Some Strange Things by R. HARE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1903

Some Strange Things

By R. HARE

R. HARE

Strange that the monster-tower, built by the worldly wise men after the flood to show the wisdom of their rebellion against God, and to get themselves a name, should remain the one surviving monument on the plains of Shinar—the oldest monument of human folly.

Strange that the gallows erected by Haman for the execution of Mordecai should afterward become the instrument on which Haman himself was executed.

Strange that the wicked plotting, whereby the princes of Babylon sought to destroy Daniel, should result in their own destruction.

Strange that the rich man of the parable, following out the wise policy of building greater barns wherein to bestow his goods, should be regarded by God as “a fool.”

Strange that the Bible, the book most despised and proscribed by men, should multiply the most rapidly of all books, and become the most honored volume among men.

Strange that the woman set up as the “Goddess of Reason,” during the French Revolution, should afterward lose her own reason, and die in a lunatic asylum.

Strange that the room in which Tom Paine wrote his “Age of Reason,” and other works against the Bible, should afterward become a Bible repository.

And strange it is that men look upon these strange things as the working out of some blind chance, when the hand of Divinity is behind it all.