The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-10-06

gathered large army from all over
Europe and invaded the Holy Land
and tried to wrest it from the Turks
These raids continued through the
l11th and 18th centuries. This woman
was from the Cleveland school and
seemed to testify as clear as bell
She soon impressed me that she knew
what she was talking about talked
with two or three other training
school people that did not seem to
| know as much as an Arkansaw mig
ger" and yet they were looking for
a place to preach to the people of
Iowa at a fat salary One fellow
from Marshalltown seemed to know
what he was saying, but before he
had answered the third question ne
turned on me and said: Are you not
a professor of Penn college?" AL
though stoutly denied it, saw that
he was incredulous and was compelled
to desist From the gist of the con
versation had with the people of the
training schools, learned that the
reason they did not study the sci
ences was because the Kings bust
ness requires haste" and that unless
they hurried up and got to preaching
the gospel a great many souls would
be lost. The thing to do was to study
the Bible and few helps and get
| right to work Knowing that my
knowledge of the Bible was woefully
small and that perhaps hundreds of
souls were going to perdition because
| fooled away little time gazing at
| the moon, hastened to get Bible to
see whether it did cast the sciences
aside as lightly as did my training
school friends. About the first thing
my eyes rested upon was saying Of
Jobs: "But mark now the beasts, and
they shall teach thee; and the fowls
| of the air and they shall tell thee; or
speak to the earth and it shall teach
thee, and the fishes of the sea, and
they shall declare unto thee" l won
| dered if that was not a warning to the
| Penn boys of the volunteer corps to
study little about sharks before they
sail away to explore the islands Of the
| heather. David, in speaking of tie
wicked, says: Their poison is like
the poison of a serpent; they go
astray as soon as they have been born
speaking lies; they will not harken to
the voice of charmers, charming new
err so wisely"
Break their teeth, o God, in their
mouth; break out the great teeth of
the young lion. o Lord let them melt
away as water which runs continually.
When he bendeth his bow to shoot his
arrows, let them be as cut in pieces,
as snail which melteth, let everyone
of them pass away"
In Proverbs we read: There be
few things which are little upon the
earth, but they are exceeding wise.
The ants are people not strong, yet
| they prepare their meat in summer
the comics are a feeble folk, yet they
make their, houses in the rocks. The
! locusts have no king, yet they go forth
all of them by bands. The spider tax
eth hold with her hands and is in
| kings palaces. There be three things
that go well, yea, four are comely il
| going. A lion which is strongest
among beasts, and turneth not away
for any; a greyhound, an he-goat, and
a king, against whom there is no ris-
ing up" Solomon says: GO to the
ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways
and be wise" But David scars away
from the earth and feasts his intellect
with wonders far beyond the skies.
when consider thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon and the
stars which thou hast ordained, what
is man, that thou art mindful of him,
and the son of man that thou visitest
him." .....
! Job in his great afliction, turned his
mind away from his troubles to con-
| slider the wonderful works of God.
(which commandeth the sun, and it
riseth not; and sealeth up the stars
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens
and treadeth on the waves of the sea.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and
/ Pleiades, and the chambers of the
south. Which doeth great things past
| AANAASo SubD iva, Gnu hOuhClO MlIuOul
number"
But why multiply words. The b.
BILE is chock full of the wonderful
works of God, from the earth, which
He hangeth upon nothing" to the
titles of the field" from the"bands OF
of Orion and the sweet influence OF
the Pleiades" to the Rose of Sharon
and the "dews Of Hermon."
All ages and all religions have had
their cranks, but the greatest freak
of all is the man VINO will make spe-
cialty of the study of the Bible, and
not be led to consider his goodness
in the wonderful works of nature.
| When Jehovah revealed Himself to
Moses on Sinai, the great law-giver
humbly prayed that he might see the
glory of God. and was told by the
Lord, Il will make all MY goodness
pass before thee, and thou shalt see
My back parts, but My face shall not
be SEEN"