The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-03-17

up In its museums remains OF sea mon
capable of doing more than the
one which swallowed the recreant
prophet. There stand the one thou
sand and eighty-nine 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 already kindled and
glow hotter than the furnaces of an
ocean steamer as 1t puts out from New
York Narrows for Hamburg or South
ampton. l should not wonder II from
the crypt Of ancient cities the inspired
manuscripts Of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John, In their own c~hirography,
would be taken, and the epistles which
Paul dictated to his amanuensis, as
well as the one in the apostles W
handwriting. At the same ratio of
archaeological and geological confirma-
ton of the Scriptures, the time will
come when the truth of the Bible will
no more be doubted than the common
almanac, which tells you the days and
the months of the year, and the unbe-
levers will be accounted harmless lu-
natics. Forward the telescope and
the spectroscope and the chemical bat
~teries, and critically examine the os-
tracods of the ocean depths and the
bones Of the great mammals on the
gravely hill-tops! And the mightier,
and the grander, and the deeper and
the higher the explorations the better
for our cause. AS sure as the thunder
bolts of the Almighty are stronger than
the steel pens of agnostics, the ark of
God will ride on unhurt, and Uzzah
need not fear any disasters upsetting.
The apocalyptic angel flying through
the midst of heaven, proclaiming to all
nations, and kindred, and people, and
tongues the unsearchable riches of Je-
u Christ are mightier than the shy
ing off of a yoke of oxen. y
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 Horeb paid Moses back in
gushing, ripping, sparkling water for
the two stout strokes with which he
struck it! And there stands the rock
with name-I guess the longest word
in the Bible-sela-hammahlekoth, n
it was worthy OF a resounding, sesqui-
pedalian nomenclature, for at that
rock Saul was compelled to quit his
pursuit of David and go home and look
after the Philistines, who were max
ing a flank movement. There were the
rocks of Bozez and Seneh, between
which Jonathan climbed up and sent
flying in retreat the garrison OF the
uncircumcised. And yonder see David
and his men hidden in the rock OF
Adullam and Engedi!
Concerning all the vast things of
Gods government of the universe, be
patient with the carrying out OF plans
beyond u measurement. Naturallsts
tell us that there are insects that are
born and die within an hour, and h a
there are several generations of them
in one day; and if one of those July
insects of an hour should say, How
slow everything goes! I was told in
the chrysalis state by a wondrous in
stinct that l would find in this world
seasons of the ~year-spring, summer,
autumn and winter. But where are
the autumnal forests upholstered in
fire, and where are the glorious spring
| times, with orchards waving their CEN
sers of perfume before the affairs of the
morning? l do not believe there are
any autumns or springtimes." If then
a golden eagle, many years old. in a
cage nearby, heard the hum of that
complaining insect, it might we'll an
swer: 20, summer insect of an hour,
though YOU life Is so short you can
not see the magnificent turn of the
seasons, I can testify as to their real
ity, for l have seen them roll. When
l was young, and before | was impris-
oned in this cage, l brushed their gor-
geous LEAKAGE and their fragrant bios
SONS with my own wing. You live an
hour; l have lived thirty years. But
in one of my flights high up, the gate
of heaven open for a soul to go in or
a seraph to come out, l heard the
choirs chanting, From everlasting to
everlasting thou art God" And it was
an antiphonal in which all heaven re-
%sponded, From everlasting to ever
lasting thou art God" o, man! o, wo-
man! so far as your earthly existence
is concerned, only the insect of an
hour, be not impatient with the work
ings OF the Omnipotent and the Eter-
nal.
And now, for your solace and your
safety, I ask you to come under the
shelter, and into the deep ~clefts, anG
the almighty defense of a Rock tina
is higher than you, higher than any
Gibraltar, higher thar the Himalaya'
the Rock of Ages"-that will shell
ter you from the storm, that will hid
you from your enemies, that will stanC
when the earthquakes of the last da,
get their pry under the mountains a n
hurl them into seas boiling with tn,
fires which are already burning thei
way out from red-hot centers towar'
the surfaces which are already her
and there spouting with fire amid tn
quaking of the mountains, under tn
look and touch of him, of whom it i
said in the sublimest sentence eve
written: He looketh upon the noun
tains, and they tremble: He touched
the hills and they smoke!"
HE YOU n and all to the Rock o
Ages! And, now, as before this sermon
on the Rocks l gave out the significan
and appropriate hymn, How firm
foundation ye saints of the Lord"
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