The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1880-12-02

took for his text tie s5th verse Of the
24.h chapter ofSt, MattheW, "Heay-
"a apd earth shall pass away, but my
weld shall not pass away"
gHE sRBuoE--''IsFHE BIBzT JMAeRk.
AID FALsE"
What IL that scrolled, elaspea,
Dore-illr sTated volume living on the
cloth fof thq drawing room centre
table, WAst volume is il deiaced
land worn. aud lead -penciled lying on
the CLERKS desk in the court room 2
What volume is it that the gowned
professor reads in the college chapel
What golame is it that Is packed
away by loypghands % the trunk on
the morning Of the young mau's leay.
ing home Z What volume Is 1t on
which lhe judges of the Supreme
Court Of the United States and all
our Presidents take their oath oil
Office? or what volume have The
printers made 200,00O,00O copies Z
II is the book on which inldelity
puts its hands to day and cries,
Surrender Shall we do 50, is tie
question Of the day and OF lhe hour.
For years I have heard mauy com
plants made against the bible, and I
have classified these complaints, and
| haye found them TO be four
THE BIBLE IS. .IMrURE
/ The bible is cruel. The biblef IA ron
tsa1ietory. lie bible Is unscientifc
lTo,prove that the bibleis impure its
enemies read portions Of scripture
which they say is unfit for the eve and
ear or family circle. They read Sol
omon's song and put upon it their
nwn Interpretations, and then nins
down the book denouncihg It as i
polluted volume Is the bible i'm
pureY I lay it down as a principle
that an impure book will have impure
results No man will deny that nrop
osition. or all your friends Low
many OF them have had therpurity
Of soul stained, taruished or despoil
ed bY sefipiural perusaI? Two
hundred million copies of an Impure
book scattered throu th Chtist,ndom
There must be a great many gictilas
Show me a thousand victims. Show
me 300 victims Show me hundred
SHOW me Gig Shou me ten. Sh1v
ne one victim Is that exhorbitant9
/ ! 10 net care What the specimen is
as,hrf man women, child, white
/ back, cuptrr rvufeffi sslli,ss ,,}i.4s.
Euporean, Asiatic Afrleah Two
hundred millions Of books, in each
volume OF which is the leprosy Of
impuTiiyi ShoH me one victim. 1
do not cophBe you to our own time
Range through al the 1000 years that
have passed and show me one soul
whose chastity and purity have been
despoiled and ruined by bible peru
sal I challenge al earth and bell
for one victim Your charge col
lapses and dies in the presence Of
every frank,minded man, SO far from
| the bible being m impure book you
Know very veii that IL Is only where
the bible reigns that the family instI
tuition Is regarded. The only differ
ence between Sodoin and Constant
nople and Pekin and Madras, on the
other side, and our American cities
on The othef, in regard to the status
fof purity or impurity, is the differ
enoe between bible or no bible. II
the bibic be an impure book, / am
only asking Of you 4 fair thing when
Task that after 200,O0O,000 copies
have been doing their work, you show
me one victim Charge The second
THE BIBLE Is CRUEL
/ 70 prove this the enemies OF the
bible give % the story oftbe ancient
wars, passages 10 the history Of Da-
| vid and Joshua, the extermlhalioa
Of the Canaanites, and then declare
that the bible approves Of laceration
abd manslsughtet You have known
/ a great lhany people have this "erneP'
book their hahds. Was the effect
Of tbIs roel" book Upon them to
sen haisn toYard vivisection, toward
nj tment, toward maulingY Did
/ yoq Hledils come ont practically and
say, ~ have dsn reading about the
ext dhationn the Canaaniles, and
lhoe nedh 70 eat, stah, bruise ana
beatto pieces every one can meet ~
I As your children have studied the
bible have they cot more and more :
tendency 20 pull off the wings OF aies,
and to pih grasshoppers, and to rob
birds nests2 II The bible ls cruel.
Why does it not show its cruelty in
| (bat directionY SO Tar from lts being
/ true, aHthe aiylums and institutions
Of mercy IL this country have been
/ founded By bible believers. When
Y did this s'bloody book, p so called BY
some, implant cruelty in the heart Of
/ George Peabody, OF Miss Dix, Of
Il Florence Nightingale, Of John How
, ard, OF John Frederick 0berlIn, 81
Abbott Lawrenee2 Look at those
twenty cLtistian women N a hoaptal.
They arc washing wounds thsY arc
administering cofdlals; they are tax
ing The last message OF The expifine.
Those christian woman have BEN
freading this book 81 their lives, aud
now they are reading Il 70 the sick
land dying At ahal point does the
erurllyof this book crop cut 10 the
life Of that minis,oflag angel IN lhs
hospitalY DoyQd andit n the gen.
tleness of her step, oFiH The cadencs
pf her voice, oy ID AeF prayer for ths
dying Lord Jesas receive BIZ
spIritfe When Y0uean make q ros.
lsah pierce Ike aba9onst, when yot
can make iclclaa out Of the Soull
slnd; when gsn can poison lhl
tongue with honey made aui of bios
somlng buokwheat lhan 700 60 ing
Il paopla ptacliaIae cruelty aes
iron zh6 hlblo sIe5 he a|fd
rnE bInLR IA satniNfeaE.
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