Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-20

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man sorites to him QsLing hon the Sun and
MoOa stood still, and Aoeo a child could be
born Of a origin.
froma reported in the n. independently
Now the Bible Iisnota book which q man is
ito reverence as5if it were god; assif it We're
anything but the voice of one crying in the
Wilderness, to lead men to Christ; as if it were
anything bnt n highway cast up, along which
men are to wal toward the celestial city; as if
lit were5anything but a book to tell us how to
act, and what to be-. The Billie is your guide
book.. Take3it; read it; go where it directs you
Ito. go; see for yourself what it describes. When
the Bi6le tells you what man is, what he.
should be, and what he needs in order to be
changed, go8to the substance Of the thing 8spo-
kenEof. The truthao of the Word of God is to be
found Eoutside.of the Bible, not inside of it. II
declares that al men Sinners look up and
toutl There are the men before you. Look at
them! Is it true that they are selfish, proud,
lwordly2 If it declares that there is such a
thing as the grace Of God, you are to7vindcatc
that statement by putting yourself in the posi-
tloni which that grace can take effect, and see
llifstt be real. You must openeyour heart to the
touch of the Divine power, if you would know
whether there is power, shed abroad on the
yOuFEOWtl#
Inot5in the dead letter. The proof Of the decla.
rationsg of the Bible are TO- found by the,ac
ttual experiences of daily life. tits by your
life and disposition that you are to find out
whether the Bible is true or not, n#so far as it
speaks of man. And when man says, 81 be-.
Elleye in religion when ] see it exempi6ed in
true Christians; butwhen I see religion as it is
lin the Bible, l. donot believe in it, he states
what's true of every other nanras well AS him
Eselt Neither do believe in religion as it is in
the letters nor8do you; nor does anybody. A
man might as well say to me, When ] hear
birds singing, think ther5music is exquisitelyz
Beautifully; but when gound look at the eggs in.
the nest, do not hear anything delightful in.
the music there" No, of course not-espc-
4 clally il the eggs have been hatched, and the
birds have flown away, and nothing is left but
the shellS
ItiSlx5ittsn, Come see the5plaee where the
4 Bible)s to5see where Christ lay, but they will
Inot look up to see the living Christ right be-
fore them. There is no longer a1y dead Christ.
Hslis the living Christ TO you, or he is nothing.
If you would know " neither the Bible be true
you do by a chart. A chart is nothing butEa
piece Of paper, nyhew; and what good doesit
do for hall a dozen captains to sit down on the
shore and discuss its merits? How can they
know whether its descriptions are correct or
not? Let them take it2on board and prove it
Ivy Is
found true on trial. II there is rock " here.it
A says rock; if there is shoal where it says
IsSshoal; if there is current wheret says Hcur.
zIrcnt;" it. is safe where it says safe then it
lS.a true chart, no matter who made it, or how,
or when, or where it was made. It's the sea
4 that5iS the best commentator on chart, and
human life5is the test of the Bible.
Take Gods word, in which human life is all
chartered down, and measure character and con.
duct, and all the changes possible in the human
soul, by y; measure Gods grace promised and.
realized, by i; measure your whole earthly be.
ling byzlt and see If it is not struei Would you
know the truth of Christianity? Become. a
Il Christian! IT any man will do my will, !" says
Christ, The shall know of the doctrine which
tcach..'' 81
Is. Ido.not, however, shrink from the minutest
Investigation OF sacred writ; and if man asks.
me, you suppose the sun and moon ever
stood still! l reply that suppose there was q
i phenomenon whichis appropriately described
lin those words. 1 believe 1nQuestionably that
there was, at the time referred TO- an.appearance
i like that of the standing still of the sun and
j moon. What was the cause Of that appearance.
i neither know nor care to know. Whether the!
earth food still, or whether some other optical
i ettectsWas produced, is a5matter Of no moment.
tits enough that there was an effect produced
which answered to these representations, and
which served the purposes Of God with the
armies OF Israel. Naturcsis always described in
i the Bible from its dppedlYtrce Not from the
scientific, but front the poetic and pictorial stand
point, is every thing described.
lfaman asks, Do you suppose that virgin
can 6o;a motheF?n my reply. is: The New Tesla
1nent tells. us that the Saviour was conceived Of
/ the Holy Ghost and born Of woman. The
IeventSwas so fur removed from the ordinary
processes Unnatural law, that i have no Difficult
ty in believing that it occurred as tits described
blythe power Of God. Shall I believe that He
who ordained, from#the beginning Of the world,
that we should spring into life from the life aud
/ body otsanother could not control that wonder
fulsarFangement, SO that his Son should be born
of asWoman2 The marvel to me is, that men
aresever born of man and woman at all that
God ordained such gate from the other lileinto
this.
lean enough wonder at that profound
and sacred mystery wheret two lives, qnickened
intosunion BY the rapture of unspcakable love,
flash forth thespark Of another being. Itseeuls
to me, in view of the perpetuated marvel of the
beginnings human. life, very. little thing to
supPose that God could make special use OIL
those powers. And when the myriad wombsI
that since the dawn oftine have issued the
human race have received the power to dositI
i from the s11vin bra