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world is in bringing the human mind
into contact with divine revelation
General Grant eald: Hold fast to the
Bible as the anchor of your liberties.
Write its precepts on your hearts, and
practice them in your lives, To the in
fIuence of this Book we are indebted for
the progress made in true civilization
and to this Book we must look as our
guide in the future"
Not very long ago, there died in Eng
land Professor Romanes, lifelong and
bosom friend Of Darwin and one of
Englands most brilliant men of SCI
ence and at one time an avowed infldel,
and this was his dying testimony. The
soul of man Is vacuum, which moth
ing can fill save faith in God" Man
is thoroughly miserable without God.
I know from experience, says he, the
intellectual distractions Of scientific re"
search, philosophical speculations and
artistic pleasures. The whole concoe-
ton is but thigh confectionery to
for time with 1t, but will sometime
find that he made for altogether diff
ferent kind of food. The soul Of man
will starve, till It feeds on God. "
Christianity Is immensely in advance
of other systems of religion. The en-
tire story of the Cross from commence
ment In prophecy to its elimination In
the Gospel Is by far the most magnifi-
cent In literature.
To the testimony Of such men as
these might be added that OF Sir John
Herschell, Professor Dana, Sir Isaac
Newton, John Quincy Adams, John
Ruskin, Henry M. Stanley and hun
dreds of others-nlen who have held the
foremost positions among the learned
and the great. Such men as these say
that the Bible Is true; they accept 1t
and seek to live out its teachings while
third-rate men with handful of lead
ing lights say that 1t is false. Which
set will you believer
Your own Captain Mahan has said in
recent times: my experience Of life Is
that Of one who has based his practice
upon the full intellectual acceptance of
the Christian faith, as especially set
forth in the historic creeds-The Apos-
ties and Nicene creeds. In these, and
in the Word of God. find not merely
comfort and strength, but intense in
tellectual satisfaction.
Again II must be remembered that al
though the Bible is in one sense one
book Gods yet IN another sense it Is
many books (nans) For It Is COM
posed Of sixty-six separate books which
were written by forty or so different
men at different times. And they were
all sorts Of men, too. learned and UNI
learned, high and low, rich and poor,
lawyers, prophets, kings. fishermen,
doctors tentmakers and others. These
books were written during period Of
1900 years, that is, from the time Of
Moses to the time OF Christ, and even
after.
Now how are we to account for the
unity of the Book and yet hold to the
plurality Of the writer's?
If the proprietor of newspaper were
to put forty different printers in forty
different and separate rooms and then
were to tell each man to write an ar
tice for publication and then should
bring all the articles together and you
find that these forty articles make a
continued story-everything fitting In
as II 1t we're all done by one man
would this result, ASK. be brought be-
cause 1t happened SO?
Would 1t not rather be thus because
there was an overru1ing rnind--an over
seer-telllng each man just what to
write?
Suppose there had been no everything
mind and each man with his differing
mood and educa ton had written what
he wanted to write, what sort of
book would you have and how could
you name it, What would you call It?
Bring forty musicians-all with differ
ent instruments-onto a platform
Place d partition between each of
them and at a given signal let them
strike a chord-each being ignorant of
what chord hts nelghbor ls about to
strike. What sort Of a noise would
you have? Bedlam let loose.
But let there be guiding hand, an
overruling mind, seeing the end from
the beginning, and harmony ensues. To
say that the Bible Is not the Word Of |
God ID to say that II you throw a num-
Der Of printers types upon the floor |
and spread piece of paper over them |
when you take the paper UP you will |
find Miton's Paradise Lost" printed |
thereupon. The only explanation of the |
the Book Is that "Holy men of God, |
apake, as they were moved, by the Holy
Ghost"
The Bible is the oldest Book there is.
and yet 1t shows no signs of decay. 1t
1as a vigorous hold on humanity, and
his hold Is increasing. Other books
come and go. But this Book stands
the world needs It,
The Bible is now translated into the
languages Of nine-tenths of the people
If the earth. Robert 1ngersoll once
said that he could write better book
han the Bibe-whereupon an old wo-
nan said to him you had better do it,
Bob; there's money in 1t, stacks of
,aper and plentiful supply of pens
md ink" But 1ngersoll's Bible never
appeared, George Stevenson's locomo-
i've the "Rocket''-the first that he
quilts not used now. 1t is too old.
But the Bible is used now more than
ver although 1t is the oldest Book.
low do you account for all this? Ac- |
cunt for 1t, you must. 1t is of no use
our pretending to be too wise and too
dvanced to discuss these matters. |
'hese facts face you and they demand
ONE solution. What Is you solution?
Why has not the Bible been super
eded? Why have we to go back thir-
y-ave centuries to read the law of
loses with all our lawyers and theo-
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