The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22

swept OF everlasting sirocco. II you are
laug he'd at you can afford to be laughed at
for standing by the Bible Just as God has
given it to you and miraculously 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 at the
Prov and leaks at the stern and has steel
pen for one oar and 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 infidelity and atheism.
I am in full sympathy with the advance
ments of our time, but this world will never
advance single iuch beyond this old Bible.
God was just as capable Of debating the
truth to the prophets and apostles as He is
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God has not learned anything in thousand
years. He knew just as much when He gave
the first dictation as He does now, giving tho
last dictation, If He is giving any dictation
at ALL So I will stick to the
old paths. Naturally a skeptic and
preferring new things to old, I never
so much as to-day felt the truth Of the entire
imbecility men rush when they try to chop
up the Scriptures with the meata1e 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
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of this life and amid the chill, Of death.
The old robe rather than the thin, uncertain
gauze offered us by these wiseacrea 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 asy1ums
and Magdalen asylums, and an angel OF
mercy in hospital and reformatory. DR.. Ma
son, one of the mightiest 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 i'm
personation of the most orthodox orthodoxy.
Her last word was peace. As sublime
peroration to my sermon, I 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 I leave to
my covenant God, the God who hath fed me all my
life with the bread that persheth and the bread
that never psrisheth, who has been Father to my
fatherless children and husband to their widowed
mother thus far. And now receiving my Redeemer's
testimony, I get 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 priest for
ever hath with His own blood entered into the
holy place. having obtained eternal redemption for
me. 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.
Int ho ho do ~ rad I'D
aud Holy Ghost commit my redeemed split
ISABELLA 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 beginning, is now
and ever shall be, world without end Amen
and AmenIn