hundred
years, but no man has fathomed the depths of that ever-living stream.
"How Christ Expounded It."
You will find Christ, after He had risen, again speaking about the Old
Testament prophets: "And beginning at Moses, and all the prophets, he
expounded unto them in all the Scripture the things concerning Himself."
Concerning Himself. Don't that settle the question? I tell you I am
convinced in my mind that the Old Testament is as true as the New. "And
He began at Moses and all the prophets." Mark that, "all the prophets."
Then in the forty-fourth verse: "And He said unto them, these are the
words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things
must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the
prophets and in the psalms concerning Me. Then opened He their
understanding that they might understand the Scripture."
The Scotch "Draw the Bible" on False Doctrine.
There is no place I have ever been in where people so thoroughly
understand their Bibles as in Scotland. Why, little boys could quote
Scripture and take me up on a text. They have the whole nation just
educated, as it were, with the Word of God. Infidelity cannot come
there. A man got up in Glasgow, at a corner, and began to preach
universal salvation. "Oh, sir," said an old woman, "that will never save
the like of me." She had heard enough preaching to know that it would
never save her. If a man comes among them with any false doctrine, these
Scotchmen instantly draw their Bibles on him. I had to keep my eyes open
and be careful what I said there. They knew their Bibles a good deal
better than I did. And so if the preachers could get the people to read
the Word of God more carefully, and note what they heard, there would
not be so much infidelity among us.
Moody and the Infidel.
An infidel had come the other day, to one of our meetings, and when I
talked with him, he replied that he didn't believe one-twelfth part of
the Bible, but I kept on quoting Scripture, feeling that if the man
didn't believe, God could do what He chose with His word, and make it
quick and powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword. The man kept
saying that he did not believe what the Bible said, and I kept on
quoting passage after passage of Scripture, and the man, who, two hours
before, had entered the hall an infidel, went out of it a converted man,
and a short time after his conversion he left the City for Boston, a
Christian
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