The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-07

face supernaturally illumined Those who re-
ject any part of the Bible never die well. No
reckoning 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 If
those who believed in an entire Bib.e ana gone
out Of the world in triumph is list so long i.
seems interminabe. Oh, is not that sp!en-
did influence, this orthodoxy, which makes
that which must otherwise be the most dread
iul hour Of iife-the last hour-positiyely para
disacal?
Young men, old men, middle-agcd mon. take
sides in this contest between orthodoxy and
heter0doxy. ASK for the old paths, walk
therein, and We shall find rest for your souls"
But you follow this crusade agaiIst any part
Of the Bible-flrst Of all You will give m Cen
esis which is rs true rs Matthew then you
will give up al the historical parts Of the BIZ
bic then after awhile YOU will give up the
miracles, then you Will ind il convenient TO
give up the ten commandments; and then after
awhile you will wake up in a fountainless
reckless, treeloss desert swept OF everlasting
sirocco. If you are laughed st you can afford
to be laughed at for standing by the Bible inst
as God has given 1t 10 you and mracu!ousy
preserved it,
DO not jump overheard from the stanch old
Great Eastern Of old-fasbioned orthodoxy IN
til there is something ready to take you up
stronger than the fantastic yaw which has
painted on the side "Adganced Thought" and
which leaks at the PROV and leaks at the stern,
and has q steel pen for one oar and gllb
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 IL the breakers OF despair or on the sink
ing sand Of inhdeiity and atheism.
ain IN full sympathy with the advance
ments Of our time, but this world will neser
advance single inch beyond this Old Bible.
God was Just as capable of debating the truth
to the prophets and apostles as lie is capable
OF debating the truth to these modern apostles
and prophets, God has not learned anything
in a thousand years. He knew just a. much
when He gave the first dictation as He does
now, giving the last dictation, if He is giving
any dictation at all. So l will stick tt the old
paths. Naturally a skeptc ard preforring
new things to old. never so much rs today
felt the truth Of the entire Bible, especially
as l see into what spectacular
imbecilty men rush when they try TO chop up
the scriptures with the meat AK 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-tbe robe
which has kept 50 many warm amid the cold
pilgrimage of this life and amid the chills of
death. The old robe rather than the thin, un-
certain gauze offered us by these wiseacres
who believe the Bible in spots.
On July 9th 1911, 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 angel of mercy
III HOopitdl anu EOiOIlldlOfJ. III. NdSOlI OUG
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 impersonation of the
most othordoX orthodoxy. Her last word was
peace. AS a sublime personation to my SER
mon, / will give an extract from her last will
and testament, showing how one who believes
III 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 perlsheth
and the bread that never perisheth, who has
been a 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 is true; and belieY-
ing 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 forever hath with His own blood en-
tered into tho holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for me. l 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 re-
deeming Father, Son aud Holy Ghost 1 COM
nit 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 and
ameup'