The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-04

Bible, penknife in hand to cut out any
portion of it, it won't be long until you
cut it all out
I hear some people say, I believe
part Of the Bible, but not ALI: or, !
don't believe parts of the Old Tesla
ment'; or, I believe all but the mir
acles. The miracles in the Old Tesla
ment are not more wonderful than
those in the New. Others say that they
| don't believe the part about Noah S
ark. Christ believed it and connected
it with his coming. Others say they
! don't believe the part about Lots wife;
Christ believed it and connected it with
his coming. Should the servant be
above the Master? If you overthrow
one testament, you overturn the other.
| Don't you believe the children of Is
rael we're fed with mamma? Christ did
Don't you believe in Jonah and the
| whale? Do you call it a fable? Christ
believed it and connected 1t with his
! own resurrection If you overthrow
Jonah you overthrow the resurrection,
and when your hair is as gray as mine
you will not want to do that. The
Bible says God prepared a great fish,
and it swallowed Jonah. Couldn't the
God who created this world and the
glories of the armament create that
sort of a fish? 1 believe he could Gre
ate one large enough to swallow the
Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean
at one mouthful. The minister who
picks the Bible to pieces is doing the
devils work better than the devil
could do it himself if he occupied the
pulpit, for you would all know that he
was a liar.
You can't believe the Bible without
believing the supernatural part of it;
II that was taken out, / wouldn't take
the book from here to the hotel. The
supernatural runs all through it; take
that out and you take all out. Christ's
birth was supernatural, so were his acts
and the obedience rendered him by all
things and forces; the Bible lives and
he lives forever. We don't worship a
dead Jew; no. Christ is alive If John
hasn't risen, Christ has; if he had not,
you would not be here today. You can't
believe the 6ew and not the Old Tes-
lament, for the New is filled with quo
tations from and references to the Old.
Don't you see it is absurd to say that?
There are passages that 1 can't ex-
plain or interpret and do not under
stand, but l believe them, just as / be-
lieve many things do not understand.
1 do not understand higher mathemat-
les or astronomy, but 1 believe in them.
l thank God there are things in that
book L cannot understand; if I could
have understood It all, Il might have
gotten tired of it forty years ago. Some
people want a. new Bible. / tell YOU
the truth of this is as young and vigor-
Gus as ever. The Bible is not a back
number. There are more sold now than
ever before, and there have been more
sold in the past eight years than in
1900 years before.
Il am asked if the Bible is all inspir-
ed. No, it is not, but its writing is all
inspired. Those who lied in it, for in
stance, were not inspired to do so, but
others were inspired to write about
them. The brightest star on the hori-
ION is the interest that is being taken
in the Bible and it's study, and you viii
notice that the backSlider never studies
it.
''This afternoon I will tell you how
to study the Bible, for it is a calamity
not to know. tell you to get a con-
cordance, for one thing; a Crudens con-
cordance, which you can get for a dol
lar-don't pay any more for it, either;
get a topical text book and subscribe
to Whitfield's notes; they will all help,
and then take notes of all the good
things you hear about it, and spend a
few minutes daily with God"
HIS FAREWELL.
At o'clock in the AFTERNOON the
an hour before the time for the sermon
to begin. The Sunday school room was
packed and the speakers platform in
vaded and occupied by those anxious
to see and hear.
In beginning, Mr. Moody announced
services at the First Baptist church !
every night by Rev. Mr.. Clark of Mich /
igan and on Wednesday night at the
Phillips Congregational church by Rev. (,
Mr.. Fassett Of Chicago. He then thank
ed the ministers, the choir, the Y. NJ. G. |
A. and the ushers and the press for
their services, declaring that the pulpit |
and the press together were the powers
that were evangelizing the world. He
then took up the subject of how to
study the Bible, declaring that it ought /
to be used as a text book. He next at |
tackled sensational preaching, declaring |
it a shame.
1--WE can do without our theories" he |
said, but we can't get on without |
Christ, and if we study the Bible it |
will settle doubts and issues, it always |
settles them. Why, I've heard preach |
ers and 1 couldn't tell what they were |
talking about and they didn't know |
know. What the world needs is more
expository preaching, more preaching
from the Word of God. First, when
you study, take a. telescope view and
then a microscopic view, then go over
it paragraph by paragraph.
Then take the prophecies; there. is
nothing more inspiring, nothing that
will confound skepticism quicker" He
then reviewed many of the prophecies, |
showing where they had been fulfilled
to the letter.
Next he advised his hearers to get
established in the fundamental truths
of religion, dwelling on repentance, on
the new birth, conversion, assurance,
justification, sanctifcation and holt
ness.
He had been talking for some time
and the church was very warm, one old
gentleman growing so faint that he had
to be taken out, so Mr.. Moody said that
those who wished might take that op-
portunity to leave. and he would con-
tinue to talk if any remained. The
great majority stayed, and he spoke for
probably half an hour longer on the |
proper way to study the Word of God, |
and with fervent appeal to his hear
ers to accept Christ, ended his sermon
and services in Salt Lake
The Liver Keeps People Well.