The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-06-30

very best scholars OF all lAnda IL not
that . most remarkable faetg
The Bible IL mAde up OF the Old
Testament and the New Testament.
Let us take the New Testament first.
WIN do l belie~ IL? Why do l take
Il 10 my heart? 1t 10 because 1t can
be traced back Il the Divine heart
inst As easily as that aisle can be
traced to that door, and that aisle 10
that door.
Jerome and Eusebius in the first cen
fury and Origen in the second century
and other writers in the third and
fourth centuries gave a list Of the New
Testament writers just exactly CORE
sponding with our Hst, 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 did they get the New Testa-
ment9 They got IT from IrenaeuI
Where did Irenseus get it? He got ii
from Poiycarp. Where did PolycarP
get It? He got It from ST. John, who
was the personal associate of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Ny grandfather gave .
book TO my father, my father gave u
70 me, l give 1t to my child. Is there
any difficulty In tracing this linep
On communion day I viii start the
ehalice at that end Of the aisle, and the
ehAhce will pass along to the other end
Of the aisle. Will It be difficult 20 trace
the line Of that holy ehalice? No diff
Guilty at all This one will say; IL gave
It to that one" and this one will say:
81 rave 1t 70 that one" But 1t will not
be 10 long q line as this to trace the
New Testament. II is easter 10 get at
the fact. But you say: Although this
was handed right down In that way,
who knows but they were lying impos-
tersq How ran you take their testi-
mony?" They died for the truth of
that Book. Men never die for q lie
ch~eerfully and tiumphantly. They
were not lying imposters. They died
in triumph for the truth Of that New
Testament.
SWELL" sayy someone, now I am
ready TO believe that the New Tesla.
ment IL from the heart Of Christ, but
how about the Old Testament Why
do you believ. thatT' believe the Old
Testament because the prophecies fore
told events hundreds and thousands Of
years ahsad-eventa which Afterwart
took place. How far can you see ahead
Two thousand yean2 Can you Sc,
ahead q hundred ysars7 Can you SEE
ahead Ave minutes7 No, no! Human
prophecy amounts to nothing. Her,
these old prophets stood thousands O
years back, and they foretold EVENT.
which came accurately true far on IL
the future centuries. Suppose | shoult
stand here and say TO you: Twenty
five hundred and sixty years from nov
three miles and a half from the city o.
Moscow, there will be an advent, and 4
will be in a certain family. and 1t viii
be amid certain surroundings" L
would make no impression upon yol
because you know / cannot foresee
thousand years or one year or one min
ute, and | cannot tell what Is going I.
trAnspire in a land far away. But tina
Ia what these old prophets did.
Besides all this. you must remem
ber that the most Of the writer's o
fbIa hnaI -. ,n.loo...a - H.
can you account for the fact tina
when Thomas Babington Macaulay
standing In the house Of parliamen
In London, wanted to finish OF a mag
nihcent sentence he quoted from tn
flshermen Of Gallee, or, sitting in hi
house, wanting to finish one OF hi
great paragraphs OF history. he quote
the words Of the fishermen Of Galilee
Why L. It that those uneducated me.
have more Influence on modern time
than all the scholars Of antiquity
Because they were dlvinely inspired
because God stood back of then
, They were not educated and scholar
ly. II was not by force of rhetori
that they triumphed, but to-day thos
humble fishermen, those ~uneducate
, fishermen, WELD more influence In a
our modern cities than any rs me
r living In this generation and day
I They must have been inspired. Their
I must have been a Divine influence be
G hind them. and before them. an
above them, and within them.
4 Beaides that, you must remembe
that this Book has been under fire TO
. centuries, and after all the lombard
mentot the Gkeptics Of allthe centuries
. they have not knocked out Of this Bib
. piece as large as the small end Of
sharp needle. Oh, how the old Boo
, sticks together. Unsanctified geol'
. giSl< try to pull away the book Of Gent
. Us. They say they do not believe II;
cannot be there was Hight before tn
? sun shone; It cannot be all this Etor
, about Adam and Eve; and they pull I
, the book Of Genesis, and they have bee
. pulling a great while, yet where is ii
! book OF GeneSis7 Standing just wher
II stood all the time. There is not
, man on earth who has ever erased
from his Bible.
, Then all the undeVout astronomer
p went 10 work 10 pull away the book
r Joshua. They say: THAT cannot
E true, the suns hAlting above Gibed
r and the moon over the valley Of Ajalor
? II cannot be possible, we must pull thu
book Of Joshua away" And they pu
, away at II, and they pull away at 1t, a
/ vet what has become Of the book
JoxhrsP Like the IA above Gibes
, and like tbs moon over the valley
9 AJalon, Il stands still, AL the und
r vout Anatomists aud Psychologists g
r hold Of the book OF Jonah, and the
pull away and they Eay: That Etol
about Jonah and the whale can't
, true" Every inadel carries a hGrpoc
especially for that whale, and they pu
|. GyAy a. the book Of Jonah, but whe
Q 10 the book Of Jonah to-day2 Ju
\ whsrs Il hA1 been all the time-tl
grandest thing that Wa ever WIN
Q 10 prove that when God sends . man
. Nineyah, he cannot get TO TATshiSh,
God to stop him has to upset the Me
I~terranean sea with a cyclone.
4 And 70 the inhdels have been tryii
70 pull away the miracles, pulling avn
a. the blasted fg tree, at the turnli
Of the water into wine, ~ the raiSil
Of Lazarus from the dsad. Can y
show me q Bible from which one
y these miracles has been erAEedf HI
u m~arvelously the old Book sticks
!, gethsr! All the striking at these cha
Il tiers only driving them In deeper IN
:. they are ohpohed on the other 81
with che hammers OF eternity. And I
Book IL going TO keep right on un
d the hrss Of the last day ars kindl'
Some Of them will begin on one 81
4 and some on the other side OF the
Book. They will not find . bundle