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VOV.’YB.X.
HEART YEARNING!).
My darling, if beneath the sea,
With all its waves beneath its head,
I lay, and thou should’stspeak to me,
I think that I should quit tire dead
And come to thee.
Could my lone spirit lost in space,
Hear one fond sigh thy lips had given,
I’d fly to earth for thy embrace,
Nor grieve for a relinquished heaven.
Hold buttliy hand, thy loving hand,
To me across the dark abyss.
And let me see thee waiting stand,
And back should I return to this,
From even the better lajd.
Give me the beatings of thy heart;
Give me the kisses of thy lips,
And let life’s common joys depart,
The sun go down in dark eclipse.
My dearest, earth nor cruel sea,
Nor even the boundless realms of space,
Could separate my soul from thee,
Or win me from thy fond embraee,
Did’st thou hut wish for me..
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGK
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 26 Sermons is issued every
three months. Price 30 cents, ?1 per an
num],
MENDING THE BIBLE.
If any man shall take away from the
words of the hook of this prophecy, God
shall take aw ay his part out of the hook of
life, and out of the holy city.—Revelation
xxii. 19.
Inspiration foresaw that the time
would come when there would be bur
glarious attempts to purloinpoitions of
the Bible, and one man would break in
here and another man would break in
there; and my text comes out with as
tounding emphasis and declares that
the gates of heaven will clang shut
against the entrance of all those who so
maltreat the Bible. “God shall take
away his part out of the book of
life, and out of the holy city.” Y'ou
see it is a very risky business, this
changing of the holy Sciptures.
A pulpit in New York has recently
set forth the idea that the Scriptures
ought to be expurgated, that portions
of them are unfit to be read, and the
inspiration of much of the Bible has
been denied. Among other striking
statements are these:
The Book of Genesis is a tradition of
creation, a successive lawyer of tradi
tions thought out centuries before.
Moses’ mistakes about creation were
the mistakes of his age. That there
are many systems of theology in the
New Testament. That Paul had all
the notions of the rabbinical school of
his time. That Job winds up his epi
logue in genuine fairy-tale style. That
Revelation is a long array of misshapen
progeny in the apocalyptic writing,
tracing themselves back to Daniel.
That Revelation comes to a madman,
or leaves him mad. That what he calls
the abominable lewdness of somethings
in the Old Testament is not fit to be
read. That it is an abominable misuse
of the Bible to suppose the prophecies
really foretell future events. That the
Book Daniel is not in the right place.
That Solomon’s Songs are not in the
light place; and he seems to applaud
the idea of someone who said that the
Book of Solomon’s Songs ought not to
be in anyone’s hands under 30 years of
age. He intimates he does not believe
that Sampson slew a thousand men
with the jawbone of an ass. That the
whole Bible has been improperly chop
ped up into chapters and verses.
He does not believe the beginning of
the Bible, and he does not believe the
close of it, nor anything between as ful
ly inspired of God, and he thinks the
Book ought to be expurgated, and there
arethose who re-echothe same sentiment.
In other words, it is Thomas Paine and
Robert Ingersoll in gown and bands.
But they have more excuse, because
they openly and above board declare
their infidelity, while that man stands
in a Christian pulpit assaulting the
Bible —the pulpit of an honored denom
ination in which Bishop Mcllvaine and
Archbishop Leighton and the venera
ble Stephen H. Tyng were chief apos
tles. Now, I believe in the largest lib
erty of discussion, and there are halls
and opera houses and acadamies of
music where the Bible and Christianity
may be assaulted without any interrup
tion: but when a minister of the Gos
pel surrenders the faith of any denomi
nation, his first plain, honest duty is to
getoutofit. What would you think
of the clerk in a drygoods store or a
factory or a banking house who should
go to criticising the books of the firm
and denouncing the behavior of the
firm, still taking the salary of that firm
and tbe support of that firm, and doing
all his denunciation of the books of tho
firm under its cover?
Certainly a minister of the Gospe 1
ought to be as honest with his denomi
nation as a drygoods clerk is honest
with his employers. The heinousness
of finding fault with the Bible at this
time by a Christian minister is most
evident. In our day the Bible is as
sailed by scurrility, by misrepresenta
tion, by infidel scientists, by all the
vice of earth and all the venom of per
dition, and at this particnlar time min
isters of religion fall into line of criti
cism of the word of God. Why, it
makes me think of a ship in a Septem
ber equinox, the waves dashing to tkw
top of the smoke-stack, and the hatches
fastened down, and many prophesying
the foundering pf the steamer, and at
that time some of the crew with axes
and saws go down into the hold of the
ship, and they try to saw off some of
the planks and pry out some of the tim
bers because the timber did not come
from the right forest! It does not seem
to me a commendable business for the
crew to be helping the winds and storms
outside with their axes and saws inside.
