Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-06-30

rnat very thing. Where Is Babylon to-
day? You 20 and walk over the ruins
Of Babylon and you will not find leaf
or grass blade of those splendid
hanging gardens, and in the summer
time the ground actually bllsters the
feet of the traveller. Babylon destroy
ed according to the prophecy.
Where is Tyre? In the day of its
pomp the prophet said. THE fishermen
will dry their nets where this city
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 prophecy
made thousands of years ago. Why is
It the Israelte Is always distinguish
able, whether you see him in New
York or Peking 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 Spanlard his, the Israel
ties never. Why? Because this book
provided thousands Of years ago that
the Israeltes should be scattered in
all lands and that they should be kept
separate, separate, until the Lord took
them back to Jerusalem. And ye who
persecute the Israeltes had better look
out. They are Gods people, and ac-
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 thati How could they know that
thousands of years ago? Was 1t 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 certain nation. In a certain tribe,
In n certain family, in n certain place,
at q 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
Almighty, looking down in the future
and seeing thousands of years ahead
occurrences TO take place, just as plain
ly as see your faces this morning.
"Well," says some one, now l am
ready to take the New Testament as
from the heart Of Christ, and 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 q half minute you
would either snatch 1t out Of the en-
velope or you would destroy the whole
envelope. Now, do you suppose the
Lord God would allow these pure
prophecies, 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
that the most of the writers OF this
book were uneducated men. How can
YOU account for the fact. that when
Thomas Babngton Macaulay, stand
ing in the house of parliament in Lon
don, wanted to finish off magnificent
sentence, he quoted from the fishermen
Of Galilee, or, sitting in his house,
wanting to finish one of his great par
agraphs Of history. he quoted the words
of the fishermen Of Galllee? Why is it
that those uneducated men have more
influence on modern times than all the
scholars OF antiquity? Because they
were divinely inspired, because God
stood back OF them. They were not
educated and scholarly. 1t was not
by force Of rhetoric that they triumph
ed, but today those humble fishermen,
those uneducated fishermen. WELD
more influence in all our modern cities
than any - men living in this genera
tion and day They must have been
inspired. There must have been di-
vine influence behind 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 lombard
ment OF the skeptics Of all the centu-
ries they have not knocked out Of this
Bible a piece as large as the small end
Of sharp needle. Oh, how the old
book sticks together. Unsanctified
biologists try to pull away the book
of Genesis. They say they do not be-
lieve it. 1t cannot be there was light
before the sun shone, 1t 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 1t stood all the
time. There is not man on earth
who has ever erased it from his Bible.
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