The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-06

Standing just where 1t stood all the
time. There is not q man on earth
who a ever erased II from his Bible.
THE TNFTDEL'S HARPOON.
Then all the undevout astronomers
went to work TO pull away the book
OF Joshua They say, That cannot
be true, the suns hating above Gideon
and he moon over the valley OF AJGion:
II cannon be possible, we must pull
that o of Joshua away" And they
pun away at ii, and they pull away at
Ii, n yet what has become OF the
book OF Joshua? Like the sun above
Gideon and like the over the
valley OF Ajalon- il stands still. All
the undevout anatomists and ~physioio-
and they pull away and hey say.
THAT story about Jonah and the
whale cant - true Every ..afidel
carries a narpoon especially for that
whale, and they pull away at the book
OF Jonah, but where is the book of
Jonah today? Jus where it has been
all The time-thegrandest thing that
was ever written to prove that when
God sends a man 10 Nineveh, he can
not get to Tarshish, if rod TO stop him
has 10 upset the Mediterranean sea
with a cyclone.
And so the infield have been trying
TO pull away the miracles, pulling
ava a III UldSlcu lS LtcN, o. III
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 h old % 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 books is going 10 keep right on
until the fires of the last day are kin
died. Some OF them will bagin on n
side and some on the other side OF
the old book. They will not find a
bundle of Dose manuscripts easily con-
stunned by the fire. When the fires OF
the las day are kindled. some will
burn On this side, from Genesis toward
Revelations, and Others will burn on
this side, from Revelation iowa Gen
esis, 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 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
photograph hen 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 amethystine and
IL gated glories of heaven? The emer-
aid daShing its green against the beryl
/ dashing it's blue against the sapphire
and the sapphire throwing its light
on the jacinth and the jacinth dashlng
L a. - -~f tho -Cn "a ice md
| you and I standing in the chorus of
| 1910 sunsets.
THE BIBLE IN HEAVEN.
But do not think we will give UP
| the Bible even at that time. 1 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 1 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 the Christians who " had
trials and struggles, and We will want
to show them the promises that eSpec
tally refreshed us. I think we shall
have the Bible in Heaven
Oh, 1 want to hear David with his
own voice read, THE Lord is my Shep-
herd" I want to hear Paul with his
own voice read, Thanks be unto God
that giveth US the victory" 1 want t.
hear the archangel play PauPs march
of the resurrection with the same
trumpet with which he awoke the
dead. o blessed book, good enough fol
earth, good enough for heaven. Deal
old cookbook despatched with the
blood of martyrs who died for its de.
fense-book sprinkled all over with
the tears of those who by it were com
forted. Put it in the hand of your
children on their birthday. Put it or
the table in the sitting room when you
begin to keep house. Put it under YOU
mead when you die. Dear old book,
press it to my heart, 1 press it to my
lips.
Where shall L go?' said a dyins
Hindoo to the Brahmitic priest tt
whom he had given money to pray fo1
his salvation. Where shall 1 go aftel
I die?" The Brahmitic priest said
You will first of all go into a holy
quadruped." But" said the dying
Hindoo, where shall I go then?'
Then you shall go into a singing
bird" But" said the dying Hindoo
where then shall I go?" Then
a beautiful flower" The dying Hin.
doc threw up his arms in an agony OF
solicitation as he said, But where
shall I go last of ALP Thank God
this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you
tells me, not where I shall go to-day
not where I shall go tomorrow, moi
where I shall go * year out where
l shall go last of all!