The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-07-06

sticks together. Unsanctified geolo-
gists try to pull away the book OF Gene
sis. They say they do not believe 1t; IL
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 erased it
from his Bible.
Then all the undevout astronomers
went to work to pull away the book OK
Joshua. They say: THAT cannot be
true. the suns hating above Gideon
and the moon over the valley OF AJalon;
it cannot be possible, we must pull that
book of Joshua away" And they pun
away at it, and they pull away at It, and
vet what has become of the DOCK OF
| Joshua? Like the sun above Glpeon
and like the moon over the valley OF
Aialon. 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 cant De
true" Every infidel carries harpoon
especially for that whale, and they pun
away at the book of Jonah, but where
| is the book of Jonah to-day? just
where il has been all the time-the
grandest thing that was ever written
to prove that when God SENDS man 10
| Ninevah, he cannot get to 1arshlsh' II
God to stop him has to upset the Med
iterranean sea with 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-
pether! All the'strilling at these chap
ters only driving them in deeper until
they are clinched on the other SIDE
with the hammers of eternity. And the
Book is going to keep right on untll
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 a 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 a single chapter
or single verse out of place. 1hat
anT a tfnr6
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
hook 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 eterna
coronation amid the ameythstine and
12-oated glories of Heaven? The en-
erald dashing its green against the
beryl and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire and the sapphire
throwing its light on the jacinth ano
the iacinth dashing its fire against the
chrysoprase and you and | standing IN
the chorus of 10000 sunsets.
But | do not think we will give up the
Bible even at that time. l think W.
will want the Bible in Heaven. really
think the fires of the last day will not
consume the last copy. for when you
and l get our dead children out of the
dust we want to show them just the
messages. Just the promises, which com
forted us here in the dark day of in
terment, and we will want to talk ovel
with Christians who have had trial:
and struggles, and we will want tt
show them the promises that especially
refreshed us. l think we shall have tho
Bible in Heaven.
Oh, | want to hear David with hi
own voice read, "The Lord is my Shep
herd" | want to hear Paul with hi
own voice read. Thanks be unto Coo
that giveth us the victory" l want t.
hear the archangel play Pauls marcl
of the resurrection with the SAM
: trumpet with which he awoke thu
dead. o blessed Book, good enough fo
earth, good enough for Heaven. Dea
old cookbook despatched with thu
blood of martyrs who died for its de
fense-Book. sprinkled all over witt
: the tears of those who by it were com
forted.
5 .Where shall go?" said diving Hin