The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-19

menus, you Will find psalteries a
snlgionoths, and rams horns. The 9
uquarian will find in the Bible cur;,
l. tues IN agriculture, and in CONNER,
ana IN art, and in religion, that w
keep him absorbed a great viii,
Ahere are those who come to the Bib
as you would to ca binet of curiositie
and You pick up this and say: "What
strange sword this Isl" and syyhat
peculiar hat this ISL and "What an n,
ioosed-for lamp that ISL. and the Bib
10 such becomes British museum.
Then there are others who An
nothing in the Bible but poetry. Wei
myou come as poet, you will lind i
TINS book faultless rhythm, and boil
imagery, and startling antithesis. an
rapturous lyric, and sweet pastoral
and instructive narrative, and devo
tlonal psalm; thoughts expressed in ,
style more solemn than that of Mont
gomery, more bold than that of Milton
more terrible than that of Dante. NOR,
natural than that of Wordsworth. NOR,
impassioned than that of Pollock, more
tender than that of Cowper, more weird
tnan that of Spenser This great poem
orings all the gems of the earth into
It's coronet, and it weaves the fame.
OF Judgment in it's garland. and nours
eternal harmonies in it's rhythm.
everything this book touches it makes
beautiful, from the plain stones of the
summer threshing-fioor, and the daugh-
ters OF Major fillingothe trough for the
camels, and the fish pools of Heshbon.
up to the Psalmist praising God with
dlapason of storm and whirlwind. and
Job leading forth Orion, Areturus and
the Pleiades. 1t is a wonderful poem;
ana a great many people read it as
tney do Thomas Moore's "Lalla
hookh" and Walter Scott's 'sLadv of
Inc Lake" and Tennyson's "Charge of
The Light Brigade" They sit down
ind are SO absorbed in looking at the
'nells on the shore that they forget TO
ook off on the great ocean ri ,1o,rs
mercy and salvation.
linen there are others who come tn
ms book as skeptics. They marshal |
assage against passage, and try to get
iatthew and Luke in n quarrel. and
'onid have discrepancy between Paul
no James say about faith and works.
nd they try the account of Moses con.
erning the creation by modern deci-
ons in science. and resolve in all oues-
ons between the scientific explorer
nd TIE inspired writer they will give
re preference to the geologist. These
en- these spiders, I will sav-snck
bison out of the sweetest flowers
hey fatten their infidelitv unor
e truths which have led thou. .
ms to Heaven, and in their
storted vision prophet seems to =
'r with prophet, and evangelist with ;
angeiist, and apostle with apostle:
q IL they can find some bad trait of !,
aracter in o man of God mentioned
tnat Bible, these carrion crows cav :,
nap their wings over the carcass =
cause they can not understand how :,
whale swallowed Jonah, they at !,
npt the more wonderful feat of a;
allowing the monster whale of mod :.
skeptlcis m. They do not believe II :;
81 S@ That the Bible story should be -
which says that the dumb a.
spake, while they themselves =,
We the thing possible by their own
FRANCES. I am amused beyond -,
nds when hear one of these =. :"
talking about future life. just ~
man who rejects that Bible what 80
wen is and hear MIN befog your un
L tie will tell you that Heaven is w
ely the development of the internal .ea
urces of man; it is an effiorescence .s
he dynamic forces into a state of 'h'
'real and transcendental lucubra- ev'
, In close juxtaposition to the ever en-
ent was and the great ito be. ON
the everlasting mo- Consider &c:
themselves wise, they are fools for 'nl
, fools for eternity. CLIO
len there is another class of persons cry
come to the Bible as controversial sue
They are enormous Presbyteriaps lu'
cree Baptists, or violent Methodists ror
cut the Bible to suit their creed. .vil
ad OF cutting their creed to suit LII
'ible If the Scriptures think as I ,iu
do, well; if not. so much the worse i1n'
ne Scriptures. The Bible is merely "e'
milestone on which they sharpen ~
ilissect;pg Lr;f. - STAG
core 70 - 'o'ersv' stun
of war cor,.s - es. i' III driv
or weapons and munitions. They ou
declared everlasting war against WI
her sects, and they want SO MANY nos
swords, SO many muskets, SO
howitzers, SD many colum biads -.
oh grape and canister, SO MANY ,A
'ieces with which to rake the field - n'
y tbouo,, a.. - eae broo
VIII ,S, "e uaeh- God
nth the th,na.,. W., 'a ea'sn antit
about the religion of the Lord ~ :.
Christ? / have seen some sueh Pl"c'
pine back from an ecclesiastical ~
IRE as proud of their achieve ,- 80
as an Indian warrior, boastinp ~
ro-. .d,.:-l! e nos 'ahen' He kl
pes forth with his fists to get the .u.ee ,
innship than have for these theo- 80.
pugiiists who make our theo-
magazines ring with their war suhei
here are men who seem to think "
y use OF the sword of truth is tn ,"s'
somebody. There is one passage o"
Scriptures that they like better Gu $
N o.ha-. 80 - and
a he the T.c-,5 - .h,s Thy "
a. "a u-.r 80 cne.n know,
Won - NC - 70 whose
controversialits, or as slseptics. ~ ,oS
IL a. $500, and w
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