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above them. n WITHIN them.
Besides that, you must remember
| that this Book has been under fire for
centuries, and after ell the lombard
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 a
| sharp needle. Oh, how the Ole Book
| sticks together. Unsanctified geolo-
| gists try to pull away the book of Gene
sis. They say they do not believe 1t; 1t
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 a great while, yet where is the
book of Genesis? Standing just where
it stood all the time. There is not a
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 hating above Gideon
and the moon over the valley of Ajalon;
it cannot be possible, we must pull that
book of Joshua away" And they pull
away a it, and they pull away at it, and
yet what has become of the book OF
Joshua? Like the sun above Gideon
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
pail away and they say: That story
about Jonah and the whale can't be
true" Every infdel carries a harpoon
especially for that whale, and they pull
away at the book of Jonah, but where
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 a man to
Ninevah, he cannot get to Tarshish, il
God to stop him has to upset the Ned
iterranean sea with a cyclone.
And so the infdels 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 a Bible from which n OF
these miracles has been erased? How
marvelously the old Book sticks to-
getherl All the striking at these chap
tiers 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
and some on the other side of the old
Book. They will not find a bundle OF
loose manuscripts easily consumed by
fire. When the fires of the last day are
kindled, some will burn on this side,
from Genesis toward Revelation, and
others will burn on this side, from Rev.
elation toward Genesis, and in all their
way they will not find a single chapter
or a single verse out of place. That
will be the first time we can afford to
do without the Bible. What will be the
use of the book of Genesis, descriptive
of how the world was made, when the
world is destroyed? What will be the
use of the prophecies when they are all
fulfilled? What will be the use of the
evangelistic or Pauline description OF
Jesus Christ when we see Him face to
face? What will be the use of His pho
tograph when we have met Him in
glory? What will be the use of the
book of Revelation, standing, as you
will, with your foot on the CLASSY sea
and your hand on the ringing harp and
your forehead chapleted with eterna'
coronation amid the a~meythstine and
12-gated glories of Heaven? The EN-
erald dashing it's green against the
beryl and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire and the sapphire
throwing its light on the jacinth ant
the jacinth dashing its fire against thu
chrysoprase and you and standing il
the chorus Of 10, 900 sunsets.
But l do not think we will give up thu
Bible even at that time. | think w
will want the Bible in Heaven. Ireall.
think the fires of the last day will no
consume the last copy, for when yo'
and | get our dead children out of tn
dust we want to show them just tn
, passages, just the promises, which com
: forted us here in the dark day Of in
I torment, and we will want to talk owe
= with Christians who have had trial
and struggles, and we will want t
show them the promises that especial
refreshed us. l think we shall have tn
Bible in Heaven.
? Oh, l want to hear David with hi
e own voice read, ''The Lord is my SheI
e herd l want to hear Paul with hi
n own voice read, Thanks be unto Go
e that giveth us the victory" want I
hear the archangel play Paul's mare
S of the resurrection with the sam
n trumpet with which he awoke tn
d dead. o blessed Book, good enough fo
earth, good enough for Heaven. Dea
v old cookbook despatched with th
# blood of martyrs who died for its d.
i fense-Book sprinkled all over wit
II the tears of those who by it were con
e forted. Put it in the hand of your chi
u dren on their birthday. Put it on II
a table in the sitting-room when you b
l. gin to keep house. Put it under YOU
o head when you die. Dear old Book!
It press it to my heart, l press it to n
lips.
a. "Where shall l go?" said a dying Hi
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