St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-07-28
COvNGTON, ST. TAMMANY PARISH,

can You account for tile fact tina
when Thomas Darlington Macaulay
standing in the house of parliamen
in London, wanted to finish OF mag
nificent sentence he quoted from tn
fishermen of Galilee, or, sitting in hi
house, wanting to finish one of hi
great paragraphs of history, he quote,
the words of the fishermen of Galilee
Why is it that those uneducated mel
have more influence on modern time
than all the scholars of antiquity
Because they were divinely inspired
because God stood back of them
They were not educated and scholar
ly. It was not by force of rhetori,
that they triumphed, but to-day those
humble fishermen, those uneducateC
fishermen, WELD more influence in al
our modern cities than any Is mer
living in this generation and day
They must have been inspired. There
must have been Divine influence be.
hind them, and before them, and
above them, and within them.
Besides that, you must remember
that this Book has been under fire for
centuries, and after all the bombard-
ment of the skeptics of all the centuries,
they have not knocked out of this Bible
a piece as large as the small end Of q
sharp needle. Oh, how the old Book
sticks together. Unsanctified geolo-
gists try to pull away the book of Gene
sis. They say they do not believe it; it
cannot be there was light before the
sun shone; it cannot be all this story
about Adam and Eve; and they pull at
the book of Genesis. and they have been
pulling great while, yet where is the
book of Genesis? Standing just where
it stood all the time. There is not .
man on earth who has ever erased it
from his Bible. f'ff
Then all the undevout astronomers
went to work to pull away the book Of
Joshua. They say: THAT cannot be
true, the suns halting above Gibeon
and the moon over the valley of Ajalon;
it cannot be possible, we must pull that
book of Joshua away" And they pull
away at it, and they pull away at it, and
yet what has become of the book Of
Joshua? Like the sun above Gibeon
and like the moon over the valley Of
Ajalon, it stands still. All the unde-
vout anatomists and Psychologists get
hold of the book of Jonah, and they
pull away and they say: THAT story
about Jonah and the whale can't be
true" Every infidel carries harpoon
especially for that whale, and they pull
~ ut Hhn 49, 1>,,k
is the book Of Jonah to-day? Just
where it has been all the time-the
grandest thing that was ever written
to prove that when God sends man to
Ninevah, he cannot get to Tarshish, if
God to stop him has to upset the Med
sea with a cyclone.
And SO the infidels have been trying
to pull away the miracles. pulling away
at the blasted fig tree, at the turning
of the water into wine, at the raising
Of Lazarus from the dead. Can you
show me Bible from which one Of
these miracles has been erased? How
the old Book sticks to-
gether! All the striking at these chap
ters only driving them in deeper until
they are clinched on the other side
with the hammers of eternity. And the
Book is going to keep right on until |
The fires of the last day are kindled.
Some of them will begin on one side
md some on the other side of the old |
Book. They will not find bundle of |
loose manuscripts easily consumed by |
ire. When the fires of the last day are |
some will burn on this side,
rom Genesis toward Revelation, and |
,thers will burn on this side, from Rev
.lation toward Genesis, and in all their |
vay they will not find q single chapter
y single verse out of place. That
will be the first time we can afford to
10 without the Bible. What will be the
lse of the book of Genesis, descriptive
II how the world was made, when the
world is destroyed? What will be the
lse of the prophecies when they are all
ulfilled? What will be the use of the
or Pauline description of
esus Christ when we see Him face to
ace? What will be the use of His pho
ograph when we have met Him in
,lory? What will be the use of the
'ook of Revelation, standing, as you
rill, with your foot on the CLASSY sea
nd your hand on the ringing harp and
our forehead chapleted with eternal
amid the ameythstine and
2-gated glories of Heaven? The en-
raid dashing its green against the
eryl and the beryl dashing its blue
gainst the sapphire and the sapphire
lrowing its light on the jacinth and
he jacinth dashing its fire against the
hrysoprase and you and standing in
be chorus of 10000 sunsets.
But do not think we will give up the
ible even at that time. l think we
ill want the Bible in Heaven. Ireail@
hink the fires of the last day will not
,nsume the last copy, for when you
nd get our dead children out of the
nst we want to show them just the
assages, just the promises, which COM
'rted us here in the dark day of in
and we will want to talk over ,
ith Christians who have had trials ,
nd struggles, and we will want to ;
low them the promises that especially ,
US. think we shall have the
ible in Heaven. s5.
Oh, l want to hear David with his
sn voice read, "The Lord is my Shep- ,
.rd." / want to hear Paul with his
vn voice read, Thanks be unto God
at giveth us the victory" / want to /.
ar the archangel play Paul's march
the resurrection with the same
umpet with which he awoke the
'ad. O blessed Book, good enough for
nth, good enough for Heaven. Dear
d book-Book bespattered with the
ood of martyrs who died for its de-
sprinkled all over with i.
e tears of those who by it were COM
rted. Put it in the hand of your chill
en- on. their birthday. Put il on tho
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