Now this old Gospel ship, what with
the roaring of earth and hell around the
stem and stern, and mutiny on deck, is
having a rough voyage; but I have no
ticed that not one of the timbers has
started, and the captain says he will
see it through; and I have noticed that
keelson and counter timber knee are
built out of Lebanon cedar, and she is
going to weather the gale, hut no cred
it to those who make mutiny on deck.
When I see ministers of religion in this
particular day finding fault with the
Scriptures, it make me think of a fore
tress terrificallybombarded, and the men
on the ramparts, instead of swabbing
out and loading the guns and helping
fetch up the ammunition from the mag
azine, are trying with crowbars to pry
out from the wall certain blocks of
stone because they did not come from
the right quarry. O! men on the ram
parts, better fight back and fight down
the common enemy instead cd trying to
make breaches in the wall.
While I oppose this expurgation of
the Scriptures, I shall give you my
reasons for such opposition. “What!”
say some of the theological evolution
ists whose brains have been addled by
too long brooding over them by Darwin
and Spencer, “You don’t now really
believe all the story of the Garden of
Eden, do you? Yes, as much as I be
lieve there were roses in my garden last
summer. “But,” say they, “you don’t
really believe that the sun and moon
stood still?” Yes, and if 1 bad strength
enough to create a sun and moon I
could make them stand still, or cause
the refraction of the sun’s rays so they
would appear so to do.”
“But,” they say, “you don’t really
believe that the whale swallowed
Jonah?” l r es, and if, I were strong
enough to make a whale, I could have
made very easy ingress for the refracto
ry prophet, leaving to evolution to eject
him if he wore an unworthy tenant!
“But,” say they, “you don’t really be
lieve that the water was turned into
wine?” Yes, just as easily as wine
now is often turned into water with an
admixture of strychnine an logwood!
“But,” say they “you don’t really be
lieve that Samson slew a thousand
with the jawbone of and ass?” Yres,
and I think that the man who in this
day assaults the Bible is wielding the
same weapon! There is nothing in the
Bible that staggers me. There are
many things I do not understand, I do
not pretend to understand, never shall
in this world understand. But that
would be a very poor God who could
be fully understood by the human.
That would be a very small Infinite
that could be measured by the finite.
You must not expect to weigh the
thunderbolts of omnipotence in an
apothecary’s balances. Starting with
the idea that God can do anythiug, and
that He was present at the begin
ing, and that He is present now, there
is nothing in the Holly Scriptures to
arouse skepticism in my heart. Here
I stand, a fossil of the ages, dug up
from the tertiary formation, fallen off
the shelf of an antiquarian, a man in
the latter part of the nineteenth century,
believing in a whole Bible from lid to
lid!
I am opposed to this expurgation of
the Scriptures, in the first place, be
cause the Bible in its present shape has
been so miraculously preserved. Fif
teen hundred years after Herodotus
wrote his history there was only one
manuscript copy of it. Twelve hun
dred years Plato wrote his book there
was only one manuscript copy of it-
God was so carefnl to have us have
the Bible in just the right shape that
we have fifty manuscript copies of the
New Testament a thousand years old,
and m any of them fifteen hundred years
old. This book handed down from the
time of Christ, or just after the time of
Christ, by the hand of such men as
Origen in the second century and Ter
tullian in the third century —men of
different ages who„died for their princi
ples. The three best copies of the New
Testament in manuscript are in the
possession of the three great churches—
the Protestant Church of England, the
Greek Church of St. Petersburg and
the Romish Church of Italy. It is a
plain matter of history that Tischen
dorf went to a convent in the peninsula
of Sinai, and was by ropes lifted over
the wall into the convent, that being
the only mode of admission; and that
he saw there in the waste basket for
kindling the fires a manuscript of the
Holy Scriptures. That night he copied
many of the pages of that Bible, but it
was not until fifteen years had passed
of earnest entreaty, and prayer, and
coaxing, and purchase on his part that
that copy of the Holy Scriptures was
pnt into the hands of the Emperor of
Russia—that one copy so marvellously
protected. Do you not know that the
catalogue of the books of the Old and
New Testaments as we have it, is the
same catalogue that has been coming
on down through the ages? Thirty
nine books of the Old Testament thou
sands of years ago. Thirty-nine now.
