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ings, got up from all these different
lands and all these different ages and
all these different centuries, coming to-
gcthcr make perfect harmony in the
opinion of the very best scholars OF all
lands. Is not that most remarkable
fact?
Again, nidcs vehemently charge that
the Bible is an unscientihC book. In n
former discourse | showed you that there
was no collision between science and rev.
elation, and [ went from point to point
In the discussion, but now let us have
authority in this matter. You and | can
not give 40 or 30 or GO years exclusively
to the study OF science that some men
give Let us have authority in this mat
ter.
who says there is n collision between
science and revelation? Well, Herbert
Spencer, Tyndall. Darwin. They say
there is n discord between science and
revelation, but [ will bring you names Of
men who have found perfect accord be-
tween science and revelation as
much higher in Intellectual character
above those whom | have mentioned as
the Alps and Mount Washington and the
Himalayas are higher than the hill back
of your house. Bcrschel, Kepler, Leib-
ntz, Ross, Isaac Newton. My friends.
we are in respectable company when we
believe in the word of God--very respect
able company
In the temple of nature there are two
orchestras, the orchestra of revelation
and the orchestra of science. The orches-
ira Of revelation has all the musical in
struments full strung and ii is ready for
the burst of eternal accord. The orchestra
of science is only just stringing the in
struments. II you will only wait long
enough you will find that it is MS in the
old German cathedrals where they have
an organ at one end of the building and
an organ at the other end of the building,
both responding TO each other and max
ing mighty music So il will be in the
temple of the unverse-the orchestra of
revelation and the orchestra of science
will respond to each other after awhile,
and it will be found that the roar of tho
ocean is only the magnificent bass OF the
temple voices, and that the earth is only
tb, pedals of a great organ, of which the
heavens are the keyboard.
InadeIity Nonsuit,d.
Now, | might, az infdels have failed to
prove that the Bible is a cruel book, that
the Bible is an impure book, that the b;
bic is a conti adictory book, that the Bible
Is an unscientitic book might move a
nonsuit in this case of lnhdelity, the plain
tiff, against Christianity, the defendant,
but | will not take advantage of the cir
cumstances. for when the skeptic goes on
to say that we are a gullible people, when
he goes on to say, as he often does, that
the greater the improba bility the more
we like to believe it, when he goes on to
say that the Bible is made up of lot Of
manuscript one picked up here and an
other there and another from some other
place and that the whole thing is an inn
position on the credulity of the human
race, must reply to that charge.
The Bible is made up of the Old Tesla
ment and the New Testament. Let ia
take the New Testament first. Why do |
believe it? Why do | take it to my hearth
1t is because it can be traced back to the
divine heart just as easily as that aisle
can be traced to that door, and that aisle
to that door.
jerome and Eusebius In the first centu-
ry aud Origen in the second century and
other writer's in the third and fourth cen
turtles gave a list OF the New Testament
writers just exactly corresponding with
our list, showing that the same New
Testament which we have they had in
the fourth century and the third century
and the second century and the first cen
fury. But where did they get the New
Testament? They got it from IrenHus.
Where did IrcnRus get it? He got it
from Polycarp. Where did Poycarp get
it, He got it from ST. John, who was the
personal associate of the Lord Jesus
Christ. My grandfather gave a book to
my father, my father gave it to me,
give it TO my child Is there any Difficult
~ in tracing this line?
On communion day | will start the
chalce at that end Of the aisle, and the
chalicc will pass along to the other end Of
the aisle. Will it be difficult to trace the
line Of that holy chaliceI No difficulty at
all This one will say, II gave it to that
one" and this one will say, II gave it to
that one" But it will not be so long line
rs this to trace the New Testament. 1t is
easier to get at the fact. But you say,
although this was handed right down in
that way. who knows but they were ly-
ing impostors: How can you take their
testimony" They died for the truth Of
that book. Men never die for n lie cheer
fully and triumphanty. They were not
lying mpoStors They died in triumph for
the truth of that New Testament.
W ell, says some one, now i am
ready to believe that the New Testament
is from the heart of Christ, but how
about the Old Testament? Why do you
believe that" | believe the Old Tesla
mcnt because the prophecies foretold
events hundreds and thousands of years
ahead-events which after~ard took
place, How far can you see ahead? Two
thousand years. Can you see ahead a
hundred years: Can you see ahead five
minutes? No. no. Human prophecy
amounts to nothing Here these old
prophets stood thousands of years back.
and they foretold events which came ac-
curately true far on in the future CEN
say to you, Twenty hundred and
sixty years from now, three miles and Il
half from the city Of Moscow, there will
be an advent and it will he in n certain
family, and it will be amid certain sur
roundngs." II would make no impress
sion upon you because you know | can
not forcsee a thousand years or one year
going to transpire in land far away.
But that is what these old prophets did.
Prophecies FulhIled.
You must remember that Tyre and
Babylon and Nineveh were in full pomp
and splendor when these prophecies,
these old prophecies, said they would be
destroyed Those cities had architecture
that make the houses of modern cities
perfectly insignificant. Yet these old