Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-14
TRONTON. MO, THURSDAY. MARCH IL. 1889.

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angel from heaven, strengthening th'
Son of Man, under an agony which
none bnt God could endure. 1t wa.
the In-the-Spirit that enabled the las
surviving Apostle, standing at the edge
of century on what was to him the
| last ridge of time, to turn his sightless
eyes to that world which be was leav-
ing, and shed abroad over it the last
revelation Of the Divine mind in al
| the effulgence of the sunset of proph-
ecy.
But it has done more than all these.
Sunlight broken in rill
And turned aside is sunlight stilF'
and has overfiowed from the Bible in
to the channels of Pagan Mythology
and Demonology. It was the Zeus
that fired the rage of Achilles, the
Muse of Homer, the Daimon Socrates,
the Expectation of Plato. the Egeria of
Numa Pompilius, the harp of Arion
which drew an audience among the
monsters of the sea. 1t was the Tyre
of Orpleus, to which sorrow for his
lost love lent such a charm that the
trees followed its music, the rocks dis
solved in tears, the ferociOus wild
beasts became gentle, death relented
and let go his victim, and the lurid at
mosphere of He'll was ribbed 10y one
transcient hour of fleeting joy. 1t is
more than all these. Inspiration with
a human element is an informing and
creating spirit, within and yet above
US; it comes not to discuss, but to
counsel and decide, and its existence is
rightfully recognized both in real and
legendary life. 1t was the fiend that
altar. 1t was the hobgoblin that
hissed, Sell him sell! him! in the ear of
Bunyan. 1t enabled Michael Angelo
to see the statute of the great law
giver in the marble quarry, and the
whole elevation of the future Basilica
outlined against the sky. 1t was the.
Bath Kul of D'Israeli which outlineds
the British future until, alarmed, he
took the Queen aud standing on the
soil of the Orient, proclaimed her
Empress of the Indies.
The world has long since learned
that no man ever accomplished any
thing really good or great, who listened
only to voices from without and below
him. But this is voice within and
Iol
guides our lives, frames our very
words. and retaining all the marks of
personal identity, lifts men out of
themselves, makes them Gods in ac-
ton, and lords of the realms of speech
and song.
But this human element in inspira-
ton existed in Christ. himself being
God manifest in the flesh. 1t is square
ly denied that anything said Or done
by Christ himself, when be was IN the
flesh, was any more truly inspired than
what He said or did by His apostles
and prophets.
The ordinance of marriage came un-
der His notice four times. In his SER
mon on the Mount He clearly states
the law of marriage and divorce. He
hOnored wedding by His presence
and signalized it by doing His first
The Pharisees brought the
matter up when he explained the ordi-
nance of marriage and reaffirmed the
doctrine of His sermon. On that oc-
casion His disciples who, at that time,
evidently held to the prevalent loose
views on the subject, at once decided
:hat if Il man could not drive away his
wife whenever he wished it was better
not to marry. Add to that the correl-
late right of woman to run off her
husband, and you have very pieva-
lent idea of to-day. The fourth case
was when the Saducees came with a
supp0sed extreme case arising under
an exceptional provision under the law
of marriage as civil ordinance.
Their case was worse than quibble.
Under the law, sterility in either par
ty yitiated the marriage on the ground
of fraud.
That woman labored under sterility,
either natural or superinduceh. So,
then, whilst in law seven men had CO.
habited with her, in equity, she was no
mans wife. Again their question
to nothing. Suppose she
had borne a child by the seventh
brother, " hose heir at law would tina
Child have been? Obviously. of the old
est brother. That settles the question,
she had been any mans
wife.
But it is lik ely that the most difficult
problem to solve arises 1st Cor. vii j.
''It is good for man not to touch
This is the more important
as it plainly refers to marriage, and ,ap-
parently, Just as plainly contradicts the
first clause of Hebrews xiii4.
How the word touch came into the
English text we cannot say, but a
wrong translation can outlive the trans
lator, and be like the settling of stone
or the rotting or shifting of beam,
which brC ught down the town of Sloan
ON eighteen men when the brain, heart
and hands of the architect had bee
dust for ages.
No better Greek ever Was printed
than that which NAL .es the word trans
lated touch read yoked together. I'll
also occurs 2d Cor. villa. Now the