The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-11-14

Christ, does not bear the investigation
of the mind, how was it that Sir viii
liam Jones, the greatest linguistic hu
man encyclopedia who ever lived, ono
said in reference to that Bible, II hav,
carefully and regularly perused tn,
Scriptures and am of the opinion tina
this book, independent of it's divin,
origin, contains more sublimity, pure
morality, more important history ant
finer strains of eloquence than can bt
collected from all other books, no mat
ter in what language they may have
been written" If Christ's Bible does
not appeal to the brain, how can you
account for the fact that Thomas Car
lyle, a great intellectual leader of the
English speaking world, whose dys
peptic stomach made him chronically
growl at everybody and everything
once declared that the book of Job was
the finest prose poem ever written, or
that Lord Jeffrey, the hard headed
critic of the Edinburgh Review, always
carried in his side pocket ST Johns
Apocalypse because he felt that it was
a masterpiece of literature? All, those
testimonies do not tend to prove that
Christ only influences the ignorant and
the mentally superstitious.
If this Bible does not appeal to the
brain, how is it that science and reve-
lation, by the statements of the Bible,
are daily becoming more and more har-
monized? AS intelligent men, do you
not know that, though the scientists
have for centuries been squabbling,
these differences are gradually passing
away and that science and revelation
are coming into closer and more har-
monious relations in regard to many
things whereon they formerly dis
agreed? 1t is only within a few weeks
that Professor Sayce, writing on the
latest archaeological discoveries, said,
"In every case where we can test the
Bible story by contemporaneous monu-
ments, the authenticity of which is
doubted by no one, we find it confirmed
and explained, even in the minutest
points" Do you not know as intelli-
gent men and women, that many re-
cent discoveries of the psychologists
of them written 5000 years ago, are
absolutely in accord with scientific
facts which are continually being re-
vealed?
That the Bible and modern scientific
statements are being more and more
harmonized by recent investigations
and discoveries is illustrated by an in
cident which happened some years ago
in the city of Philadelphia while l was
preaching there. If you ever have had
any dealings with medical students,
you know that there is proportionately
more infidelity among them as a class
than among any other body of young
men. Most of this infidelity, believe,
is caused by the evil influences of the
dissecting room. One day, when a
medical professor, while lecturing upon
the body, quoted the well known pas
sage in Job, II am escaped with the
skin of my teeth" a litter of derision
ran around the classroom. The col
lege professor raised his hand for ST.
lence and said: tut, tut, tut, gentle
men; there is no need for laughing. l
am not a minister, nor the son of
minister, nor am l a processing Chris
tan, but | here and now want to state
that the more l study that Bible the
more it appeals to my intelligence as
an inspired book | am as firmly con-
WINGED that the Bible is inspired as
was the centurion convinced of the di-
vinity of Christ, when at the foot of the
cross he cried out in ave. Truly this
man was the Son of Cod This very
passage just quoted displays a knowl-
edge which could not have been ac-
quired by the man who wrote it in any
other way than by revelation. For cen
turtles scientists ridiculed Jobs smile
about the skin of the teeth. But few
years ago microscope was invented
with such powerful lens that much to
the surprise of the scientists, it was
found that Job was right. Over the
tooth there is thin skin, the infinitesi-
NAL part of an inch in thickness. No
body was ever able to see this skin
with the naked eye, yet Job saw it in
inspiration thousands of years before
the microscope was invented"
The Second SuperscriptiOn.
The superscription on the cross was
written also in Latin. This implies
that Christ will one day be the SUI
preme ruler Of the world as well as
the king of the intellect and the ruler
of the heart. Rome means conquest.
In that one word of four letters we
hou w 40 fro Af hn Inv
of julius Caesar triumphing over the
Gauls or of the Augustan hosts annex
ing the kingdom of a Cleopatra to the
empire, or we see the cleaning spears
of a Scipio driving the mighty Hanni-
bal over the Alps and hurting him back
across the seas, or we hear the huge
gathering rams of a Titus crashing in
the gates of the Davidic capital. AS
England today, on account of her great
navy and numerous mercantile fleets,
Is called the mistress of the seas" so
Rome, on account of her great armies
and navies, could claim to be ruler of
the seas as well as the mistress of the
world"
This homage of earthly rulers to the
Heavenly King is not an allegiance
which is only to be given to Christ in
the dim future. 1t is becoming more
and more universal year by year. Some
people are apt to picture the greatest
of conquerors as a Sesostris or an At
tia or an Alexander or a Charlemagne
marching at the head of a great host,
while the heavens are raining blood
and the highways are paved with
corpses. But an earthly conqueror's
throne is nearly always short lived and
is soon tappled over. Napoleon blazed
and burned himself out in less than