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 THE CLAH of the bible to be the %m OF GOD 
 • TESTED AIID yiHDICATED. 
 
 u » L ! •"** **"• *^*'""' Hn» «' »h« Atiarh of iinMt«v«r«. \To t>«li«vflt» 
 II A ^'''*'*" Mil* •iu««. •r«c<«(l III ih« F«»f um t.f ih« agas, tbwarti which 
 
 BB4l CliiltJ and of ih« |ir«c:i<i..« < .o«|>«t<4 our Li.ril Jaada, Iha Hibl^ la ib« can 
 lr«l iMiini o« aiiarli, twcaiiaa II la Iha var/ caalrai part »l Iha forlraaa of our 
 l»llh--all alM bdl pirUiiM tu lb« Mtfroundlni. cirQiiinvailallnK oiilwiirlia 
 
 but to una»naMlh9\mi9 ia to atrilia our fallh al ll. canlra. ..ul ihara. 
 mtt. M lb* confltcta ol iha a^aa |iow hoi an<i ilff«|i«iraia, Iha alUck 
 Mcnmaa mora ami mora <i«l«rinin««l upon lh« Wor«i oi (;<mI. It aaauta to 
 ma thai. «ii Ihaaatlaya aa|iaclall)r, wa (^hohl Iha aneriiy and. I ragral to 
 My. aoiiia who by ihair iirufaaaion aa diacinlaa mi«hl tia aa|.aclad lo h« it* 
 iriaiida-inaa-log. diraclly or Indlraclly, Ihair aniira forcfa aiialnal Iha Word 
 ol <,od. Now. yoii will nollco In Iha lan«uaK« of ihia t^aolulion that ihara 
 •"• »'*',•» *"«Oll» <0 which vour altantlon ia maiply callad. in Iha Aral placa. 
 I i" i * "J*'"* '•'•"W h«ra lor Iha llihia ; and lii Iha a«< <in<i niaca Ihia 
 claim la to b« vindicUdUn iha Hilila. The claim thai la ladicalad ia, in 
 Ilia Aral place. Ihal ll la ihe W.ird of <;«kI. /Mr ixttlUnct, in a uniqiia and 
 orifuial aana», the Wor<l of (iod ; and aacondiy, Ihal it ia Iha Kav«|alion 
 of «na (^oaoel^aiKl ihirdly. Ihal it ia Iha book of a Paraon-lha Lord 
 *^*^^i: '"•°' •• •" '•'• viodicailoo, I ahall undertake, if the lima 
 
 rftUtfWI. to ehow that, tried by three leata mainly, it vindiralaa iIm auaual 
 claim. In th« flrat place, the teat of Tim* , in Ihe aecond place.' the laat 
 of Truth ; arid in Ihe third place, the teat of Lift. 
 It la qiiila potaible that, apeakint aa I do, eatemporaneoualy. I may ao 
 dwell qn the former propoaitioti that I may not have time properly to 
 diaouaa the other portion, but I ahall hope to b« guided by a Hinhar 
 Wladom in eapatialinf upon theae heada of diacourae that 1 hava indicated- 
 Now, in the flrat place, let ua look at the au«uat claim which Ihe Bible 
 ?^ J "**.., J'" "••"• " ** pre-emioenlly and id a aenne aolely the Word of 
 God. What ia a word ? A word ia simply the incarnation of thought In 
 human language. Every word, therefore, tuggaata to na two thinga. an 
 idea or concaptioQ. and a vabicU or eipraaaion. The Hible la the Word 
 of Cod in thia dodble aanae; there ia th« concaption of God. baek of it, 
 and there ialba aipreaaion of that conception in it. And theae two tbinga 
 an iai^anibly \x>oaaoted. Yiau caoj^ot diaaociate conception from 
 
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 (lirtictiim which lh« Mat.nr. i.l.« i- iT- ' ^f ** *** «h««t« »h« •n(ir« 
 
