Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-02-15

the Emperor of Russia. Our cata
l,gue of the books of the Bible cor
responds exactly with catalogues
made centuries ago. Thirty nine
booksin the Old Testament 1000 years
ago and thirty mine books now twen,
ty seven books of the New Testament
1000 years ago, and just twenty sev'
en- now. Marcion, in the Second
century, was turned out Of the church
and he assailed Christianity, but IN
his indignation he gives a list of the
Bible corresponding with our own
Assaulted, spit on, torn to pieces
mathematical, burned, yet still ad-
herring, I ask you as men AID wo'
men of common sense if you think
that good God would allow thi:
book to get into 800 languages and
into 500. 600 600 copies and now con
front four tifths Of the human race
in their own tongue if the book were
not true and right? Assailed and
found fault with more than any boob
ever written or printed, yet more
widely spread and more potent than
ever, Do you not think it look:
as though in its present shape il
were divinely projected and cared
for 4?
The epidemics that are constantly
sweeping tens of thousands OF book.
Into the sepulchre of torgetiulness
only seem to brighten the fame o.
this. Not one OF a thousand books
lives year. Not one OF fifty thou.
sand will live a century. All OF the
Bible has lived eighteen centuries
and much of it fifty eight centuries
and has more rebound than When
Grst put upon parchment or papyrus
This book SAW the cradle OF all other
books, and will see their graves.
Though at fifty centuries of age you
might suppose it would
GO HoBBL1NG IN DECREPITUDE
on two crutches, it outruns all human
books in circulation and in influence
Waiter Scott's Waverley Novels
Macaulay's History of England and
the most popular books Of the centu-
ries have not had 80 many copies
published in the last ter years as the
Bible. You have no idea how hard
it is for book to get through one
century or two centuries. There was
FIRE in seraglio at Constantinople
aud some old volumes were thrown
into the street. One Of them was
picked up by an ignorant man who was
examining it. A scholar locked over
his shoulder, and seeing it was the
frat and second decade Of Ivy be
offered the man 3 large reward to
prt it under his coat ard follow him
to the scholars rooms. But they got
separated in the FIRE and so forever
was lost the book of Livy. Piiny
wrote twenty books Of history-all
lost. The most OF Neander's writings
are lost. Of l50 comedies Of Plau.
tus, all gor- but twenty. Euripldes
wrote hundred dramas-all gone
but nineteen. -E,chy!us wrote loo
dramas-all gone but seven. Varro
wrote the laborious biography OF 700
Romans-not fragment left. Quin-
lillian wrote his favorite book on the
corruption Of Eloquence all lost,
Thirty books of Tacitus lost. Dion
Cassius wrote eighty books and only
twenty remain. Berssius' history lost
Almost all the books are mummifed
in the tombs of old libraries, touched
perhaps once in twenty years BY some
man who, after blowing the dust of,
finds that it is q book he does no;
want. The fact that the Bible has
kept right on in its present shape
and here in the latter part OF the
Nineteenth century is more discussed
,han any other book, and stands ex
citing the admiration Ct all the good
and challenging the spite and wick
edness and animoaity and hypercriti-
cism of all earth and hell prove that
it is fit 10 live and that it ne Is nc
court plaster to cover up imperfec-
tions aud wounds, no help from doe
tors medical, or doctors theological
or doctors philosophic, or doctors
evolutionist. Is it not miracle oI
protection Just as tits, andis not that
an indication of how God wants it Z:
Man added the apocryphal books o.
the Old Testament, but they fell out
Council of Trent, Bishops at Hippo
and the Synod al Jerusalem declared
the apocryphal books must stay IN
but they stayed out. No man to-day
would put the books Of Judith and
Susanna and Maccabees beside the
books of Deuteronomy, or job, OF
Psalms. So attemps innumerable have
besn made to add to the New Testa.
ment gospels and epistles and apoca'
lypse, but they all dropped right out
Of the SOo,ooo,0O0 copies not one
has left out book Of the Bible. Di
vinely protected age after age in iti
present shape. it is evident God
lies Il as il is. and We ought to like