The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-08-23
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etberwiss no the most dreadful hour Of life
she last bour-positively paradisaicali
Young men, old men, middle aged mon.
lake sides in this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodoxy. "Ask for the old paths,
walk therein, and ye shall find rest
Tor your souls But you follow
Bible-first Of all you will give up Genesis,
which Is as true as Matthew; then you
will give up all the historical poets of the
Bible; then after while you will give
up the miracles; then you will find 1t
convenient to give up the Ten Command
ments; and then after while you will wake
up in fountainless, reckless. tresless dessrt
Iwept OF everlasting sirocco. II you arc
aug he'd at you can afford to be laughed at
or standing by the Bible Just as God has
tiyen it TO you and miraculously preserved
Do not jump overheard from the stancn
I'd Great Eastern Of old fashioned Orthodoxy
Until there is something ready to take
Tou up stronger than the fantastic yawl
which has painted on the side: "Ad-
tanced Thought" and which leaks at the
Prov and leaks at the stern and has steel
pen for one oar and glib tongue for the
,tber oar, and now tips over this way and
tnow whether the passengers will land in the
breakers of despair or on the sinking sand
sf infidelity and atheism.
am in full sympathy with the advance
Nents Of our time. but this world will never
nvamus WV s,'s'e men GsyonJ tnis oin b'e,e. @
truth to the prophets and apostles as He is
capable of debating the truth to
;hese modern apostles aud prophets.
God has not learned anything in thousand
years. lie knew just as much when lie gave
the first dictation as He does now, giving tho
1t all. So will stick to the
bid paths Naturally = skeptic and
Irererring new things to old, never
70 much as to-day felt the truth of the entire
Bible, especially as see into what spectacular
mbecility men rush when they try to chop
Up tho Scriptures with the meat-axe OF their
swn preferences, now calling upon
philosophy, now calling on the Church,
now calling on God, now calling on the
ievil prefer the thick, warm robe OF tho
| bid religiou--old as God--tbe robe which has
| Kept no many warm amid the cold pilgrimage
II this life and amid the chills of DEATH
The old robe rather than the thin, uncertain
sauze offered us by these wiseacres who be-
lieve the Bible in spots
On July 21th, 1874, at seventy-two years Of
ige, 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 hospitcl and reformatory. DR.. Ma
son, one of the mightiestmen of his day, said
ut her funeral that she was mentally and
spiritually Che 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 a sublime
peroration to my sermon, will give an ex-
!ract from her last will and testament, show
ing how one who believes in an entire Bible
may make glorious exit:
An extract from a will:
"My children and my grandchildren leave 10
my covenant God, the God who hath fed me all my
life with the bread that perisheth and the bread
that never perisheth, who has been q Father to my
fatherless children and husband to their widowed
mother thus far. And now receiving my Redeemer's
testimony, set to my seal that God 10 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, 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 fos
me. J 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.
Into the hands Of this redeeming God, Father, Son
| and Holy Ghost I commit my redeemed spirit
| 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
| anil Amenln