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 caaaa for ali«<iliila and Anal aditidlralion. t ha lima iia«<l la ba whan man 
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 arara iirvantad. Ihao ckroiiomalara by arhUih wa(cb4a Wllf hi ba rjagulalad ( 
 b«l whan you want lo ragulala y.>ur chrooomalara yi»u muat laka (i<i4'a 
 ekMb of Iha agaa. and vou muti aracl yoar Iranall inalrumanf. and waleb 
 arban Iha aun croaaaa Ilia tnarldian, fnr durlnn all Ihouaand yaara Iha aun 
 baa navar fallad l<i coma lo hia marldlan |Mtinl iiv Iha Uuiaaaudlh part of 
 a aaoond of lima, <lay aflar day Aii<l |u«l a<i. wharavar avan rotiatianca 
 attan an unrartalii tonpd, or givaa a doulilliil vardlcl ; wharavar Iha tool' 
 mon aanaa of mankind, or Iha maiaiaNii famim»tmi Chrttii*mormm, Iha coQ- 
 4Woaua of Chriallan dlarlplaa-whlcb may ba by no maana Infalllbla vartaa 
 4M oorract our human walobaa by Gml'a unchariKaabla clock dial, far 
 •omahow, my daar fiianda. n«)thlnc tt««ii«alh Iha alara runa aaaclly ri||hl. 
 Tba Hibia ta CmikI* Aual Cotirl of Ap|Mi4|. Wa coma lo il to r<irracl Iha 
 vaiialian of our human coiii|>aaaaa and i|ialarniiiia praciaaly Iha lina <tl 
 41ra«tion 10 ail lliini(a that iMnlaio b<jlh to doclrina and praclira. 
 
 And than Iha Word of ifod aata up an angual claim to baing Iha ona 
 and only ravalation of Iha Goanal. That la bacauaa, for our aalvalion, wa 
 •baolutaly naad a r«fvalatioa. Wa ahoald hava known nothinx aboal aal- 
 vatloo but for tha Qibla. Thaaa ara old IhouihIa— I pratend to brioi 
 iSothing naw to you to-nlKht, thouich I bopa to ba abia to aal aoma old 
 Ahoughla hafora you In aoiiia naw lighta ; and I t>aa you to nolica that wa 
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 • nt^ratam of tht^civltiiad and antiKhtaned naHoaa revnfvra aboiit tha 
 
 Wordf of (;<id and two thirda of it navitr could hava aiiatad ia ita 
 
 f>raaaiit form, If U had uo» baao for tha Word of God. Tha apploKatIo 
 itaratura that cryatalluaa aliout llui Wor«Kof (iod ia vary lartfa. but tha 
 litaratura that atlacka tha Word of God ia atill l«r«ar. and vliiwad from 
 tha broXd foundation of coinnKin-aanMi and reaaoh tha aaaaulta on tha 
 BIbIa ara aa graal a viifQIoatlon of Ua divioa orixin at the duciiinanta 
 daffliidinK it. I tall you. my friaiida, that men do not worry them- 
 aalva* IwalihK down a man of atraw ; it ia the ai^bstantial valua of tha 
 Word of (iod. it la itn impori«halila excellence, thatmakta it an object to 
 iaaault it a>id tindurmiiio the conAdenca of people in it ; but after all thaia 
 oanturiet of atrifr, after all thaaa millanoiuma of oppoaition, the Hible haa 
 mora adiiaranta today in ttia world than it aver had. and mora devoted 
 and aarneat baliavara that would go to tha ataka fur tha aaka of it. than 
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 Again I hex you to n iticn that tha Bibia haa baen trial by the taat of 
 Truth. I think ona of the inont mm irlable thinKit about the Hible ia thii 
 oonniateiTcy with all truth ; wnd I wUh. Mr. Chairman, I was at the be- 
 
