Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-03-09

Yet something was tight, yes, drunk, last night,
So drunk it could scarcely crawl;
Perhaps twas the brim of a crownless hat,
That found by my garden wall.
So for fear am wrong, and somebody's right,
Ny hasty words recall,
And say that the Thing saw last night,
Was HObOdys son-thats all.
Historical Evidences of the Truth OF the
Scriptures.
We presume that all our readers are not
aware how rapidly and how remarkably ev-
idence to establish the truth of the Scrip
ture records is being brought forth from the
monumental, and other remains, of the
buried past.
Had tho foresight and wisdom of man
been employed from the building of Baby
Ion TO the fall of the Roman Empire, to COL
lect and preserve from age to age such tes-
timonials as might best meet and confute
the skepticism Of the present day in regard
to the truthfulness of the historical portions
of the Bible, it would not have produced so
deep an impression upon our age as what
God has so wonderfully preserved, and un-
expectedly produced when needed most, to
confound all skepticism, and confirm the
faith of Christendom.
The assault which has been made by the
learning and subtlety of the German inf
deity upon the credibiity of the Scripture
narrative, has ended as every previous at
tack upon Christianity has done, in estab-
fishing its truthfulness more clearly and
firmly than before. Unbelicf is continually
stirred up to fresh attempts, in order to show,
as it would seem, that at every point the
system of Christ is absolutely invulnerable.
A few years only have passed since these
treasures of the ancient world, which so
completely, because undesignedly, prove
the truthfulness Of Scripture history, were
entirely unknown, and when first discovered
they were eagerly seized upon, as the very
weapons wherewith to destroy the credibili-
ty of the Bible. The shouts of triumph
with which the celebrated Zodiac of Den
dorah was hailed by the infidel philosophy
of Europe, because upon its first superficial
examination it was thought to sweep away
the whole chronology of the Scripture mar
ratives, have scarcely had time to die away
before Christianity has won for herself, and
beyond all fear of future reversal of the
worlds verdict, the whole field of evidence,
as drawn from the authentic records of ev-
cry great empire of the ancient world
Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Persia, Phenicia
have come forth from their tombs, at the
bidding of Christian science, and testify in
the clearest manner to the truthfulness ot
those records which form the historical ba
sis of the Christian system.
One of the most impressive proofs of the
genuineness of the books of the Bible is de
rived from the late minute and accurate in
vestigations of travellers in Palestine. Suci
is the minute faithfuness of the Sacred
Story, in all things connected with externa
things, that it forms the best possible hand
book for the tourist and no candid man, il
traversing that portion of the East will
the Bible in his hand, can escape the con
viction that its writer's lived among anC
were perfectly familiar with the scenes which
they describe.
Every great feature of the scene remain
and presents itself to the eye of the travel
er, precisely as they were described by Mo
ses and David and the Prophets, and will
the exceptions of the cities and towns, on,
knows that he is looking upon the yer,
scenes which their eyes beheld, and whicl
they described so faithfully, that they ar
recognized at once, after so many centurie
have passed away. The land of the Proph
cts and the wondrous people, the land o
signs and wonders, remains as the writers o
the Bible saw and described 1.-THE inhab
itants only are gone. Impressions equal,
strong in regard to the truth Of the Scrip
lures are derived from the exhumed remain
of the great empires Of the East will
which the Jewish nation stood connected.
The monuments of Egypt, the buriec
palaces of Babylon and Nineveh, and th,
Persian ruins, in connection with those O
Phenicia, have enabled Christian scholar
to reproduce the history, and even the as
pect-the manners and customs of pas
which reaches almost to the Deluge; ant
with the history of these ages that of tn,
Jewish people and their records has beef
found so interviewer, that the truthfulnes
of sacred history must be admitted, or al
ancient history must be abandoned at ono,
as false. To deny the credibility of tb,
Old Testament writers is not now to reiec
the Bible only, but it is to declare the Stat,
records of every ancient empire false. o
course, men in the enjoyment of right reas
on must not be expected to make this mon
strous assumption, and therefore, as we hav,
said, the truth of the Bible is far more firm
ly established than ever. Nor must We for
get that the proof Of the historical accura
cy of these writers in the circumstances il
which they wrote, carries with it the truth
fulness of their doctrines, unless we are pre-
pared to believe that perfect historical ac
curacy is connected with hypocrisy and dis
| honesty in doctrine. n;,,c;000t; Ho~ot,s