The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1882-05-12
TO
Young Men!
All young men contemplating marriage,
Will find it to their interest to call on
Wicks & Eckford,
Insurance Agents, old Spratt & French
bank building. so I'm
stealing the Bible.

The Bible that has done solemn service
In the United States Senate for tifty-three
years, and on which every Senator during
that period has taken the constitutional
oath, and which he has kissed in presumed
sincerity, has been stolen. The supposition
is, says a dispatch, that it was taken as
rolic. OF what use it could be to any one
az isH" when at any time. on the dscov-
cry OF IL, IL cotna hn reclaimed, is not seen.
BESIDES, It is copy OF tho Rible that is
probably by no means the one offs cui,ion
Bibles purchased are usually preserved
This one does not contain the autographs
of Senators to distinguish it from any other
The touching of lips upon it has not left
visible impressions. 1t is not like a work
of art, a single production, and therefore of
particular intrinsic value. There are, I'M
doubleday, several other copies of this edi-
ton in existence any one of which, if not
distinctively marked, might be palmed of
for the Senatorial treasure, although not
upon authorities at Washington. 1t can be
of no special value to thief He dare not
offer it for sale. He may expect a reward
to be offered for its return; but if so, he is
probably doomed to disappointment. Or
he may have taken it through some vindic-
tive motive. If he has, as supposed. pur-
Joined it rs relic, it is something that
neither he nor his childrens children can
ever show outside the family circle. The
presumption is that he has stolen it in the
expectation ola reward for it. Wretches
sometimes invade the grave and carry of
its contents in the hope of a reward for
restoration. Sometimes wretches will rob
the poor box" at the entrance door of
churches. Butte steal the Bible when any
body unable to.purchase one can have Il
copy by asking for it, is something that is
in conceivable except on the hypothesis OF
insanity, or malice or strange greed.
When Shakespeare wrote Of those who
wear the livery OF Heaven to serve the dew
| il in. he wrote of another class of Bible
thieves. "The devil can quote Scripture
he says, and it is true that where the text
of the Scripture is plain, perversion of il
is theft of its meaning. This does not APP
ply to disputed passages, nor to various in
terpretations of certain passages on which
honest creeds are founded. 1t has reference
solely to those who seek to palliate misdeeds
by disconnected quotations from the Holy
Writ. This is stealing the Bible in more
heinous sense than feloniously taking it r
its material form and binding from another
TO torture the Bible out of its signifi cation
for the purpose Of condoning moral offenses
or of eXcusing civil ones, is theft of tn,
highest degree, although it may not be re
cognized as such in the Criminal Code. II
steals the honesty of the Scriptures and puts
dishonesty in its place. Itrobs them OF sin
certify which it replaces with nsincerity
This kind of sacrilegious theft is common
but it is no less abhorrent While it ma,
occasionally ease guilty conscience, tner'
has been virtually breaking of at least on
of the Commandments, Commandment
whicht is hoped the thief of the Senate Bib
will read to his own advantage-San Fya,,
cisco Bulletin.
The Bible has been returned to the Senat
Chamber as mysteriously as it went.