The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-03-22
EDITOR TREE NoRIaERNER:


In the True Northerner of March I'd IAN
Outsider" seems TO settle the controversy on
the inspiration of the Bible by saying the
miracles OF the sacred volume "are excelled
by Chinese and Japanese jugglers OF our own
time" Eat this is only an assertion from
degraded mind without the least proof, for
single comparison OF the two will prove the as
sertion to be false and perncious.
What has the juggIery that "An Outsider
places higher than the Word of God done for
the two countries named {? We're the people
any better for being under its pernicious infu-
ence? No: they sank into untold depths OF
degradation. Mothers would sacrifice their
own infants to gods OF wood and stone. Mat
tiers have changed in that benigbted land--but
jugglery, infidelity nor outsidersm wrought
the change--the people are throwing off the
CHAINS OF ignorance and superstition through
the influence Of the BIble the people are for
sakIng sinful ways aud lead purer lives than
thousands of Outsiders" in our own free
land. Who but an ignorant inideI dare place
Chinese iugglery, with its heathensm, idolatry
and superstition, against the Bible, with its
teachings Of love- holiness and the way to
heaven3 How can such wicked outsiders utter
such falsehoods, presuming upon the ignorance
of the masses for their acceptation Does
AN Outsider" think his course in harmony
with the pure and holy God OF whom he
speaks? Still, Gan Outsider tells of "just
and mercliul Cod" Now, could He possess
either of those attributes and leave the untold
millions Of the human race to grope their way
In darkness through this sinful world Thanks
be unto God for lamp to our feet and guide
to our path, and if an outsider lives in the
darkness OF sin through life and be cast into
outer darkness for all eternity, he must suffer
the consequences.
If Outsider could accomplish his design and
rank the Bible with such obscene literature as
outsiders generally peruse, the whole world
would soon be as depraved as himself. II he had
spark of the religion of his stern old Presby-
terrain parents" he would have used more lov-
ing terms in speaking of those who loved and
reverence God through his word soon lose all
love for those that love them most. IAN
Outsider" seems to feel above his christian
parents. II he has better way for himsef
and the world to live, he ought to enlighten
the world; but his own language in the article
referred to proves that he has not IAN Out
slider" forgets that the Bible is a mirror to re-
veal the character Of every phase Of humanity
from the purest to the vilest; and II the OBJ
scene chapters to which he refers were not in
the Bible his case might not be reached at all |
Bltz. the magician, on a level with God. Could |
not the Creator of both Balaam's ass and "An
Outsider speak through the ass with long ears
as easily as the devil could use on outsider with
ears not quite 80 long? Outsider had better
get inside the truth, inside the Church of Christ
by thorough cleansing from sin, than live
outside the sheep-fold OF purity and be an out
slider to all eternity, for "a just and merciful
God has SAID that all sinners unsaved shall be
left outside the City OF Light.
Outsider seems to be Beecherite, for when
against hell he said 81 swear by
the name of the Lord Jesus Christi; but his
friends say "this is but the utterance Of an
orator." Will Outsider please tell
US the difference between the uttersnce OF an
npassioned orator and an impassioned sinner?
Undoubtedly Outsiders stern old Presby-
terrain parents" have gone through the gates
into the clty of the glory world, but the out
siders are without among the sorcerers and
and murderers. and idoaters,
and whatsoever loveth and maketh lie. Out
slider numbers himself among "slaves in bond
age" but only the Jesus that he slandered can
make him free. ALTER Zoo.