The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-15

There is no book like the Bible. 1t is
1t is a singular book as to the variety of
its contents, ranging from dry chronology
cal statements to highest flight of royal
poetry.
Geographical illusions descending 10
the minutest details are streWn thickly
through its pages. There is no depart
ment of natural science which does not
find some data recognized in the chapters
of this venerable volume. Hill and dales,
plants and flowers, reptiles and sea mon
sterS, fleet horses and stupid oxen, lofty
cedar and loWly lily, these all find their
existence recognized and recorded in this
book of, various themes" The greatest
contrast exist between the age and land in
which we live and.the age and land. i'm which
this book finds its history. To one familiar
with the habits and customs of American
life, it is next to impossible to accept the
strange things as regards the habits, dress
and customs of Bible times. We don't
dress as this book says that those people
dressed; we don't eat as they ate in those
faraWay days and years of Bible history.
Our houses are not like theirs; we do not
measure time as they did; we don't
use the same language they used; our
seasons are different from theirs; our cal
endars don't agree with the ancients; our
months are called by different names to
theirs. 1t is difficult, knowing only our
American life, to think ourselves into the
condition under which this book says that
people lived and thought in those dong ago
ages Their wedding feasts ard funerals
were altogether dislike ours. They lived
in different atmosphere and under a
different government from ours. Their
mode of warfare was crude and difficult.
No laundering cannon was heard on
their battlefield; no grape and canister,
mimic ball or buckShot was heard whist
ling through the air, but bow and arrow,
sling and stone, battle axe and spear, club
and dagger did the work of death. This
book is book that deals with man as i'm
mortal soul, making known the beginning
OF race going back to the beginning of God
who is from everlasting to everlasting"
and who Sin the beginning created the
heavens and the earth tells of the creative
purposes of God, his loving grace, tells of
the fall of man, the promised Savior, his
coming, death, resurrection and ascen-
sion; tells of Gods promise and threats,
his dealings with his people, their happi-
ness IN their obedience and their punish
ment in their diSobedence tells of the prep
aratlon OF a family, a race, a nation and a
world at large for the coming of the Re-
deemer. In an important sense the foun-
dations of this book are laid in history and
geography. However high towards the
heavens may it reach in doctrine andprom-
Use, its foundation lay hold.of. the earth. If
the story of Israel in Egypt and Canaan
is not true. neither is the story of the
son of God and Son of Mary" true.
In this book then we are to find the his
tory of Gods ancient people, and in "The
Holy Land" the house of Gods Chosen
Nation, the home of Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob and their posterty.
"The Holy Land" Canaan" and
"Palistine" as terms are used with various
meanings. Canaan" was named from
the fourth son of Ham, and grandson of
Noah, who is supposed to have lived and
died there, hence the land was early call
| ed 'The Land of Canaan" Geneses
1912, Palestine or Palistina, in the author
| lied version, means Philistia and origin
ally referred to the long and broad strip of
Maritime plains near the Great Sea- 1t
was on the high road from Egypt to Phon-
cla and the countries north oft. ThePhiI-
iStlne Plains became sooner known to the
western world than the country farther
inland, and was called, by them "Syria
PaliStlna." Canaan is called the "Holy
| Land" because of its holy association,
the land God gave his chosen people, in
which temple was builded to the honor
of his name Christ was born, lived, labor
ed, died and was buried. Jerusalem was
called the "City of the Great King"
Palestine, in the days of Christ, COM