The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-06-27
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The World without q Bible.
BY F. b. GRAHAM,

BY F. b. GRAHAM ....
Without BIBLE ... ...a
O'er this fated earth
The sound of wo is head; each cottage hearth
Uncompassed with happy group
OF smiling fav'iites, chcered by love and hope
Divine; for here when one weeks toll
is past, another must begn-turmol
Is rife. No SABaATH day of holy rest,
With its reyjving influence, greets the opprest.
When Jesus, bleeding hung
Upon the cross, He spoke, and nature flung
Her darksome veil DER the vast universe
of sinful mortas; but our state is worse
Than theirs, for DER us hangs the awful night
OF pagan ignorance, without the light
OF cen guiding star. No midday sun
Ofnghteousness with rays serene, doth run
His heavenly course, and man is seeking peace
In pride or passion, Or the swift increase
OF aiIluence.
What ofeteinlty
Can no one learn the joyful rlnstrelsy
OF heaven! There angels chant The praise
OF Hin who regns supreme. Those bissful lays
Which seraphs have for many ages sung
Are still unlealned by us. Our harps are hung
Upon the willows, tuneless and unstrung.
The sweeping river, and the gurgng rilI,
With solemn voices praise tn Almighty still.
AT mornings baimy dawn the little bird
Marbles his song, and then at eve is heard
The matin of the grateful Nightingale
Resembling sweeiy through the fragrant vale
While man airne has no desire to sing
His own Protectors praisc-no wish to fling
A grateful incense Oh tie ambient air,
Nor bend The knee in fervenl, heartfelt prayer.
Without the Bible we've no beacon here
To guide to that celestial world above;
But with thar book this earth imparIs cheer,
And rest is promised in that bIissful sphere
Where sound the lutte notes of eternal love.
Astonishing accuracy of the Bible.
An astonishing feature Of tho word OF
God is, Notwithstanding the time at which
ITS compositions were written, and the
multitude of the topics to which it al
ludes, there is not one physical error--not
one assertion or allusion dIsproved by
The progress of modern science. None
of those mistakes which the science of
each succeeding age discovered in the
books proceedings; above all, none Of
those absurdities which modern astrono.
my indicates in such great numbers to the
writings ofthe ancients--in their sacred
codes in their philosophy, and even in
the finest pages Of the fathers of the
Church--not one of these errors are to
be found in any Of our sacred books.
Nothing there will ever contradict that
which after so many ages, the lnvestl
CATION of the learned world have been
alb c to reveal to US on the state of our
globe, or on that of the heavens. Peruse
with care our Scriptures from one end to
the other, 10 find there such spots, and
whilst you apply yourselves to this exam
ination, remember that it is a book which
speaks Of everything; which describes
nature-which recites its crealon---
which tells us ofthe water of The atmos-
phere, o(the mountains, ofthe animals,
and of the plants. 1t is book which
teaches US the frsl revolutions of the
world, and which also forctells It's last.
1t recounts them in the circumsiantia!
language of history; it eAtols them in the
snbIimest strains Of poetry ,and ii chants
them in The charms of glowing song. 1t
is book which is full Of oriental rapture,
elevation, variety and boldness. 1t is Il
book which speaks Of the heavenly and
invisible world, whilst it also speaks of
the earth and things visible. Ii is book
which nearly fifty writers ofeyery degree
Of cultivation, Of every condition, and
living through the course of fifteen hun
dred years, have concurred to make 1t
is book which was written in the centre
of Asia, in the sands of Arabia, in the
desert Of Judea, liz the court of the ten
pie of the Jews, in the music schools OF
the prophets of Bethel and Jericho in the
sumpiuous palaces of Babylon, and on
the idolalrous banks of Chebar, and IL
naly, in the centre of the western civil.
Zalion in the midst ofthc Jews and of
their ignorance in the midst Of the poly
theism and its idols, as in the bosom OF
pantheism and its sad philosophy. 1t is
a book whose first writer had been forty
years pupil Of the magicans Of Egypt,
in whose opinion The sun, the stars and
elements, were endowed with intelli-
gence, reacted on the elements, and
governed the world by a perpetual
aIluvium. 1t is book whose first
writer preceded, by more than nine hun
dred years, the most gancient philoso-
pliers of ancient Greece and Asia--the
Ihaleses and the Pythagorases, the Ia
lucuses, the Xenophons and the Con
fuciuses, the herarchics of angels--even
to the most distant epochs of the future
and the glorious scenes of the last day
Well;---search among its 30 authors
search among its sc books, its 1888
chapters and its 3l,713 vcrses--scarch
for only one of those thousand errors
which the ancents and moderns commit
ted whenthey speak Of the heavens or
ofthe earth-.-of their revolutions, ofther
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