Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-15

: Jezsbel and Mary Lion, Nero and Charlie
Wesley. Charles Guiteau and James A
] Garfield, John Wilkes Booth and Abraham
) Lincoln-all in glory together? All tn
innocent men, women, and children VIII
> were massacred, side by side with thei
f murderers. If we are all coming out at tn
same destiny. without regard to character
} then it is true. turn away from such
: debauched heaven. Against that cauldroI
| of piety and blasphemy, philantrophy ant
assassination, selt-sacrifce and beastliness
place the two destinies of the Bible forever
and forever and forever apart.
J Behold also the splendors of the Christian
orthodox death-beds,
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part of it, never die we'll. They either go
out in darkness or they 90 out in silence
portentious. You may gather up all the
biographies that have come forth since the
art of printing was invented, and challenge
you to show me triumphant death of a
man who rejected the Scriptures or rejected
any part of them. Here make great,
wide avenue. On the one side put the
death beds of those who believed in an en-
tire Bible. On the other side of that avenue
l put the death-beds of those who 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 side of this avenue. "Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ 70 s'Free grace p
sGlory, gloryp' 81 am sweeping through
the gates washed in the blood of the
Lamb ~ "The chariots are coming ~ 81
mount, flyp' "Wings, wingsr' '.They
are coming for me p "Peace, be still !"
Alfred Cookman's death bed, Richard
Cecips death-bed, Commodore Foote'S
death-bed, your fathers death bed, your
mothers death-bed, your sisters DEATH
bed, your child g death-bed. Ten thousand
believed an entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let us 20 through
that avenue and look off upon the other
side. No smile of hope. No shout of tri-
umph. No face supern aturally illumined.
Those who reject any part of the Bible
never die we'll. No beckoning for angels 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 be-
lieved in an entire Bible and gone out of
the world in triumph is list SO long it
seems interminable. Oh, is not that a
splendid influence, this orthodoxy, which
makes that which must otherwise be the
most dreadful hour of life-the last hour
positively paradisaieal?
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 Bible. First of all you will
give up Genesis, which is as true as Mat
thew; then you will give up all the h1stori-
cal parts of the Bible; then after while
you will give up the miracles; then you
will find it convenient to give up the ten
commandments, and then after a while you
will wake up in fountainless, reckless,
treeless desert-swept of everlasting sirocco
If you are laughed at you can afford to bs
laughed at for standing by the Bible just as
God has given it to you and miraculously
preserved it.
Do not jump overheard from the staunch
old Great Eastern of old-fashioned ortho-
doxy until there is something ready to take
you up stronger than the fantastic 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 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 the sinking sand of
infdelity and atheism.
am 10 full sympathy with the advance
ments 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 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
at all So will stick to the old paths.
Naturally a skeptic and preferriDg new
things to old, never so much as to-day felt
the truth of the entire Bible, especially as l
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 kept 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 believe the Bible in
spots.
On July 81. 18 4, 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 asylums, and an an
gel of mercy in hospital and reformatory
| DR.. Mason, one of the mightiest men of his
day, said at her funeral thas she was meu-
tally and spiritually the most wonderfully
endowed person he had ever met. She was
an impersonation of the most orthordox
orthodoxy. Her last word was peace. AS
a sublime speroration to my sermon, Twill
give an extract from her last will aud tes-
lament, showing how one who believes in
an entire Bible may make glorious exit I:
| An extract from will
"My children and my grandchildren l
leave to my covenant God, the God who
hath fed me all my life with the bread that
perisheth and the bread that never perish
eth, who has been Father to my father
less children and husband to their wild
owed mother thus far. And now receiving
my Redeemer's s testimony, / set to my seal
that God is true; and believing the record
of John that God hath given to me eter.
nal life and this life is His Son, who,
through the.eternal spirit, overcomes with
out spot unto God, and being consecrated
priest forever, hath with His own blood
entered into the holy place, having obtain
ed eternal redemption for me. also be-
lieve that He will perfect what concerns
me, support and carry me safely through
death, and present me to His Father COM
plete in his own righteousness, without
spot or wrinkle. Into the hands of this re-
deemed God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost
commit my redeemed spirit.-Isobel Grd-
ham.
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and let my last end be like hers. stGlory
be co 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 Amen.
L1zZA Log CABINS were the most
M RM prominent feature of the
EW Presidential Campaign of
NHM lS4O. AT the opening of
sEzEIE the campaign, the opposi-
sAEa ton sneeringly proclaimed
e1'z-zEe-sa sas1aS "Tippecano" Harrison a
low fellow, ''born in a log cabin" His
friends at once made the Log Cabin an en-