Twenty-seven books of the New Testa
ment sixteen hundred years ago.
Twenty-seven books of the New Testa
ment now.’ Mareion, for wickedness,
was turned ont of the church in
the second century, and in his
assault on the Bible and Christi
anity he incidentally gives a cata
logue of the books of tho Bible—that
catalogue corresponding exactly with
ours—testimony given by the enemy
of Christianity. The catalogue now
just like the catalogue then, Assaulted,
and spit on, and torn to pieces, and
burned, yet adhering. The book to
day, in three hundred languages, con
fronting four-fifths of the human race in
their own tongue. Three hundred mil
lion copies of it in existence. Does not
that look as if this Book had been
divinely protected, as if God had guard
ed it all through the centuries? Is it
not an argument plain enough to every
bonest man and every honest woman,
that a book divinely protected and in
this shape is in the very shape that
God wants it? It pleases God and it
ought to please us. The epidemics
which have swept thousands of other
books into the sepulchre of forgetful
ness, have only brightened the fame of
this. There is not one book out of a
thousand that lives five years. Any
publisher will tell you that. There
will not be more than one book out of
fifty thousand that will live a century;
yet here is a Book, much of it 1,600
years old, much of it 4,000 years old,
with more rebound and resilence and
strength in it than when the Book was
first put upon parchment or papyrus.
This Book saw the cradle of all other
books, and it will see their graves.
Would you not think that an old book
like this, some of it forty centuries old,
would come along hobbling with age
and crutches? Instead of that, more
potent than any other book oi the time.
More copies of it printed in the last ten
years than of any other book—Walter
Scott’s Waverly Novels, Macaulay’s
History of England, Disraeli’s Endym
ion and all the popular books of the
day having no such sales in the last
ten years as this old book. Do you
know what a struggle a book has in
order to get through one century or two
centuries? A lot of books during a
fire in a seraglio of Constantinople were
thrown into the street. A man with
out any education picked up one of
those books, read it, and did not see
the value of it. A scholar looked over
his shoulder and saw it was the first
and second decades of Livy, and he
offered the man a large reward if he
would bring the books to his study;
but in the excitement of the fire the two
parted, and the first and second decades
of Livy were forever lost. Pliny wrote
twenty books of history; all lost. The
most of Meander’s writings lost. Of
one hundred and thirty comedies of
Plautus, all gone but twenty. Eurip
ides wrote a hundred dramas; all gone
but nineteen. Eschylns wrote a hun
dred dramas; all gone but seven. Yar
ro wrote the laborious biographies of
seven hundred Romans; not a fragment
left. Quintilian wrote his favorite
book on the corruption of eloquence;
all lost. Thirty books of Tacitus lost.
Dion Cassius wrote eighty books; only
twenty remain. Berosius’ history all
lost. Nearly all the old books are
mummified and are lying in the toombs
of the old libraries, and perhaps once
in twenty years some man comes along
and picks up one of them and blows
the dust off, and opens it and finds it
the book he does not want. But this
old book, much of it forty centuries old,
stands to-day more discussed than any
other book, and it challenges the admi
ration of all the good, and the spite,
and the venom, and the animosity, and
the hypercriticism of earth and hell. I
appeal to your common sense of a book
so divinely guarded and protected in its
present shape must not be in just the
way that God wants it to come to us,and
if it pleases God, ought it not to please
us? Not only have all the attempts to
detract from the book failed, but all
the attempts to add to it. Many at
tempts were made to add the apocry
phal books to the Old Testament. The
Council of Trent, the Synod of Jerusa
lem, the Bishops of Hippo, all decided
that the apocryphal books must be ad
ded to the Old Testament. “They
must stay in,” said those learned men;
but they stayed out. There is not an
intelligent Christian man that to-day
will put the Book of Maccabeus or the
Book of Judith beside the Book of Isa
iah or Romans. Then a great many
said we must have books added to the
New Testament, and there were epistles
and gospels and apocalypses written
and added to the New Testament, but
they have all fallen out. You cannot
add anything. You cannot subtract
anything. Divinely protected Book in
the present shape. Let no man dare to
lay his hands with the intention of de
tracting from the Book or (fasting out
any of these holy pages.
