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deathbed, your sisters deathbed, your
child's deathbed. Ten thousand radiant,
songful deathbeds of those who believed
an entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let us so
through that avenue, and look of upon
the other side. No smile of hope. No
shout of triumph. No face s~upernatu-
rally illumined. Those who reject any
part of the Bible never die well. No
reckoning for angels TO come. No listen
ing for the celestial 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 be-
lieved in an entire Bible and gone out of
the world in triumph is a list so long 1t
seems interminable. On, is not that a
splendid influence, this orthodoxy which
makes that which must otherwise be the
most dreadful hour of lifc-the last hour
positively paradisaical?
Young men, old men, middle aged
men, take sides in this contest between
orthodoxy and ~heterodoSy. ASK for
the old paths, walk therein, and ye shall
find rest for your souls" But you fol-
low this crusade against any part Of the
Bible-first of all you will give up Gene
sis, which is as true as Matthew; then
you will give up all the historical parts
of the Bible; then after q while you will
give up the miracles; then you will find
it convenient 10 give up the Ten Com
mandments; and then after Il while you
will wake up in q fountainless, reckless,
treeless desert swept Of ev everlasting sirocco.
Ifyou are laughed at you can afford to
De laughed ut 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 fam
tastic yawl which has painted on the
side Advanced Thought, and which
leaks at the PROV and leaks at the stern
and has a steel pen for one a 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 in 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
a skeptic and preferring new things to
Old, l never SO much a today felt the
truth Of the entire Bible, especially as I
see into what spectacular imbecility men
rush when they try 10 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 religion-old as God-the robe
which has kept 50 many warm amid the
cold pilgrimage Of this life and amid the
chills Of death. TheOld robe rather than
the thin, uncertain gauze offered us by
these wiseacres vino believe the Bible in
spots.
On July %, 1914, at ~ 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 roforma-
tory. DIR. Mason, one Of the mightiest
men Of his day, said NJ her funeral that
she was mentally and spiritually thcmost
wonderfully endowed person he had ever
met. She was an imTcrsonatiou Of the
most orthodox orthodoxy. Her last word
was peace. As a sublime ~peroratiun 10
my sermon, l will give an extract from
her last will and testament, showing how
one who believes in an entire Bible may
make 4 glorious exit,
An extract from a will:
"My children and my grandchildren ]
leave 10 my covenant God, the God who
hath fed Inc all my life with the bread
that periSheth aud the bread that never
pcrishoth, who has been q Father TO my
fthrrless children and a husband to their
widowed mother thus far. And now re.
| cClving my R~edeemer's testimony, | set
g. my seal that God Is true; and believing
the record Of john that God hath given
10 me- eternal life and this life is In his
Son, who, through the eternal Spirit,
~overcoIIes without spot unto God, and,
being c0nsccratcd a priest forever,
hath with his own blood entered into the
holy place, having obtatayl eternal re.
delnptim Tor me. I also believe that he
will perfect what concerns me, support
and carry me safely through death, and
present me 10 his Father, complete in hi.
own I~ghtoougness, without spot Oh
wrinkle, Into the hands Of this redeem.
ing God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, ]
commit nay redeem1S spirt,-Isabcllr
Graham"
Let me dlo the dcatN'Sof tho righteous
and let my last end. be like hers, ''Glor,
be TO the Father and TO the son and d
The Holy Ghuat; as II wa. Ia the bcyin
ming, is now and ever shall I've, work
without end. Amen aud mncn!'
ARTHUR Maxwell,
Dealer in