West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-16

swept OF everlasting sifocco. II you arc
laug he'd at you can afford TO be laughed at
Tor standing by the Bible Just as God has
given it 70 you and miraculously preserved
Do not jump overheard from the stanch
Sid Great Eastern of old fashioned Orthodoxy
3ntn there Is something ready 20 take
you DIP strofiger than the fantastic yawl
which has painted ON the side: "Ad-
yanced Thought" and which leaks at the
prov and leaks at the stern and has steel
pen Tor one oar and a glib tongue for the
,tber oar, and now tips over this way and
hen tips over that way, until you do not
know whether the passengers will land in the
breakers OF despair or on the sinking sand
OF infdelity and atheism.
/ am in fun sympathy with the advance
ments OF our time, but this world will new CT
advance single inch beyond this old Bible.
God ives just as capable OF debating the
truth 20 the prophets and apostles as He is
capable OF debating the truth 10
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 Ho does now, giving the
last dictation, IL He is giving any dictation
at all. SO viii stick TO the
old paths Naturally skeptic and
50 much as to-day felt the truth of the entire
Bible, especially as see into what spectacular
imbecility men rush when they try TO chop
up the Scriptures with the meat-aKe 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 robo which has
kept 30 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 be-
lieve the Bible in spots.
On July 9th, 1874 at seventy-two years of
age, expired Isabella Graham she was the
m gQf ul ~ har Hou H..
and sick, at the head of the orphan asylums
and Magdalen asylums, and an angel OF
mercy in hospital and reformatory DIR. Ma
son, ole 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 inn
personation of the most orthodox orthodoxy.
Her last word was peace. AS a sublime
tract from her last will and testament, show
ing how one who believes In an entire Bible
may make a glorious exit:
An extract from a 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 perisheth and tho bread
that never persheth. who has been Father to my
fatherless children and a husband to their widowed
mother thus far AUDI receiving nv Redeemer's
testimony set to my seal that God Il true; and
believing the record OF John that God hath given
70 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 for
me. i also believe that He will perfect what
concerns me, support and carry me safely through
death, and present me TO iie Father, complete In
His own righteousness, without spot or wrinkle.
Into the hands or this redeeming God, Father Son
and Holy Ghost commit my redeemed spirit
ISABELLA GRAHAM.
Let mo die the death Of the righteous, and
let my last end be like hers. aGlory 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 AmenW