The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17
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the bowl, aud jerk tho man up to tho gate
OF Heaven, and push him in if he does not
want to 90 and sit down aud sing psalms
forever? No. God has made you aud me
so completely FREQ that W need not go to
Heaven unless we prefer it Not more
free to soar than to sink.
Nearly all the heterOdox people know
believe all are coming out at the same
destiny; without regard to faith or char
acter, we are all coming out at the shin
ing gate. There they are, all in glory to-
gether Thomas Paine and George
Whitefsld, Jezebel aud Mary Lyon, Mere
and Charles Wesley, Charles Guiteau and
James A. Garfield. Johu Wilkes Booth
and Abraham Lincoln-all in glory
together! All the innocent men, women
and children who were massacred, side
by side with their murderers. we are
all coming out at the same destiny, with
out regard to character. then it is true, /
turn away from such debauched
Heaven. Against that cauldron OF piety
and blasphcmy, philanthropy and assRs-
sination, self-sacrihc5 and beastliness, |
| place the two destinies of the Bible for
ever and forever and forever apart
Behold also the splendors OF the Chris
tian orthodox death beds.
Those who deay the Bible or deny any
part of il, never die we'll They either go
out in darkness or they 60 out in silence
/
biographies that have come forth since
the art OF printing was invented, and
challenge you to show me a triumphant
death of a man who eiected the Script
ures, or rejected any part OF them. Here
1 make great wide avenue. On the ono
1 put the death beds of those who be-
lieved in an entire Bible. On the other
side OF that avenue put the death beds
of those VIII rejected part Of the Bible,
or rejected all of the Bible. Now take my
arm and let us pass through this dividing
avenue. Look off upon the right side.
Here are the death beds on the right sido
of this avenue: Victory throught our
Lord Jesus Christi" Free grace 20
'tGlory, gloryi" II am sweeping through
the gates washed in the blood Of the
Lamb 20 ''The chariots are comingP - II
mount 1 fyp "Wings, wingslp 'They
are coming for ms I" "Peace, be Rtillln
Alfred Cookmau's death-bed, r Richard
Cecips death bed, Commodore Foote'S
death bed, your fathers death bed, your
mother's death bed your sisters death
bed your child's death bod. Ten thou
sand radiant songful death-beds OF those
who believed an entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let us go through
that avenue and look off upon the other
side. No smile OF hope. No shout OF
trump No face supernaturally illu-
mined. Those who reject any part Of the
Bible never die we'll No beckoning for
angles to come No listening 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 believed in an entire
Bible and gone out OF the world in tr-
umph is list so long It seems intermin-
able. Oh, is not that q splendid in
huence, this orthodoxy, which makos that
which must otherwise be the most dread
Fl11 Of "a
| paradisaical?
Young men, old men. middle-aged
men, take sides in this contest between
| orthodoxy and heterodoxy.
Ask for the old paths, walk therein and ye
shall find rest for your souls.
But you follow this crusade against any
part Of the Bibls-frst of all, you viii
give up Genesis, which is as true
Matthew: then you will give up all the
historical parts Of the Bible; then after
awhile you will give up the miracles;
then you will find it convenient to give up
the Ten Commandments; AMI then after
awhile you will wake up in fountainless,
reckless, treeless desert swept of ever
lasting sirocco. IL you are laughed at
you can afford to be laughed at for stand
ing by the Bible just as God has given IL
to you and miraculously preserved It
Do not jump overheard from the stauch
old Great Eastern of old-fashloned
to take you up stronger than the fantastic
yawl which has painted on the side 'tAd-
yanced Thought" and which leaks at the
prov and leaks at the stern, and has
steel pen for one and glib tongue for
the Other ore, 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 on on the
sinking sand OF iufdelity and atheism.
am in full sympathy with the nd
vancements of our time, but this world
will never advance 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 tha
truth to these modern apostles and
prophets. God has not learned any thing
in thousand years. He knew just as
much when lie gave the first diotation as
He does now, giving the last dictatiou, II
He is giving any dictation at all So
will stick to the old paths. Naturally a
skeptic, and proferring new things 10 old,
! never 80 much as to day felt the truth
OF the entire Bible, especially as ! SEQ
into what spectacular imbecility men
rush whom they try to chop up the Script
ures with the meat-aXe Of their own
preferences; now calling upon philoso-
ply, now calling upon the Church, now
calling on God. now calling on the devil.
1 prefer the thick, warm robe OF tho old
religion--old as tfod-the robe which has
kept many warm amid the cold pilgri M
age of this life and amid the ohills OF
death. The old robe, rather than the thin,
uncertain gauze offered Us by these WISE
acres who believe the Bible in spots.
On July q, 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 or
| phan asylums and Magdalen asylums,
al "A
| refOrmatory. Df. Mason, one Of the
mbghtfest men of his day, said at her
| funeral that she was mentally and spirit
uaIly the most wonderfully endowed per-
| son he had ever met She was an i'm per-
! sonhtfon of the most orthodox orthodoxy
| Her last word was peace. As a subj imo
/ peroration to my sermon / will give an
/ extract from her last will and testament,
/ showing how one VINO believes IN an
| entire Bible may make glorious exit;
"My children and my grandchildren
/ leave to my covenant, God, the God who
1 hath fed me ali my life with the bread
| that pe-isheth and the bread that never
perisheth, who has heen father 10 my
| fatherless children aud husband to their
| widowed mother thus far. And now, re-
! ceiving nay Redeemer's testimony. / set
| to my seal that God is true; and believing
/ the record Of john that God hath given 10
/ me eternal life, aud this life - in His
| Son, who, through the eternal spirit, OVER
comes without spot unto God, aud be-
ing consecrated q priest hath with
/ His own blood entered into 4s
holy place. having obtained eternal re-
demption for me. ] also believe that He
will perfect what concerns me, support
and carry me safely through death, and
| present me 70 His Father complete IN HE
/ Own righteousness, without spot or
wrinkle. Iuto the hands OF this r edeem-
| ing God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 1
commit my redeemed spirit isabella
/ Graham.