Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-06
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Those who deny the Bible, or deny AM
part of IL, never die we'll They either go ou
In darkness or they go out in silence porten
tous. You may gather up all the biogra
phies that have come forth since the art o
printing was invented. and l challenge 20,
to show me a triumphant death of maj
who rejected the Scriptures, or rejected an,
part Of them. Here make great wild
avenue. On the one | put the deathbeds o
those who believed in an entire Bible. Oh
the other side of that avenue put the death
beds of those who rejected part Of the Bible
or rejected all OF the Bible. Now, TAX
my arm and let us pass through
this dividing avenue Look of upon tn,
right side. Here are the deathbeds on tn,
right side OF this avenue. Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christi" Free 'gracer
GLORY. gloryp II am sweeping through
the gates washed in the blood os the Lamb!
"The chariots are coming." II mount,
fyr' wings, wingsr 'They are coming
for mel" Peace, be stillin Alfred Cook
mans deathbed, Richard Cecirs deathbed
Commodore Foote'S deathbed, your father
deathbed, your mothers deathbed, your sis
ter's deathbed, your child's deathbed- Ter
who believed an entire Bible.
Now take my arm and let us go through
that avenue and look of upon the other side
No smile OF hope. No shout of triumph. NJ
face suoernaturllly illumined. Those who
reject any part of the Bible never die well
No beckoning 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 believed in an entire Bi
BILE and gone cut of the world in triumph is q
list so long it seems interminable. Oh, d
not that a splendid influence, this orthodoxy
which makes that which must otherwise be
the most dreadful hour Of iife-the last hour
positively paradisaicall
Young men, old men, middle aged men
take sides In this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodsxy. "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-flrst of all you will
give up Genesis, which is as true as Matthew;
then you viii give up all the historical parts
Of the Bible; then after while you will give
up the miracles; then you will find it con
venient to give up the Ten Commandments
and then after a while you will wake up in
a fountainless, reckless, treeless desert swept
of everlasting sirocco If you are laughed at
you can afford to be laughed at for standing
by the Bible just as God has given it to you
and miraculeusly 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 fantastic yawl which
has painted on the side Advanced Thought. /"
and which leaks at the prov and leaks at the
stern and has steel pen for one oar and a
glib tongue for the other car, and now tips
over this way and then tips over that way,
until you do not know whether the passan-
gers will land in the breakers Of despair or on
the sinking sand of infillelitv and atheism
am in full sympathy with the advance
ments 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
anything in a thousand years. He knew just
as much when he gave the first dictation as
he does now, giving the last dictation, il he
is giving any dictation at all. SO I will stick
W tne oiu l'atus- Natufauy skepCc anu
preferring new things to old, never so much
as today felt the truth OF the entire Bible,
especially as l see into what spectacular
imbecility men rush wnen they try to chop
up the Scriptures with the meat az Of their
own preferences, now calling upon philoso-
ply, now calling on the church, now calling
on God, now calling OH the devil. Iprefer
the thick, warm robe of the old religion-old
US Uod-the rooe wnicn mas Kept SO many
warm aniio 'ne coiu Pnsrimase OF TINS me
ahn anna .is cniiiS oi oea'n- Inc Old robe
rather thaii 'iie thiii, uncertain gauze offered
US ny THESE "'seacres VINO oeiieVe the Bible
III Spots
On July %, 1874, at a years OF age, expired
Isabella Grlham. She was the most useful
~omnn of her day amid the poor and sick, at
ihe head of the orphan asylums and Magda-
pital and reformatory. DIR. Mason. one of
nipbt,est men of his dav said at her funeral
that she was mentally and sniritnallv
the most wonderfully endowed rarso, ha
ever met. She was an impesonation of the
most orthodox orthodoxy. Her last word
was peace. As sublime peroration to nv
sermon will give an extract from her last
will and testament, showing how one who
believes in an entire Bible may make q
glorious exit
An extract from will:
NY ehiiareh ana my grandcniidren !
ieaVe 70 my covenant God, the God who hath
lea me all my me Win the bread that per-
Isheth and the bread that never perisheth,
who has been Father to my fatherless chill
tren and husband to their widowed mother
thus far. And now receiving my Redeem
er's testimony, | set to my seal that God Is
true; and believing the record OF John that
God hath given to me e,ernal life, and this