Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-14
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THE SILVER BELTS SUNDAY PULPIT
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Our twentieth century civilization can never be explained apart from the Bible. In accord ance with the accepted principles which govern cause and effect, we are compelled to admit the Bible has laid the foundations and built the walls of all the nobest structures of today.
 The Bible has led the march of human pro gress and has a>nique place in the history of civilization. It is the ideas of the Bible that have entered into Christendom to make it what it is
 A country is civilized in the ratio in which the open Bible is received. Spain and Russia have a half open Bible and they are countries half light and half dark. Protestant England and Protestant America have a wide-open Bible, and they stand first in civilization. Back of the great epochs of English history is the Bible; the Book is the pivot on which English history turns many times. The great fundamental, ethical ideas incorporated into our American national life come from the Bible. The pilgrims, who are the seed of our nation, get all their princi- ples from the Bible.
 Our political institutions and our ideas of political liberty are all to be traced back to the constitution of the Mosaic commonwealth The man who says: ''I believe in our American in stitutions, but do not believe in the Bible" is like man who takes the ripe fruit from the boughs of tree and yet says: 'I believe in the fruit, but don't believe in the fruit tree
 Back of all great movements of human liber- ty and brotherhood is the Bible Some of the great heroes in these movements are the Lol- lards in England, the Hugenots in France, the followers of Luther in Germany, of Knox in Scotland, and of Zwingle in Switzerland; they are the magnificent Waldenses and the Al bigenses of the Alps. The secret of their hero ism is their love for the Bible. As morning proves itself by the light which it gives, so the Bible proves itself by being the handspring, the illumination, the inspiration of civilization,
 The Bible IS guidebook in righteous living The man who goes by the guidebook comes to his large, freest fullest life-a life that gives forth the music of peace and satisfaction, even as a perfectly tuned instrument gives forth its sweet music
 The Bible does for the man who lives by it's counsels all that it claims to do. It works; it stands trial. That is the fact that makes the Bible as independent of hostile criticisms as are the stars that keep in their orbits like shining sapphires in their everlasting setting of gold. The force of the Bible can never be materially diminished until 1t can be shown that the book does not fulfill its claims. So long as the Bible IS sound there 1t will stand any amount of shocks elsewhere.
 The Bible must stand or fall today by what it is in itself. It cannot be bolstered up from the outside. By the spiritual transformation it works in the man who lives by its teachings, the Bible proves itself to be so accordant with the fundamental principles of mans moral nature, that the book stands as the impregnabe rock of the centuries
 The bibles of the ethnic religions as compared with the Holy Scriptures, are as candle flames compared with the blazing sun; and when these bibles become like candles that quver in their sockets and go out, the Holy Scriptures, like the sun, will be shining on in all the cloudless splendor of noontime.
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