——— "REV. DR. T. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN - DAY SERMON, Subject: *“‘Re-enforcement.” Texte “Lord, increase our faith,"—Luke xvii, 5 “What a pity he is going there I" sald my friend, a most distinguished general of the army, when he was told tha: the reason for my not being present on a celebrated day in Brooklyn was that on that day I had sailed for the Holy Land, “Why do you say that 7" inquired some one. My military friend re- Peseni, “Oh, bo will De disillusioned when he gets amidst the squalor and commonplace | scones of Palestine, and his faith will be | shaken in Christianity, for that is often the result.” The great general misjudged the I went to the Holy Land for the ons pur- se of having my faith strengthened. and hat was the result which same of it. In all our journeying, in all our reading, in all our | associations, in all our plans, augmentation rather than the depletion of our faith should be our chief desire. It is easy enough to have our faith destroyed. [ ean give you a recipe for its obliteration, Read infidel books, have long and frequent conversations with skeptics, attend the lectures of those antagonistic to religion, give full swing to some bad habit, and your faith will be so completely gone that you will laugh at the idea that you ever had any, f you want to ruin your faith, you ean do ft more easily than you can do anything else, After believing the Bible all my life I can see a plain way by which, in six weeks, I could enlist my voice and pen and heart and head and entire nature in the bombardment of the Seriptures and the church and all I now! sacred. That it is easy to banish forever all respect for the Bible I the fact that » wany have done it, were not particularly brainy nor hae force of will, but they so thoroughly aceon lished the overthrow of their faith that thes ave no more idea that the Bible is true, or that Christianity amounts to anything, than they have in the truth ofthe “Arabian Nights Entertainments” or the oxistenon Don Quixote’s “windm ' They have destroyed their faith so thoroughly that they never will have a return of it. Fifty revivals of the city, the toy they live, and they + silent or expressed disgust, sons in this house to-day gave up their faith sume fr, incl doom hangs over ti hammer of that times with all n woe | woe! woe of most of you, is the disciples o my text, “Lor The first mod study the Bible tse] fs an infidel alive who Bible through, ment needs to be read in order that it may : stood, and read in course, | now offer #10 reward to any infidel who has read the Bi through twice and read it incourse., But I eannot take such a man's own word for it for there is no foundation for integrity ex cept the Bible, and th ut who rejects the source of truth how ¢ I accept his truth fulness? So I must have another witness in the cas fore I give the reward. I must have the testimony of some one who has seen hb read it all through twice. Infidels fish i: this Bible for inecherencies and contradic tions and absurdities, an you find their Bible you will see interiineations in the book of Jonah and some of the chapters of that unfortunate prophet nearly worn out by muo} use, and some parts of II Samuel or I Kings you will find dim with finger marks, but the pages which contain the Ten Command. ments, and the Psalms of David, and the ser mon on the mount, and the book of John the Evangelist, will not have a single lead pencil stroke in the margin, nor any finger marks showing frequent perusal, The father of one of the Presidents of the United States was a pronounced infidel. 1 knew it when many years ago [ acoepted his invitation to spend the night in his hom: Just before retiring at night he said in » jocose way, “I suppose you are accustomed to read the Bible before going to bed. and bere is my Bible from which to read.” He then told me what portions he would lke to have me read, and he only asked for those portions on which he could easily be face tious, You know you ean make fun about any thing. I suppose you couldtakethe last lot ter your father or mother sver wrote and fi something in the grammar or the spelling or the tremor of the penmanship about which to be derisively eritical. The interna evidence of the truthfulness ot the Bitle js s mighty that no one man out of the 1,600,000 000 of the world's present population or ti vaster millions of the past ever read th Bible in course, and read it prayerfolly and carefully, but was led to believe it, John Murray, the famous book publisher of Edinburgh, and the intimate friend of Southey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning and Washington Irving, bought of Moor the poet, the “Memoirs of Lord Byron,” and they were published after Byron's death, jut they were not fit to pub lished, although Murray had paid for them §10,000, That was a solemn conclave wh eight of the prominent literary people of those times assembled in Albemarle street after Byron's doath to decide what should be done with the “Memoirs,” which were charged and surcharged with defamations and indelicacies. The ““Memoirs™ were read and pondered, and the decision came that they must be burned, and not until the last word of those “Memoirs” went to ashes did the literary company separate, But suppose, now, all the best spirits of all ages were assembled to decide the fate of the Bible, which ia the last will and testa. ment of our Heavenly Father, and these memoirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be the verdict? Shall they burn, or shall they lve? The unanimous verdict of ali fs, “Let them lve, though all else burn.” Then put together on the other hand all the debancheos and profligates and assassing of the ages, and their unanimous verdet concerning the Bible would be, “Let it burn." Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are immortal, but I do say that all the scrape. graces and scoundrels of the universe agree with them about the Bible, Lat me vote with those who believe in the Holy Seripture, Mon believe other things with ball the evidence required to believe the Bible, The dis. tinguished Abner Kneeland tejectad the Beripture and then put all his money into an enterprise for the recovery of that hoous “Captain Kidd's treasures,” Kneeland 's h for doing #0 being founded on a man's and they he { Jesus Chri as 80 i“ it to be be statement that he could tell where those | treasures were buried from the looks of a fea ot water dipped from the Hudson yer. The internal evidence of the authenticity | of the Beri Rug 1840 asa and so vivid this no man, sane, oan tharcughi and continuously and prayerfully read them without jukering leskip. So I put that internal evidence paramount, How are you led to belleve in a letter re. esived from husband or wife or enlld or feiond? You know the handwriting. You know the style. You recognize the sent ment. When the letter comes, you do not summon the postmaster who stamped it, and the postmaster who received it, and the let. ter carrier who brought It to your door to prove that it is a genuine letter, The internal evidence settles it, and by the same oan forever settle the fact that the Bible Lk tue handwriting acd communication of the infinite God, Furthermore, as 1 have already intimated, we may incresse our faith by the testimony of others, Perhaps we of lesser brain may ve overcome by superstition or foto an acceptance of a hollow pre. tension, So Iwill thls morning turs this | house into a courtroom and summon wits | nesses, and you shall be the jury, and I now impanel you for that purpose, and I will put {upon the witness stand men whom all the world acknowledge to be strong intellectually and whose evidences in any other eourtroom would be fncortrovertible, I will not eall {to the witness stand any minister of the { Gospel, for he might be prejudiced, | There are two ways 1 an oath in n courtroom, Bible and the other fs by holding up the right hand toward heaven, Now, as in this case it is the Bible that is on trial, wo will not ask the witness to put the book to his lips, for that would imply that the sanctity i and divinity of the book 1s settled, and that would be begging the question. 8o I shall ask each witness to lift his hand toward heaven in aMrmation, baimon ¥. Chase, chief justice of the su- prome court of the United States appointed oy President Lincoln, will take the witness | stand, “Chief Justice Chase, upon your oath, please state what you have to say shout | the book commonly called the Bible." The witness replies: “There came a time in my life when 1 doubted the divinity of the Serip- tures, and I resolved, as a lawyer and judge, I would try the book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidences for and against, It was a long and serious and pro. found study, and using the same principles of evidences in this religious matter as I al. ways do in secular matters I have come to the decision that the Bible is a # ipernastural book, that #t has from God, and th tha only safety for the human race is to | low its teachings.” ““Jadge, that will Go back again to your pillow of dust on banks of the Ohlo.” Next I put upon the witness stand a Presi- dent of the United States. Quinoey Adams, President Adame, what have you say about the Bible and Christianity?” President replies “I hs nade it a practios to read 100 a year, My Hive some hn custon ost suitable m what Hight wer with refer the ' Next I put upon the witness stand wmntment of jett Walter Se wen ask him what he thin reat 1 P ur great b x ks of th books ho replies k, and that is the Bibl : i ritatly tionally to the judgment and n nankind Edmund Burke, what do r Answer: “I have read the nm and night, aad have fn 2 the happler and the better man r such reading.” over Next | put upon the stand William E. G stone, the head of the English g¢ nd I hear him saying wh said to me January of 1890, when in reply to his gram, “Pray come to Hawarden to-morrow I visited him, 1 there | asked Orne tole Then and i 8 to whether inthe passage of yoare his fait) in the Holy Seriptures and Christianity was 0 the noresse or decrease, and he turned ipon me with an emphasis and enthasines suchas no one who has pot sonversed wit! him ean fully appreciate and expressed bs voles and gesture and fllamined count , fis ever inerensing faith in God and the Bi and Christianity as the only hope of ou ruthed world. “That is all, Mr. Gladstons we will take of your time now, for, from the reports of what ls going on in Enguand now, I think you are very busy.” Ihe suiphurous graves of Sodom an Gomorrah have been identifiad, The r mains of the tower of Rabel have bes ind. Assyrian documents Hited from t sand and Behistun inscription hundreds fect high up on the rock echo and re-ect the truth of Bible history The signs « tima indicate that almost every fact Bible from Hd to lid will find its o tion in ancient city wall cleared from the dust o iorument unrolisd by archmolo Before the world rolls on as far twentieth oontury as it has already nto the nineteenth an infidel will be who does not believe his own senses, and tt volumes now eoritieal and denunciatory the Bible, if not entirely devastated by t} wik-worms, will be taker down from tl olf as curiosities of ignorance or il All success to the plokaxes and crowbars as rwiler blasting of those apostles of gical exploration, I lke the ance of the old Huguenots to th { Chiristiantty ¢ “Pound away, four hammers break, but the anvil word stands, ™ How wo the : gether, It is a Hbeary made up of and written by at least 39 authors sroatural thing that they have stuck Take the writings of any other authors, or any 10 authors, or any 5 aathors and put them together, and how long wou they stay together? Books of “elegant tracts” compiled from many sathors proverbially short lived. 