The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-07
Sermon to the People
BY THE REV. G. G. BRUCE.


| have been printed and in over 500
languages and dialects. Men have
been thrown to the wild beasts and
! burned to death for having Bible
| in their possession. Wars have
been fought because of it, and cite
have been destroyed, but still l.
! stands. Everything vile. mean, dirty
and iniQuitous has been said about
it because it reveals mans evil
nature and sins. But 1t is here, and
here to stay, and it's power and in
fluence is greater than ever. The
liquor interest, the traffic in lewd
| women. the gambling hells and all
kinds Of iniQuity have been dead
it is the Word Of God and millions
OF people know it and believe it.
A truth of this kind ought to oc-
cupy the mind of men who think
and to the man who does think ana
obey the dictations of his thought we
find him living new life and be
ing d! mighty influence for good
The Bible is the only book that
tells Of a God we can love, of a
heaven to win, Of hell to shun and
Of a Savior who can save us from
all our sins. God gave us the Bible
that we might believe and be saved
and He has provided a way whereby
any man can be free from his sins
and evil life. 1t is up to the man
himself. The Bible has definite
mission and that is to save men.
The greatest good can be obtain
ed from anything by using it for
the purpose for which it was intend
ed. A loaf of bread and a brick
may look alike but they We're made
for different purposes. You may
be able to eat the bread but you
cant build a house with it. The
purpose of the time table is to tell
the hours the trains leave, the juno
tions and about the different trains.
A man who has been over the road
knows more about it than the man
who has never travelled. A man
who has made the journey Of life
guided by the Bible knows more
about it than the man who has
never lived a word of it.
The Bible was not intended to
make men worse but to make men
better God gave it to help men
to get to heaven and to guard and
warn them against going to hell.
The Bible was written to read that
all men might know. The man who
is doing what God wants him to do
is alive to God, and the man who
is not is just as dead as far as his
soul Is concerned as the mummy Of
Pharaoh. Some men say they
can't believe, and you will always
find that they are holding on to some
sin for Gods Word plainly says,
He that cometh unto me l will in
no wise cast him out" If you are
out it Is your fault not Gods. There
i, only one way to have your doubts
destroyed and that is to read the
Bible and obey it.
You say you can't understand it.
Well, let's bring forth something
that maybe you can explain. Why
does black COW eat green grass
and give white milk? Why do
two men eat a piece Of fish and
one grow long red hair and the
other short kinky black hair? What
is electricity? Men who study these
things get some degree Of satisfac
ton but never an explanation. So
in religion. There are many things
that no man can understand but
that Is no reason why he should
discard the Bible as false and the
life Of a good man as a failure. The
pioneer of the North thought there
was gold in the hills and he dug
for it and found it. II he had not
gone deep into the earth and proved
his contentious and convictions that
there was treasure there, he never
would have found it. You dig into
the truth OF the Bible and you will
find many things that are true and
good, and worth more to the soul
than all the treasure of the earth
1t is true that a man Is sinner
by nature as well as by practice
Leave the Bible out Of the question
and the world proves it. Every
man who thinks knows it, and every
nation has tried to make a religion
to appease a god so that the sin
ner would not need to suffer pen
atty. The men Of every nation are
proving that man can no more