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•R EV. DR. TA LM AG B
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The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject : Th* But or A2I Bocks—Tlio
Hltile’s Divine Origin Uphold— Ful
filled Prophecies ol the Old Teituuieng 1
Prave Its Kmaimtlou Jfroai Qjd
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Washington, D C.-In the great cod
f-iert now ragina-in Christianity Europe, as in this coa*
try, between and deeiJed aenosheian,
Dr Jnlrrmgc has taken a stana
and in tins sermon declares his un waver
im-M- VTe’i ‘text MaJhew *3%°* ‘•li ^ ^ am
g,i|bt i oi inoina.
Not m 11 ns country Not in any coun
try. ihorns stick, thorns lacerate, out
nil the thorns Catawba put together Isabella never yielded
one cluster ot or grapes.
Diimt who was the master of apt and po
tent illustration, is thus setting forth what
vou and 1 well know—that you cannot get.
that which that is Pleasant tahch and had healthful If anil
good round, front large, beautiful is cluster of you find
a tliat, it produced by grapes,
you know was a good
grapevine, and not from 1 a tangle show of Gan
uda thistle. Now. yields u good can vou that
ters Holy Bible fruit, healthful
fruit, grand fruit, conclusion splendid it fruit, gor.l you Bible, will
come to the is a
and all the arguments of the skeptic
against it when he.tne# to show 'ts» bad
book, will go overboard.
Do men gather grspea of thorns? Can
a igid took yield good declare results? that Skeptics
with gnat vehemence the »i
ble is a cruel book, lhey read the story
■oi the extermination ot the Canaaniios
anil oi ail the ancient wars and of the h's
tory of David and Joshua, and they come
to th£ conclusion that the Bible is in fa
vor of laceration and manslaughter and
massacre. Now, a bad book will produce
a bed result, a cruel book will produce a
•cruel result.
You have friends who have been in the
habit of reading the Bible a great many
years. Have you noticed a tendency to
cruelty on their part? Have you ever
heard any of them come out and practi
cally say, "1 have been reading the story
about the extermination of the Canaanites
nnd I am seized upon with a disposition
to cut and slash and maul and pinch and
murder and knock to pieces everything I
■can lay my hands on?*’ Have your friends
in proportion and as they disciples become of the diligent Christ Bi- of
ble students
the Bible, shown a tendency toward mas
sacre and murder and manslaughter? Has
that been your observation?
What has been the effect upon your chil
<lren of this cruel book? Or, if you do not
allow the book to be read in your house
hold, what has been the effect upon the
children of other households where the
Word of God is honored? Have they as a
result of reading this cruel book gone
forth with a cruel spirit grasshoppers to pull the and wings
off dies birds’ and nests? to pinion A cruel book ought to
rob to
make cruel people- if they diligently read
it and get absorbed with its effect. principles At what that
cause must produce that
time did you notice that the teachings of
this Holy Bible created cruelty Peabody, in the of heart Miss
and the life of George
Dix, of Florence John Nightingale, Frederick Oberlin, of John of
Howard, of noticed
Abbot Laurence? Have you in
reading the biography of these people that
in proportion as they became friends of
the Bible they became enemies to human
ity? Have you not, on the contrary, no
ticed that all the institutions established, of mercy
were established, or, being friends of
were book? chiefly There supported is the by hospital the in
this war
time. There are twenty Christian women,
They are binding up wounds, they down are of- by
ferjng cordials, they are their kneeling departing spir
the dying, Where praying does for the cruelty out?
its. reading crop
They have been the Bible all their
lives. They read it every morning; under they
read it every night: they carry it
tlieir arm when they'go into and the hospital. vehe
Again, infidels go on most
mently charge that this Bible is an impure book
book. You all know that an impure
produces impure results. No amount of
monev could hire you to allow your child
to read an unclear, book. Now, if this Bi
ble be ah impure book, where are the vie
time? Your father read it-did it make
him a bad man? Your mother read it
did it make her a bail woman? Your sis
ter fifteen years in heaven died in the
faith of this gospel—did it despoil her na
ture? Some say there are 200,000,000 there cop
iss of the Bible m existence; of some Bible. say It is
are 400.000,000 copies the
impossible to give the accurate statistics.