 (inning of my apeech now, and could hava tha whole evening before ma. 
 would like to meet the acientiata— m-callad -with rogaril to their afftrm- 
 ationa that the ilibla ia hopela«slv in antagonism with modern ai^iencf. 
 The glofy ot thia bojk ia its truthrilna<«!i aa to God and m<in and nature. 
 Now. if there la one teat which, boinif applied to the W.ird of Gi)d, might 
 ba auppoaad prHsumably to be a teat that could not bo Huccofnifully applied. 
 it ia the acientiAc. And here I want to aav, with«nit p etendin{ to being 
 k acieuti«t, that after having atudiud the Word of God on the one hand 
 for thirty yaari. and natural sciencd on the other hand, C challeif:{e any 
 one m in to briu< a single oitabliihed fact of modern acience against which 
 the Bible h<ip<jle<sly militates. Njw. let ua romombor that this Bible ia 
 tha oldest book, hence it might reasonably bo aupposod that the errors 
 ^, which obtainedip ancient diy* would certainly hav» fo ind their way into 
 it, as thoy found thoir way into evory other book. Wlut w*s known about 
 all these sciences when M ises bo<an to write ? Supposing, according to 
 i>ne discovery oX*|iU|jUer criticism. * the Bible did originate in later times, 
 and not in the tiht^s ascribed to it. even than these sciences were not 
 ^der«tood. How is^,it that not an error has crept into this Bible i» Nowf 
 let me stop to define. I do not aay there ia no language adapted to 
 
 fjopuiar apprehension which comes into the Bible, that there is no popular 
 an,'i|age that find* its way there ; but we have the same thing in modern 
 ^ cafnversation. I sat down with a gentleman of high aoientiAc attainmibnts, 
 who said that ho wont up the\Alp$ to see the aun rise. The sun did not 
 ri«e, the horizon wanj^wn; the sun never arose and never aet, the earth 
 aimply revolved on ittWExis, WeHrnosv. if ^e use in common talk, what is 
 incorrect scientifically, but is justified by popular usage, may not the 
 Bible do the aamos^hin 4 ? We spo.iik of dew as being distilled in the far 
 oti 4»pths of h|»itven. w^beroas wo know that dew is nothing but atmonphere 
 giving lip vapniir, depo^ttt *(( moiiatare at the touch of a cooler surface, as 
 the ice pitcher in the° dining-room condenses and cpllects the drops from 
 the air; thepitpher is making dew. that ia all. ^t is not coming from very 
 far off, either. Thfese are simple instances of popular language, and find 
 thoit way into the Bible as a matter of course ; but they do not contradict . 
 aqiance -they have nothing to do with science. The Bible is not a 
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 ham.n .p«ich thit .r« m « K Ijd flJ.?Kl**"'^.f•" •>• wl-cfd from 
 •oi«..nHc l4rlH in «dv.„c«. they nur-ic?,m „ I V ?** '*'!^""* «>"««'»•*"« 
 f.ct. when di.covered. (t ^ould wimXt .h^MfK ''?'"''•' 'r'' '" '"^'""<*«"^ 
 b« done by the writer, of the B?hU l.. »V ^■*. ' "''','""* *^'"< •»'■« c..u|d 
 •clence. ft .. the vin^^^.S^^VlVh^^^^ 
 
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 •bov 0, w.. a .olid coicv ^f net. Tnd \^ '"»r* I'*'* '^^ ^•"'">'«' 
 that concave, and that it revoked 1hdlnrn..?V /,''• '**" ^^^^ «"»! «" 
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 oloaeat word to e.nrew. in the m inrjf li« /r«„.l '?'"' '^il''*^'*' '» *^»" «''• 
 "rakya." hnt the Hebrew worrl .n«l!. i Z?'^'*'"'""' **'" "-Hirew word 
 Orm/by. McKnigh". MSrheS or .M.e of v\?^ "'Vj.-!*. " had Mow been 
 Bri.iah Empire, like Ru-re or Zr./h-l ' 5'*"'**'I'."'''^"*^'^^ '" 'he 
 * word that would more Tcnira'olvo?o^^^^^^^ coq <J Wt have chown 
 
 to men. that there i. Hi'.nply 1',, „Z "/;?:' '^^"^ fact.xthen unknown 
 earth. ' ' " "faiut of space between the stars and the 
 
