The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-08-12
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An ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR.. ROBERT BRUCE HULL.
Theme: The Power OF Christ.

tiOn of the Sumner Avenue Baptist
Church to be its acting pastor. He
preached Sunday from the text, 9
Peter 1:1G: I'VE have not followed
cunninEly devised fables when we
made known unto YOU the mower and
coming OF our Lord Jesus Christ, but
were eve witnesses OF His majesty"
DR.. Hull said:
Human life does not end at the
grave. OF this fact the conscious
ness of the race Is itself a proof. But
this future life and the present life
are not to be controlled and directed
by guesses. We ought not to risk
the future on a perhaps. We ought
noJ TO condition our eternal state on
a hypothesis. For such tremendous
issues we should demand not fables.
but facts. This demand Christianity
meets. Christianity is not afraid of
the light. II Is not dark lantern
religion. Il welcomes all investiga-
tion, whether scientific or un5cien-
tific. II deals not in hypothesis but
in verities. This is the thought Of
the Apostle Peter in the text. The
apostles were not deceived. In fol-
lowing them we shall not be trusting
to the wild vagaries OF unvcrifed
spoculations.
Notwithstanding all reverent and
irreverent critics have said, the Bible
is n trustworthy revelation of Cod
and from God. Suppose we grant to
our skeptical friends that the inspir-
aticn Of the Bible Is the same in kind
as the inspiration of other books of
eminent authors. Still the degree
OF inspiration is so manifestly greater
IN ld of ~ gf -pf, Nty q
of Scripture that II amounts to a diff
ference in kind as we'll as in degree.
AS a rule. the men who wrote the
books of the Bible were not what we
would call educated men. They were
shepherds. fishermen. herdsmen. SOL
diers, kings. They lived in nation
which never had q literature, and yet
these sixty-six books written by more
than forty different authors living
more than 1900 years apart. all have
one theme, and they wrote upon II
with a power, nobility and a SUBJ
Unity unequolled in all literature.
From that eldest day in Genesis to
that last moment when Johns pen Of
holy power fell from his hands, we
move down the ages in the presence
OF one and the same being. I'm the
beginning God" and at the close
the God man saving. Behold. I
come quickly" II such book under
these circumstances is not divine. II
is still more wonderful So many
authors could not have had such
thought and such harmony unless
their writings were presided over by
One and the same Being. Even Ros.
seau. infidel though he was. speak.
ing OF the four Gospels, says: III
you say that four men agreed to in
vent this story OF Jesus. the inventors
would have been more wonderful
th9H the hero"
We are TO bear in mind also that
this book Is the most ancient book In
the world. The ancient books Of the
pegsians and the Uindus do not com.
rare in antiquity with this ancient
document. We are also to ramom.
be- tat notwithstanding all that
critics Rave scld. its text Is Du-er than
that a. ShaEespeara. Fewer changes
have crept into II BIZ errors Of tran
srriptiOn than there are IN the works
Of the great English dramatist. We
can therefore feel that when we trus.
to the tCachin-a OF the Book. when
we -ely upon rs promises. when We
co~'fart ourselves with It's hopes, we
are resting on the solid rack of z
proved revelation from God. We da
not follow cunringlv devised fables
whom we trust the Bible as q revela.
to- from Cod
'-te c"er"ote- of Jesus Christ =
r. mythical Rosseal well said.
''' would taFe a Jesus to forge q
,Iseus." Whatever comes. Jesus
stands the test. For nineteen hun.
drcd wears His life. character and
teaching, have been studied and He
stands to-day more indubita6ly the
Goldman than ever before Il has
he'n won said that from this tri.
lanr7a there Is no esraTe. Either
.IFsDs was a conscious fraud CT He
was urconsclorslv deceived. or He
was the Son OF God and equal with
the Father" Listen to Him saying,
"C0we to me- all ye that labor aud
ere heavy la@sn and I will give YOU
rect" Tehold Him saving TO the inn
T".~nt '1En. son. thy sins he for
f-'rcr tNce Hear that wonderful
?sve-tiOn, He that hath seen Me
hath saen the Father" and again,
- and the Father are one" He
cIaiTed equality With God, for He
vs. cod. "e' lie was hUr'an also.
''iF "erfSct humanity vas in union
with HE divinity,
Ep was intensely human so that
lie could be tempted IN all points
Ike az we are, yet wlthuu: sin. This
is our hope.
1o1us. the Goldman Is our Saviour.
TITO -cc'rs -~ay meet, but the Rock
OF 'qes abides.
Awav with doabt and fear. II
men gnould say we will carry away
the Hudson River IN our buckets. we
should smile 81 their folly. When
men seek 20 plrck from the crown
~ tire Christ either HIS God-hood OF
I'ls Manhood we may well hold them
il cerision.
We have not followed cunningly
fevised fables when we accept AMOS
tolie teaching concerning the future
life. Jesus said. II go to prepare a
place for you" He has done IL.
Heaven is reality From the brow
OF Oliyet through the rlfted skies a
human form went mp. A cloud re-
ceived Hin out OF the sight OF those
amazed dizcinles. Then came the
mc~-age. This same Jesus which is
taken up from you into heaven shall
50 come in like manner ss ye have
seen Him go into heaven"
The intuitions OF our souls are not
20 be disappointed.
Tnen .n heaven there Ia the human
tody Of Jesus the Christ. Stephen
saw Him as He wos about to be
stoned to Death. Paul saw Him on
that rOad Tobu aaW Him