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that made it famous,- and before the word prohibition as applied to the liquor traffic was born, my mother put her hand on my head and said, ‘Some day this dreadful drink traffic will be outlawed in this country.' I will not live to see the day, but Willie here will.’ “When the whole world agreed that puny man would never be able to ride the whirlwind and direct the storm, Tennyson predicted the airplane. “ ‘For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be; Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, ASSKR&SliPM Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales.’ “A hundred poets in a war-torn world,
Take the prophecies concerning the Saviour. Peter tells us plainly that these prophecies came not by the prophets’ own interpretation of the facts with which they had to deal (2 Pet. 1 :20-21) and that they often did not under stand the meaning of the things they wrote (1 Pet. 1:10- 11). They foretold the exact time of His manifestation many centuries hence, the exact place and manner of His birth, the most minute details of His life, death, burial and resurrection. One could take the prophecies of the Sav iour, written hundreds o f years before the events trans pired, and almost write the history of His walk on earth. Dr. A. W. Hare once said: “If you saw a half- dozen doors with as many locks to them, so new and strange that not a locksmith in the country could make a key to fit any one of them, and if a man then came with
fired, as I believe, with illumi nation from on high, have per sistently predicted u l t i m a t e world peace; predictions which the signing of the anti-war trea ties seems to bring near to ful fillment. . “These are a few instances in which God has cleared the vision, fired the faith, and in spired. the utterance of his lat ter-day children just as truly as ever He did for prophets of old.” May we be pardoned for ex pressing our wonder as to how iong it has been since the good doctor has carefully considered the nature of the Biblical proph ecies ! It may be true that some men of long experience in guid ing ffie political- destinies of a country, may sometimes antici pate certain developments, yet many with the most accurate knowledge of tendencies, re sources and dangers, have had their prophecies mocked by the bitter irony of events. It is the unexpected that happens. It is perfectly safe to talk of “ulti mate world peace,” for the Word of God has decreed it,
a key which fitted all these dif ferent locks and opened all the six doors, could you doubt that his was the right key? This is just the kind of proof which the prophecies afford of the truth and divinity of Christ. The weight of this proof rests on two simple facts: One is that the prophecies were written many hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. The other is that Jesus died the death related in the new Testament. Jesus is the true key for the prophetic lock; and the prophets who foretold all these things hun dreds o f years before must as suredly have spoken, as Peter says, “not of their own will, but as moved by the Holy Ghost.” Where—outside of the ;Bible—will we find prophecies of this kind? Let Dr. Millard tell us of one instance in which one of his poets has recorded an explicit,' verbal prophecy concerning a nation not even in existence at the time of writing, nor for cen turies afterward. What about prophecies that were fulfilled by the very elements ? Compare
-Another Tea r for Jesus
Another year for Jesus Who spent His years for me, Who made Himself acquaint with grief, To bring my sorrow sweet relief; My Comforter to be!
Another year for Jesus ,— Himself, each day to be
My Friend, my Helper, yea, my L ife ; Who takes the lead in all the strife,
And loving, conquers me! Another year for Jesus! What i f it be my last?
I ’ll fill each day with service sweet, My willing tasks He will complete, While fly the glad hours past. | —N ell R. R offe .
but many of the world’s “prophets” have cried “peace, peace, where there is no peace.” Admiral Bristol, in taking a fling recently at the folks who are always prophe sying peace, said with a laugh: “I can now understand why the Bible says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ They will never be out of a job.” Peter declares that prophecy had no human author. Could Tennyson, Longfellow or Byron have prophesied specifically what would be the place of their own residence and what would be their circumstances one year hence? Would they have attempted to look forward five years and predict exactly what should be the state of affairs in their own communities? So detailed and specific, and written so long before the events transpired, are'the prophecies of Scripture, that they are not for a moment to be compared with mere human foresight such as we might discover in some of the poems of “The Supplementary Bible.”
Dr. Millard’s illustrations given above with the prophecies concerning the Jews (Deut. 28:49-57; 64-67; Hos. 3:4-5; Ezek- 20:41-44 ; 21:22), abiding for centuries without a king or prince, without a sacrifice, driven out of their land by a nation not born at the time of the prophecy, scattered in every country on earth, remaining in unbelief, having no ease anywhere, yet remaining a distinct people, never swallowed up by other nations, to return to their own land after many centuries and finally to look upon the Saviour their forefathers pierced. Dr. Millard tells us that he cannot believe that God “showed special and distinguished favor to a few old Jewish writers from Moses to Paul.” We can only reply that we find no evidence whatever that any of the writers contributing to “The Supplementary Bible” have been favored in anything like the same way as were the prophets of old. We cannot but marvel that he is able to find the slightest basis for comparison.
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