Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-09-01

sweeping through the gates washed In thu
blood Of the Lambsn 1.-THE chariots ara
comingl" 81 mount. flyin wings, winesls
They are coming for mel" peace, be
stillf' Alfred Cookman's death bed, Richard
Cecirs death bed, Commodore Foote's DEATH
bed Your fathers death-bed, your mothers
death-bed, your sisters death-bed, your
child's death-bed. Ten thousand radiant.
songful death-beds of those who believed an
entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let US 90 through
that avenue, and look on upon the other
side. No smile of hope No shout of triumph.
No face systematically illumined. Those
who reject any part of the Bible
never die well No beckoning for
angels to come. No listening for the ce
lestial escort Without any exception they
go out of the world because they are pushed
out; while on the other hand the
list of those who believed in an entire
Bible AMI gone out of the world in
triumph is list so long it seems intermina-
able. Oh, is not that splendid influence, this
orthodoxy, which makes that which must
otherwise be the most dreadful hour OF life
the last hour-positively paradisaicals
Young men. old men. mddle-aged men,
take sides in this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodoxy. ASK for the old paths,
walk therein, and We shall find rest
for your souls. But YOU follow
this crusade against any part of the
Bibls-irst of all you will give up Genesis,
which is as true as Matthew; then YOU
will give up all the historical pots Of the
Bible; then after while You will give
up the miracles; then you will find it
convenient to give uD the Ten Command
ments; and then after while you will wake
up in fountainless. reckless, treeless desert
swept of everlasting s:rocco. II you are
Iaug he'd at you can afford to be laughed at
for standing by the Bible lust as God has
swan IL n Won and mira s.uIa.IsIv nrozarva,l
L.
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 fantastic yawl
which has painted on the side: ''Ad-
vanced Thought and which leaks at the
f., PROV and leaks at the stern and has a steel
pen for one oar and a glib tongue for the
)tber oar, AMI 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 infdelity and athsism.
am in full sympathy with the advance
ments of our time, but this world will never
advance a single inch beyond this old Bible.
God was Just as capable of debating tho
truth to the prophets and apostles as He is
capable of debating the truth to
these modern apostles and prophets.
God has not learned anything in thousand
years He knew just as much when He gave
the first dictation as He does now, giving the
last dictation. if He is giving any dictation
1 at ALL So | will stick to the
old paths Naturally a skeptic and
preferring new things to old, l never
so much as to-day felt the truth of the entire
| Bible, especially as see into what spectacular
imbecility men rush when they try to chop
] up the Scriptures with the meat axe OF their
own preferences, now calling upon
philosophy, now calling on the Church,
now calling on God, now calling on the
devil prefer the thick, warm robe of the
old religion-old as God-the robe which has
! xept 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 be
| lieve the Bible in spots
On July 9th 1914. at seventy-two 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 asyluIns. and an angel of
mercy in hospital and reformatory. Dr. Ma
son, one of the mghtiest men of his day, said
I at her funeral that she was mentally and
| spiritually the most wonderfully endowe |
person he had ever met. She was an i'm.
personation of the most orthodox orthodoxy.
Her last word was peace. As a sublime
| peroration to my sermon. will give an ex-
| tract from her last will and testament, show
| ing how one who believes in an entire Bible
may make glorious exit:
An extract from will:
"My children and my grandchildren leave tc
my covenant God, the tod who hath fed me all ms
life with the bread that perisheth and the bread
that never persheth, who has been Father to ms
fatherless children and husband to their Widowed
mother thus far And now receiving my Redeemer's
testimony, set to my seal that God is true; anc
believing the record Of John that God hath giver
to me eternal life and this life is in His Son
who through the eternal Spirit, overcomes without
spot INTO God, and beng coneecrated a priest for
ever hath with His own blood entered into the
holy place. having obtained eternal redemption fol
me. also believe that He will perfect what
concerns me, support and carry me safeiy through
death, and present me TO His Father, complete II
His own righteousness, without spot or wrinkle
Into the haDds OF this redeeming God, Father, Sor
and Holy Ghost commit my redeemed spirit
ISABELLA GRAHAM.
Let me die the dsath of the righteous, and
let my last end be like hers. "Glory be K
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now
and ever shall be, world without end. Amer
and Amenfn