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ferent from any other fruit ever grown
Then suppose he told lis how he got
tlat fruit. Perhaps 1t was developed
by grating an Italian grape upon a
certain kind Of American grapevine. If
he told MS all this, and we knew that
no other such grape had ever been
grown. we would believe that lie had
developed that grape. We'll, in the
same way thousands Of years ago God
told Moses how he had created the
world. First came the water, then the
land. then the grass. then the living
creatures in the water, then the anil
mails. then man. oh" you say, that
is a simple story" Yes, it IL so simple
that for thousands of years the scien-
fists were trying TO discover the order
or creation, and now, much to their
surprise, the biologists have found out
that the order as written by Moses
thousands Of years ago is the scientific
ally accepted order OF creation Of to
day. Does not the first book Of the Ri
bic bear upon 1t the stamp Of Gods au-
thorship? Was not its story OF creation
told before science was born?
Then study the prophecies. Why, II
you begin to study these prophecies
and their fulfillmenis you have the
work of lifetime One night William
Herschcl. the astronomer, was study
ing the heavens BY conditions reveal
ed there. he said TO himself, There
must be a star in such and such
region" He pointed his telescope to
that region and found there the star,
but want TO tell you that the causes
which proved to William Herschel the
fact that there was a star in a certain
region Of the heavens are no more cor
tain in their results than are the full
ailments Of Scripture. In those re
markable books Of John Cumming.
called "Apocalyptic Sketches" md "'rhe
Destiny Of Nations" step by step the
great prea cher shows how the prOphe-
cies uttered thousands of years ago
have been fulfilled in the past or ERE
being fulfilled now. DR., Newman.
standing upon the ruins Of ancient
Babylon once said, Il could take q
competent engineer IL had sufficient
resources and reconstruct Babylon,
guided only by the prophecies uttered
concerning II long before the first foun-
| dalton stone was laid So we find the
Bible not only prophesying events to
como, bu, also recording those events
! after they had happened. DO not the
| fulfilled prophecies stamp the Bible as
| being of divine authorship?
| Then the miracles of Jesus and the
recorded biographies Of Christ. How
are you going to get around them
Are YOU going to regard Christ as a
| fraud and an impostor and vet call him
| the best Of men, rs nearly all infidels
| and agnostics do? 7 can understand
! how Noltaire could despise and bias
phcme Christ, but do not understand
/ how Rousseau and Jean Paul Richter
could he 50 illogical as to represent
/ Christ at the same time as model for
humanity and yet MS self deceived
fanatic
A Ridiculous Position.
Are you going TO take the ridiculous
and illogical stand which noted edi
tor of city newspaper did when he
wrote to lawyer friend Of mine q
letter that went thus: "A man who
drinks can preach better temperance
lecture than all the fanatics on earth
| But you cannot make men good by
law am not a believer in religion
so called. blu: was convinced long ago
that the ultimate redemption Of The
I'LL a., ~,
inculca ton in their hearts of the re
ligion of Jesus Christ. If men make
Christ the model even though IL be {
superstition, as | believe. virtue viii
dominate the world of vice and sil
will be mnimized. But it must com,
through moral suasion and not through
force and compulsion Now. my
friend. is that your illogical stand
Are you prepared to assert with you
one breath that Jesus Christ is th'
best OF all human beings and then f
assert with Your next breath tina
Christ is decciver, Nay. nay, no
that. AS an Intelligent man 20,
should pe ready to say here and now
mo man could have uttered sucl
! WOTuS rs ulu jesus N-HlISt UultSS ~
was true. And therefore II Christ |
true, Christ Is the Son OF God" BY tn
law OF logic and common sense we can
not get away from this conclusion
The Bible biographies OF Christ. b,
their internal evidence, prove tina
Christ's life was divine.
Now. having seen enough OF the sign
and wonders Of the Bible to prove tina
II is of divine authorship, | am read
10 make a confession. | am ready (
confess that this holy book is lille,
with mysteries. Like blind man,
bump up against them everywhere
But because | cannot understand VIII
God should so love the world that h
gave his only begotten Son that whose
ever believcth on him should not perish
but have everlasting life. is that an
reason why | should reject that divin
offer OF pardon and eternal life: NAY
nay" again l say, Why all the prom
ises of God are given 10 us l canno
conceive. But those promises are there
And because they are there | will az
cept them and 1.-Two by them and leav
the explanations for eternity.
But now, believing that God is n loy
ing Father and that the Bible Is give
to us by divine inspiration. the mex
difficult question which confronts us
this why does loving Father, who
preparing such felicity for us on tn
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