The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-29
The Chnrx. of Iniid~I.-

aEain. irntels 60 On and moA We
hs-ne-tir charge that this Bible Is al
Impure book You all know that an
impure book produces impure results
No amount OF money could hire you
TO sIlo. your child to read an ul-
clean book Nov. If this Bible b. an
impure book, where are the victims
Your father read it-did it make him a
bad man Your mother read !t-did
i, make her bad woman Youv sis
ter fifteen years in heaven died in the
taith Of this gospel-did il dsspoil her
nature, Some say there are 300 ,o90,-
90 copies OF the Bible in existence,
some say there are 100. 900 .000 copies
G. The Bible Il is impossible to get
the accurate statistics, but suppose
there are 2o0, 900 600 copies of the Bible
abroad. this one book read more than
any twenty books that the world ever
printed. this book abroad for ages. for
caatlri=s-wheTe are the victims ?
Show -ns 1000 Show ne 500 victims
Of Al impure book Show me 100 de-
spoiled Of the Bible. Show ne fifty.
Show me Ten Show me Two. Show
ne one, TWO hundred million copies
OF an impure book and no. one victim
q the .m.urity. On the contrary. you
Know very veil that u is TLeEs 80
Bible has ths most power that the
family institution is most respected
Again, agnostics go on still further,
and they say the Bible is mass OF
contradictions. and they put prophet
against prophet, evangelist against
evangelist, apostle against apostle, and
they say if this be true. how, then, can
that be true, Mr.. Mill, who was a
friend OF the Bible, said he had discov-
cred 10000 different readings OF the
Scriptures, and yet not one important
difference out Of 80 .0OO-only the diff
ference that one might expect from
the fact that the book came down
from generation to generation and was
copied by great many hands. And
yet put before you this fact today,
that all the Bible writer's agree in the
four great doctrines of the Bible.
What are those four great doctrines ,
God-good. kind. patient, just. loving,
omnipotent. Mana lost sinner. Two
destinies-one for believers, the other
for unbelievers: all who accept Christ
reaching that home and only those
destroyed who destroy themselves;
only those who turn their backs upon
Christ and come to the precipice and
jump OF, for God never pushes man
OF, he jumps OF. Now, in these four
great doctrines all the Bible writer's
agree Mozart Beethoven, Handel and
Hadyn never wrote more harmonious
music than you will find in this perfect
harmony OF the word of God, the har-
mony in providence and in grace.
A Remarkable Fact
You must remember also that the
authors OF the Bible came from diner
ent lands, from different ages and
from different centuries. They had no
communication with each other; they
did not have an idea as to what was
the chief design of the Bible. and yet
their writings got up from all these
different lands and all these different
ages and all these different centuries,
coming together. make a perfect har-
mony in the opinion Of the very best
scholars OF all lands. Is not that a
most remarkable fact?
Again, inhdels vehemently charge
that the Bible is an unscientifc book.
In former discourse l showed you
that there was no collision between
science and revelation, and went