Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-06

! Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic, said, "The
Bible is a noble book" he was dropping
into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker
declared in Music hall, Boston, "Never
boy or girl in all Chrstendom but was
proited by that great book" he was be-
coming very weak minded; that it is some
thing to bring a blush to the cheek of
every patriot that John Adams, the father
of American independence, declared, "lhe
Bible is the best book in all the world;"
and that lion hearted Andrew jackson
turned into sniveling coward when he
said, "That book, sir, is the rock on which
our republic rests and that Daniel Web
ster abdicated the throne Of his intellectual
power and resigned his logic, and from
being the great eXpOunder of the constitu-
tion and the great lawyer of his age turned
into an idiot when he said, my heart as
sures and treasures me that the gospel Of
Jesus Christ must be a divine reality.
From the time that at my mothers feet
or on my fathers knee | first learned to
lisp verses from the sacred writings they
have been my daily study and vigilant con
temptation, and if there is anything in my
style or thought to be commended the
credit is due to my kind parents in instill-
ing into my mind an early love Of the
Scriptures" and that William II. Seward,
the diplomatist of the century, only showed
his puerility when he declared, "lhc whole
hope of human progress is suspended OF
the ever growing influences Of the Bible"
and that it is wisest for us to take that
book from the throne in the affections of
amounted multitudes and put it under
our feet, to be trampled upon by ha
tired and Kissing contempt; and that
your old father was hoodwinked and
cajoled and cheated and befooled when
he leaned on this as a staff after his
hair grew gray, and his hands were
tremulous, anG his steps shortened as he
came up to the verge of the grave; and that
your mother sat with pack Of lies on her
lap while reading of the better country, and
of the ending of all her aches and pains,
and reunion not only with those of you
who stood around her. but with the chill
dren she had buried with infinite heart |
ache, so that she could read no more until !
she took Off her speCtacles and wiped from |
them the heavy mist of many tears. Alas! |
that for forty and fifty years they should |
have walked under this delusion and had |
it under their pillow when they lay a-dying |
in the back room, and asked that some |
words from the vile page might be cut upon |
the tombstone under the shadow of the old |
country meeting house where they sleep |
today waiting for resurrection that will |
never come.
This book, having deceived them, and |
having deceived the mighty intellects of |
the past, must not be allowed to deceive |
our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupen-
dous intellects And so out with the book |
from the court room, where it is used in |
the solemniAation of testimony. Out with
it from under the foundation of church |
and asylum Out with it from the domes-
tic circle. Gather together all the Bibles
the chldren's Bibles, the family Bibles,
those newly bound, and those with lid !
nearly worn out and pages almost Obliter-
ated by the fingers long ago turned to |
dust-bring them all together, and let us
make "A bonfire of them, and by it warm !
our cold criticism, and after that turn un-
der with the plowshare of public indigna-
ton the polluted ashes of that loathsOme, |
aduiterous, obscene, cruel and deathful .
book which is so antagonistic to mans
liberty, and woman's honor, and the
worlds happiness.
AGNOSTICs ATTACK THE VERY LIFE.
Now that is the substance of what inf.
lelity proposes and declares, and the at
tack on the Bible is accompanied by great
iocosity, and there is hardly any subject
about winch more mIrJh IS NndIed than
ABOUT the Blole. II IKE l"h' no man was
ever oullI with a keeher appreciation OF II.
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