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 I and tree; then the creation 07^2; friJ ''i'" '^°?"' "^ P'*"»' »>«'f»> 
 Ju.t exactly /*^/ ori,r d,M»a Moses folTnw In .?" !««'•«■ «yP«» up to man. 
 is the only ancient book that tXhUnr I "'" "'" "''?*'^'' ^^y* -"d hi. 
 noniense.' If I t^ke the old Ea,t Vdi^r''^^^^^ *'"•"' "«» '«*«»> 
 
 cosmogony! fimf there ? I will JiL*?^ .„ "'*'"' ''^V ^" "»« •y«<«ni of 
 
 •' A«ei/qpGn ago" aeo thU «/r»h i '° y?"'."" ""*'"'y " ' can : 
 .torinT^flat tria,K.lar% tro,UnX'!>i^^, ".^'J '"•''• '"--•" 
 their taiU turned out I And the olooha^f. *'"' '""**• ^^ •'•Phants with 
 
 tor..,ise.and the tortoUe rested uSon'EScS I o^/^'^^P^'V"^ "P''" » «-•«•* 
 restod «.pon-nobo<ly knows what r Th-.l? i '^*'** «nako..md the snake 
 it with ivloso,' subliYe account otcreahS; W^l '*'" T^?''^"'T <^"'»P«'-«» 
 »o Kuided Moses that he shouUl not use i .m.U . ''°" ^''":"'' *','"' '* *" '^at 
 of the ..X days of the creat on tha XoM n«» T"'*"^'"^"*''" his account 
 coveries of modem science C,„paraXve?n»f« *"°'"''*"t ^'"h the dis- 
 last two hundred years, that th^Sr nf «? . '*'"^''n"'''»*" «''*h"n the 
 to a higher. It bigan w th the fi^h fL 9reat on was from a lower type 
 spinal cord (which il TcceDted a»'/h- P/°P?'-"pn.of whose brain to tCe 
 came the rejtiles. two and a h^U*^ standard) is two to one. Then 
 
 then mamma?;;fourtooJSind then?oS^^^^^ *^''- H't'' **'^«« »° o"*" 
 as his rafto. Absolutely Moses' or.h,r i wk** T*" V'^ thirty-three to one 
 anatomy ? Who can account fnrlh • ^,*'° ^V^^^ Moses comparative 
 Well. I can only gUncH his sUiict*"*!? f "** '^r?-^''^"'""*''« ' 
 you-buc I have to^ud,ed JuTt rapidly in Llew SfMIe*^!^*''^ *?'"y'°« 
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 i;«rni o( the mifhiy otk, y«t to b« gniwn and aipandad in lim«. Mara, 
 or inalancfl, ia aairnnumy. Nuw. wa raad in Jeraiiiiali (t|*t "the 
 boala of haavau cannot t>« numbered," even aa "the aand upon the 
 aeaahore cannot \m metaured." Well nuw, nnopla iniKhl have aald 
 that wa» a poetii; eiagKeratiun, tmt it ia a conaiunrabia exaKveratioa evea 
 for a poet, t>eoau<««, when liipparchiia made hia aatimate.oi the numb«r 
 of the atara, he counted and c italuKued them, and it waa dune alao aflar 
 hia day, it waa found that tt^pre were about j,iio in the entire concave of 
 Heaven, that could be counted. Well, if Jeremiah underatood the aiinple 
 priuciplea of arithmetic, he could aurely count j.ijo? He cou^d hardly 
 aay they wore <|uite aa countloa* aa the aanda ol the kflaahoia ? Hut whon 
 Galileo turned hia telescope to Heaven, hn found it to l>e no poetic iinaai- 
 nation or exagxeraliun. for when that rude braxen tulMS waa turned to the 
 ■tara it began to be aeen that they were cuunlloaa, -but when Lord Roaae 
 turned hia great reflector to the atara four hundred milliona liecame viaibia 
 and countable, and when Herachel bexkn, from the foot pf the dark con- 
 tioant, to explore, he found the Milky Way, that atrotchea ita white banner 
 acroaa the Armament, compriaed aimply milliuna upon milliona of atart, 
 thai atand like cuuntleaa warriora in aerried ranka mualored au cluaely 
 that only the li^ht that flaahaa from. their ailver helmota reachea our eyeat 
 Who taught Jeremiah aatronomy ? Who led him to uae poetic phraaeology, 
 that exactly accommodatea the facta of modern acience, thuiiKh those facts 
 were not discovered until thouaands of years after ? Still take another 
 example, tiere are the mysteries of optics. Now, I suppose, amongnt the 
 last discoveries of science are (he facts with regard to light. Let me 
 repeat, just for the sake of argument. You take a rwl, and auapend it in 
 the air. and start it vibrating, and it will give forth aounda, going from the 
 loweat to the highest, but when they become so rapid that the vibration 
 can no longer be represented in sound, the vibration passes to colour, 
 through the whole order ol the colours of the spectrum, and when it can 
 DO longer be represented by colour, it becomes—LioHT I So that light If 
 really music. Did yo«i ever think of it ? And the reason we do not hear 
 the music in the light is because our senses are not attuned to those high 
 Tibrations. The lowest we can hear in the scale is i6i vibrations to the 
 lecond, and the highest wo can hear is 38,000 to the second, and when it 
 
