| Show MOODYS BELIEF IN THE BIBLE it la quita in these daya of scientific and ingenious to pick up the hernoon of a pulpit divine who believed that the books he holds sacred mean just what they say such a preacher pro daims in effect that the scriptures were meant not alono for the learned but tor all tint their statements require no strained interpretation but are bruhs plain to the Bim pleat understanding it is abo scarcity ol 01 such teachers which gitlia the cause of skepticism for if the books mean not what they say what is to recommend one ex doctrine over that cf another and when may men know that they have at least the correct interpretation mr moody has been holding a series of plain talks with the people of cju franciaco the earnest powers aro as as ever and hia fan bo attributed to nothing BO enuch as his blunt liui nely way of italina trual s without any superfluous halo of oratory speaking on this very bub ilalie said in a recent address people aim eay lo 10 1 I wonder if floody to elih whole nov I 1 want to sav right here aliat I 1 if I 1 ahe t bu as old us melau I 1 should acier by uble to ascend to ill irren I 1 height or de ct nd to ila ili ellid 1 h llevat it all every boril of it and what I 1 cant 1111 I 1 bk lie lord to help me to t paiit to call our at t tu iho old it bibins to nio I 1 he people on ali s hide of alio bocky Monn laing think llie old cuno rut of date I 1 paiit to tell yiu that I 1 the story about and the ark just as much as I 1 do that was eier written in alie itice icks ady well ou surely cant aliat story about ifill wicy bein turned into a pillar of fealt cf I 1 it as I 1 ie jeow christ fed that im irenae multitude multi tade on alio and liades eliat iho idid edid rained lire and on S and and ihn ann itcea of the alain that lie divided ho waters af the aed sea and allowed the children of israel to walk on dry land thea boine one will ioria to me and bay as a final argument air moody you dont mean to tell me you believe that story about jonah and t he w halo they think got me but they for jenus christ asso elated eliat ory incident with his resurrection As jonah was three days in tho body so shall lie soo of man ba uree days in the bowels of tho earth said jeans lie believed it why not vie and will ell you that a khaleg mouth is not big to swallow a man all but the bible does not say that jonah was swallowed by a abalo I 1 it says that the ird created a great fiali aal cau any one doubt his ability to creato a lish with a big enough to swallow a it lam reminded of the atory ot the alil Scotch nun to whom acma a eke friend alio believe that lii laama aels was inace inaje lo 10 speak just you make alie aaa said the Scot climan iino ill mako him alio idea of bod alio madof alio aaa coula not mayo iliin Biffl kl |
