Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-26


| ments. If You look for peculiar muEica
instruments. Won WIN and psalteries anf
shiQionoths and rams horns. The anti
uuarian will find in the Bible curiositie,
in apriculture. and In commerce. and In art
and In religion that will keen him oh
sorbed a great while. There are those VIII,
como 10 this Rible "a Won would Ia 3 cah;
net of curiosities. and Won nick mn this ani
say. "What a strange sword that isr, AM
mWhat peculiar hat this isl, and "Wba,
an unlocked for lamp that isr, and IN,
4 RihIe In a,,cb hecomes "a Rritish rnusann,
Then there are others who And NOTHING
! In the Bible but the poetry. Well n vos,
4 come as a poet. YOU will find In this book
faultless rhythm. and bold .maeerv, and
\ startling antithesis. and ranturous lyric
| and sweet pastoral and ipstruot,ve nara,
tive, and devotional psalm; thoughts ex.
pressed In style more solemn than that
! of Montgomery, more bold than that OF
Milton, more terrible than that of Dante
more natural than that of Wordsworth,
moro impassioned than that Of Pollock,
| more tender than that of Cowper, more
weird than than that of Spenser, This
| great poem brings all the gems of the
earth into it's coronet, and 1t weaves
| the flames of Judgment In it's garland and
| pours eternal harmonies In its rhymth.
| Everything this book touches it makes
beautiful, from the plain stones OF the
summer thrashinR floor, and the daughters
| of Major filling the trough for the camels.
and the fish pools of Heshbon, up to the
| psalmist praising God with diapason of
storm and whirlwind, and job leading
| forth Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades,
| 1t Is wonderful poem and great many
| people read 1t as they do Thomas Moore's
.'Lalla Rookh, - and Walter Scott's LADY
Of the Lake" ard Tennyson's "Charge Of
the Light Brigade" They sit down and
are so absorbed in looking at the shells on
the shore that they forget to look off on
the great ocean of Gods mercy and saliva
ton.
BLIND UNBELIEF Is SURE TO ERR.
Then there are others who come tn tbis
book az skeptics. They marshal passao
against passage. and try to get Matthew
and Luke In a quarrel. and would have
discrepancy between what Paul and James
say about faith and works. and thew try
the account of Moses concerning the crea-
ton by modern decisions In science. and
resolve that in all questions between the
scientific explorer and the inspired writer
thew will give the preference to the aeolo-
gist. These men-these spiders. will saw
-slck poison out of the sweetest flowers
They fatten their infidelitv upon the
truths which have led thousands r.
heaven and in their distorted vis;on
nronbat saems to war With rrorbot ond
evopgaI;st With evanoa,;st and anostIa
with onostle and ~ thew can And soma had
trait ~ cbaracter in a man a. Cod mon
toned IN that RibIa tbesa corr;on oro,,,s
cav and fan their wings over the carcass
Racause tbev cannot ,,pdarstand how the
whale swallowed Jonah tbav attamnt tbe
more yyonderfnI feat ~ swaIloxuing tho
,nonstar whala of noderp slrantic,sno
They do NOT helieve A. nossible that tbe
Ribja storv sbonId ha trpe which cows ~ -
tho dunnh oss snaLa yhiIa thav +bo,,,soIuas
nrove the thing nossjhle NV their own me-
terances
am amusad bevond hounds whap T boer
ona Of these Y,an talkipg about a f,t,,ra
ar rrst ask a man who ra;oc+s that
Rihle what heaven 10 and haar HIN, befo1
uo,,r so,,I ua iii, toH vo,, tha+ haava,, e
merely tho deveIonn,ent ~ tho ;nternai 70
so,,,cea ~ a man. A. 10 an etf1orescenca ~
the dynamite forces into a state of atbereoI
and tronscendentnl Iucnbration In closa
ipvt.poc,.io,, to the ever nrassnt twas !,
and III a great .sto no - and The everlastino
s.no y Considering themselves wise tbsv
are FOOLS for time fools for eternitv
VAIN AND FooIJsU DIspJTTEs
Then there Ia another class Of nersona
who come to the Bible as controversialists
They are enormous Prssbyterians or fierce
pontists mr. violent Metbodists Thew cpt
the Bible to suit their creed instead of cut
t,no their oraed to sniff tba Rihla To tho
60 ,nnch the VERSE for the Scr;ntnres THE
Bible ia merely the milestone on which
thew sbarnan the dissectino knife If con-
troyarsv They come to Il as a govern
want n time ~ war comes m armor;es
or arsenals for weapons and munitions
Tbev have declared everlas sting war AGAINST
ajl otbar sects and thew want 90 many
hrosds,uords 90 n,anv mrskets 90 MANI
bow;trers So many colpmbiads 40 mncb
arone and canister On many f,eldniecas
With which 10 rake the feld of disnute
sor thou noon to s,at the victory thor Oh, tho
baavans be dark ened with the smof q md
~ 40 ~ ront WITH be thunder what 40
tbev care ahout the religion Of the Lord
Tas,,s ChristS
rbova soon Soma srob man coma hack
s.,,,, ~, aooIas;astioaI =, oseaora q ,,ro,,d ~
tho,r aohiavaments aa an Indian warrior
hoootinn ~ tba number of scaIns he has
token Ibaye mora admiration for a man
,,,ho 1,ooa forth ,,,ith his acts +o oet tba
chon,nionshin than have for these tbeo.
Iao,oaI ,,,,,iiis+s Vic n,aLo o,,r thaoioo;caI
,,,e,ro1i,,as ri,s, v,ith thar ,yarcrv 1bare
nra ,,,a,, ,,h, soon, 70 tbink the onlv u.a ~
tho s,,ord of truth 10 to stick somehodv
Tharo ;a o,o ,assoe,o ~ tho Scr;ntu rss thst
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