id make it,
That I believe, and take it."

He said, "This bread is my body which was broken for you." He said,
"This cup is the New Testament in my blood." Is it? or is it not? And
if it is, is not Christ among us now, indeed? Is not that something
better than all the preaching in the world? Jesus Christ, the King of
kings--the Saviour--the Deliverer--the Lamb of God--the Everlasting
Son--the Word--the Light--the Life--is here among us ready to feed our
souls in the Holy Sacrament of His body and blood, as surely as that
bread and wine will feed our bodies--yea--to feed our souls and bodies to
everlasting life. "Ho! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters
and drink. Come, buy wine without money and without price."

III. IS, OR IS NOT, THE BIBLE TRUE?

"If I say the truth, why do ye not believe Me?"--JOHN viii. 46.

Is, or is not, the Bible true? To this question we must all come some
day or other. Do you believe that that book which lies there, which we
call the Bible, is a true book, or a lying book? Is it true or false? Is
it right or wrong? Is it from God, or is it not from God? Let us answer
that. If it is not from God, let it go; but if it _is_ from God, which
we know it is, how dare we disobey it?

That _God_, the maker of heaven and earth, should speak to men--should
set His commands down in a book and give it to them--and that they should
neglect it, disobey it--it is the strangest sight that can be seen on
earth! that God in heaven should say one thing, and a human being, six
feet high at most, should dare to do another!

If the Bible is from God, I say, the question is not whether it is
_better_ to obey it or not. Better? there is no better or worse in the
matter--it is infinitely necessary. To obey is infinitely right, to
disobey is infinitely wrong. To obey is infinitely wise, to disobey is
infinite folly. There can be no question about the matter, except in the
mind of a fool. Better to obey God's word? Better indeed--for to obey
is heaven, to disobey is hell. _That_ is the difference. And at your
better moments does not the voice within you, witness to, and agree with,
the words of that book? When it tells you to care more for your soul
than your body--more for the life to come, which is eternity, than for
the present life which lasts but a few years--does not common sense tell
you that? The Bible tells you to reverence and love God the giver of all
good