Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

nonsuit in this case of lnfidelity the
plaintiff, against Christianity. the defend
ant, but / will not take advantage of the
circumstances. for when the skeptic goes
when he goes on to say, as he often does,
that the greater the improbability the
more we like to believe it; when he goes
on to say that the Bible is made up of
lot. OF manuscripts. one picked up here
and another there and another from some
an imposition on the credulity of the hu.
man race. | must reply to that charge.
The Bible is made up of the Old Testa-
ment and the New Testament. Let us
take the New Testament first. Whv do |
believe it? Why do ! take it to my heart,
II is because it can be traced bac'- to the
divine heart just as easily as that aisle can
be traced to that door and that aisle to
that door.
Jerome and Eusebii,s in the first century
and Origen in the second century. and
other writers in the third and fourth CEN
t:-ies gave a list of the New Testament
writer's just exactly corresponding with
our list, showing that the same New Tes-
lament which we have they had in the
fourth centurv. and the third century and
the second century and the first century.
But where did they get the New Testa,
ment? They got it from Irenaeus. Where
did Irenaeus get it? lie got it from Poly
earn. Where did Polycarp get it? He got
it from st. John. who was the personal as,
sociate of the Lord Jesus Christ. My
grandfather gave book to my father, my
gave it to me, !! give it to nv chilu. l.
there any difficulty in tracing this line?
On communion day / will start the cha
lice at that end of the aisle. and the cha
lice will pass along to the other end of the
aisle. Will it be, difficult to trace the line
This one will say. 81 cave it to that one
and this one will saw 81 gave il to that
one" But it will not be so long line as
this to trace the New Testament. 1t is
easier to get It the fact. But you say:
Although this was handed right down in
imposters?, How can you take their testi-
mony:, They died for the truth of that
book. Men never die for lie cheerfullv
and triumphantly. They were not lying
impostors; They died in triumph for the
truth nth, Of that New Testament
to believe. that the. New Testament is
from the heart OF Christ, but how about
the Old Testament? Why do YOU believe
that?' 1 believe the Old Testament be-
cause the prophecies foretold events hun
dreds and thousands of years ahead
far can you see ahead? Two thousand
years? Can You see ahead hundred years?
Can you see ahead five minutes? No, no.
Human prophecy amounts to nothing.
Here these old prophets stood thousands
OF years back, and they foretold events
future centuries. Suppose | should stand
here and say to you, Twenty-Five hundred
and sixty years from now. three miles and
half from the city of Moscow there will
be an advent, and it will be in a certain
family, and it will be amid certain sur
roundings. 1t would make no impression
upon you, because you know | cannot fore
see thousand years or one year or one
minute, and l cannot tell what is going to
transpire in land far away. But that is
what these old prophets did
You must remember that Tyre and
and splendor when these prophecies, these
old prophecies, said they would be de.
stroyed. Those cities had architecture that
makes the houses OF modern cities per.
fectly insignificant Yet these old pro.
phets walked right through those masniti
come down; this is all going to be leveled"
Besides that, you must remember that
this book has been under fire fer centu
res, and after all the bombardment of the
skeptics OF all the centuries they have not
knocked out of this Bible piece as large
how the old book sticks together!
Unsanctitied biologists try to pull away
the book OF Genesis they say they do not
believe 1t. 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 Led it from his Bi.
BILE.
And 50 the infides have been trying to
pull away the miracles, pulling away at the
blasted hg tree, at the turning OF the
water into, wine. at the raising OF Lazarus
from the dead. Can you show me Bible
from which one OF these miracles has been
erased?
How lnarvelous.y the old book sticks to-
gether! All the striking at these chapters
only driving them in deeper until they are
clinched on the other side with the ham
mers of eternity
And the book is going to keep right on
until the fires OF the last day are klndled
Some OF them will begin on one side and
some on the other side of the odd book
They will not find bundle of loose manu-
scripts easily consumed by the fire.
When the fires OF last day are kin.
died, some will urn 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
tnd single chapter or a single verse out
OF place. That will be the tlrst time we
can afford to do without the Bible.
What will be the use of tn, book of Gen.
esis, 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 ol
the evangelistic or Paunne description of
Jesus Unrlst when we SC, Him face to face:
But 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 gel our
dead children out of the dust we want tc
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 10
show them the promises that especially re
freshej us. l thinl, we shall have the Bi
Die in heaven.
Oh, want to hear David with his owr
voice read, The Lord is my Shepherd
want to hear Paul with his own voice
read, Thanks be unto God that giveth us
The victory" | want to hear the archangel
play Paul's march of the resurrection
with the same trumpet with which he
,woke the dead! . blessed book, good
enough for earth, good enough for heaven
Deat old book-book bespattered with