But suppose there are 200,000,000 conies of
the Bible abroad, this one book read more
than any twenty books that the world
ever printed, this book abroad for ages,
for ages, tor centuries—where are the vie
timsf Show me 1000 ; show me 500 vie- de
tims of an impure book; show me 100
spoiled of the Bible; show me fifty; show
me ten; show me two; show me one. Two
hundred million copies of an impure book,
and not one victim of tne impurity. On
the contrary, you know very well that it is
where the Bible has the most power that
the family institution is most respected. and
Again, agnostics go on still further,
they say the Bible is a mass of contradic
tious, and they put prophet against pro
phet, tie evangelist against and they gvangelist, if this apos- be
true against how, apostle, then, that be say true. Mr.
can said
Miil, who was a friend of the Bible,
he had discovered 30,000 different read
ings of the Scriptures and yet not one im
portant difference out of 30,000, only the
difference that you hiiglit expect from, the
fact that the book came down from gener
tition to generation, and was copied before by a
great many hands. And yet I put
you this fact to-day—that all the Bible
writers agree in the four great doctrines of
the Bible.
What are these four great doctrines?
God—good, nipotent. Man—a kind, patient, lost sinner. just, loving, Two desti- om
nies—one for believers, the other for un
believers. All who accept Christ destroyed reaching
that, home and only those who
destroy themselves, only those who turn
their back upon Christ and come to the
precipice and jump off, for God never
pushes a man off; lie jumps off. all Now,
in these four great doctrines the
Bible writers agree. Mozart, Beethoven,
Handel, Hadyn, never wrote more harnio
nious music than you will find in this per
fect harmony of the Word of God, the liar
mony You in providence remember and also in grace. that the
must different au
thors of the Bible came from
lands, from different ages and from dif
feremt centuries. They had no communiea
tion with each other, they did not have an
idea as to what was the chief design of the
Bible, and vet their writings, got up from
all these different ages and ail these dif
ferent centuries, coming together, make a
perfect harmony in the opinion oi the
very best scholars of all lands. Is not that
a most remarkable fact? that
Again, infidels vehemently charge In
the Bible is an unscientific book. a
former discourse I showed you that there
was no collision between science and reve
lation, and 1 went from point to point in
the diacuaddn. But-now let us have au
thority'in^ give Jbrty this matter. Yon sixty and 1 cannot e.xclu
the dr hitv or year*
sivdy ttr the studv of science that some
men‘give. Let us have authority in this
matter. between
Who savs there is a collision
science and revelation? Well, Herbert
ffpencer, Tyndall, Darwin. They say there
is a discoid between science and revela
tion. But 1 will bring von names of men
who 'have found a perfect accord between
science and revelation, men as much high
er in intellectual character above those
whom I have mentioned as the Alps and
Mount Washington and the Himalayas
are higher than the hill back of your house,
Hersehel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Ross, Isaac
Newton. My fries?-, we are ia res pec La-
Metompuiy when we believe in the Word
ot God—very respectable company.
I.ow, I might, as infidels have failed to
fi tju 0V Bible o i^ at is - t au le D'*'!® immire i« look; » cruel that book, the that fti
ne is s. contradictory unscientific book—I book, that the Bi
u au might mov
r. conmnt in this case ot Infidelity, t-tie
'J a it, * u hut “■ I will Christianity, take advantage the defend
not cf the
4’rcumstaiieos, for when the skeptic goes
to say that we are a gullible people,
_l '-‘* n ’} e 8 °cs to hr often does,
on sny, as
, liW'belfea WhS’S JSl
not e we Bible S
on to say that the is r.i ide un h’
lot of -
and another manuscript., one picked im
other there, and another from me
place, and tliat the whole ofth^-.u thing is
«® the credulity
"Ty/'Nvn Ihe Bible must is made un t0 of that the charge. Old ^IVsta
ment and the New Testament. Let us
take the New Testament first Why do 1
believe it? Why do 1 take it to inr heart*
It is because it can be traced bac’ to the
divine I,cart just as easily as that aisle can
be traced to that door and that aisle to
that door.
