The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-01
Mr.. NUDES ADDRESS.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF FIVE DE-
Uttered At Y. M. @. Il. SUNDAY.

FIRST OF A SERIES OF FIVE DE-
Uttered At Y. M. G. Il, SUNDAY.
ssThe Bible; Its own Defense" the Subs
iect of His Able Address Subjects OF
the other Addresses Which Are to be
Given During the Winter.
The first of a series Of five addresses
on the Bible by Rev Howard Nude
was delivered by him at the Y. M. e. A.
rooms yesterday afternoon at 3'4o' Inc
subjects were: /, THE Bible; It's own
Defense" 2, 1.-The Bible; of COD, not
Man" 8, 1.-The Bible; Its 1nspMatloh'
4. THE Bible; Miracles" 5, The Blple'
Summing Up" The one on THE Blple'
Its Own Defense" is given in brlef De-
low:
NV Brothers: We live In professed-
lv "Christian Land" Insofar as the
land is Christian-it is Christlan-pe-
cause of the mighty influence OF the
mightiest book that God has ever
given to man The book we call the
Bible
Holy Bible, book divine:
Precious treasure; thou art mine.
Mine. to tell me whence I came;
Mine, to tell me what I am.
have been asked to come here to tell
you something about this matchless
magazine Of divine truth, and l do so
with pleasure hoping that / may say
something with Gods help that, II II
be not new" may at least be Spirit
ually nourishing. I am going to talk
about the book which we used In our
churches, and (when we do it) In our
homes; the grand old English Bible, the
workingman's Bible. the professional
mans bible, the rich mans Bible and
the beggar's Bible; this bottomless
mine Of spiritual wealth that men
skim so much and study so little. Now
I am not a grey-haired veteran in this
matter of Bible study. Neither DO l
nose as one who knows it ALL I once
though that did. was foolish then
I had lust bought my first razor. For
what use I can't say; neither could
the barber. Still 1T was right and
proper and manly to have razor, and
SO got one The Lord was very pa
tient and very merciful with me IN
those days-when knew SO much, and
when in after years I got sense" and
asked to be forgiven for my stupid, tg-
norant boasting He graciously forgave
me. In these days I don't profess to
know quite as much as 1 did then. But
what 1 do know, know with know
that will stand no denial. In short, I
have gotten some convictions" about
the Bible Ca somewhat scarce commod-
ity in these days. that God has helped
me work in and work out. "Convic-
lions" that fasten themselves the
more tightly upon my conscience, as
the years go by. And these "convic-
tions' are not the convictions of one
who has lived life that has ever been
life of sweet repose In Gods revela-
ton. I know something of the black
night of doubt I am not a stranger
to the plea of inf1delity. 1 know some
thing of the sadness that treads in the
steps of unbelief. I know what 1T is,
to live with a closed Bible and with
lips that were prayerless I know
something of the agony that comes
when we bid Jesus "begone." So don't
think that because a minister, l am
any the less a man, who has known
something of mans severe and search
ing testings With this brief explana-
ton and rough sort Of spiritual photo
of the speaker I'll stop on this line and
will go on to my work And, yet ere
reach the subject for the afternoon,
feel that I ought to say a word as to
the necessity of our having Settled
convictions" in our minds regarding
10 ti1,o 1+ot,
conquering Christian lives. There is one
word somewhat peculiar to this coun-
try that sometimes wish were expell,
ed from the dictionary. That word is
"guess" IT guess So" We use 1t SO
frequently and In so many lines that
am afraid that our persistent use of II
has caused us to forget to say Il
know" when we know that we know
There are some things in Gods book
that God expects US not to guess at
but to "know" ST. Paul had no cor
ner on the magnificent know" that
he pealed out when he bravely heralded
his deep, strong, conviction-"1 know
whom T have believed" God expects
Won TO utter that "know' with the same
assurance and ring in which st. Pau
gave 1t. When, therefore, you dc
.'know" let the world know that you
know, and 1t will hear and heed you
And now for the topic Of the afternoon
The preacher took as his text Acts
xvii 10 and II. He first spoke OF the
DAYS of doubt and neglect Of reading
the Bible each day, and asked his au-
dience to act as a jury and render &
fair and impartial decision regarding
the Rth1e The MANY foolish excuses
for not believing in the Bible, which
are given by q great many people, were
cited The Bible is much abused book
vet remains to us to-day the marvel OF