The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-11-05
SOME EVIDENCES.
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON,
The Book We Call the Bible Has Been
Handed Down From Generation 10
Generation.


and strongest churches in the land. 1t
was presided over for thirty years by DIR.
George Dana Boardman, who was succeed
ed about eight years ago by DR.. Upper.
Two years ago, at 4 cost OF nearly S4OO, ,OO0.
a magnificent house of worship was erected
and Sl5O,O00 endowment laid aside. The
| congregations are very large. especially IN
the evening. The text for this sermon was
from First Thessalonians ills: We thank
God without ceasing because when We
| received the word OF God We received 1t
truth. the word OF Cod DR.. Tuppcr
said:
Ancient history has preserved the ira
dition that when thirty centuries ago, the
! city O. Troy was sacked by the Greeks.
the conquerors made the general proclaim.
alton that each OF the inhabitants thereof
| he permitted to save Il single article OF
property especially dear TO his own heart.
| Taking advantage OF the oTer. Aeueas
selected his household gods and carried
| them in triumph and for JOY to q place
of ,sfcty. SO pleased were the Greeks
by this unaffected act OF plety that they
| extended 10 him further indulgence, al
! lowing him TO save one other thing, when,
returning in haste, he bore off on his
shoulders his aged father. whose wisdom
| and affection constituted for him price
less inheritance.
We're the traditions thus related to re-
| peat itSc,f in history to-day and the priv
| iiege granted every genuine Christian be-
| lever. i'll a supposed season OF calamity
| and privation, to make selection OF that
one possession most hign,y priced by him,
both because of its intrinsic value and Its
immortal influence, the truest wisdom
would dictate peculiar and. to thousands;
~ ,>n
NOT he silver or gold. military fame or
civic honor. profound learning or match
less eloaucnce: this choice would not be
even father OF mother, husband or wife,
son or daughter friend or lover; precious
! rs might be each OF these. it would not be
the orc thing wisely chosen If the choice
were made both for time and eternity.
What then would the one thing be!
Strange as it may seem 10 many, the
calm. firm heaven guided. intelligent
choice OF the earnest. thankful Christian
in that solemn. sacred hour. would be a
certain hooI;a book ancient and artleSs,
e1evatinS and cnnobling, divine and dur
able.
As I utter this sentence you anticipate
the designation | an about to make. Iou
necd not be told that. This book is no
work OF mere poetry, neither HAD nor
ODYSSEY. Milton's Odes nor Snarespeare 5
plays: no work of mere history, neither
Livv nor Tacitus. Ha!lam nor Hume; no
work OF mere philosophy, neither Bacon
nor Hamilton. Descartes nor Locke; no
book OF mere biography. neither. P!utarch
nor Lamartinc. Remusat nor oltaIre; no
book OF mere romance, neither George
Flo: nor Scott. Buwer nor Thackeray;
no book o. mere ethics. neither, Plato nor
Seneca. Pa;ly nor Balm; no book OF Chris
tian morality and meditation, neither
Thomas Kempis' Imitation OF Christ
nor Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. Hook.
er's "Romilies" nor Paschais Thoughts
great and good as are many If not all
OF these, immortal works some OF them.
rising Ike grand and majestic mountain
peaks. catching and presenting to the
word the glorious sptendors OF the high,
est human gelius-we could see them and
all else OF mans creation burn INTO aSaes
or buried in the sea, if at their expense
we might save to our hearts ana lives
here ard hereafter that one single book;
which has az origin and 4 character and
mission and Il destiny as lar above every
work Of mans creation as the skies are
aboyc tie c,cuds--that book whose "au-
thor is God, whose subject is mai, whose
oDiecs is salvation. whose end eternity -
that book OF which Pollock, in an out
Durst OF poetic fsrvor and Christian faith
so fee,:ngly writes:
This lamp from off tho everlasting throne
Mercy took down. and in the night OF
Stood casting or the dark and gracious
bow,
And iorevc, rore heseeching men with
tears
And earnest sjghS. to hear, believe and
live.
Surely. brethren this must be the book
OF all boohs. which while full and rich
with the sweetest stratus OF poetry, the
most memorable deed: OF history, the most
inaxhaustble stores OF philosophy, the
most thrilling incidents OF biography, the
lofties; principles OF ethical and moral
teaching, counts no one OF these It's lea
lures OF chiefest glory, but rather this:
1 hat for centdries it has gone up and down
this world of ours. relieving human con"
sciences. Illuminating human lnteliects, re-
deeminG human spirits, Transforming hu.
man lives. and tnat. in so beautiful and
glorious degree, that the thinking word
Is beginning To accept the statement OF
Schleimermacher. To abolish the Bible
is 10 pluck up iy the roots all that Is
nobiest and trucst and divinest IN the
worlds civilization.
Oh, II there is one prayer that offer
ND Gaitv with more constancy and feTEor
OF soul than another IN our sSe OF Lnco-
logica, ;errent AID unrest. 1t Is this: God;
.,cep nc as an ambassador OF Christ and
the great brotherhood OF Christian bs!iey-
ers, true now and always 20 the infaiDb.c
Word OF the ,.ternal God. ..,s in the past,
supernatural revelation has had to con,
tend against the sophisms or Hume and
rAe transcendenta' philosophy of Ger
many, 50 to-day, all about Us there are
those who hattre againSt the idea OF fv'
ing. persoual omnipotent Jehovah, who
can and does freely and fully communl-
cate with His children; and to-day, there
is a call long and loud for those who ac-
cent the Bible as the full and satisfactory
oracle from heaven. to stand up and out
against all these attacks, and that. too
with convictions strong and unshaSen.
With YOU to-day | come to consider the
question, What are some of the evidences
that the Bool; we call the Bible has been
rivcn bv inspiration of God? | say some,
for we have no time, even il we had the
ability. to enumeratc them all: That these
sacred writers themselves believe that
theirs were the oraclcs of God is without
question. Hear David sing: The spirit
OF the Lord spake by me and bis word
was in my tongue" and Isaiah. Hear. on
heavens. and give ear, oh earth. tor the
Lorn has spoken. the mouth OF the Lord
hath spoken" and Ezekiel. The WORD