Besides that, I am opposed to this
expurgation of the Scriptures, because
if the attempt were successful it would
be the annihilation of the Bible. In
fidel geologists would say, “Out with
the Book of Genesis;” infidel astrono
mers would say, “Out with the Book
of Joshua;” people who do not believe
in the atoning sacrifice would say,
“Out with the Book of “Leviticus;”
people who do not believe in the mira
cles would say, “Ont with all these
wonderful stories in the Old and New
Testaments;” some would say, “Out
with the Book of Revelation;” and
others say, “Out with the entire Pen
tateuch,” and the work would go on
until there would not be enough of the
Bible left to be worth as much as last
year’s almanac. The expurgation of
Scriptures means their annihilation.
And lam also opposed to this pro
posed expurgation of the Scriptures,
for the fact that in proportion as people
become self-sacrificing and good and
holy aud consecrated they like the
Book as it is I have yet to find a man
or a woman distinguished for self-sac
rifice, for consecration to God, for holi
ness of life, who wants the Bible
changed. Many of us have inherited
family Bibles. Those Bibles were in
use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps a hun
dred years in the generations. This
afternoon, when yon go home take
down those family Bibles, and find out
if there are any chapters which have
been erased bv lead pencil or pen, and
if in any margins you can find the
•vords, “This chapter is not fit to read.”
There has been plenty of opportunity
during the last half century privately
to expurgate the Bible. Do you know
any case of such expurgation? Did
not your grandfather give it to your
father, and did not your father give it
to you?
Besides that, I am opposed to the
expurgation sf the Scriptures, because
the so-called indelicacies and cruelties
of tbe Bible have demonstrated no evil
result. A cruel book will produce
cruelty—an unclean book will produce
uncleanness. Fetch me a victim. Ont
of all Christendom, and out of all tbe
ages, fetch me a victim whose heart
has been hardened to cruelty, or whose
life has been made impure by this
Book. Show me one. One of the
best families I ever knew of. for thirty
or forty years, morning and evening,
had all the members gathered together,
and the servants of the household and
the strangers that happened to he
within the gates—twice a day, without
leaving out a chapter or a verse, they
read this holy Book, morning by morn
ing, night by night. Not only the
older children, but the little child who
could just spell her way through the
verse while her mother helped her. The
father beginning and reading one
verse, and then all the members of the
family in turn reading a verse. The
father maintained his integrity, the
mother maintained her integrity, the
sons grew up and entered professions
and commercial life, honoring every
sphere in the life in which they lived,
and the daughters went into families
where Christ was honored, and all that
was good and pure and righteous
reigned perpetually. For thirty years
that family endured the Scriptures.
Not one of them ruined by it. Now, it
you will tell me of a family where the
Bible has been read twice a day for
thirty years, and the children have
been brought up in that habit, and the
father went to ruin and the mother went
to ruin, and the sons and daughters
were destroyed by it—if you will tell
me of one such incident, I will throw
away Bible, or I will doubt your verac
ity. I tell you if a man is shocked
with what he calls the indelicacies of
the Word of God, he is prurient in his
taste and imagination. If a man can
not read the book of Solomon’s Song
without impure suggestion, he is either
in his heart or in his life a libertine.
The Old Testament description of
wickedness, uncleanness of all sorts, is
purposely and righteously a disgusting
account, instead of the Byronic and the
Parisian vernacular which makes sin
attractive instead of appalling. When
those old prophets point you to a laza
retto, you understand it is a lazaret to.
When a man, having begun to do
right, falls back into wickedness and
gives up bis integrity, the Bible does
not say he was overcome by the fasci
nations of the festal board, or that he
surrendered to convivialities, or that he
became a little fast in his habits. I
will tell you what the Bible says:
“The dog is turned to his own vomit
again, and the sow that was washed to
her wallowing in the mire.” No gil
ding of iniquity. No garlands on a
death’s-head. No pounding away with
a silver mallet at iniquity, when it
needs an iron sledge-hammer. I can ea
sily understand how people brooding
over the description of uncleanness in
the Bible may get morbid in mind un
til they are as full of it as tbe wings
and the beak and the nostril and the
claw of a buzzard are full of the odors
of a carcass, but what is wanted is not
that the Bible be disinfected, but that
yon, tho critic, have your heart and
mind washed with carbolic acid! I tell
you, at this point of my dicourse, that a
man who does not like this Book, and
who is critical as to its contents, and
who is shocked and outraged with its
description, has never been soundly
converted. The laying on of the hands
of Presbytery or Episcopacy does not
change a man’s heart, and men some
times get into the pulpit, as well as in
to the pew, never having been changed
radically by the sovereign grace of
God. Get your heart right and the Bi
ble will be right. The trouble is, men’s
natures are not brought into harmony
with the word of God, Ahlmy friends,
expurgaation of the heart is what is
wanted. You cannot make me believe
that the Scriptures, which this moment
lie on the table of tho purest and the
best men and women of the age, and
which were the dying solace of your
kindred passed into the skies, have in
them a taint which the strongest mi
croscope of honest criticism could make
visible. If men are uncontrollable in
their indignation when the integrity
of wife or child is assailed, and judges
and jurors as far as possible excuse vi
olence under such provocation, what
ought to be the overwhelming and long
resounding thunders of condemnation
for any man who will stand in a
Christian pulpit and assail the more
than virgin purity of inspiration, the
well beloved daughter of God? Expur
gate the Bible! You might as well go
to the old picture galleries in Dresden
and in Venice and in Rome antTexpur
gate the old paintings. Perhaps you
could find a foot of Michael Angelo’s
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Last Judgraent that might be improv
ed. Perhaps you could throw more
expression into Raphael’s Mononda.
