The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-09
be laughed at for standing by the Bible
just as God has given it to you and mi
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be laughed at for standing by the Bible
just as God has given it to you and mi
raculously preserved it.
Do not jump overheard from the
stanch old Great Eastern of old fashioned
orthodoxy until there is something ready
to take you up stronger than the fan
tastic yawl which has painted on the
side advanced Thought" and which
leaks at theprow and leaks at the stern
and has a steel pen for one oar and a
glib tongue for the other oar, and now
tips over this way and then tips over
that way, until you do not know whether
the passengers will land in the breakers
of despair or on the sinking sand of inf
deity and atheism.
am ia full sympathy with the ad-
vancements of our time, but this world
will never advance a single inch beyond
this old Bible. God was just as capable
of debating the truth to the prophets and
apostles as he is capable Of debating the
truth to these modern apostles and
prophets. God has not learned any
thing in a thousand years. He knew
just as much when he gave the first die
tation as he does now giving the last die
tation, if he is giving any dictation at all.
So will stick to the old paths. Naturally
skeptic and preferring new things to
old, l never so much as today felt the
truth of the entire Bible, especially as l
see into what spectacular imbecility men
rush when they try to chop up the Scrip
lures with the meat ak of their own
preferences, now calling upon philosophy,
now calling on the church, now call
ing on God, now calling on the
devil. prefer the thick, warm robe Of
the old reigion-old as God-the robe
which has kept SO many warm amid the
cold pilgrimage of this life and amid the
! chills of death. The old robe rather than
the thin, uncertain gauze offered us by
these wiseacres who believe the Bible in
spots.
On July 27, 1914, at 70 years of age,
expired Isabella Graham. She was the
most useful woman Of her day amid the
poor and sick, at the head of the orphan
asylums and Magdalen asylums, and an
angel of mercy In hospital and reforma-
tory. DR.. Mason, one of the mightfest
men of his day, said at her funeral that
she was mentally and spiritually the most
wonderfully endowed person he had ever
met. She was an impersonation of the
most orthodox orthodoxy. Her last word
was peace. As sublime peroration to
my sermon, will give an extract from
her last will and testament, showing how
one who believes in an entire Bible NAV
make a glorious exit.
An extract from will:
''My children and my grandchildren
leave to my covenant God, the God who
hath fed me all my life with the bread
that perisheth and the bread that never
perisheth, who has been a Father to my
fatherless children and husband to their
widowed mother thus far. And now re-
ceiving my Redeemer's testimony, l set
to my seal that God is true; and believing
the record of John that God hath given
to me eternal life and this life is in his
Son, who, through the eternal Spirit,
overcomes without spot unto God, and,
being consecrated a priest forever,
hath with his own blood entered into the
holy place, having obtained eternal re-
| demption for me. l also believe that he
will perfect what concerns me, support
and carry me safely through death, and
present me to his Father, complete in his
own righteousness, without spot or
wrinkle. Into the hands of this redeem
ing God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 1
commit my redeemed spirit.
| Graham"
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and let my last end be like hers. "Glory
be to the Father and to the Son and to
the Holy Ghost; as it was in the begin
ming, is now and ever shall be, world
| without end Amen and amenr'