Milford chronicle., 1902-11-14

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
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? It is only within a few weeks
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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-
/ e ho Of
prove that the leaves of the Bible, some
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
hamOnized by recent investigations
and discoveries is illustrated by an in
cident which happened some years ago
in the city Of Philadelphia while was
preaching there. If you ever have had
any dealings with medical students,
you know that there is proportiOnately
more infdelity among them as a class
than among any other body of young
men. Most of this infidelity, l believe,
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dssecting room. One day, when a
medical professor, while lecturing upon
the body, quoted the well known pas
sage in job, Il am escaped with the
skin Of my teeth" a litter of derisiOn
ran around the classroom. The col
lege professor raised his hand for 81
lence and said: tut, tut, tut, gentle
men; there is no need for laughing.
am not a minister, nor the son Of a
q minister, nor am / a protesting Chris
tian, but l here and now want to state
that the more l study that Bible the
more it appeals to my intelligence rs
an inspired book. l 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 awe, Truly this
man was the Son of Cod This yer!
: passage just quoted displays a knowl
edge which could not have been &C
y quired by the man who wrote it in an!
!, other way than by revelation. For cen
:, turtles scientists ridiculed jobs simil'
. about the skin of the teeth. But few
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. with such powerful lens that, much t
the surprise of the scientists, it wa
L found that Job was right Over til
:, tooth there is-a thin skin, the infnites
% mai part of an inch in thickness. Nc
. body was ever able to see this ski
j with the naked eye, yet Job saw it i
>. inspiration thousands of years befor
1,n Inn Il
ID The Second superscriptiOn.
IL The superscription on the cross wa
" written also in Latin. This impliC
O. that Christ will one day be the 81
ps preme ruler of the world as well 1
no the king of the intellect and the rul,
On of the heart Rome means conques
d In that one word of four letters v
on have the tramp of the invading legiol
# of a Julius Caesar triumphing over Il
nd Gauls or of the Augustan hosts anne
an ing the kingdom of a Cleopatra to Il
is empire, or we see the cleaning spea
Use of a Scipio driving the mighty Ham
,lv bal over the Alps and hurting him ba'
oh across the seas, or we hear the hui
IN battering rams of Titus crashing
lu- the gates of the Davidic capital
on England today. on account of her gre
ist navy and numerous mercantile fee
,rd is called the mistress of the seas"
cal Rome, on account Of her great ARM
to and navies, could claim to be ruler
re- the seas as well as the mistress of t
-elI world"
tie This homage of earthly rulers to t
Heavenly King is not an allegiaT
yer which is only to be given to Christ
the the dim future. 1t is becoming me
the and more universal year by year. So
ads people are apt to picture the great
off of cOnquerOrs as a Sesostris or an
SITS tia or an Alexander or a Charlema
hey marching at the head Of a great h
Of while the heavens are raining bl
the and the highways are paved v
is cOrpses. But an earthly conquer
and throne is nearly always short lived
eff is soon t)ppled over. Napoleon bla
and and burned himself out in less t
the twenty years. As soon as the cong
one or of the crusaders was dead a S
lall, officer, at the comma1& of his depal
lids chief, rode through the @mp, way
are a white shroud upon the Sld Of
lese spear as he cried: "Behold, this is
udy that is left of the great Saladin!
de- hold, this is all that is left of the G
yet Saladin" Attilas kingdom was
gate scattered and divided when the nc
rist. ern ruler had died as the result
the debauch.
ross But, though the kingdoms of ear
,ntal rulers may be soon swept away, t
fidel is a spiritual conqueror, who. for
was last two millenniums, has been
reli- tinually increasing the size of his
neer- pOral as well as spiritual domains.
r the is now striding across the five C
)leon nents and is planting his foot upOI
said: islands of the seas. The people
your flOcling to his standard by thOus
n in and hundreds of thousands. VIII
your his battle shout? Why, it is the s
.es of of Zion being sung in all the
barge meeting houses all over the
BILE in Where is his blood of carnage?
N m the symbol of the blood of Christ
NO TO lifted to the lips at the holy col
" alb Mon. My Lord and my Christ a
nd in conqueror whose name God hat
and allied "abOve every name, that a
those name of Jesus every knee should
ok su. of things in heaven and things
the earth,' can we not see thee2
- we not touch thee? Can we not