The Bible and missions . of God. Dr. Hamlin did not immediatelyanswer, but, learning that the colonel was a traveledman, he said to him: Have you ever been in Babylon?* Yes, replied the colonel, and I will tell you acurious incident. The ruins of Babylon abound ingame; and once, engaging a sheikh with his followers,I arrived among th^ ruins for a weeks shooting. Atsundown the Ar^bs, to my amazement, began tostrike their tents. I went to the sheikh and protestedmost strongly. I was paying him handsomely, butI nt>w offered to double the amount; but nothing Icould say had any effect. It is not
The Bible and missions . of God. Dr. Hamlin did not immediatelyanswer, but, learning that the colonel was a traveledman, he said to him: Have you ever been in Babylon?* Yes, replied the colonel, and I will tell you acurious incident. The ruins of Babylon abound ingame; and once, engaging a sheikh with his followers,I arrived among th^ ruins for a weeks shooting. Atsundown the Ar^bs, to my amazement, began tostrike their tents. I went to the sheikh and protestedmost strongly. I was paying him handsomely, butI nt>w offered to double the amount; but nothing Icould say had any effect. It is not safe, said the sheikh, no mortal fleshdare stay here after sunset. Ghosts and ghouls comeout of the holes and caverns after dark, and whom-soever they capture becomes one of themselves. NoArab has ever seen the sun go down on Babylon. Dr. Hamlin took out his Bible and read from thethirteenth of Isaiah: And Babylon, the glory ofkingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans pride, shallbe as when God overthrew Sodom and The Influence of the Book 169 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dweltin from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and wolves shall cry-in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces/(Isaiah xiii, 19). That is history you have been reading,** said theTurk. No, said Dr. Hamlin, it is prophecy. Thosewords were written when Babylon was in all herglory; and you know what Babylon is founda- No teaching is more needed todaytions of modem than the plain Bible doctrine thatcivilization. Qq^ ^^s a will for the nations; that they are subject to his law, that those who breakit will be punished as nations; that the Kingdom ofGod is no iridescent dream, but a great reality tobe accomplished in this world through our co-opera-tion with the God of Nations in the upbuilding ofhuman society. Were there opportunity in thisbrief sketch, it would be of wonderful int
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