The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-04-06
The inexhaustible fullness of the Sa-
cred Writings.

We can furnish but bare suggestio
on this rich and varied topic, to lie trace
out and amplitied, as it may present itsel
in different lights and forms to differen
minds. The Bible is, in this respect,
most wonderful volume. There is moth
ing like it in the wide world no sucl
sourc, ofintcllectual wealth itself neve
exhausted, yet exhausting the brightest
and most potent minds. A candid miad
that has been propossessed against II
needs but to read it, in order to confess
with shame, that it has disappointed its
prejudices, and that it is enriched with
thoughts altogether beyond any other vo-
lume.
There are thoughts in this sacred Book
which, though perfectly obvious when
seen, are not seen on the first or second
inspection, even though that Inspection be
ever 81 full.
Instances of this kind so frequently oc-
cnr, that they are continually sources of
admiration even to the most rejecting
minds. 1t is wonderful to observe what
new trains of thought of prodig inter.
est are often suggested by single sem
tenee or single fact recorded in the BIZ
BILE; word, a date, not before. observed,
or not understood, or viewed in some new
aspect. The Bible seems, in this respect
almost like enchanted ground or rather
like the embowercd precincts of some un-
earthly world. As we pass over itsluxu-
rant plains, and tread its wide and accus-
toned avenues, we unexpectedly discover
thousand less frcquented paths that open
VleWs-vlews Of indescribable richness and
heeuty-that are now immnasurable. It
IS difficult, if not impossible, to resist the
impression, that the light which shines
upon US is from no earthly source, but
be1ms from the infinite intelligence above
us. The mind is never weary in tracing
out these opening vistas of truth, except
from its own infirmity; and even when
'hus weared, may always recover and
relresh itself at unwasting fountains, scat
tered by the wayside, and everywhere
of Life. '" u ''' 'ee
We do not find it so with anv other
book. This is one Of the nocnI;o,;,ioa of
tne biole; 1t is an exhaustless volume
Viewed as whole it is like the fnlI orbed
sun, which, though it may have spots ON
ITS disk, dazzles by its spiendor: and the
more its light emanates and is diffuscJ
the more do its resources appear unwast,
ing. Portions of this book seem doen
and untathomable; but even its deepest
r!ecesses are neither empty nor dark. It
is vast profound, which lies open to the
day; where, though reasons lamp alone
were darkness, yet the deeper it descends
u not only encounters no noxious vapors.
out, as in mine Of jewels, in every dis.
severed gem, it receives back the reflected
hgnt OF heaven. There is no other book
which few careful readings of a sound
and reteutive mind will not exhaust -
feb than there are who have made hi,
volume Tie object Of their study for baiS
a atenhls3 who have examined every '' ra
rayfeEh iteoutains with repeated and r
closest sef9bny, and with every fresh ns.
rlsal, have discovered new thouSbts srd M
new causes for wonder and ;oy. The
more deeply they have become absorbed
In It's pages, the more deep and thorouah
has been their conviction Of u illinitab!e