1 never knew on such book which, to use the publisher's phrase, “had life in it" for five years, Why is it that the Bible, made up of the writings of at least 30 authors, has kept to gether for a long line of centuries when the natural tendency would have been to fly apart like loose sheets of paper when a gust of wind blows upon them? It is because God stuck them together aad keops them to gether, But for that Joshua would have wandered off in one direction, and Paul into another, and Ezekiel into another, and Ha bakkuk into another, and the 39 authors in to 39 directions, Pat the writings of Shakespeare and Ten nyson and Longfellow, or any part of thom, together, How long would they stay to gether? No book bindery conld keep them together, But the cannon of the Seripture is loaded now with the same am munition | with which prophet and apostle loaded ft, Bring me all the Bibles of the earth into one pile, and blindfold me so that I eannot tell the difference between: day and night, and put into mv hand any one of all that Alpine ‘ 21 rote lisent nderfal LT 3 gether, rx are mountain of sacred books, and put my finger | on the last page of Geoesis and lot me know | It, and I ean tell you what is on the next page namely, the first chapter of Exodus; or | while thus blindfolded put my finger on the last chapter of Matthew and jet me know It. and I will tell you what is on the next page namely, the first chapter of Mark, In the | pile of 600,000,000 Bibles thers will be no | exception, In other words, the book gives me confidence by its supernatural adhesion of writing to writing Even the stoutest ship sometimes shifts its cargo, and that is what made our or in the ship Groeos of the shifted as the ship swang from larboard to starboard, and from starboard to larboard, But, thanks be to God, this old Mible ship though it kas been in thousands of years of tempest, has kept itr sargo of gold and pro. clous stonss pompact and sure, and in all the ocentaries nothing about it has shifted, There timy stand, shoulder to shoulder, David amd Haman and Isaiah and One is by putting the lpsto the | and Poter, all there, and with a certainty of being there until the heavens and the earth, the oreation of which is described in the first book of the Bible, shall have collapsed, and the white horse of the conqueror, described {in the last book ofthe Bible, shall paw the dust in universal demolition, By that tre- mendous fact my faith is re-enforced. The discussion i8 abroad as “2 who wrote those books of the Bible ealled the Penta. | tench, whether Moses or Hilkiah, or Ezra or Samuel, or Jeremiah, or another group of ancients, None of they wrote it, God { wrote the Pentateuch, and fn this day of stenography and typewriting that ought not to be a difficult thing to understand, The great merchants and lawyers, and editors | and business men of our towns and cities | dictate nearly all their letters; they only sign them after they are dictated, prophet and evangelist and apostle were vin H's slenographors or typewriters, oF TIARAS Y INAR { They put down only what God dictated ; he | | signed it afterward. He has been writing his name upon it all through the vicissitudes of centuries ut I come to the height of my subject when I say the way to re-enfores our faith is to pray for it, Bo the disciples in my text got their abounding®faith. “Lord, Increase oar faith.” Some one suggests, “Do you really think that prayer amounts to any« thing?" 1 might as well sak you, is there a line of telegraphie poles from New York to Washington, is there a line of telographio wires from Manchester to London, from Cologne to Berlin? All the people who have sent and received lines know of thelr existence. So there are mill. ions of souls who have been in constant com= munication with the capital of the universe, the thr the Almighty, with the at God Himsel!, for years and years and YORI 4 messages on those ne of here has not been a day when ng did not flash up and 1 ne lash down. Will sor : wived a telogrs supplies blessings reaping has never offare swored oome OPRYET ns merciful answer an Wii at tha ad 1 telegra ol, and th Is wer another wide offer may con r imagined, and if reasad, although #t process than nfidence will wo r faith in was shrivel F there was s&s growl of th sky, and then renshing min, wrrels under oy r that the minister's widow fnmlly wore lirevti Ore alt on begat vie and Kept I, and sha be \ Asante than HabtdUtios, Bring me yot “There Is 1 od far away iy be walt sont of the r ale yor i saw ne in alive, bat alive, The ship had ben niles out, and as Wave swept look and went down on the furnaces till they hissed and went out the ery was, “Oh, ny God, we are lost!” Then the erew put n life preservers, one of the sallors saying y the other, “We will meet again on the and, if not, well, we must ali go some one Of the twenty-three men who put on the life preservers, only three lived te reach the Bat what a scone It was as the good and kind people of Southampton, led on by Dr. Thomas, the great and good surgeon of New York, stood watching the sallors strug. giing in the breakers. ‘Are you still alive?” shouted Dr, Thomas to one of them out in the breakers, and he signaled yes and then went into unconsciousness, Who should do the most for the poor fellows and how to resuscitate them were the questions that ran up and down the beach at Southampton, How the men and women oa the shore stood oanrh | wringing their hands, impatiently waiting | for the sufferers to come within rach, and than they were lifted up and earried indoors and walted on with as much kindness and | wrapped as warmly as though they had been | the prinoes of the earth, “Are they alive?” “Are they breathing?” “Do you think th will Hye?’ “What can we do for them?" were the rapid and intense questions asked, and so hob 4 money was sent for the oloth- ing and equipment of the unfortunstos that Dr. Thomas had to makea lamation that no more money was needed. 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