 {[ets beyond 38,000 we cannot discover #as sound vibration, but il reveals 
 tself to us in colour, and then in light. Now, do not you see that light is 
 vibration, movement, motion, akin to music ? Let us turn to the Holy 
 Word, I could give you a doxen passages, let us take two—" The morning 
 •tars sang together." It took a good deiil of intrepidity on the part of 
 our translators, td translate the Hebrew word " ranan," which means to 
 vibrate with a musical motion, '« sang," but it absolutely expresses the fact, 
 and to the ear of God the morning stars are ^iogine. " Thou makest the 
 outgoing of the morpitig and evening to ujoiu:' It is the same Hebrew 
 word, to give forth tremulous vibrations, like a musical instrument. 
 "Thou makest the oatgoiag of the morning and evening to vibrate 
 musically." Who taught the prophets and psalmist to use language 
 which exactly accommodates itself to 'modem discoveries, made within 
 the last thirty-five years, that light is like music, a form of vibrating 
 motion ? Compare also Psalm xix., where light and sound are strongly 
 usociated. 
 
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 tw«Ulh chapter of Ecclesiastes : "Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the 
 
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 the common focal centre in Sh ?k. • '^*''*' °"'y »» wait untifwe Mt* 
 picture, will come into hirmony ^Tl' T' '""^ ^^oincideVandtlTe 
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 what l^««iil tn Rooiftn d«y« for |i«opU to iiwmi un<1«r lh« yrkn. why th«ii 
 b« •imply Mt thani to work »l lima kiln*. dr»wiu« h*rrow«, ciitUn* «luwa 
 lra«» •n.l u«ing ••*•; quit* difTaraol. U it not ? Hut U U ••toaUhlng Jo 
 tM how fiaK«r aom* pmtpU arn lo gat a that againat tha Bibla. T hay dg 
 not ttop to ufl if (hare u aiiythiiiK in th«ir hafld, but if it only aptMara to 
 t«B w.niflthinK that can ba hurltnl aK.aifi»t tha WonI of (iod. away it goaal 
 It reiiiiiHlii in« of the •IrictHro* oj one of Ilia Hoatoii pa|i«r«. •taliiiK that 
 tha whola alory of tha quatla in tha wlldtirnena wa* alia^.liiltily aUnrd, 
 bacaUM Hoaaa raprananled tham aa falling on tha earth Mvoial cubila 
 high; and an aatitnata waa mada by tha aditor aa to how many aach 
 Hflbraw would have for hia breakl^M. dinner and auppar. and how many 
 he would have over to give to the heathm neiKhlKiuiH around about I II 
 I ahoiild tell you that romiiM here lo thi« church tontKht I aaw a flock of 
 (iiiaila three cul>ita hiKh, yuu would n«it think I mW them ptitd three cublta 
 high, but /tying three cubita hkKh, ao that I could take a atick an»l knock 
 tham down aaailv. That ia exactly what Moaea mean!, that they cani« 
 within reaching chatanca ao that they could ba aaaily knocked down. Ha 
 did not consider, I dare aay^Jhat the newapapera were ever going to ba pub- 
 liahed, or gather auch abaurdfity from the language he uaed. Aa I have aaid, 
 the ethicRl truth of the Hible la inarviilloua,— no condoninK of offencea, no 
 commendiiigof iniquitiea,— the puroat moral c^wle ever found in the world, 
 •baolutely free from all adulteration. And then, when you come to ita 
 aplcndid conceptiona, look at the apjiritual truth,— think of God, Eternal, 
