported Of what He said and
| did. You know the Apostle John tells us that the
be written If ali the sayings and doings Of our
| Lord were recorded
In the Gospel by Matthew there one hum
drcd quotations from twenty books in the Old Tes-
| lament. In the Gospel Of Mark there are fifteen
the Gospel of Luke there are thrty-fcur quotations
from thirteen books. In John there are eleven quo
| tations from six books.
You scmeiime; hear men saving they do not be- e;
Jesus Christ in the four Gospels Well il believe
that, have to accept these hundred and sixty quo
tations from the Old Testament.
three quotations from the Old Testament. Some
b-ews there eghty-fve quotations in that one
book of thirteen chapters in Galatians sixteen
| there are 25 quotations and illusions
THREE BOOKS FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN.
| There are three books which think every Chris
| tian ought have. The first is the Bible. believe
| in getting good Bible. with good. plain print
| have not much love for those little Bibles which
you have 10 hold right under your nose in order 10
| read the print, and If the church happens TO be
dark you can't see the print, but II becomes jun
P poe g, your a and ycu
| wIk five miles you will just preach sermon five
sOhr cns Ss Bible Under his you
books and the Bible is worth all the hymnbooks
, and prayer boks in the world put together
Suppose you pay so for good Bible; the older
|
But be sure you do not get one so good that you
wise you ,o, get crudens Concordance was =. a
anything about the Bible. and tried to defend the
and @ sad It not in i the Bbe and hunted
for days and days If had had CONCORDANCE cord ,S,n
for ministers ndss s0G once in While 10 tell The people
good b Soq bible YS s any to his oo
c9Tdance Thirdly topical So9k These f book books
h hP bSS no. S a he the se w9e of at ~n
Christian ought to have them ,. ,u.
many things lying a.. around Him Jesus brings
into His light fnws fHs er ras
and rock.
STUDYING SPECIAL THINGS
Some one. in travelling through Palestine, said
that he did not think that there was a solitary
| thing there that Christ did not ilustra-
ton. With my concordance and my textbook
| took up that word love" and don't know how
many weeks l spent In studying the passages in
which 1t occurs. till at last could not help loving
| people l had been feeding 50 long on "love'' that
was anxious to do everybody good came In con-
| tact with | suppose that II all the time that |
have prayed for faith was put together II would
| be months. used TO say when was president OF
| the Young Mems Christian Association in Chicago:
| What we need Is faith; II we only have faith. we
| can turn Chicago upside do an. rather right side
| up" thought that some day faith was going TO
| come down and strike me like lightning But faith
| did not to come. One day read In the tenth
! chapter of Romans. Now faith comes by hearing.
| and hearing by the word OF God" ] had closed my
| Bible and pra yed for faith ! now opened my Bible
| and began to study. and faith has been growing
| since.
| In New England there is perhaps doctrine