The Jones County news., 1911-12-14

All that comes from God must be
perfect, complete. No so. Both the
world and man came from God, and
neither is perfect OF complete. So
the Bible came from God, although
parts of 1t are crude and imperfect.
The Bible, like all other things, is the
result Of development and growth.
The patriarchs were In Gods school
and their ethical code was not COM
pleted until Christ came and fulfilled
(completed) it. Certainly an ethical
code allowing polygamy and an eye
for an eye and tooth for tooth,
is crude and imperfect But since
Jesus completed that code no man has
been able either to add to or take
from 1t. 1t Is the only code Of ethics
man has ever known that stands un-
changed and Interchangeable throughout
the ages.
There are but two things in the
visible world that do not die--an i'm
mortal soul and Gods word. The Bible
is living thing. The spirit of Sc
cession is dead. but the spirit of union
still lives. So all other ethical codes
are either dead OF dying, but the
words of Jesus, which are increasingly
exercising greater influence over the
destiny of both men and nations. I'm
like all other books, 1t never becomes
obsolete. All other books but the
Bible which are few hundred years
old are obsolete and out of date. The
Bible never grows old; 1t never dies.
1t is living, growing thing. 1t grows
sages gives new light. and impresses
one with the greatness of the book.
The more one studies 1t with rever-
ent spirit the more its greatness
looms up before him, and as his capa-
city to see more truth grows. the
more truth he finds in the word Ev-
cry combination of social conditions
only draws out of the Word new truth
and more light.
All other books flourish best In the
language in which they were written,
but the Bible flows freely into all
s-''~ "-d faraa ttsalf with freedom
10 every language and dialect. It
alone is adapted to all c,asses and con.
dltlons of people. 1t is a discoverer
OF the human heart, and reveals all
men TO themselves. 1t reveals to all
races of men their motives. needs and
sins. An educated Hindu. on hearing
passage read from the word said
That Book exactly describes us Indi-
ans"
Inc Bible is indestructible, 1t sur
yves all attempts to destroy 1t. Yet
II is mated as no other book because IT
condemns man and claims authority
over him. Rome tried to burn 1t. and |
some OF the greatest scholars of all
lne ages have tried to destroy 1t. but
both alike miserably failed. Thomas
'a1ne thought his Age of Reason"
would put the Bible out of print In
i1ty years, and thousands thought
nat Darwin's Descent Of Man" had
destroyed 1t at one stroke, but they
we're deceived. Darwin really dis.
oVered nothing new, for both Moses
M Chris were Theistic evoIuntion-
SIS Evolution does not DESTROY the
lea OF Creator; 1t only gives the
realtors method Of creation.
The Bible stands unapproached as
ife-giving book. 1t awakens dead
auons and gives them new life.
nations, since the Bible was
pened In the sixteenth century, have
ecome responsible for all the worlds
1van't % <cience, literature. In +
sntioy I Spese, % and discovery. 1
'hen1k$o' ,asle came into Japan s
'e ySeived new life. arose 7
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