The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-23

who has contributed 10 the translation
of Holy Scripture into the tongues of.
people of foreign race mag remember
that his first duty Is to get the Holy
Scriptures translated into his own life
in such n form that Its contents may
become Ineligible to those who are
nearest to him. The real meaning OF
Holy Scripture Is never discovered I'M
til that translation has been effected.
You never know the meaning OF the
acorn until the acorn has appropriated
10 itself the powers OF the sun and the
rain, and the dew and the light and the
air. II anybody asks you the meaning
massive trunk and Its mighty branches
the acorn means. II anybody asks me
for q final proof that there Is life, and
the very life Of God In the book that we
are seeking to circulate the world over,
/ give the same answer. The best
proof that the acorn Is not dead. and
that God made It. is that the oak comes
from It. and the best proof that the
very. life OF God Is In the Bible. Is to be
found in the Bibles power. No, you do
not know what you are really doing.
You send Off bales Of Bibles to India,
or China. or Africa. You are like q
seed merchant sending packages of
seed TO the farmer. II he wants to
know what It Is doing he must go in
autumn, and see the country covered
with the brown corn. ripening in the
autumn SUM-. II you want to know
what your Bibles are doing, you must
follow them in thought to the people
to whom they are sent. Measure the
moral and spiritual results produced
In them by the moral and Spiritual
result Is. (which the5 Bible has produced
in you. What has been done for,you by
the story OF the descent of, the Eternal
Son from the heights of God to effect
our redemption by His, death for the
sin OF the world. by His resurrection
and ascension into heaven and His eter-
nal glory-what has been done for you
by these great contents OF Holy Scrip
ture will be done for the people OF
every land, and under every sky to
which your Bibles are sent. All. but
IL you could follow your Bibles and dis
cover the results In human life and
character In this world, still you would
not know the magnitude of the work
you are doing. The Word OF the Lord
liveth and abideth forever. 1t is a d.
vine force. Eternal life Is In It. 1t can
not reveal all It's power and all its
grace under the Limitations of these
mortal years. The Word of God in hu-
man life In this present world, Is like q
tropical tree planted OF one Of u
northern pralries. The life In 1t cannot
be revealed under these grey skies.
Our winds are too cold, the soil Is too
poor for the tree to manifest all Its per-
lection. You must carry 1t back to the
land from which It came, q land nearer
the sum-, before all the stateliness and
beauty of 1t can be achieved; and not
until the life which Is rooted In the
Divine Word Is carried back to the
world from which It came, that 1t maF'
grow In the very light and glory Of the
Eternal, can we know the power, the
beauty, the perfection that come to hu-
| man nature from receiving the living
| and Eternal Word of God.
Therefore, my dear hearers, we stand
Just at this moment where our lives are
set, on these few Inches where our feet
NAV tread, in these few moments
while we breathe the mortal mir, the in
heritcrs OF all that the past has known,
taking the precious Bible Into our
hands and giving It down into the
hands OF those coming after us. making
It to supply the sustenance, the insplr-
alton Of the things that we have to do;
gathering from II, from the Christ who
Is In It, the strength to live heroically
In these few days OF ours, and then CIV
ing It forward into the generations that
| are to come, looking Into the waiting
faces, which do not understand them
| selves, as they are just looming up to
take possession OF our mortal life, sag
Ing,to them: Take 1t, children, take it.
o, generations that are 10 be, o, broad
| lands far away, OF other capacities and
i%nheritances OF ours, talke 1t, and under
| stand Il better thnn We HAYS UNDER
| stood It., and draw out OF Its fountains
| depths richness and strength which
we. have tried to gain; which We have
gained imperfectly; which you shall
! gain far more completely than We have
been able to drink them In.
THE word OF God stands with the whole
story OF human life, from the begin
ming; from the garden OF Eden to the
new jerusalem; from the Genesis to
the Apocalypse. telling how man began
to be, telling what man shall be when
the divine life in him. perfected n re-
vcaled, shall have cast out his SIN and
shall have claimed him for what he
ever is-the son OF God.
""Thy word is everlasting truth;
How pure is every pnge! 1NiFt
That holy book shnll guide our youth
And well support our age.