Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-25

half from the city of Moscow there
will be an advent and it will be in a
certain family and it will be amid GER
tain surroundings" It would make no
impression upon you, because you
know l cannot foresee a thousand
years or one year or one minute, and |
cannot tell what is going to transpire
il q land far away. But that is what
these old prophets did.
You must remember that Tyre and
Babylon and Nineyeh were in full
pomp and splendor when these prophe-
cies, these old prophecies, said they
would be destroyed. Those cities had
architecture that makes the houses of
modern cities perfectly insignificant.
Yet these old prophets walked right
through those magnificent streets and
said, 'This has all got to come down;
this is all going to be leveled.''
Suppose q man should stand I'D in
these cities today and say, "'There will
be harvests of wheat and corn where
these cities now stand, and these
streets will be pasture for cattle"
Such a man would be sent to the in
sane asylum. Yet the old prophets did
that very thing. Where is Babylon to-
day? You go and walk over the ruins
Of Babylon and you will not find a leaf
or grass blade of those splendid
hanging gardens, and in the summer
time the ground actually blisters the
feet of the traveller. Babylon destroy
ed according to the prophecy.
Where is Tyre? In the day Of it's
pomp the prophet said, "The fishermen
will dry hniJs WIN a;4
stands" If you should go to that place
today, you would find that literally
The fishermen are drying their nets on
the rocks where the city Of Tyre once
stood. Tartar and Turk and Saracen
drying their nets on the rocks.
Prophecies Fulfilled.
Go up Chatham street, New York,
and find the fulfillment of a prophecy
made thousands of years ago. Why is
it the Israelite is always distinguish
able, whether you see him in New
York or Picking or Vienna or Stock
holm or London or Paris? The Eng
liShman goes to America, and after
awhile he loses his nationality. The
American goes to England, and after
awhile he loses his nationality, the
Norwegian his, the Russian his, the
italian his, the Spaniard his, the Israel
ties never. Why? Because this book
provided thousands of years ago that
the Israelites should be scattered in
all lands and that they should be kept
separate, separate, until the Lord took
them back to Jerusalem. And We who
prosecute the Israelites had better look
out. They are Gods people, and &C
cording to the prophecy made thou
sands of years ago they are distin-
guishable, they are kept separate until
the Lord takes them to their native
land.
How could those old prophets fore
tell that? How could they know that
thousands of years ago? Was it mere
human skill? Could you have seen so
far ahead? Could you have predicted
anything like it? Those old prophets
stood looking down in the great fu-
ture and said a Messiah would be born
in a certain nation, in q certain tribe, i
in a certain family, in a certain place,
at a certain time, thousands of years
ahead. Ages rolled on, ages on ages,
and after awhile Christ, the only one
who has been called Messiah by any
great number Of people-Christ was
born in that very nation predicted, in
that very tribe, in that very family, in
that very place, at that very time. |
Could human skill have predicted it?
Does not that prove beyond all contrO- |
version and beyond all doubt that those
prophets were inspired Of the Lord |
looking down in the future |
and seeing thousands of years ahead |
occurrences to take place, just as plain
ly as I see your faces this morning.
"Well," says some one, "nOW [ am |
ready to take the New Testament as
from the heart of Christ, and I am
ready to believe the prophecies. The |
evidence is beyond all dispute. But |
you must remember" says my friend, |
that the prophecies are only small |
part of the old book. You don't ex-
pect us to believe all the old book" If |
you found one of your good, honest |
letters in an envelope with 10 or 20 |
cruel, lying, filthy letters, how long
would you allow that honest letter to
stay there? In a half minute you
would either snatch it out of the en-
yelope or you would destroy the whole |
envelope. Now, do you suppose the
Lord God would allow these pure
these prophecies which you
admit must have come from the hand
Of God, from divine inspiration-do
you suppose God would allow these
pure prophecies to be bound up and
put in the same envelope with the
book of Job, and the book Of Psalms,
and the book Of Deuteronomy, and the
other books, if those books were not
good books?
Stood the Fire of Centuries.
Besides all this, you must remember