The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-30

| the Bible has the most power chat the
family institution is most respected.
Again, agnostics go on still further,
and they say the Bible is a mass of
contradictions, and they put prophet
| against prophet, evangelist against
| evangelist, apostle against apostle,
and they say if this be true, how, then,
can that be true? Mr.. Mill, who was
a friend of the Bible, said he had dis
| covered 1000 different readings Of
the Scriptures, and yet not i'm
| portant difference-not n important
| difference out of 80, 000-only the diff
ference that you might expect from
the fact that the book came down
from generation to generation and
was copied by a great many hands.
And yet I put before you this fact
to-day, that all the Bible writers
agree in the four great doctrines OF
the Bible.
whatare those four great doctrines?
God-good, kind, patient, just, loving,
omnipotent. Mana lost sinner. Two
destinies-one for believers, the other
for unbelievers; all who accept Christ
reaching that home and only those
DESTROYED who destroy themselves;
only those who turn their back upon
Christ and come to the precipice and
Jump off, for God never pushes a man
| off, he jumps off. Now, in these four
great doctrines all the Bible writers
agree. Mozart, Beethoven, Handel
and Hadyn never wrote more har-
monious music than you will find in
this perfect harmony of the Word OF
God, the harmony in providence and
in grace.
You must remember also that the
authors of the Bible came from diff
ferent lands, from different ages and
from different centuries. They had
no communication with each other;
they did not have an idea as to what
was the chief design of the Bible, and
yet their writings, got up from all
these different lands and all these diff
ferent ages and all these different
centuries, coming together make a
perfect harmony in the opinion of the
very best scholars of all lands. Is not
that a most remarkable fact?
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 ! take
it to my heart? 1t is because 1t can
be traced back to the Divine heart
Just as easily as hat aisle can be
traced to that door, and that aisle to
that door.
Jerome and Eusebius in the first CEN
fury and Origen in the second century
and other writer's in the third and
fourth centuries gave a list of the New
Testament writers just exactly CORE
spending with our list, showing that
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 it from lrenaeus.
Where did Irenaeus get it? He got 1t
from Polycarp. Where did Polycarp
get it? He got it 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 it to my child. Is there
any difficulty in tracing this line?
On communion day l will start the
chalice at hat end of the aisle, and the
chalice will pass along to the other end
of the aisle. viii it be difficult to trace
the line of that holy chalice? No diff
Guilty at all. This one will say: 81 gave
it to that one" and this will say:
II rave it to that one" But it will not
be so long a line al this to trace the
New Testament. 1t is easier to get al
the fact. But you say: although this
was handed right down in that way
who knows but they were lying impos
tiers? How can you TAXI their testi
mony?" They died for the truth o.
that Book. Men never die for a liz
cheerfully and triumphantly. The.
were not lying imposters. They dice
in triumph for the truth of that New
Testament.
We'll" says someone, NOW | an
ready to believe that the New Tesla
ment is from the heart of Christ, Blu
how about the Old Testament? VIII.
do YOU believe that?" / l believe the OIL
Testament because the prophecies fore
told events hundreds and thousands o
} years ahead-events which afterwaT
took place. How far can you see ahead
Two thousand years? Can you sc
! ahead a hundred years? Can you sc
ahead five minutes? No, no. Huma
prophecy amounts to nothing. Her
these old prophets stood thousands c
years back, and they foretold event
which came accurately true far on !
the future centuries. Suppose | shout
stand here ard say TO you: Invent,
five hundred and sixty years from no
three miles and a half from the city
Moscow, there will be an advent, and
n will be in a certain family, and it wi
be amid certain surroundings"
e would make no impression upon yo
because you know l cannot foresee
thousand years or one year or one mi
n ute, and | cannot tell what is going
n t%ranspire in a land far away. But thi
s. is what these old prophets did.
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