Evening star., 1911-08-12

east gate in the valley of Hirmon,
where the potters were at work. TAX
ing up one of the large earthen water
bottles he dashed 1t TO the ground. de-
claring that God planned to dash the
nation into pieces II they did not re-
pent. He repeated this message in the
temple and raised fierce opposition,
which may have caused his restraint
as protection on the part of friends
For year or more jeremiah kept
Baruch, the scribe. busy, as the prophet
slowly dictated the message that was
destined to be his supreme effort to re
strain ard reform judah.
The record was filled with thrilling
messages that would move the people.
The prophet that travelled a thousand
miles to preach an object sermon. GO
ing to the Euphrates and hiding a
girdle in a hole in the rock and re-
turning to secure 1t after 1t had be-
come rotten and useless. proposed to
remove his own personality and let the
force of divine truth pierce the heart
of the nation. When the psychological
moment arrived the scribe was sent
forth by the prophet to read the mes
sage from the roll that he had written.
Reading the Roll.
Perils compelled judah to stop and
pray. The forces of Observation-Disclosures
were approaching to complete his sub
jugation of the west. Bands Of nomads
had pillaged the poor farmers, whose
crops had suffered because of an ex-
cessive heat spell without rain. The
Rechabites, because of the nation S
danger, had encamped within the walls
of Jerusalem. The temple was crowded
on a fast day in December. and Jere-
miah sent forth Baruch to read the
message to the people. Protected by
the friendship of Gemariah, the brother
of Ahikam, who defended Jeremiah at
his trial, the scribe read the message
that represented the twenty-three
years work of jeremiah.
AS the words fell upon the peoples
ears from the balcony there was at
least one soul who heard the sermo.h
the grandson of Shaphan, Michaiah.
wio informed the princes OF the WCr't
of God he had heard. They sent Je-
hudi with orders to bring Baruch With
them. They knew the condition of the
nation. The words filed them with a
sense of the nation DANCE. They
resolved to tell the king. hoping that
he would repent and the aaIon be
saved They knew his cha,aater 90
advised that jeremiah and Baruch hide
themselves. They hid the roll and then
reported the message to the king.
Jehoiakim sent for the words and
Jehudi read them to him. His anger was
so great as the truth was presented
to him that he deliberately destroyed
the roll that Goo had ordered prrpai cd
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Destruction Of Bible.
The king did not wait for Jehudi to
finish reading the roll before he re-
yealed his sensitiyeness to the cr:ti-
cism of the prophet. Snatching the
roll, he cut from the parchment with
the scribe's knife three or four col
urns at a. time and then throws them
into the fire that was burning in his
chamber. Unmoved b. the entreaties
of his relatives or the word. he con-
tinued It's destruction. Had Jehoiakfm
listened TO the facts and not sought to
suppress them by destroying the roll.
God would have guided the king and
nation into the paths of righteousness
and the enjoyment Of peace. The man
that deliberately despises Gods word
rejects the Lord.
The king formally abrogatel the cove
nant with all its obligations b. the nation
destruction of the nation was sure 10
follow. The fires con:uried the book. but
il did not destroy tie truth. TIE Brah-
man, who reverenced the waters of the
GanSes as sacred. was filed with rage
as Re beheld cne drop of ii upon the lens
OF microscope filed with pollution and
s.ti. and ssiz'ng the micr scope broke
it in pieces on the aoor He destroyed the
evidences OF the waters pollution, but oid
not alter the facts. When the Bishop or
deles Bible that he could and burned
them at st. Paul's cross in London, he
prepared the way for an enlarged and
revised edition of the Bible.