The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-29
REV. HOWARD MUDIE
DELTYERED LAST ADDRESS BE-
 TORE THE '. M. c. 4.

Sums Up His Former Addrasses-The Vitality of the Bible, Its Honesty and Grnndeur-Approyed by Great and | scientifc nTen-The Words of the | Sceptto Heino.
 1 Yesterday afternoon in the assocla- | ton rooms the Rev. Mir. Mudie deliv- cred his last address before the Young | Mems Christian association in his series | Summing up the Bible." MT. Mudie spoke from the following texts: Phil | ippians S-1: Finally, my brethren, re- ioice in the Lord. To write the same things to you-to me indeed-is not
 grievous, but for you--it is safe.
 Peter 1-12, 13 and 15: Wherefore l Will not be negligent to put you always Ill
 remembrance of these things, though we know them and be established Ill
 the present truth. Yea, l think 1t meet
 as long as I am in this tabernacle, to
 stir you up by putting you in remen-
 brance; moreover l will endeavor that
 ye may be able after my decease to
 have these things always in remehl-
 brance.
 After emphasizing the thought con
 tained in these two texts that a nome
 driving repetition of gospel truth IS
 most needed in our church to-day, MT.
 Mudie continued:
 Let me at once and now remind you
 of the purpose of this course of aa-
 dresses It was that you should know as far as it is permitted men to know, that the book contains in general, and
 this book Is in particular, the very word of God. Shakespeare is truly scholarly and profound book, book that is mans mirror, and that is the boast and glory of the English speak ing peoples. Yet great and profoundly interesting though it be, it is in it's be- ginning, it's content, and right on through, mans book. There is no Thus saith the Lord" about it, and in it's failure at that point it fails in every point to be the book of the skies.
 Let me proceed to sum up what has been already said in these addresses, so that we may know just where we stand. In the first place the fact of the great vitality of the book is to be noted then of its honesty and of it's gran deur. I have pointed out that the Bible statements are either true or false, that there can be no middle ground Hence it was shown that the Book must be the best book or the worst book for men to master We then noted the favorable opinions of great men and of brainy men respecting the Bible. It's unity along with it's plurality was noted; after that it's increase, and it's multiplication as the living Book of the ages. A somewhat similar thought followed, that of the age of the book along with it's youth, suiting the nine- teenth century as well as 1t suited the first century. Further, the writers of the Book do not claim Originality" The potent witness of fulfilled pro- phecy was then put on the stand, and the declaration in favor of the Omnis- cent. The wondrous influence of the Book upon all nations was considered. The miracles, which stagger men of little faith. Finally, to those who charge l the church as being opposed to science, l we have only to point to the long list | of world scientists who have clung to i the Bible.
 I close with the words of Heine, one | of the most noted of French skeptics l who exclaimed shortly before his death | this rock-founded, rock-built Bible: What a Book! vast and wide as the world-rooted in the abysses of Crea tion, and towering up beyond the blue secrets of heaven. Sunrise and | promise and fulfillment, life | and death, the whole drama of human- lty are in this Book"