 Omniacient. Omuipraaent, InAnita, All-wiae, Juat, good, merciful, true, a 
 Spirit, and a Spiritual (iod. And then think of the fact that there are no 
 balf-trutha in thia Bible,— I think that ia aiao moat marvelloua. I will give 
 you one illustration if you will liear with me. Take the fifteenth chapter of 
 Luke, it ia a moaUnatriiclive chapter, it containa three illuatrationa, three 
 revelations aa to tne '' lost, found." It ia a common thinx for miniatera of 
 the Goapol and coromentitora to aay that it containa thrte parablea; it con- 
 taipa only oni>. He " apake this pmrabU unto them ; " it is in three forma 
 of repreacntation ; he doea not paaa to tha aecond and third and aay 
 '• another parable," becauaa it ia one parable illuttrating one great aub- 
 ject. and there are three divisiona or representationa. We recognixe the 
 trend of the parable, it ia how the loat ia iound. I aimply want to call 
 attention to the fact that no balf-trutha are preaented in thia chapter. 
 The firat part of thia parable ia the abapherd seeking the loat aheep and 
 carrying it back on the shoulder; it is not even led or driveu home, but in 
 borne home on the shoulder, the place of strength. In the aecond part, 
 the woman loses a piece < I ailver from her necklace, and sweeps the whole 
 house until she finds it, but even when found it must be lifted up, and 
 placed there on the necklace among its fellows. Well, after you have got 
 these two representationa you might suppose that, in the matter of salva- 
 tion, God doea all and man haa nothing to do ; he is aimply the aheep loat 
 by wandering to be found and brought back, or like the aenaeleaa coin on 
 which the image and superscription of God was once placed, which, by 
 contact with tna world and currency in a worldly society has had that 
 image and anperacription defaced. If not effaced ; and which muat be 
 picked up by toe Spirit of Godi who with Hia lit candle searchea for the 
 loat soul among the rubbiah of thia world, and who reclaima it and puta it 
 on the necklace of the Bvide of Christ. Christ does not leave us wHh 
 theae half-tnitha. Men leave ua with half-truths, and perplex ua by 
 • omisaiona, but here Christ goes on, and he gives u<« the third rrpreaeotation 
 that completes the three-fold parable : A certain man had two sona. 
 
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 •«|»r«.. il. • C.lvinl.t. but I do not .h?ni, .'h . )^?', '* J"'" •»'«»»« 
 moun,K,ly of Irnlh ; I do not think h- '' ' V.. ^*'^'" P«>M««Md • 
 
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 pl*c«d upon the .J;ncy of m.n fn «. '"^^^^^^ »«« 
 
 cIoM. .t h.nd .. . grStC" Now' will v;.'.'!';"' "'""'' '"'^ *''• "''h, 
 
 .y. riow, will yon tak. yonr pUc.on th« sun ? 
 rou do not nvMn —^ .1.- L-..Z . ii. •"" ' 
 
 Tho .un mi. ,h. h«rr;on7.i"d roudon'r •""'•' y""' P'**^**- - 
 
 to study th« polar ay. Jm |. "o Jit l"i * 7f " "* •"• "^^h ' 1*". w.J 
 •od th«a you will ..t Tn Idii J? i^. n""*^ "^iT"" *^" ""'■♦^ •"<! «>». aun^ 
 took hi. at.nd on m5n. m.n flIM ,1. hnH P""^*""? "' *^" »'»«• Armini"; 
 •^.vdy ,n.alL Calvin rk h?" lu i^^"^';;"' •"*> ««*' .PP«-r.d co,,,,..;* 
 •'• t man dwindb"dtitTif^^?^r'/r' •^^..T"'!'-:«^ 
 
