The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-08-02

. piece as large as the small end Of
sharp needle. Oh, how the old Book
sticks together. Unsanctified geolo-
gists try to pull away the book of Gene.
sis. They say they do not believe it; it
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 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 the undevout astronomers
went to work to pull away the book Of
Joshua. They say: "That cannot be
true, the suns halting above Gibeon
and the moon over the valley OF Ajalon;
it 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 Gibeon
and like the moon over the valley Of
Ajalon, it stands still. All the unde-
vout anatomists and Psychologists get
hold of the book of Jonah, and they
pull away and they say: THAT story
about Jonah and the whale can't be
true" Every infidel carries harpoon
especially for that whale, and they pull
away at the book of Jonah, but where
is the book of Jonah to-day? just
where it has been all the time-fho
grandest thing that was ever written
to prove that when God sends a man to
Ninevah, he cannot get to Tarshish, II
God to stop him has to upset the Med
iterranean sea with a cyclone.
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 a Bible from which one Of
these miracles has been erased? How
marvelously the old Book sticks to-
gether! All the striking at these chap
tiers only driving them in deeper until
they are clinched on the other side
with the hammers of eternity. And tho
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 bundle OF
loose manuscripts easily consumed by
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 Rev
elation toward Genesis, and in all their
way they will not find single chapter
or a single verse out of place. That
will be the first time we can afford to
do without the Bible. 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 Pauline description OF
Jesus Christ when we see Him face to
face? What will be the use of His pho
tograph 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 chapleted with eternal
coronation amid the ameythstine and
12-gated glories of Heaven? The em-
erald dashing its green against the
beryl and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire and the sapphire
throwing it's light on the jacinth and
the jacinth dashing its fire against tho
chrysoprase and you and stending in
the chorus of 900 sunsets.
But do not think we will give up tho
Bible even at that time. / think We
will want the Bible in Heaven. Ireally
think the fires of the last day will not
consume the last copy, for when .you
and get our dead children out OF the
dust we want to show them just the
passages, just the promises, which com-
forted us here in the dark day Of in
terment, 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. 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" I want 10 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
trumpet with which he awoke the
dead. o blessed Book, good enough for
earth, good enough for Heaven. Deal
old book-Book bespattered with the
blood of martyrs who died for its de
fense-Book sprinkled all over witf
the tears of those who by it were com
forted.
"Where shall go?" said dying Hin
, doc to the Brahmitic priest to whom b,
! had given money to pray for his saliva
tion. where shall go after die 2
. The Brahmitic priest said: "You will
: first of all 60 into holy quadruped.
: "But," said the dying Hindoo, "wher
T. shall 60 then?" Then you shall g
J. into singing bird" But" said tn
: dying Hindoo, where then shall GO?
"Then," said the Brahmitic, you vii
e go into beautiful flower" The dyin
:, Hindoo threw up his arms in an ag0n