The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-29

the Bible has the most power that the
family institution is most respected.
Again. agnostics go on still further,
and they say the Bible is a mass OF
contradictions. and they put prophet
against prophet, evangelist against
evangelist apostle against apostle,
and they say il this be true, how, then.
can that be true? MIR. Mill, who was
friend of the Bible, said he had dis
covered 10000 different readings of
the Scriptures. and yet not one i'm
portant difference-not one important
difference out of 30,0O0-only the diff
ference that you might expect from
the fact that the book came down
from generation TO generation and
was copied by great many hands.
And yet l put before you this fact
to-day, that all the Bible writer's
agree in the four great doctrines of
the Bible.
Whatar 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 back upon
Christ and como 70 the precipice and
i,,r,r of for Cod mover nushes n man
off. he jumps off. Now, in these four
great doctrines all the Bible writers
agree Mozart, Beethoven, Handel
and Hndyn never wrote more har-
-. G,,h L.,
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
ferent lands. from different ages and
| from different centuries. They had
no communication With each other;
they did not have a. idea MS to what
was the chief dcs "Y If the Bible. and
vet their wrt.r.-s. rot up from all
these different E'. and all these diff
ferent ages IN, all these different
centuries. conf 'r'-cthcr make a
perfect harmony in t,.e c,i ion Of the
very best scholars of all ianGs. Is not
that a most remarkable fact?
The Bible is made up of the Old
! Testament and the New Testament.
Let us take the New Testament first
| Why do | believe il? Why do ! take
it to my heart? II is because II can
be traced back 80 the Divine heart
just as easily as that aisle can he
traced to that door, and that aisle 70
that door.
Jerome and Eusebius in the first cen
fury and Origen in 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 in the fourth century
and the third century and the second
century and the first century. But
where did they get the New Tesla
ment? They got il from Irenaeus
Where did Irenaeus get IL? He got II
from Polycarp. Where did Polycarr
get it? He got il from ST. John, who
was the personal associate OF the Lore
Jesus Christ. My grandfather gave
book TO my father, my father gave II
| ~ me- Ei'N - w ny N''''N'
any difficulty in tracing this liner
On communion day | will start the
chalice at that end of the aisle, and the
chalice will pass along TO the other enc
of the aisle. win it be difficult 20 trace
the line of that holy chalice? No diff
Guilty at all. This one will say; 81 gave
il to that one" and this one will say
81 gave it to that one But il will not
be so long line as this to trace the
New Testament. II is easier to get Al
the fact. But YOU say; although this
was handed right down in that way
who knows but they were lying impos
ters? How can you take their testi
mony?" They died for the truth o
that Book. Men never die for liz
cheerfully and triumphantly. The!
were not lying imposters. They dice
in triumph for the truth of that New
Testament.