Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-06-21
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IIou. George G. Cab,l is reported Us quite ii
@. his home lu Dao7il:?.
Mrs B,dsir, wife OF DR.. r. +. Baldwin.
superintendent of the Westera II71a!:c Asylum
a. Stsurton, died yesterday.
Tho Superintendent Of Schools Of Price
William county has made an epportioumsnt 81
the County School Fund Of SO cents rer hesa
Of The school population.
Mr. James NJ. Sinclair. who lives a2eu:
wo miles southwest Of Breutsvlllc, Pfrce
William county, has q cat which uursjs and
| takes cares Of brood Of young ducks.
A lumber Of the leading c,lored people oil
Richmond scfcnadcd Gen. Bradley J. } ohnson
| Thursday evening. He responded, giving III N
some coed advice.
Mrs Scott, wifs Rev. A. T. Scott, pastor Ct
| Ephcsua, died last Saturday at the residence
Other husbard ucar DlusViIle, 10 Essex county.
Mrs. Scott has bcc1 prosritcd by disease Tor
months past.
The county levy Of Prize, William c>unly
has been fix. ID at 30 cents on tho o1e hundred
dollars worth Ct real and personal prop r'y.
| The county school tax was put at III oents ca
the huDdred dollars W5rth Of prtpiI'y.
Prince William is engaged 10 payioE for the
killing CT c-oEs fer herself ard the aoj )nnl
couo.ies Nearly two thousaId Crows have
bscu killed 10 the asi six months, ccst!Ig the
people slG0.
Spsrc Webb, Of Petersburg did yesttr-
DIV from the effects of Sc f Inflicted pistol shot
in tho head. Hc had borrowed Inc pistol, and
shot himself while standing 10 front Ct arrcit S
Hotel. lie was 10 61arcisl distress and had
been fined fer s,lias liquor without license.
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Mr.. Goodc from the Committee 90 EJidenic
DISEASES, reported q bill approprlstin!g $25''
600 for the establishment of q quarantine hcs-
pl,sl 10 Hampton Roads. which vas referred TO
the Comn i:tee Of the Whole.
A cyclone passed through the southern per
ton Of Albclmarle cjunty Gu Sunday las:, wAleh
was quiet Instructive. Ii pasStd trom east
10 West, its track b:ibg shut four hundred
yards wide. The wind was ttri:Gc 10 lis yiG'
ence tearing up the largest trees ~ the roofs,
dcstroyisg lcac.s. and pros:raiog the cram IN
the fields over which it PASSED.. n heavy log
tuilIlpg, twenty feet square, on the premises
Of Mr.. r. J. L ciie, WAS blown to the grcuLd.
COMMUNICATED.
Search the Scriptures; for in them sc
think We hayo eternal life and they are they
which testify of me-John 9th chap. 18th Yer.
Most people would say the absvo is pretty
Good authority for Asserting that there acre
Scriptures to be searched in tho days when
Chris. was 90 earth, and yet, stiarge to say.
there ore those who deny tho fact, aad disuiai n
their authority, and assert that they arc tho
productions ,f mere men, and anoug them.
stranger still to- say, grave d!gn!tar7 CT
protested Christian Church.
| Others again, who call themselves Christians,
strain these scriptures to maze them, ii pest
bic, conform TO their cratic and long cherished
theories and spacuiatioGs, aud il Is DO woGder
that m1py uoeducated, as we'll as educated,
who will not search" fall Toto doubts, not
oaly as to tho authority, but tho autheEll'ity
of tho Scriptures.
| [ propose, with the consent of The Elitor ct
tho Gazstte, to give, through its columns,
soma statistics TO prove, not nnly their authcn
ITCHY, but wonderful preservation, from the
days OF Moses, who wrote tho frat Eve books
aud now, the oldese hooks 10 existence, having
bccp written moro than three thousand, three
hundred years ago,
7htse Books aateGao any pro'ano history,
whoa have reached our times. BY about one
THOUSAND years, ucrodotus and ThucydGcs,
being amoue, if cot thu very ol(tSt CT which
$50 have any acc0uot.
TIE fsct, Of the preservation Of the Scriptures
CT tho Old Testament, will appear the more
remarkable, if we copsidsr Two points: lst.
The jews. who had the care of these books,
we're, ct dIffslcnt periods olthcir history. very
dcspiscd and oppressed people, sec Judges Glib
chap. 1st Samuel 18Th char; 81 kogs IL b
char; . Chrou. II h char; 81 kng9 18th
CHAP; 81 Kiogs 2l chsp; 81 Chrop. 81 IA
CHAP; AID jeremiah 52l chap. Duriug their
seventy years captivity 10 Babylon, thlir lem
pie was burned; tho very ark, 10 which the eli
pinal COPY oil the law had been kept, Was de-
stroyed; all tho glory If the JeHish worship
perishcd, and their city. being laid Waslc, CON
Iinued 10 that state for more than huudrlG
years-scc Nehemiah q chart- But even 10
this captivity, VIC have traces Of TITO prcserVa-
ton of their Serptures-see DaoIel Oh chap
aud Nehemiah Sth cnap. Ar!iochas Ep'
phsues when be took Jerusalem, murdered about
forty thousand Ct its Inhabitants, sold as many
more to be saves, and ordered, that whoever
was iouad with the book Of the law should De
put 10 death; end every copy OF it, that c3u!d
be fouGd was turnt Yet even 10 this fiery
trial, which lasted three years, the Scriptures
were preserved.
81. Tie constant disposition Of tho Jews to
idoIatry, before the Baby lonish captivity. was
calculated, humany speaking, TO cudaDger the
safety of the sacred voiune-Jezebcl, the wife
of King Of Israel, attempting the utter de
struction of the prophets OF tho LJrd. Is.
Kings 18th chap. aud With them, as necessary
consequ,noo Of tho sacred books; and 50 far, la.
deed, did these and their similar attempts suo
csed, that in subsequent period Of their bis
tory, josiah, pous King Ct Judah, aud Hi
kiah the high priest, were destitute Ct aa au
tbeu,c copy of the Scriptures, until the latter
found it 10 the house Ct the L7rd-2l Kings
% CHAP; and 81 Chron. 34th chap.
Ucder these circumstances, is it not remnk
able that the Scriptures Of tho jews are tra5s
lated into moro than hundred languages, aud
millions Of copies Of them Gre now IN cirouIa
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