The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-28


divine heart Just as easily as that aisle can
be traced to that door and that aisle TO
that door.
Jerome and Eusebius in the first century
and Origen in the second century. and
other writers in the third and fourth cen.
writers just exactly corresponding with
our list, showing that the same New Tes-
lament 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-
did lrenaeus get itg He got it from Poly.
carp. Where did Polycarp get il? He got
1T from st. John, who was the personal as
sociate OF the Lord Jesus Christ. MY
grandfather gave book to my father, my
gave 1t to me, | give it to nv child. Is
there any difficulty in tracing this line?
:. On communion day / will start the cha.
lice at that end of the aisle, and the cha
lice VIII pass along to the other end of the
aisle. VIII it be. difficult to trace the line
This one will say, Il gave it to that one"
and this one will say, 81 gave it to that
one" But it will not be so long line as
this to trace the New Testament. 1t is
easier to get ft the fact. But you say:
Although this was handed right down in
that way, who knows but they were lying
impostersg How can you take their testi-
monyT They died for the truth Of that
book Men never die for lie cbeerfulIy
and triumphantly They were not lying
impostors. They died in triumph for the
truth Of that New Testament
Well says some one, now | am ready
to believe that the New Testament Is
from the heart OF Christ, but how about
the Old TESTAMENT Why do YOU believe
that" l believe the Old Testament be.
cause the prophecies foretold events hun
dreds and thousands of years ahead
Vthiph NE a,I IL
far can you see ahead? Two thousand
years? Can you see ahead hundred years? {?
Can you see ahead five minutes? No, no.
Human prophecy amounts to nothing
Here these old prophets stood thousands
OF years back, and they foretold events
which came accurately true far on in the
future centuries. Suppose / 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 it will be in a certain
family, and 1t will be amid certain sur
roundings.' 1t would make no impression
upon you, because you know | cannot fore.
see thousand years or one year or one
minute, and / cannot tell what is goh,, to
transplre i'll a land far away. But that is
what these old prophets did.
- 1on must remember that Tyre and
Babylon and Nineveh were in fun pomp
and splendor when these prophecies, these
old prophecies, said they would be de.
stroyed. Those cities had architecture that
makes the houses of modern cities per.
fectly insignificant. Yet these old pro-
phets walked right through those magnifi-
cent streets and said, This has all got to
come down; this is all going to be leveled."
Besides that, you must remember thai
this book has been under fire fer centu-
rles, and after all the bombardment OF II e
skeptlcs OF all the centuries they have not
knocked out of this Bible piece as large
nN Oh, ~
how the old book sticks together!
unsanetitied geologists try to pull away
the book OF Genesis. they say they do not
believe IT. 1t 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 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 .5ed it from his Bi.
BILE.
And so the infdels have been trying to
pull away the miracles pulling away at the
blasted Ing tree, at the turning of the
water into wine, at the raising OF Lazarus
from the dead Can you show me IA Bible
from which one OF these miracles has been
erased!
How marvelousiy the cd book sticks to.
gether. All the striking "a, ;Iese chapters
only driving them in deeper until they are
mers 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 manu-
scripts easily consumed by the tlre.
W hen the fires OF last day are kin
died, some will urn on this side, from
Genesis toward Revelation, and others will
burn on this side, from Revelation toward
Genesis, and in all their way they will not
hnd a single chapter or a 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 Gen
esis, descriptive of how the world was
made, when the world is destroyedy What
will be the use OF the prophecies when they
are all fulfilled! What will be the use OF
the evangeistic or Paunne description of
Jesus Christ when we s;e Him face to face
But | do not think we will give up the
Bible even at that time. l think we will
want the Bible in heaven. / really think
the fires of the last day will not consume
the last copy, for when you and get our
dead children out of the dust we want to
show them Just the passages, just the
promises, which comforted us here in the
dark day of interment, 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 re-
BILE in heaven.
Oh, / want to hear David with his own
voice read, The Lord Is my shepherd"
] want to hear Paul with his own voice
lead, Thanks be unto God that giveth us
the victory" | want to hear the archangel
play Paurs march of the resurrection
with the same trampet 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-
tears OF those who by it were comforted!
Put it in the hands of your children on
their birthday; put it on the table in the
sitting room when you begin to keep
house; put it under your head when YOU
die. Dear old book! | press it to my
heart; j press it to my lips,
"N here shall go:' said dying Hindoo
to the Brahmitic priest to whom he had
given money to pray for his salvation.
Where shall l go after ] dieY" The
Brahmitic priest said, You will first of al
the dying Hindoo, where shall go them"
Then you shall go into a singing bird"
But" said the dying Hindoo,. where
then shall l go?" '"rhen," said the Brah-
mite, '",you will go into a beautiful flow
er." The dying Hindoo threw up his arms
in an agony of solicitation as he said, but
where shall ! go last of all:" Thank God
this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you, tells
me. not where | shall go to-day, not where
next year, but where l shall 20 last Of all!
Politics aud Long Life
Lady Georgiana Grey, who just cele-
brated her Tooth birthday, attributes