The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-06-29

| hind them, and before them, aud
above 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 enturies,
| 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. Unsanctified geolo-
gists try to pull away the book of Gene
sis. They say they do not believe it; it
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 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 halting above Gideon
and the moon over the valley of Ajalon;
it cannot be possible, we must pull that
book of Joshua away" And they pull
away at it, and they pull away at it, and
yet what has become of the book of
Joshua? Like the sun above Gideon
and like the moon over the valley of
Aia1on, it stands still. All the unde-
vout anatomists and psychologists get
hold of the book of Jonah, and they
pail 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? Juat
where it has been all the time-the
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 Ned
iterranean sea with~a 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-
gether! All the striking 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 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 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 single chapter
or single verse out of place. That
will be the first time we can afford to
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
book 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 eternal
coronation amid the ameythstine and
12-gated glories of Heaven? The en-
erald dashing it's green against the
beryl and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire and the sapphire
throwing it's light on the jacinth and
the jacintk dashing it's fire against the
chrysoprase and you and standing in
the chorus of 10000 sunsets.
But I do not think we will give up the
Bible even at that time. / think we
will want the Bible in Heaven. Ireaily
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
passages, just the promises, which COM
forted us here in the dark day of in
terment, and we will want to talk over
with Christians who have had trials
and struggles, and we will want to
show them the promises that especially
refreshed us. / think we shall have the
Bible in Heaven.
Oh, / want to hear David with his
own voice read, "The Lord is my Shep-
herd' l want to hear Paul with his
own voice read, Thanks be unto God
that giveth us the victory" I want to
hear the archangel play Paul's march
of the resurrection with the same
trumpet with which he awoke the
dead. o blessed Book, good enough for
earth, good enough for Heaven. Dear
old book-Book bespattered with the
blood of martyrs who died for its de-
sprinkled all over with
the tears of those who by it were COM
forted. Put it in the hand of your chill
dren on their birthday. Put it on the
table in the sitting-room when you be-
gin to keep house. Put it under your
head when you die. Dear old Book! I
press it to my heart. l press it to my
lips.
"Where shall go?" said dying Hin
doc to the Brahmitic priest to whom he
had given money to pray for his saliva
ton. where shall ] go after 1 die?"
The Brahmitic priest said: You will |
irst of all go into holy quadruped."
But said the dying Hindoo, where
shall 1 go then?" ''Then you shall go
nto singing bird" "But," said the
lying Hindoo, where then shall / go?"
Then" said the Brahmitic, you will |
20 into beautiful flower" The dying |
Iindoo threw up his arms in an agony |
Of solicitude as he said: But where |
shall go last of all?" Thank God, this |
Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you, tells |
ne, not where I shall go to-day, not |
where I shall go tomorrow, not where |
shall go next year, but where shall |