The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-09-07

and they say If this he true. how. then
can that be true? Mr.. Mil, who was
friend of the Bible. said he had dis.
covered 10000 different readings Of
thc Scriptures. and yet not one i'm.
roriant di.fcrcnce-not one important
difference out Of 300J0-only The diff.
ference that YOU might expect from
the fact that the book came down
/ from generation to generation and
WIS copied by a great many hands.
And vet put before you this fact
F today that ail the Bible writers
aerec i'm the four great doctrines Of
lhc Bible.
Nhatare those four great doctrines?
God good. kind. patient. just, loving
omnipotent Mana lost sinner. Two
destiuios-one for believers. the other
for unbelievcrs; all who accept Christ
reaching that home and only those
DESTROYED who destroy themselves:
only those who turn their back upon
Christ and come TO the procipicc ard
jump off. for God never pushes man
Oft. he Jumps off, Now, i'm these four
great doctrines all the Bible writers
agree. Mozart. Beethoven. Handel
and l!adyn never wrote more har-
monious music than You viii find i'm
this perfect harmony Of the Word of
God. the harmony in providence and
in grace.
You must remember also that the
authors of the Bible came from diff
farcnt lands. from different ages and
from different centuries. They had
no communication with each other:
they did not have an idea as 10 what
WAS the chief design Of the Bible. and
yet their writings. got mp from all
These different lands and all these diff
fcrcut ages and all these different
centuric, coming together make a
perfect harmony i'm the opinion OF the
very best scholars Of all lands. Is not
that q most remarkable fact?
The Bible is made mp Of the old
Testament and the New Testament. F..
Let AS take the New Testament first. .
Why DO believe it? Why DO | take /
il TO my heart? 1t is because it can .
bc traced back TO the Divine heart .
just as easily as shat aisle can be-
traced 10 that door. and that aisle TO
that door.
jerome and Eusebius i'm the first CEN
fury and Orircn I'M the second century
and other writer's in the third and
fourth centuries gave list Of the New
Testament writer's just exactly CORE
spending with our list. showing that
the same New Testament which we
have they had i'm the fourth century
and tlc third century and the second
century and the first century. But
where did they get the New Tcsta-
mcnt? They got it from Ircnaeus.
Where did lrcnaeus get il? He got il
from polvcarp. Where did Polycarp
rot H.? He got If from ST. John. who
yas the personal associate Of the Lord
Jesus Christ My grandfather gave a
book to my father, my father gave ir
o me. ! give it to my child. Is there
my difficulty in tracing this line?
On communion day will start the
.halicc AT that end Of the aisle. and the
.haIirc will pass along TO the other end
Il Dee aisle VIII IL be difficult 10 trace
he line Of that holy chalice? No diff
'ulty at an. This one will say: 81 gave
{ 10 that one" and this one will say:
] gave IL 10 that one" But il Will not !
e so long q line as this TO trace the
Jew Testament. 1t is easier 10 get nj T
hc fact. But YOU say: although this
sas handed right down i'm that way. q
Tho knows but they were tying impos-
ers? How can you take their tcsti-
lonv?" They died for the truth Of /
hat Book. Men never die for lie ,
hecrfully and triumphantly. They {
.cre not lying impostcrs. They died @
b triumph for the truth Of that New a
testament q
"Wcll." SAYS someone, "now ann p
'ady TO believe that the New Tesla f.
cnt is from The heart OF Christ, but &
ow about the Old Testament? Why "
% Won believe that?" l believe the Old a
testament because the prophecies fore s.
1ld events hundreds and thousands OF n
ears ahead events which aficrward j.
,ok place How far can you see ahead ?
wo thousand years? Can you see o.
read a hundred years? Can You see IL
read five minutes? No. no, Human o.,
'ophccv amounts 10 nothing Here n
cse old prophets stood thousands Of b,
.ars back. and they foretod events OF
hich came accurately true far ON i'm n
e future centuries. Suppose should q,
and here and say 10 you: Twenty es
70 hundred and sixty years from now ol
rec miles and a half from the city Of hl
0scow. there will be an advent. and il f.
n be i'm a certain family. and il will N
amid certain surroundings. II 10
'uld make no impression upon you dr
cause YOU know ! cannot foresee a Ia
ousand years or one year or one min ri
f.. and cannot tell what is going to D.,
lnspire i'm a land far away. But that pr
what these old prophets did lI
Besides all this. You must remem-
r that the most Of the writer's Of do
S book were uneducated men. How ba
n you account for the fact that tiC
cn thomas Babington Macaulay II
nding in the house Of parliament fir
London wanted 10 finish Off q mag "V
icent sentence he quoted from the sh.
icrmen Of Galilee or sitting in his int
lse. wanting 10 finish one Of his dv
at paragraphs of history. he quoted "T
words Of the fishermen Of Galilee? 60
IS is il that those uneducated men III,