Perhaps you conid put more pathos in
to Rubens’ Descent from the Cross.
Perhaps you could change the crest of
the waves in Turner’s Slave Ship.
Perhaps you might go into the old
galleries of sculpture and change the
forms and the posture of the statues of
Phidiss and Praxiteles. Such an icon
oclast would very soon find himself in
the penitentiary. But it is worse van
dalism when a man proposes to re
fashion these masterpieces of inspira
tion and to remodel the moral giants
of this gallery of God.
Now, let ns divide off. Let those
people who do not believe the Bible,
and who are critical of this and that
part of it, go clear over to the other
side. Let them stand behind the devil’s
guns. There can be no compromise
between Infidelity and Christianity.
Give us the out-and-out oppesition of
Infidelity rather than the work of these
hybrid theologians, these mongrel ec
clesiactics, these half-and-halfevolwed
pulpiters who believe the Bible and do
not believe it, who accept the miracles
and do not accept them, who believe
in the inspiration of the Scriptures and
do not beiieve in tbe inspiration of the
Scriptures—trimming their belief on
one side to suit the skepticism of the
world, trimming tbeir belief on the
other side to suit the pride of their own
heart, and feeling that in order to dem
onstrate their courage thev must, make
the Bible a target and shoot at God.
There is one thing that encourages me
very much, and that is, that the Lord
made out to manage the universe be
fore they were born, and will probably
be able to make out to manage the uni
verse a little while after they are dead.
While I demand that the antagonists
of and tbe critics of the Bible
go clear over where they belong,-on the
devil’s side, I ask that all the friends
of this good Book come out openly and
aboveboard in behalf of it; that Book,
which was the best inheritance you
ever received from your ancestry, and
which will l>e the best legacy you will
leave to your children when v n I i.i
them good-by as you cross the t. n \ . .
the golden city. Young men, do not
be ashamed of your Bible There is
not a virtue commands, there i
not a sorrow but it comforts, rhere is
not a good law on the statue book of
any country but it is founded on the-e
Ten Commandments. There are no
braver, grander people in ail the earth
than the heroes and the heroines which
it biographizes. Long life ihe Rile
—King of Books! Hands ■ ff. w. h t pe.
critics of this Kohinoor am iu ci v.
jewels.
Last Tuesday noon I was stamen as
I saw on tbe bulletin the announcement
of Gustave Dore’s departure. “Is it
possible that that hand has forgotten
its cunning?” “Of ail the works of
that great artist there is nothing so im
pressive as Dore’s illustrated Bible.
What scene of Abrahantic faith or
Edenic beauty, of dominion Davidic or
Solomonic, of miracle or parable, of na
tivity, or of crucifiction, or of last judg
ment, but tbe thought leaped from the
great brain to the skillful pencil, and
from the skillful pencil to the canvas
immortal. The Louvre, the Luxem
bourg, the National Gallery of London
compressed within two volumes of
Dore’s illustrated Bible. But the Bible
will come to better illustration than
that, my friends, when all the deserts
have become gardens, and all the ar
mories have become academies, and all
the lakes have become Genessarets with
Christ walking them, and all the cities
have become Jerusalems with hovering
shekinah, and the two hemispheres
shall he clapping cymbals of divine
praise, and the round earth a footlight
to Emanuel s throne—that,to all land s,
and all ages, and centuries, and cycles,
will be the best specimen of Bible il
lustrated.
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