Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-10-31
The Bible-by Rev. !. M. soudder.

The Bible is unlike any other book respecting the at
tachent which have forit There is no other book
Of which you may not be surfeted But the more you
read the Bible the interesting are its sacred papes
It related that when the poet Scott was on his dying
bed, he said to Mr. Lockhart "Bring the book" "Of
poetryp "No." "Of the history which consulted in
the preparation of my hiStory?" "No" "What book Z"
sDo you ask what book w said the dying scholar There
is but one book, and that is the Bible"
Reference has been made to the circulation of the Bible
in the Crmea After giving you all due credit We can
say that we too in the United States have been doing
something At early day sent out an agent to Con-
santinope. From thence he went to the Crmea There
he found the French soldiers greedy for the Bible and he
has distributed among them all his Bibles Thereby
hangs tale. Some three four years ago Napoleon
the ignorance of reading among the soldiers of his
armies, and hired teacher for them. This man took
slate and pencil with which instruct thenl And what
the first book he gave them read 1t was French
transaton of the Gospel of ST. john This explains why
the French soldiers greedy for the Bible They
had been vaccinated with that tract mo man having
drunk old wine straightway desireth the new"
The Bible possesses wonderful reproductive power
1t has reduplcating influence in itself God has so pro-
yded that what is intended for the physical support of
is endowed with reproductive powers Christ says
"the seed of the Word of Godp "Behold sower went
forth to SOW" Sometimes think this intended not only
parable, but also proverb. And l thought that
while the Savior stood on the shore of Gaee and obsery
cd the sewng his seed broadcast that he stretched
his eye forward to the beginning of the 9th century, and
the British and American Bible Societies spreading
abroad that seed which is the Word"
Some few years ago mummy was brought into New
Yerk which had been taken from the Catacombs of
Egypt and among the bandages which swathcd it
found few grains of wheat of large size As curios
ity, it planted to whether would yield aught
VIII you believe it that from these few grains Egyptian
wheat has become almost staple the American market
that from that small quantity that thousands of bushels
are now annually brought to market few years ago.
comparatively little handful of wheat found in
monasty eff Europe. 1t the true seed of the Word
Martin Luther affected by it and led to translate
the Bible and publish it to the world The influence of
the Bible great though set in operation without Wis
ble nstumen.aity it will still perform its great mission
Tho speaker illustrated this by the thrilling of a.
prairie fire. The day is calm. The fire rises in spiral
columns moving point of the compass As it burns
the flames driven and on the grass feeds the fame
and the fire itself creates the breeze which fans the blaze
So it is with the Bible The Word contains in itself the
elements of progress The speaker remarked that there
had been agitation the subject of between
the United States and England But this would never be-
No will such attempt be made than the church
will throw the Bible between the beigelauts and they
dare not tmple its holy teachings The Bible has
made these two nations what they are and is the Bible
only which will make any nation prosperous.