Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-11
Bible STANDS
FIRM AGAINST
TESTS OF Time
Evangelist Sunday, in Sermon at
Tabernacle, Defends Word of
God Against Critics.
BY GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.

III EOIIA BA HIHOLOmEH
Every test known to man through
philosophy. science, reason, cum
ming and brutality has been ap-
piled to the bible to shake it's posi-
ton in the lives OF man and to de-
stroy its influence in the world,
said Mr.. Sunday last evening at the
tabernacle in speaking on the sub
feet, Think on These Things"
The bible, the word OF God is
true, and nothing Is more firmly
established than that truth, and
God has blessed every people and
every nation that has honored and
obeyed it as the word OF God" he
continued.
"N7 book has ever hej sneh Sc
were critics as the bible Iyary
man whose iile has been wrong ~
who waited TO 1--we @ wrong life
has taer against tne bible 4 has
been destroyed AMI burned IN un-
tcid numbers, ana set Il has the
greatest circulation Of any book
the world has ever known or ever
will.
yet it falls from the presses
like the leaves IN an autumnaI
frost tt IS being read by men ard
women N every country and Ian
guage and tongue today. Wars
have been fought against the bible.
Cities have hecl destroyed because
Of Il. But it is here and its power
and influence were Meier greater
in all history Of the world.
"The bible is the only book in
the universe that car 'ell You
whether you VIII aa zrrc1 o. ;nFt
E~e-y man hcljstcs he IS going 70
I've forever somewhere. and the
bible i4'tE hi-- vae-a
Cross Symbol NJ saliva Hon
'The cross ~ Christ EsG become
the symbol ~ salvation e all man
kind. PHILOSOPHY With all it's wis
dom. priestc-azt wish all its ter
rors. kings welding the iron DOW
ers of the world, have all united TO
try and resist and overthrow the
strange power left by the poor Gal
ilean peasant. And yet, over arm
les, over empires, over dying dyn-
asties, over persecution, over
crumbling thrones, over kings, over
queens. over presidents, over re-
publics, through rivers of fire,
through seas of blood. that power
has swept on until It has conquer
ed the world"
THE world" continued Mr.. Sum
day, "is chuck full of men and wo-
men vainly seeking everywhere
for peace and light except at the
cross of Jesus Christ. It is ap-
pointed unto men once to die. You
can't escape the judgment. If my
preaching gets too hot you can get
up and leave. If you don't like me /;
you don't need to come. Belief in !
the judgment is woven into the |
wool and the warp of our being. |
All heather nations believe in the {
judgment That is the reason that /
every nation has tried to make
plan OF salvation for themselves
by which they hope to appease the |
gods.
ct am dead sure that there |
wouldn't be an unrepentant man in !
this audience or city that would (
continue to live "a hours longer
in sin, Indifferent to his souls sal
walton. If he'd stop to think that /
every time the sun rises and sets
he is brought Just that much near
er the judgment.
Death doesn't end all AS we |
are going when we leave the world |
we will keep on going forever. 1t /
is true there is a hell. The bible !
teaches us there is a hell and that |
It Is eternal. Jesus said more |
about hell than He did about heav-
en-. Jesus said endless glory for !,
the saved, endless damnation for
the impenitent."