The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-17

tho right side Of this avenue, aYicp
through our sLord fJesus Christi
graoels s'0lorys glerTiss am swaepinA
through the gates washed in the blood pl
the Lamhln aThe schariots aa comlnnN
II mount, ! fyln Wings, wingsi Ihe9
are coming for melv s'Peace, be stiili2 Az
fred Cookman's death-bed, Richard CeeilA
1a-<-a-bed Commodore Foote'S death.bs5
your fathers death bed, your mother ~ dpath~
bed, your sisters deathsbed, your chtide
death-bed. Ten thousand valiant, AoaeEal
da7tthh-bets OF those who peneveu an eptIEa'
Binla.
Nom, take my arm and let us 20 Though
that avenue and look or upon the othsrslde
No smile Of hope. No shout oftriuwph. Na
face s-upernatgrally fiumined. Those Hho r.
ject any part Of the Bible never die weik No
beckoning f0f angels to come2ho Astenlaz
for the celestial escort. With1ut any oxrep
ton they 20 out OF tie woiN becnasa they
are pushed out; while on the other hand EA6
list Of those who believed in an entire BfpfHl
and gone out OF the world in triumph Il q list
so long that IL seems interminable. Oh, III
not that a splendid influence, this orthodoxy
which makes that which must otherwise be-
the most dreadful hour of life-the last hour
positively parodisaical3
Young men, old men. middlo-aged men, taxa
sides in this contest between orthodoxy and
~heterodoxy. ASK for the old paths, walk
therein, and ye shall find rest for your soul,
But you follow this crusade against any Part
Of the Bible-hrst of all you win give up
Genesis, which is as true a. Matthew; then
You win give up all the historical parts 0fth0
Bible; then after a while you win give up THO
miracles; then you viii lind it convenient to
give up the Ten Commandments; and then
after a while you will wake up in q fountains
less, reckless, treeless desert swept ofeveflast>
ing ~sirocco. If You are laughed at you ean
afford to be laughed at for standing by the
Bible just as God has given it to you and
INTERNATIONALLY preserved It.
Do not Jump overheard from the staunch
old Great Eastern of oldfashi0ned ortlo-
doxy until there Is something ready TO take
you up stronger than the Fantastic yawl
which has painted on tie side Advanced
Thought" and which leaks atbae + auf
leaks at the storm, and has a steel pen fof
one oar and a glib tongus for tho other oar,
and now tips over this way and then finx
over that way, until you do not know
whether the passengers win land in the break
ers Of despair or on the sinking sand ofin'
fidelity and atheism.
am in fun sympathy with the advance
ments ofeur time, but this world viii meyer
advance q single inch beyond this odd Efhle.
God was Just as capable OF debating the
truth TO the prophetic and apostles as He j
capable Of debating the truth to these mod.
ern apostles and prophets. God has not
learned anything in a thousand years, He
knew just es much when He gave the frst
dictation as He does now, giving the last
dictation, IL he Is giving any dictation at az.
So will stick to the old paths. Naturally q
skeptiu and preferring new things to old !
never SO much As today felt tho truth oftha
entire Bible, especially as 1 see into what
spectacular imbecility men rush whom they
try TO chop up the scriptures lsith tho meat-
ak OF Ehei OWE preferences, now calling ur+
on philosophy, now calling on tho church,
now calling on God, o ealias Or fhe
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old religion-old rs God-the robe which hos
kept so many warm amid the cold pilgrim.
are Of this life amid the chile Of death. Tho
old robe rather than tho THU, uncertain
gauze offered us by these ~wiseacr6s who hes
lieve the Bible in spots,
On July "a, 1914, at ~ years Of ages ok
pired Isabella Grahaf1. She was the moat
useful woman Of her day amid the poor and
sick, at the head Of the orphan asylums and
Magdalen asylnms, and IN angel Of mercg Ia
hospital and reformatory. Dr.. Mason, one
Of the mightiest men OF his day, said W her
funeral that she was mentally and sliritnal-
liz the most wonderfully endowed person no
had ever met. She was impersenati0n Of the
most orthodox orthodoxy. Her lnsa word
was peace. As O sublime p~reroration to mys
sermon, / will givean extract from her laet
win and testament, showing how one WHO
believes in an entire Bible may make q gloz-
ious exit:
MI cAtidtt AON q Will
my children and my Grandchildren 1 leave
TO my covenant God, the God who hath I'D
me all my life with the bread that periaheth.
who has been q father to my fatheFlsssehil-
dren and q husband to their widowed
mother thus far. And now, receiving my re-
deemer's testimony. / set 70 my seal that
God is true; and believing the record Of john
that God hath given to me eternal life, aud
this life Is In his son, who, through the efer-
nal spirit, overcomes without spot unto god.
and being coneecrated a priest forever hath
his own blood entered into tho holy place.
having obtained eternal redempti0n i0r me.
| also believe that he will perfect what con-
Germs me, support and carry me safely
through death, and Prsspnt me 20 his father
complete IN his own righteousness, withont
spot or wrinkle. Into .sle hands Of this 10.
deeming God, father, son and holy ghost.
commit my redeemed apirit.-saabelia
Graham
Let me die the death Of the righteous, and
et my last end be like hers. tsGlory be to the
Rather, and TO the son, and to the holy ghost;
as II was in the beginning, Is now and ever
shall be, world without end. Amen nnd
ameni"