Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-08-12

teral IN those times being dried clay instead
| OF burned, while in other parts they find the
remains Of the fire in heaps Of charcoal that
have been excayated, and In the calcined
slabs Of gypsum: Who was right, the Bible or
| inhdelity!
| Moses intimated that they had vineyards in
| Egypt Absurd cried hundreds Of voices,
you can'traise grapes In Egfpt or, IL you can
| II is very great exception that you can raise
| them" But the traveller goes down, and In
the underground vaults OF Elithya be finds
painted on the wall all the process Of tending
the vines and trcadng out the grapes. 1t Is
all there, Familiarity sketched by people who
evidently knew all about 1t, and saw 1t all
about thom every day, and in those under
ground vaults there are vases still encrusted
with the settings of the vine. You see the
vine did grow in Egypt, whether 1t grows there
now or not,
TllE GOOD BOOKS STYLE RIGHT.
Thus you see that while God wrote the
Bible, at the same time he wrote this commen-
tary, "that the statutes Of the Lord are
right,n on leaves of rock and shell, bound In
| clasps of metal, and lying on mountain tables
and in the iewcled vase of the sea. In anthem
ITCHY and infgcnuneness the statutes OF the
Lord are right.
Second--Agani The Bible Is right in style.
] know there are n great many people who
think 1t is merely collection of genealogical
tables and dry facts. That is because they do
not know how to read the book You take up
ten, aud II you commence at the four hun
drcdth page to-day and tomorrow ut the
three hundredth, and the next day at the first
page, how much sense or interest would you
I get frem il Yet that is the very process to
-whiclrthe Bible is subjected every day. An
angel from heaven, reading the Bible in that
way, could not understand 1t. The Bible, like
all other palaces, has door by which 10 en-
ter, and door by which to go out. Genesis
is the door to go in and Revelations the door
to 20 out.
These epistles of Paul the apostle are mere
ly letters written, folded up and sent by post
men TO the different churches. DO YOU read
other letters the way you read Paul's lettersi
Suppose you get a business letter, and you
know that In it there are important financial
propositions, do you read the third page, and
another of the second, and another of the
first! No. You begin with 'Dear sr' and
end with yours truly" Now, here IL a letter
written from the throne of God to our lost
world; 1t is full of magnificent hopes and pro.
positions, and We dip in here and there, and
we know nothing about it.
WRONG TIMFs FOR READING.
Besides that, people read the Bible when
they can not do anything else 1t is a dark
day, and they do not feel well, and they DO
not 60 to business, and after lounging about
bit they pick up the Bible, their mind refuses
to enjoy the truth; or they come home weary
from the store or shop and they feel, If they
do not say, 1t is dull book. While the Bible
is TO be read on stormy days and while your
head aches and when your nerves like harp
strings thrum the song of health. While your
vision is clear walk in this paradise of truth,
and while your. mental appetite is good, pluck
these clusters Of grace.
am fascinated with the conciscness Of this
book. Every word is packed full Of truth.
Every sentence Is double-barrced. Every
paragraph is like an old bauyan tree with a
hundred roots and-a hundrtd branches. it is
a great arch; pull out one stone and it all
comes down. There has never been a pearl
diver who could gather up one-half Of the
treasures in any verse. John Halsebach of
Vienna for twenty-one years every Sabbath
expounded to his congregation the first chap
ter of the Book ofIsaiah. and yet did not get
through with it, Nine-tenths of all the good
literature OF this age is merely the Bible di-
luted.
GREAT WRITERS QUOTE LITERALLY.
Goethe, the admired of all skcptics, had the
| wall Of his house AT Weimer covered with re-
lgious maps and pictures. Millions Paradise
LOST is part Of the Bible in blank verse
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered" is borrowed
from the Bible. Spencer's writings are imita-
tons of the parallels. John Bunyan saw in a
dream only what Saint John had seen before
in Apocalyptic vision Macaulay crowns his
| Most gigantic. sentences with Scripture quota
tons Through Addison's Spectator" there
glances in and out the stream that broke from
the throne Of God clear as crystal. Walter
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| rifles the witch of Endor, Shakcspeare's Lady
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prophecies. The writings of Pope are satura-
| ted with Isaiah, and he finds his most success
full theme in the Messiah. The poets Thomson
auu 1uiiiiSoii tne'' Yns III 'HG stsic VI
.nT 'nSPlLeu Ollemans, in2i'inS IdlHic -
onlS pien ' u' ~ t.ul ~ ah,,
smHnutI ii'S tniouSH VIZ ,anco anu PAIN VI tIis
I.nPI' i uoi'ai.i u DtD i"3 ait .n ny
ga A.lieI ICaii, Ensnsu, ueLihan, spa .o..'
I,'Ilih Poeto' P'i'eie' 'i"'olo "n'' iheVoii'
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| bEo LIES FUND IN ihE bpoh.
!e 10 thcfe III ine "9iIu OIL PoeIic ue-
sIi any thlhS ihe Joy. 'Iail pii,s,
heiShIhS, PAVING hSntnh!-i oaiGu thuH E
heCheu war morse! DI!ueh ; Mn'oii ;, S9 1s,,
FER tcilpesls are very tame compared WIN ~
DaNiu STORM Ihat wrecks Tue mountains "
htpaunn any sh'yers tne "!Iuer s % , haS'-
ISM why u seems as II 10 lhc ieet OF these
blole writers mountains brought an ,nSir
gems, ana the seas an Ihelr pearls, ana the
| suluehs az their Il''lh'5ic.ucei anu 'u m
spring al us blossoms, unu .he iIiINests ~,
thelr Weaitn, anu heaven All Grahucur' anu
| eterhiIN All ltS stupehuous tcalllics' anu tha'
since then poets, ana orators, ana rhetor,
iclahs nave 2een uLihhluS irUlh cAIaus'eu
fountains anu searching lot ulailohus Ill
realm utterly riieu ana rahsackeu
/. MS DOCK IS tne hlye OF an sweetness. Ii Is
the artnory OF all wen tempered weapons; II
Is the tower containing the crown JeWels OF
the universe IL Is me lamp that klhuies an
othcr lights IL Is the nome Oh all maJesiles
ana spienaors. II Is inc marriage ring ihaI
unltes inc ceiestlai anu the terrestrial, WINE
I an tle clustering white r9Ded uenizehs Oh the
sKy hoVerlng around reJoice al the nuptlals.
rms DooK-t IS the wreath INTO Whicn are
twisted al garianus' ~ Is the song lhto WHlcn
are struck all harm0hies' IL Is tne river lntu
when are poured all the great tides oil hale,
luJah: 1t Is the armament In which suns ana
moons and stars ana CONSIDERATIONS ana UNI,
verse and eternitieS whecl ana blaze ana
triumph. Where Is the young mans soul WIN
any music IN II that is not stirred WIN JACOB
Lament, or Nahum's drSe, or Hahakkuk
ulthyramDic, or iauls inarch OF thc reSur'
rection, or Johns anthem where the elders
with doXology on their faces respond 10 the
trumpet past OF the ArchahGel as Ne stahus
1 Win one 1901 on the sea ana the other ioot Oh
the lahd' swearing 10y iiiih that hVetn forever
ana ever that time shali De no longer;
am also amazed AT the variety oil this DOCK
Mind you not contradiction or collision, bul
variety. just as IN the song you nave Inc
basse and alto and soprano ana tenor
they! are not IN coillslon WIN each other pu'