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 ine iKininn that man dwindloH intun i» ; ~la'~ 'T' "!" •"•"P'.'eiy nil«<j 
 
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 only P«rti.lly.-w".„"SoTCch.i J^u7h ^jiL'"/'*" 'T^' ••«* -^ -" ? 
 •Ph«re. H« put. half-truth to l?alltrn»h^ 1 '^'?' "" *'*'<" •'*<•• "f «•'• 
 ffi- apul H./irat took Hi, atand on ( od Tl^ ^'"'" ^ii^'V '•"K^' •'""'« 
 but aimply . loat aoni r.covrri3 by"nftnft; m.lvV"/"!"; '".*^ "«»^''"f 
 frac. into th. foW. faaten.d aVd7to fh- n.Tu ''' ^'/''tt^^i hack by mfin.tl 
 ". stupid a. a sheep thnnJw. not whJ^i^^ 
 
 co.g tUt doea not iveo knowThal tl^a^n.. o/"**"".: " "•""«'««• •» • 
 supcrarhption of an imperial Vhar.^ - « ?' V" ^''^ *" '"'»K« snd 
 that half-truth. He whTeU around in7«h«"* '**lt" ^'l""» *»■» '»>•*"". 
 from the one a de of aalvation S a *' "i" *''" "'^er haU-tiulh.-lf 
 
 man doe. •verythfng „d7t i^only Xn'Z*'''^^/~'" »"• °»»'" »'«'•; 
 you have the rounded aphere of tSh ♦t /»". P"' ."•* •*<> together that 
 •ctivity of God and tL^^n^^i.T^cui^^^^^^ }>°'^ ^'^^ »•'• 
 
 ^ ' "7^ man. and man SectaG^toUJiT r^H ^'"Af'**^*" * ">•" tP . 
 the wonderful teat of truth io the bSi. iJlh J .S?^ T"^ Saviour, and so ' 
 *nd the apiritual aublimity of it •*''^*=*' co^P'-tene.. of It, 
 
 ;rK.kerote.i^i;lL7rhe^'^^^^^^^^^^ ^-P/'y. I have 
 
 'have ipoken of the test of tSth I want !ri-!, "•• **!!.'>'.''*• *" »""^*«- 
 •bout the test of pr»ctlcal «/• Now m ?i IhU *^ one word, in conclusion, 
 Gpd and of every other svstemw'J^ ° *^" ^?!'.*"'»' **« "' «he Word of 
 verw that w«. read b? ou? bmthfr S .h!."'?'' *^" y^""" »««"«'«" '<> one 
 Scripture is given byli^ibirtitS of r^ ^VP*"'"'l **^ •'»« •«'vice: "All 
 wproof. for corrertioJ, for'inmurtfon^^riS^^^^ P"*^*"^'' '^^ doctrine. foV 
 •nay be perfect, thoroighly fJSSS .?„.tti~"'T^ *t** *»»* ""^n of God 
 object, of the Word of S3 a^ SdiaitS ° £1*!^ ""fr "'"^ ^^e fivj 
 
 •».'«•"« refer to tKe«j five objij?. ^t do JS hSL « "''^^"5 "uP^" 'hem at 
 of God. wjTCw aei oown ber^ u reached by the Word 
 
