The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-31

Strong Sermon Preached BY Dr. "a. G. Dinwiddie cAt
The First Presbyterian Church Last Sunday,

than gold; yea, and much fine gold.
Sweeter also than honey, and the
honey comb; and in keeping of them
there is great reward"
Atheist, Deist and Infidels, deny the
/ Bibles claims to Divine Inspiration,
and protest that it is a cunningly
devised fable, and therefore, they
challenge its claims to the faith of
men and it's right to a place in the
Libraries of the world. But the Bible
comes to us claiming to be revela-
tion from God
Revelation means to uncover, to I'M
veil, to reveal. To make known to
others what was before unknown to
them, but Just as true before it was
revealed as it was afterwards. In the
ology Revelation means the act of
God in uncovering or disclosing divine
truth of men. Note, it is not the mis-
sion of the Bible to manufacture truth
but to reveal it, Every truth which
is chronicled upon the pages of this
blessed old Book, was the same truth
before twas revealed as afterward, and
would be the very same truth that is
today if it had never been revealed
at all If there were no Bible, IL God
had not seen fit to give us a revelation
of the truth, the same truths would
exist All fundamental principles and
moral truths have their origin in God
and concenters in Him. Hence, those
principles and truths which underlie
and support Christian Civilizations,
and Christian communities and Chris
tian homes and Christian individuals
today, are as old as God, for they were
in the beginning with God. Skeptics
have shown their ignorance and moral
stupidity in their efforts to overthrow
the Bible, as if the destruction of the
old Book, would effect single truth
that it reveals. Suppose you have an
enemy that you hate, and gather to-
gether all the pictures that were ever
printed or sketched of him, and con-
sign them to the flames and burn them
to ashes. Then what have you ac-
complished? You have not harmed
your enemy in the least he is the
same man, and your enemy as be-
fore So wicked men have mutilated
the Bible They have burned the
Bible, and drowned the Bible and
abused it in every conceivable way.
But He, whose nature and character
it reveals is the same unframed,
eternal sovereign as before, and the
wonderful truths which it reveals are
the same grand and glorius truths
that they were when back in the re-
mote and incalculable distant begin
ming, they were with God.
Further, God warns us in the Bible
against the evils in the moral world
and instructs us how to shun them. |
But these hurtful, ruinous evils ex-
ested as really before God sounded /
the alarm bell of danger, or sent this /
lamp of His love flashing light through |
the moral world to reveal them as they
do today. God uncovered them that
men might know what they are and
where they are and how to shun them.
Our glorious Niagara Falls was the
same grand Niagara with its irrisis-
tible rapids, its seething, writing,
dashing pillows and sublime cataract,
thousand years before it entranced
the soul of man, as it is today. The
man who first discovered it, and then
made known his wonderful discovery,
bears the same relation to Niagara
that the Bible does to the system Of
moral truths which fill its pages. He
was the revealer of great fact, which
was the same fact before he discov-
cred and revealed it as it was after
ward. 4.
There is in this universe system
of divine UruJnS WHICH nave IhOH VI
gin in the moral attributes of God
These truths, are, because God is.
And they are what they are because
God is What He is.
"a The first of these ! wish TO
mention is HUMAN IMMORTALITY. !
We are to live forever; you and |,
and ever human soul. We are placed
here to spend the childhood state OF
our existence, and then we are TO
change worlds and live on. But note,
we are not immortal because the Bible
reveals the great fact. But we must
live forever because we live at all.
And the Bible only reveals what would
be Just as true IL it did not reveal 1t.
(2) Again, the Bible teaches us the
great truth, that Holiness is essential
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