THE KING’S BUSINESS
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An officer from Japan visiting this coun try, while looking about a big city, saw a man stop a milk cart. “Is he going to arrest the man?” he asked. “No,” was the answer; “he must see that the milk sold by this man is pure, with no water or chalk mixed in with it.” “Would chalk or water poison the milk?” “No. but the people want pure milk if they pay for it.” Passing a public house, a man staggered out, struck his head against a lamp post and fell to the pavement. “What is the matter with that man?” “He is full of bad whiskey.” “Is it poison?” “Yes; a deadly poison,” was the reply. “Do you watch the selling of whiskey as you do the milk?” asked the Jap. “No.” At the market they found a man look ing at the meat to see if it was healthy. “I can’t understand your country.” said the Jap. “You watch the meat and the milk and let men sell whiskey as they please.” Compare the advance of population in Kansas with the gain in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado or Missouri. It excels them all. Why? It is a prohibition state. The death rate in Kansas (7)4 per thou sand) is lower than in any other state. The Federal government estimates the en tire wealth of the country at $1200 per capita. In Kansas i t .is about $1750 per capita. Why the pre-eminence of Kansas? The sale of intoxicating drink is prohibited. While in other states jails, penitentiaries, almshouses and lunatic asylums are over crowded, why are more than one-half the Kansas jails without a prisoner, and why do more than half of the counties send to the state’s prison not a single prisoner in a year? In the 105 counties of that state 87 are without an insane person and 96 are with out an inebriate. Why? Kansas banishes the drink while other states license the traffic.
trembled forty years, and all, like Rahab might have repented to salvation (Exod. 9:16; 12:12; Joshua 2:8-11). 7. Typification. The whole Joseph story, the bondage, Passover, Wilderness, Taber nacle (a wilderness expedient), etc'., etc., were incident “ensamples” (types) for all time (1 Cor. 10:1-3; Heb. 8:1-10-10:14). 8. Corroboration. That ancient Egypt vanished, that now, like its mummied kings, bared of its cerements, the old Egypt and the old Book might meet like the jagged halves of a torn document to silence mod ern scepticism. Mr. Gladstone in a striking article on the Bible says: “John Bright has told me that he would be content to stake upon the Book of Psalms; as it stands, the great question whether there is or is not a divine revelation. It was not to him conceivable how a work so widely severed from all the known productions of antiquity, and stand ing upon a level so much higher, could be accounted for except by a special and ex traordinary aid calculated to produce spe cial and extraordinary results. If Bright did not possess the special qualifications of the scholar or the critic, he was, I con ceive, a very capable judge of the moral and religious elements in any case that had been brought before him by his personal experience.” “The Gospel of John is the greatest book ever written,” says Dr. W. R. Harper. Dr. Schaff calls it “the most important literary work ever composed by man; the gospel of gospels; a marvel even in the marvelous Book. of books.” Origen terms it “the main gospel.” Chrysostom says “It is a voice of thunder reverberating through the whole earth.” Jerome says “John excels in these depths of divine mysteries.” Calvin says it is “the key that opens the way to a iright understanding of !tjie dther three Gospels.” Ernesti calls it “the heart of Jesus;” Lange, “the diamond among Gos pels,” and Herder says it was “written by the hand of an angel.”
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