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

great many hands And yet l put be-
/ fore you this fact today-that all the
Bible writer's agree in: the four great
doctrines Of the Bible.
What are those four@great doctrines
God-good. kind, patient, just, loving,
, Omnipotent. Mana lost sinner. Two
destinies-One for believers, the other
for unbelieyers. All who accept Christ
reaching that home and only those de-
. stroyed who destroy themselves, only
+ those who turn their back upon Christ
/ and come to the precipicesand jump off,
/ for God never pushes q man off, he
| jumps off. Now, in these four great
! doctrines all the Bible writers agree.
! Mozart, Beethoven. Handel, Haydn,
/ never wrote more harmonious music
/ than you will find in this perfect har-
f. mony Of the Word Of God, the harmony
K in providence and in grace
You must remember also that the
l. authors Of the Bible came from differ
E4ent lands, from different ages and, from
different centuries. They had no COM
izaunication with each other, they did
saot have an idea as to what was the
/. chief design of the Bible, and get their
! writings, got up from all these differ
ent. lands and from all these different
ages and all these different centuries,
coming together, make a perfect .har-
nlQny III the opinion Of the very best
scholars Of all lands. Is not that a
most remarkable fact?
Again, infdelS vehemently charge
that the Bible is an unscientific book.
In former discourse L showed you
that there was no collision between
science and revelation, and l went
from point to point in the discussion.
But now let us have authority in this
matter. You and cannot give the 40 or
so or GO gears exclusively to the study
Of science that some men give. Let
US have authority in this matter.
Who says there is a collision between
science ana revelation? Well, Herbert
Spencer, Tyndall, Darwin. They say
there is q discord between science and
revelation. But I will bring you names
of men who have found a perfect &C
cord between science and revelation,
men as much higher in intellectual
character above those whom [ have
mentioned as the Alps and Mount
Washington and the Himalayas are
higher than the hiH back Of your house.
Herschel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Ross,
Isaac Newton. Ny friends, we are in
respectable company when we believe
in the Word Of God--Fery respectable
company.
Tracing the Line.
Now | might, as infidels have failed
to prove that the Bible is q cruel book,
that the Bible is an impure book, that
the Bible is q contradictory book, that
the Bible is an unscientific book-I
might move q nonsuit in this case Of
Infdelity, the plaintiff, against Chris
fianity, the defendant, but l will not
take advantage Of the circumstances,
for when the skcptic goes on to say
that we are q gullible people, when he
goes Oh to say, as he often does, that
the greater the improbability the more
we like to believe it; when be goes on
TO say that the Bible is made up Of a
lot Of manuscripts, one picked up here
and another there and another from
some other place, and that the whole
thing is al imposition on the credulity
Of the human race, I must reply to
that charge.
The Bible is made up Of the Old
Testament and the New Testament
Let us take the New Testament first.
Why do I believe it? Why do 1 take
it to my heart? It 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 cen
fury, and Origen in the second century,
and other writer's in the third and
fourth centuries, gave q list Of the New
Testament writers 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 Gid they get the New Tesla |
ment? They got it from Irenaus.
Where did Iren@us get it? He got it
from pOlycarp. Where did Polycarp |
get it? He got it from st. John, who |
was the personal associate of the Lord !
Jesus Christ. My grandfather gave q |
book to my father, my father gave it |
to me, give 1t to my child. Is there
any difficulty in tracing this line?
From the Heart of Christ.
On communion day l will start the
chalce at that end Of the aisle, and the |
chalce will pass along to the other end |
of the aisle. Will it be difficult to trace
the line Of that holy chalice? No diff
Guilty at all This one will say, 81 gave
it to that one" and this one will say,
Il gave it to that one.' But it will not |
be SO long q line as 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,
rI,0 L., yr-S-1
posters? How can you take their testi-
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