Jerome and Eusebius in the first century
and Oritren in the second centurv and
other writers in the third and fourth oen
tunes gave a list of the New Testament
writers just exactly corresponding with
our tament list, which showing that the same New Tes
wo have tliev haci in the
fourth centurv, and the third centurv nnd
the second century and tlie first century
But where did they vet the New Testiv
ment? They got it from Ireimeus Where
did Irenaeus get it? He got it from Poly
carp. Where did l'olyearp get it? Ho got
it from St. John, who was the nersonal »s
sociate of the Lord -Tesu* Christ Mr
grandfather gave a book to my father, my
gave it to me, I give it to mr child Is
there any difficulty in tracing this line?
On communion day I will start the cha
lice at that end of the aisle, and the cha
lice will mss along to the other end of the
aisle. Will it be difficult to trace the line
of that holy chalice? No difficulty at ad
This one will say. “I save it to tliat one,”
and this one will say, "I gave it to that
one.” But it will not be so long a line es
this to trace the New Testament. It is
easier to get ft the fact. But you say:
‘‘Although that who this knows was handed but they right* down lying in
war, were
imposters? They How can you take their testo
mony?” book, died for the truth of that
lion never die for a lie cheerfully
and triumphantly. They were not Wing
impostors. They died in triumph, for'the
truth of that New Testament,
“Well,” believe says some the one. "now I am ready is
to that New Testament
from the heart of Christ, but how about
the Old Testament? Why do you believe
that?" I believe the Old Testament be
cause the prophecies foretold events hnn
dreds and thousands of years ahead
events which afterward took place. How
far can you see ahead? Two thousand
years? Can you see ahead a hundredyears? No,
Can you see ahead five minutes? no.
Human prophecy amounts to nothing,
Here these old prophets stood thousands
°f years back, and they foretold events
which came accurately true far on in ttio
future centuries. Suppose I should stand
here and and say to you, “Twenty-five three hundred
half sixty years from city now. there miles anil
a from the of Moscow will
he an advent, and it will lie in a certain
family, and it will be amid certain sur
roundings. because ’ It would know make no I impression fore
upon you, you cannot
se ? a thousand years or one year or one
minute, and 1 cannot tell-what is going to
transpire in a land far away. But that is
what these old did.
{ 011 must remember tliat Tyre and
Babylon _ and Nineveh wore in full pomp
a pn splendor prophecies, when said these they prophecies, would be these de
°*d
stroved, those cities had architecture that
makes the houses of modern cities per
fectly insignificant. Yet these old pro
phets walked right through those magmfi
cent streets and said, "This has all got to
come down: this is all going to be leveled.”
Besides that, you must remember that
this book has been under fire for centu
ijes, and alter all the bombardment of the
skeptms ot all the centuries they have not
knocked out of this Bible a piece as large
J® the small end of a sharp needle. Oh,
bow the old book sticks together,
Unsanctified geologists try to they pull do away
the book oi Genesis. They say not
believe it. It cannot be there was light
before the sun shone, it cannot be all this
story about Adam and Eve, and they pull
at the book ot Genesis, while, and they where have been the
pulling book of a Genesis, great fetanding yet just •where is it
stood all the time. There in not a man on
earth who has ever - ^ed it from his Bl
bit 1 ,
And so tho infidels have been trying Jho
pull away the miracles, pulling away at the
blasted fig tree, at the turning oi the
water into wine, at the raising oi Lazarus
from the dead. Can you show me a Bible
from which one of these miracles has been
erased?
