EXPERIENCE PROVES THE BIBLE TRUE.
Puerile would it have been for the world to have risen in consternation when Barnum succeeded, with his movable wax figures in such perfect imitation of the human race, and cried for fear of the extinction of the race. They looked like men, moved like men, opened their eyes and mouths like men, and yet were only wax. Skepticism looks sometimes like truth, moves like truth, shines and speaks like truth, and yet is simply an ingenious lie. The true soldier of Jesus should fear skepticism, as a man one of these wax figures. Is it not time for Christians to rise above the atmosphere of doubt, and walk in the light of God? We never doubt whether there is a sun when it shines on us and makes us warm. We can never doubt the existence of bread when we are eating it. He who feels the life of God, gets beyond the reach of philosophical questioning, which is the very atmosphere of the age. Brethren, you will not question whether prayer is a reality if every day you receive answers to your petitions; you will never doubt the atonement of Jesus Christ or his deity, if sin is your daily grief, and Jesus your abiding companion. You will look the scoffers of the age in the face, and say to them, "Our eyes have seen, and our ears have heard, and our hands have handled the word of life." Let ministers lead their flocks to these heights, and glorious results will follow.—Central Baptist.