The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-04

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from the hcart IS Christ. and 81
ready tc believe The prophecies. The
evidence is beyond all dispute. But
you must remember, says my friend,
"that the prophecies are orly small
part Of the old book. You don't expect
US to believe all the old book If you
found one Of your good, honest letters
in an envelope with 10 or2O cruel, lying,
filthy letters, how long would you allow
that honest letter to stay there? In
half minute you would either snatch it
out of the envelope or you destroy the
whole envelope. Now, DO you suppose
the Lord God would allow these pure
prophecies, these prophecies which you
admit must have come from the hand of
God, from divine inspiration-do you
suppose God would allow these pure
prophecies to be bound up and put in
the same envelope with the book OF
Job, and the books Of Psalms, and the
book Of Deuteronomy, aud the other
books. if those books were not good
books?
Besides ali this, you must remember
that the most of the writers Of this book
were uneducatcd men. How can you
account for the fact that when Thomas
Darlington MacaGlay, standing in the
house OF parliament in London, wanted
to finish off magnificent sentence he
quoted from the fisherman Of Galilee,
or, sitting in his house, wanting to finish
one of his great paragraphs of history,
he quoted the words Of the fishermen Of
Galilee? Why IS it that those uoedu-
Gated men have more iohuence on
modern times than all the scholars Of
antiquity? Because they were divtnely
inspired, because God stood back Of
them. They were not educated aud
scholarly. 1t wss not by force Of rheto-
ric that they triumphed, but today
those humble fishermen, those upedu
Gated fishermen, WELD more Influence
in all our modern cities than any -
men living in this generation and day.
They must have been inspired. There
must have bean divine influence be-
hind them and before them, and above
them. and within them.
Besides that. you must remember
that this book has been under fire fer
centuries, aud after all the lombard
ment of the skeptics Of all the centu-
ries, they have not knocked-out OF this
Bible piece as large as the small end
of a sharp needle. Oh, how the old
book sticks together. Uusanctihed
biologists try to pull away the book
Of Genesis. They say they do not be-
lieve it; it cannot be there was light
before the sun shoue; 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. |
think we will want the Bible in heayeo
| think we shall have the Bible IN
heaven
Oh, want to hear David with his
own voice read, The Lord is my shep-
herd" | want to 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 trum-
pet with which he awoke the dead. 0
blessed book, good enough for earth,
good enough for heaven. Dear old
book-book bespattered with the blood
Of martyrs who died for its defense
book sprinklcd all over with the tears
of those who by it were comforted.
Put it in the hand of your children on
their birthday. Put it on the table in
the sitting room when you begin to keep
house. Put it under your head when
you die. Dear Old book! press it to
my heart, l press it to my lips.
Where shall | go?' said dying
Hindoo to the Brahmitic priest to
whom he had given money to pray for
his salvation. Where shall / 60 after
/ die?" The Brahmitic priest said,
'You will first Of all go into a holy
quadruped." But" said the dying
Hindoo, where shall l go then?'
Then you shall go into singing
bird" but, said the dying Hindoo,
where then shall | go?' Then, said
the Brabmitic, You will go into beau
tiful flower" The dying Hindoo threw
up his arms in an agony of solicitation
as he said, "But where shall I 60 last
of all?' Thank God, this Bible tells
the Hiodoo, tells you, tells me, not
where l shall 60 today, not where |
shall 60 tomorrow, not where I shall go
next year, but where l shall go last Of