The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-07
BIBLE Was WRITTEN TO REVEAL GOD TO
HUMAN HEART AND CONSCIENCE But IT
IS SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE, BULGIh

CAMBRIDGE CITY, lad. Dec. -
And his hand clave under the sword,
text recorded in II Samuel, %, 10,
afforded DR. Bulgin opportunity TO de
fend the Bible in an evangelistic meet
ing here last night. He said:
These words are spoken of EleaZar,
David's mighty man, mighty IN battle
because God through him gave the
Jews victory over the whole Philistine
army When the Philisnnes had beat
en- back the Jews. Eleazar, one OF the
three generals of David's army, was
being led with others across the bat
tlefield captive. They had overpower-
ed them eighteen to one and as they
were leading them across the line,
Eleazar pulled out his sword. He
raised it over his head and cried, We
will conquer or die, and on the right
wing and on the left wing the captive
Israelites tore loose from their guards
and surrounded their leader until they
reconstructed a solid battle front.
Then they rushed against the Phi!is-
tines shouting, We will conquer or
die
But Eleazar was stricken unto
death. He was MORALLY wounded i'll
a skirmish that afternoon. They sur
rounded him and began 10 take his
sword from his hand, but it is record
ed that His hand clave unto the
sword They loosened the fingers and
when they did the thumb Shut back on
the blade and in the hour of death he
refused to be separated from the
weapon of his defense and his Sc
curity.
Tonight am going to try 20 show
this audience why Eleazac took hold Of
HIS blade and how Eleazar took hold
of that blade
Sword IS Defense
In the first place, as to how. II
is said in this good book that it was
the sword Of the spirit, it was inspired
Of God, and il was his only weapon of
Cffense. We read of armor of defense.
the helmet, the breastplate, the shield,
the girdle and the shoes, all defensive,
but in the Christian arm0r that God
gave the church there Is no defensive
piece but the sword. Go forward with
that sword.
You know it is frequently said that
every man has a right 10 think as he
pleases.
challenge that. No man has a
right to think as he pleases any more
than he has a right TO act as he
pleases. Out in Centralia. Wash,
there was q lot Of people called |. W.
VS. and they said We have a right TO
think as we please and the state of
Washington didn't bother them and
they got to thinking as they pleased
and they shot down four OF our brave
boys who had been over to France de
tending our flag against the Overrun-
ming hordes OF Germany and then we
said to them you haven't got any
right to think or act as you please, ="
and we stopped them And | tell you
the church Of God must get some
strong convictions on things vital in
religion and fundamental in the make
up of our national life and law. You
have no more right to have religious
anarchy than you have to have polite
al or social anarchy.
Scientifically Accurate.
| believe the Bible to be inspired be
cause il is scientifically accurate. Now
college students and university men
sit up and take notice. You high
school boys, you dJtlege boys, you are
the ones I want. You are going tC
mold thought in the next generation
tell you | believe the Bible TO be
scientifically accurate. and yet science
was not the purpose for which the
book was written. 1t was written tC
reveal God to the human conscience
and the human heart but wherever il
touches science its scientific state
ments are accurate-they are absolute
~ correct.
Surgical dentistry is a marvellous
science. When YOU get something the
matter with one Of your teeth you TuT
down to the dentist and he tries tC
save that little dental line to the teeth
and yet years before surgical DENTS
try was ever discovered, Job said,
am saved as by the skin of my teeth
Where did Job get that?
Now take wireless telegraph Mar
conf | crossed the ocean with hin
and he is one Of the most polite anC
lovely gentlemen | ever me-. | had ,
whole hair day in his office when h'
was installing a wireless outfit on th'
shin and in mid-Ocean We bought ;
newspaper for 25 cents with all thu
news that YOU people had here. /
that had been written up in the Bible
until it was actually discovered the,
would have said il was q big lie. LOn5
before that Nahum said: Before th'
days Of the coming man there shall b.
chariots that shall race in the street
and news flashing as if by lightning
Stick to Bible.
When you boys 90 to college don
~ some halt-baked professor in th
lame OF science influence the faiu
hat your mothers Bible has given yO