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

f1eS they have not knocked out or this
Bible a piece as large as the small end
of a sharp needle. Oh, how the old
book sticks togetheri Unsanctified
! biologists try to pull away the book
of Genesis. They say they do not be-
.ieve it. 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 man on earth
who has ever erased it from his Bible.
| Then all tAe undevout astronomers
/ went to work to pull away the book of
Joshua. They say: "That cannot be
true, the suns halting above Gideon
and the moon over the valley of Ala
Ion. 1t cannot be possible. We must
pull that book of Joshua away" And
they pull away at 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
ALI the undeyout anatomists and phys
biologists get hold of the book of Jonah,
anu luSy pun away, IHCy say,
'''That story about Jonah and the whale
can't be true" Every infidel carries
a harpoon especially for that whale,
and they pull away at the book of 10
nah. But where is the book of Jonah
today? Just where it has been all the
time-the grandest thing that was ever
written to prove that when God sends
a man to Nineyeh he cannot get to Tar
shish if God to stop him has to upset
the Mediterranean sea with a cyclone
Miracles Still Triumphant.
And so the infidels 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 Il Bible from which one of these
miracles has been erased? How mar
velously the old book sticks together!
All the striking at these chapters 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 manu-
scripts easily consumed by the 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
Revelation 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 af-
70 n with RiO1p 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 Pau
line description of Jesus Christ when |
we see him face to face? What will |
be the use of his photograph 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 chap |
leted with eternal coronation amid the |
amethystine and - gated glories of |
heaven? The emerald dashing it's green |
against the beryl and the beryl dash |
ing it's blue against the sapphire and |
the sapphire throwing its light on the
jacinth and the jacinth dashing its fire
against the chrysoprase and you and
standing in the chorus Of 10000 sun
sets.
But I do not think we will give up
the Bible even at that time. l think
we will want the Bible in heaven. l
really think the fires of the last day
will not consume the last copy, for
when you and l get our dead children
out of the dust we want to show them
just the passages, just the promises,
which comforted us here in the dark
day of interment, and we will want
to talk over with Christians who have
had trials and struggles, and we will
want to show them the promises that
especially refreshed us. 1 think we
shall have the Bible in heaven.
Oh, I want to hear David with his
own voice read, ''The Lord is my shep-
herd:'' l want to hear Paul with his
own voice read, Thanks be unto God
that giveth us the victory want to
hear the archangel play Pauls march
of the resurrection with the same trum-
pet with which he awolxe the dead! o
blessed book, good enough for earth,
good enough for heaven! Dear old
book-book despatched with the blood
of martyrs who died for it's defense,
book sprinkled all over with the tears
Of those who by it were comforted!
Put it in the hands of your children on
their birthday; put it on the table in
the sitting room when you begin to
keep house; put it under your head
when you die. Dear old book! / press
it to my heart; press it to my lips.