Nebraska palladium. [volume] (Bellevieu City, Neb.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-18
GLrNwoOD, Sept. IT, 1854.
sUpERINrENDENrs AppREss.

81 EtAlN 10 a@A01hiADDs
The beautiful address which follows,
was delivered on the occasion of the pre-
sentation of Bible 10 Miss MARTAA J.
WARREN, the pupil, who committed TO
memory 688 verses, opt of the sacred
scriptures during the last term-by the
superintendent OF sle the school, John r.
Minar.d
Miss WARRrN: am deputed by ihe
West Liberty Sunday school association to
present yon this copy Of the holy Scrip
ur es as testimonial of the high estimate
placed upon your effort in memorzing
verses from the bible; and in doing so,
allow me respected madam, to say, that
your INSTRUCTORS and the officers of Axis
school, have been careful to select the
best gift within the reach Of mortals-
Human productions, however excellent,
loose their interest upon second or third
reading, but net so with the bible. Drawn
from the fountain of all wisdom and good
ness, its themes are sublime. its depth are
fathonless and its variety is infinite; the
more we read the more the desire 10 head
and the longer we read the better we love
10 read il. The bible is emphatically The
Book, "The Book Of Books, . yea the book
Of God. Ii is Heavenly Chart with
which alone life's boisterous seas can be
safely nayigated. Its precepts are so sim
pie, that the most ignorant may understand
them, while its mysteries are SO profound
that the most learned could never have in
vented them. While all things in The bi.
Bile essentially connected with doctrine ex-
perience and practice are sufficiently plain
FOR ordinary readers; its resources are SO
boundIess as to call into requisition all re-
search OF the learned, directed by the
strongest intellect without exhaustion.
What are all the treasures OF classic
lore compared TO the Word of Life. For
depth Of wisdom, beauty of style, and sub
blimiiy of thought, it surpasses the sages
Of Greece, the orators Of Rome, and Ill
erati Of modern times, Would you learn
the origin Of the world, and the years of
its existance, instead Of resoriing to Geol-
ogy, and dealing in uncertain conjectures
go to Genisis and read an authentic history
of the creatiOn'of all things from nothing.
Would you know whence came man, read
it in the history of the fall. Do you de-
sire TO learn what is the only remedy for
sin and its miseries; it is all comprehended
ia this: fChrist died for our sins and rose
again for our Santifcation. Are you
still prostrated, fettered and poweress
under the bondage of sin; accept his free,
unmerited advocacy, nothing doubling, and
you are redeemed, regenerated and disin-
thralled. Such are the history and doc
trines of the bible. II guides the pilgrim
stranger through the bowling wilderness
in the path Of safety, Ii hangs out tn,
lamp Of its exceeding great aud precious
promises, to pilot him over the gulf-strean
Of death, and leads him form with songs
of deliverance 10 Join his friends in th'
deaihless Of Immortality, where the rive
of life glides forever amid the beauties o.
perennial spring.
Now, the bibie which alone affords any
satisfactory information of our origin, du
ty and end, or any satisfactory informa
tiOn of higher and happier state of eXis
lance than the present; is a like suited L
all classes of society and TO all the circum
stances of human life. II is the plail
christians manual, and the learned man
text booki The gi,h mans aseE:..55:s;;. - 4.