Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-28

the bill from which he assembled.
IA Land and the Book.
The land and the book are one. The
personality of Jesus Christ. in the first
place. has a true. a vitality true. geo
graphical setting. No Bible student
ever walked the Judaean hills with ewes
truly opened TO the divine truth that
he did not have his belief in Jesus
Christ i~rrevocably sealed and infinitely
strengthened by the conformation of
eastern customs and geographical facts
with the recorded biographies of
Christ's life. Henry a. Harper. the
great archaeOlogist, the author Of that
marvellous book entitled The Bible
and Modern Discoveries" presses
home this statement upon his readers
in a powerful way. On one of DR..
lIarper's pages find these words: a
very dear friend of mine. a splendid
explorer, a great traveller. WAS ut heart
and in secret an unbeliever in the
divinity Of Jesus Christ. Circum-
stances compelled him to explore Pal
estine. To understand the country he
found hat he must read the Bible. and.
reading ii in the full blaze of light,
which custom and country and mod
ern investigations threw on it, he
found that Jesus was indeed his Say
Jour. He brought the full power of
his able mind to pear on all he read
n all he saw, and. as a result Of
those geographical studies and the
Christ life, in humble alteration he
bowed before his God and Redeemer.
There was no sudden, no violent.
change. All had been noiSeleSsly and
gradually accomplished. lie was CON
WINGED of the divinity of Jesus Christ
by the witnesses Of the dust l might
go on and quote scores Of testimonies
just like DR.. Harper's in reference to
the harmOnies of the Christ life with
the geographical facts and the Hebrew
customs Of the Palestine hills.
Studying today the 'evidence of the
things not seen in reference to Jesus
Christ, is there nothing rational, moth
ing overwhelming, to you in the har-
mony between the opened leaves of
eastern rocks and the biographies of
SOSpSio. " DSIC IIOIIlIIlS
marvellous to you in the fact that there
is not a detail in all Christ's earthly
lie which cannot be verified by the
rocks of the Palestine hills and val
legs, which are absolutely in accord
with II another? The men who
wrote the Bible were not historical nov
elistS like the author of the Tower of
London" or of "Kenilworth' or of "Ro-
mOla' or of The Crisis" They did not |
accept historical facts when they want
ed to use them for the benefit of their
plots and reject those facts when it did
not suit their convenience to use them.
They did not put Christ in imaginary
places at impossible times and put fc-
titiouS and impossible statements III
his mouth. Almost every detail of
Christ's earthly life can lie verified by
geographical position and eastern Gus
tom. That classic book Of travels
written by Richard Henry Dana. called
1.-Two Years Before the Mast is sup
posed to contain a perfect geographical
account Of the early coast Of southern
California and it's people. But the
Bible is Il more wonderful guidebook
to the Holy Land than Dana's master
piece could ever be to California. The
best guideboOk through the Holy Land
written is the Bible. In its every
detail the Christ life is found to have
perfect geographical setting. Is there
nothing wonderful to you that the land
and the book in reference to CErist's
are one?
Jesus was not a NEUROLOGICAL char
acter. Before you can obliterate the
story of Jesus Christ from this earth.
on which he so sublimely lived. Won
will have to grind out of sight and for
ever erase the sacred hills Of PaIes-
tine once wrote David Gregg in a
book for which authorship he was
elected an honorary member of the
Royal Geographical society Of London
You will forever have to grind ol7t of
sight the sacred hills of Palestine
where Christ was tempted. and where
he preached his wonderful sermon and
where he was TRANSPORTED. and whore
he died, and where he assembled Cod
be praised for the gospel according to
geography! God be praised for the
Holy Land, with its Jordan and Beth
Iehem and Hermon and Zion and Cal
vary and Olivet. These are all indie
structible pages of the divine and in
d~estructible book. These are all wit
nesses that Christ has spoken to men
and lived among men and wrought out
salvation for man" Christ was q God.
Yes, Christ was a man, BY the evil
dence of the pages of rock l know it.
Other Evidences of Divinity.
But we find Christ as the evidence
of things not seem in another way.
BY the fulfllment of Scripture prophe-
cieS in reference to his birth. his life.
death and his resurrection we
know that the prophecies of his second
will be fulfilled as well as was
his first coming. We know there will
rome a time when. upon the white
horse Of victory. Christ shall ride down
the blue hillsideS of heaven. He shall
to put all his enemies under his