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 rirM-lnMniciKMi r«v«»ling irulh ihal wf i^vir ciHjd h«v« ^"^uvM 
 la any exhtr |HMiil>l« w«y fiitond Ktprcwr* lh«l U wh«f« lh« Wor« 
 of God «l«iil« wiih «h« <«nMi«nc«, ihal i«, wh«r« ll ••"f* »» wt 
 inft ilw m««»*l ••"••. ««nd ••«•«»«>» ih« wh«il» man to,««« M U a •lnn*r 
 Mamtl <;«kI ami man; and lh#-n ih.rdly ihc Wi.r.l .if (.od !• for tornction 
 fli« word maan» lu.rally, Miiing uprighi. Man i* fallrn. ih* Word 9! Cod 
 Mia him upright and turn* hm f—l into »h« w«y, r««i<.rt« hiin when *r»lnu. 
 And th. fourth objtct ia- Twuihinii "Intlruction in riKh««uu.n*»».' ., '•'•'"'nK 
 lh« duci|»l« for avery good work, fit hat bad truth ravtaled by the Hible that 
 ha rould n«t otheiwiMi have di»t«vered ; hU conacience arouMd,h« haabfcn 
 •at upriuht. .«rre. led. re.iored 1 no* ha U to b« taught in righte«m«nM». It 
 it th« kmd of If*, hing referred to by C hritt *hen He Mid, 'Co. dlwipla 
 all nattimt, lM|Hiiing them in iha name of tht Father, the Son nnd tha 
 Holy Choat, I««<Ain# them to obwirve. «ti ." ; there i» the inttrui tion that 
 cornea after tha aattrog upright. It it tha training in righi«"<.u*nr»», It la train 
 Ing tha man to ba a vataran .oldiar in Chritt. And fifthly and finallv, it l» 
 the fnrnithing him in all g«Mid worha foV aarvira liitha Kingd..m of Cod. 
 TSat i» the prartical taat of the Hibla ; wherever mlh% gone it hat taught 
 men what they did not knOw and could mrt have found out for them»«Ivet, 
 It hat pri(ke«l the conncienca and reproved man of t^n. it hat «route«l the 
 will to holy reuilva and »et the man riKht before C»kI. on«e more made an 
 upright man of him, it hat turned him ..ui a tkilled »olclier and warrior, and 
 It haa furnithad him at a workman for all g<H)<l nfrsife. 
 
 My dear frianda, hara it Cod't Ifoute Beautiful. It 11^ a I'alaca. You 
 may enter by timple faith, and you may at' end to ita topmoat ttoray by aimple 
 obedience. It it a grandly furnithed I'alaca. It M in it a refactory, with 
 milk for balMj*. with bread and ttronn meat for thotlB that tan attimllate tuch 
 food, and with honey tweet and deliciout to the latte. and ihe Water of Ufe. 
 Ha bringt ut to the banqueting house, and Hit banner over ut it Love, in 
 thit Houte- Beautiful it a lavaniry, where it at once a laver and a mirror. 
 You come up to it, and in the clear, ttill turface you ditcover.at in a inirror.. 
 ^oar delormity and defilement, and in the tame water in the laver, which, at 
 M mirror, ditcloiet your defilement, you may wath youi defilement away. In 
 th-a name apartment there it a fountain of bloo<l that It more efficient even 
 than the laver of the Word, for while the laver of the Word tancftfiet, It can* 
 not juttify. You may come to the fountain of BUhmI to be jutlified, and 
 then, by the Blmui and the Word and the Spirit, together, y«.u -ihall be 
 sanctified and perfected in holinett. In that tame Palace-- Beautiful there U 
 a dormitory where the tired and worn and weary pilgrim lict down at in a 
 chamljer of peaice and lookt out through the window toward the tunnie and 
 behddt the deleptable mountaint, and refrethet himtelf for the toilt and 
 •trifes and conflicts of the coming day. In that tame bletied Palace- Beautiful 
 it God's gallery, where H« has arranged before us portraits of prophett and 
 saints, and martyrs and apostles, and, above, the immacuL^te p<jrtrait of the 
 Son of God. In that same Palace- Beautiful there is a conservatory where the 
 very plants and flowers and fruits of the Celestial City may Iwth be perceived 
 and partaken of ; and if by obedience you ascend the spiral ttoircase, yoti 
 ■hall come last of aH to the observatosy, whose windows look out on celestial 
 scenes themselves, and through the cloudless atmosphere , you shall get • 
 - glimpse ot the face of God. 
 
 
 
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