The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-29

a bove them. and within them.
Besides that, you must remember
that this Book has been under fire for
centuries. and after all the lombard
ment of the skeptics of all the centuries.
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. Unsanctifed geolo-
gists try to pull away the book of Gene
sis. They say they do not believe 1t; it
cannot be there was light before the
| sun shone; il 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
| il stood all the time. There is not a
man on earth who has ever erased it
from his Bible.
Then all the undevout astronomers
went to work to pull away the book of
Joshua. They say: THAT cannot be
true, the suns hating above Gideon
and the moon over the valley of A jalon;
il cannot be possible we must pull that
book of Joshua away" And they pull
away at it, and they pull away at it, and
vet what has become of the book of
| Joshua? Like the sun above Gideon
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 can't be
true" Every infdel carries harpoon
especially for that whale. and they pull
away at the book of Jonah, but where
is the book of Jonah to-day? just
where il has been all the time-Nthe
| grandest thing that was ever written
to prove that when God sends man to
Ninevah. he cannot get to Tarshish, If
God to stop him has to upset the Med
iterranean sea with cyclone.
And so the infdels 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.
gether. All the striking at these chap
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they are clinched on the other side
with the hammers of eternity. And the
Book H. going TO keep right on until
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, anC
others will burn on this side, from Rev
citation toward Genesis. and in all their
way they will not find single chapter
or Il single verse out of place. That
will be the first time we can afford &c
do without the Bible. What will be tn,
use of the book of Genesis, descriptive
of how the world was made, when tn,
world is destroyed? What will he the
use of the prophecies when they are al
fulfilled? What will be the use of tn,
evangelistic or Pauline description Of
Jesus Christ when we see Him face tC
face? What will be the use of His pho
tograph when we have met Him il
glory? What will be the use of tn,
book of Revelation, standing, as yol
will with your foot on the CLASSY sea
and your hand on the ringing harp ant
your forehead chapleted with eterua
coronation amid the ameythstine anC
l2-gated glories of Heaven? The en-
erald dashiug its green against tn,
beryl and the beryl dashing its blu,
against the sapphire and the sapphir,
throwing its light on the iacinth anC
the jacintE dashing its fire against tn,
chrysoprase and you and standing il
the chorus of 10000 sunsets.
But | do not think we will give up tn,
Bible even at that time. | think WI
will want the Bible in Heaven. reall,
think the fires of the last day will no
consume the last copy, for when YOU
and / get our dead children out of tn,
dust we want to show them Just tn,
passages, just the promises, which com
forted us here in the dark day of in
terment, and we will want TO talk owe
with Christians who have had trial
and struggles, and we will want (,
show them the promises that especial,
/ refreshed us. think we shall have tn,
Bible in Heaven.
Oh | want to hear David with hi
own voice read, "The Lord is my Shep
herd" l want to hear Paul with hi
own voice read, Thanks be unto Goo
, 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 tn,
! dead o blessed Book, good enough 70
= earth, good enough for Heaven. Dea
old cookbook despatched with tn,
blood of martyrs who died for its de
, fense-Book sprinkled all over will
the tears of those who by it were com
, forted. Put it in the hand of your chill
dren on their birthday. Put il on tn
/ table in the sitting-room when you be
gin to keep house. Put it under you
, head when YOU die. Dear old BoolSl