How marvelously the old book sticks to
gether! All the striking at tuese chapters
only driving them in deeper until they are
clinched on the other side with the haui
mers of eternity. going keep right
And the book is to on
until the fires of the last day are kindled,
Hone oi them will begin on one side and
some on the other side of the old book,
They will not find a bundle of loose inaou
scripts easily consumed by the fire,
When the fires of 1 last-day are kin
died, some will -urh on this side, from will
Genesis toward Revelation, and others
burn on this side, from Revelation toward
Genesis, and in all their way they will not
find a single chapter or a single verse out
of place. That will be the first tome we
can afford to do without the Bibrn.
What will be the use of the book of Den
esis, descriptive of how the world was
made, when the world is destroys? \\ hat
will be the use of the prophecies when they
are all fulfilled? What will be the use of
the evangelistic or Famine description of
Jesus Const when we s' • Him face to face?
But I do not think we will give up the
Bible even at that time, i unnk we will
want the Bible in heaven. I really think
the fires of the last day will not consume
the last copy, for when you and 1 get our
dead children out of tne dust we want to
show them just the passages, just the
promises, which comforted us here in the
dark day of interment, and we will want
to talk over with Christians who have had
trials and struggles, and we will want to
show them the promises that especially re
freshed us. I think wo shad have the In
ble in heaven. David with his .
Oh, I want to hear shepherd; own
voice read, "The Lord is my
I want to bear Paul with his own voice
read, “Thanks be unto God that giveth us
the victory; ’ 1 want to hear the archangel
play Paul’s march ot the resurrection
with the same trumpet with which he
awoke the dead! O blessed book, good
enough for earth, good enough tor heaven,
Dear old book—hook bespattered with
the blood of martyrs who died lor iLs de
tense, book sprinkled all over with the
teurs of those who by it were comforted.
Put it in the hands ot your children on
their birthday; put it on the tame in the
sitting room when you begin to keep
house; put it under your head when you
(lie. Dear old book. 1 press it t* my
heart; I press shall it I to go.' my smd lips. dying Hindoo .
“W here to a whom he had
t* the Brahmitic priest for his salvation,
given money to pray
"Where shrill 1 go after 1 die. ino
Brahmitic priest said, “You will hrst of iiU
go into a holy quadruped. Gut, said
the dying Hindoo, “where shall 1 go then
shall into singing bird, ,
“Then you go a
“But, said the dying Hindoo, ' ' ,
then snail 1 go. "Jhen. said the Brah
mitie, “you will go into' a beautiful flou
er.” The dying Hindoo threw up his arms
in an agony ot solicitation as tle *aid. Gut
where shall I go last of all • 1 hank God
this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells yon, t-lls
me. not where 1 s.iall go to-dav, not where
1 shall go to-morrow, not where 1 shall go
next year, tut where I snail go fast of afU
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What to Feed the Calf.
If the calf is destined for beef, feed
it liberally and have it ready to sell
another winter as baby beef. Give
grain and good sound grain twice a
day, only being careful not to increase
the daily ration too rapidly, and not to
overfeed at any time. It will pay to
feed some grain next summer at least
once a day, and it Is best at night, even
while on grass, and while it may not
eat much while pastures are good, as
soon as they fail Increase the grain,
and we think corn meal is the best
and cheapest fattening food.
But for the calf that Is to be a dairy
cow avoid corn meal. Use bran or oats
or a mixture of them. Never let it
get either fat or lean, but try to keep
up what we could call In a horse or
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turn her feed into fat Instead of
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Rest Was Denied Him.
Hts book had been published and
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“Now,” they said, “you will bo cn
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“Alas, no!” be replied. “J find that
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as to my habits and mode of Bfe, and
it t j KJfefore opcomes necessary for MC
to develop some peculiarities! and eo
centrWties and practice them aasidu
° ,,siy ,n f>r(i< ' r that 1 may n– * pKove a
disappointment.”
Mors Important.
He—Before I projiosed to any girl I
should want to feel sure of myeeH.
Sbe—Better be sure of the girl.—Life.
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