The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-09

sweeping through the gates washed in the
blood OF the Lamb" THE chsriots are
comingl" ~ mount. fiyl" "wings, wingsp'
They are coming for mel" Peace, be
still!' Alfred Cookmans death. bed, Richard
Cecirs death b I'D. Conmo lore Foote'S DEATH
bed. Your fathers death bed, your mothers
death-bei, your sisters death-bei your
childs death-bct. Ten thousand radiant,
sopgful death-beds Of those who believed an
entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let us 90 through
that avenue, and look off upon the other
side. No smile Of hope. No shout Of triumph.
No face supernaturally illumined. Those
who reject any part OF the Bible
never die we'll No beckoning for
angels to come No listening for the CO.
lestial escort Without any exception they
so out of the world because they are pushed
out; while on the other hand the
list OF those who believed in an entire
Bible and gone out of the world in
triumph Is list so long il seems intermina-
able Oh Is not that n splendid influence this
orthodoxy. which makes that which must
otherwise be the most dreadful hour of life
the last hour-positively paradislicali
Young men. old men, middle aged men,
AXE sides in this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodoxy. Ask for the old paths,
walk ther,in, and ye shall find rest
for your, souls But you follow
this crusade against any part of the
Bible-frst Of all you will give up Genesis,
which is as true as Matthew: then you
WI, VIII give up all the historical poets Of the
Bible; then after while you will give
up the miracles; then you will find IL
convenient to give up the Ten Command
ments; and then after while you will wake
up III fountainless, reckless. treeless desert
swept OF everlasting sirocco. II you arc
laug he'd at you can afford to be laughed at
Tor standing by the Bible lust as God has
given 1t to you and mira culously preserved
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 Mt the
prov and leaks at the stern aud has n steel
pen for one oar and a glib tongue for the
other oar, and now tips over this way AMI
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 iniidclity and ath
lam in iull sympathy with the advance
ments OF our time. but this world will never
advance single inch beyond this oil Bible
God was lust as capable of debating tho
truth to the prophets and apostles as lie is
capable OF debating the truth To
these modern apostles and prophets.
God has not learned anything in thousand
years He knaw Just as much when Je pny
last dictaton, il He is giving any dictation
old paths. Naturally skeptic and md
preferrlng new things to old. never
so much as today felt the truth of the entire
Bible, especially rs see into what spectacular
imbeciity men rush when they try To chop
up the Scriptures with the m msat.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 religon-old rs God-the robo which has
kept so many warm amid the cold pilgrimage
of this lie and amid the chills of death.
The old robe rather than the thin, uncertain
gauze offered us by these wiscacres who be
lieve the Bible in spots
On July eth, 1914, ut sevcnty-two years Of
ago, cxplrel Isabella Graham. she was the
most useful woman of her day amid the poor
and SICK at the head of the orphan asylums
and Mag ialcn asylums, and an angel of
mercy in hospital and reformatory. DR. Ma.
son, one of the mightiest men of his day, said
Mt her funeral that she was mentally and
! spiritually the most wonderfully endowed
person he had ever met. She was an i'm
personaton of the most orthodox orthodoxy.
Her last word was peace. As u sublime
| peroration to my sermon, will give an OK.
tract from her last will and testament, show.
ing how one who believes in an entire Bible
may make "A glorious exit:
An extract from will:
"My children and my grandchildren leave tc
my covenant God, the tod who hath fed me AL my
| life with the bread that perisheth and the bread
that never perisheth who has been Father to my
fatherless children aud husband to their widowed
mother thus FAR. Aud now receiving my Redeemer's
testimony, set to my seal that God ls true; anc
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 n priest for
ever hath with IIs own blood entered into tn,
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption fol
me. | also believe that lie will perfect what
concerns me- support and carry me safely through
death, and present mo to His Father, complete Ia
His own righteousness, without spot or wrinkle
Into the hands OF this redeeming God, Father, Sor
and Holy Ghost ! commit my redeemed spirit
ISABELLA GRAHAM.
Let mo die the death OF the righteous, and
let my last end be like hers. "Glory be tc
the Father, and to the Son, and To the Holy
Ghost; aS IL was in the beginning, is now
and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
and Amenn
A sixteen -year-old boy, who is n drunkaru
md aHi with ,innsy saya tho Nnx