Connecticut western news., 1900-06-28

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 Again, infidels vehemently charge that the Bible Is an unscientific book. In a former discourse I showed you that there was no collision between science and revelation, and 1 went from point to point in the discussion. But now let us have authority in this matter. You and cannot give the 40 or 50 or 60 years exclusively to the study of science that some men give. Let us have authority in this matter.
 Who says there Is collision between science and revelation? Well, Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, Darwin. They say there Is a discord between science and revelation But 1 will bring you names of men who have found perfect ac- cord between science and revelation,
 men Ss much higher In intellectual character above those whom I have mentioned as the Alps and Mount Washington and the Himalayas are higher than the hill back of your house. Herschel, Kepler, Lelbnitz, Ross,
 Isaac Newton. My friends, we are in respectable company when we believe In the Word of God-very respectable company.
 Tracing the Line. Now I might, as intidels have failed to prove that the Bible is a cruel book, that the Bible Is an impure book, that the Bible Is contradictory book, that the Bible Is an unscientifc book--I might move nonsuit in this case of Infidelity, the plaintiff, against Chris tianity, the defendant, but I will not take advantage of the circumstances, for when the skeptic goes on to say that we are gullible people, when he goes on to say. as he often does, that the greater the improbability the more we like to believe 1t; when he goes on to say that the Bible Is made mp of lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another there and another from some other place, and that the whole thing Is an imposition on the. .credullty of the human race, I must reply to that charge.
 The Bible Is made up of the Old | Testament and the New Testament Let us take the New Testament first. Why do I believe it? Why do I take ! 1t to my heart? 1t Is because 1t can be traced back to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle can be traced to that door aud that aisle to that door. Jerome and Eusebius In the first cen tury, and Origen in the second century, and other writers in the third and fourth centuries, gave list of the New Testament writers just exactly core | spending with our list, showing that l the same New Testament which we have they had in the fourth century, ! and the third century and the second century and the first century. But where did they get the New Testa- ment? They got 1t from Iren@us. Where did Iren@us get 1t? He got 1t from Polycarp. Where did Polycarp get It? He got 1t from St. John, who was the personal associate of the Lord Jesus Christ. My grandfather gave a
 book to my father, my father gave it
 to me. I give 1t to my child. Is there any difficulty in tracing this line? From the Heart of Christ. On communion day 1 will start the | chalice at that end of the aisle, and the chalice will pass along to the other end of the aisle. Will it be difficult to trace | the line of that holy chalice? No diff ! culty at all. This one will say, T gave It to that one," and this one will say, Il gave 1t to that one" But 1t will not | be so long a line as this to trace the | New Testament. It Is easier to get at ! the fact. But you say: Although this l was handed right down in that way, | who knows but they were lying i'm | posters? How can you take their testi-
 monyY They died for the truth of that book. Men never die for lie l cheerfully and triumphantly. They
 were not lying impostors. They died
 In triumph for the truth of that New { Testament.
 Well" says some one, "now I am ready to believe that the New Testa ment Is from the heart of Christ, but how about the Old Testament? Why do you believe that?" I believe the
 Old Testament because the prophecies foretold events hundreds and thou
 sands of years ahead-events which
 afterward took place. How far can l you see ahead? Two thousand years? |?
 Can you see ahead hundred years ?
 Can you see ahead five minutes? No,
 no. Human prophecy amounts to moth
 ing. Here these old prophets stood
 thousands of years back, and they
 foretold events which came accurate ly true far on In the future centuries
 Suppose I 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 1t will be in a | certain family and it will be amid cer.
 tain surroundings" It would make no
 Impression upon you, because you
 know l cannot foresee a thousand
 years or one year or one minute, and I
 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
 Babylon and Nineveh were in full
 pomp and splendor when these prophe-
 cies, these old prophecies, said they
 would be destroyed. Those cities had
 architecture that makes the houses of
 modern cities perfectly insignificant.
 Yet these old prophets walked right
 through those magnificent streets and
 said, This has all got to come down;
 this Is all going to be leveled.''
 | Suppose a man should stand up in
 these cities today and say, There will
 be harvests of wheat and corn where
 these cities now stand, and these
 streets will be pasture for cattle"
 Such man would be sent to the in-
 sane asylum. Yet the old prophets did
 that very thing. Where Is Babylon to-
 day? You go and walk over the ruins
 of Babylon and you will not find leaf
 or grass blade of those splendid
 hanging gardens, and in the summer
 time the ground actually blisters the
 feet of the traveller. Babylon destroy
 ed according to the prophecy.
 | Where Is TYrp2 In fha dau of it.