The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14

tished; how nation fought with nation.
javelin ringing against harbegon, until
the earth was chastity with the dead.
You will see the coronation of princes.
the triumph OF coDauerors, and the
world turned upside down and back again
and down again, cleft and Scared with
great agonies Of eartha uake and tempest
and battle. 1t is wonderful history,
putting 10 the blush all others in the &C.
curacy Of its recital and in the stupen-
duous events it records. Homer and
Thucydides and Gibboh could make great
stories out Of little events, but it took a
Moses to tell how the heavens and the
earth were made in one chapter, and TO
give the history OF thousands Of years
upon two leaves
There are others who come to the
Bible merely IS antidusrians.' If you
come as an antiquarian, you will find a
great many odd things in the Bible-pe-
cularities Of manner and custom. mar
rage and burial; peculiarities Of dress.
tunics. sandals. crisping pins. amulets
and girdIes and tinkling ornaments. II
you come to look at military arrange
mems. you will ind coats of mail and
javelins and engines of war and circum-
look for peculiar musical instruments,
you vill find psalteries and Shlgionoths
and rams horns. The antiquarian will
find in the Bible curiosities in agricul-
ture. and in commerce. and in art. and
in religion that will keep him absorbed a
great while. There are those who come
to this Bible as you would to a cabinet
of curiosities, and you pick up this and
say, What a strange sword that isl
and "What peculiar hat this isl and
What an unlocked for lamp that isl
and the Bible to such becomes British
museum.
Then there are others who find nothing
in the Bible but the poetry. Well, If you
come as poet, you will find in this book
fauItleSS rhythm, and nold imagery, and
startling antithesis, and rapturous lyric,
and sweet pastoral and instructive narra-
tive, and devotional psalm; thoughts ex-
pressed in style more solemn than that
Of Montgomery. more bold taan that Of
Milton, more terrible than that of Dante,
more natural than that of Wordsworth,
more imprisoned than that of Pollock,
more tender than that Of Cowper, more
weird than that of Spencer. This great
poem brings all the gems of the earth
into its cOronet, and it weaves the flames
Of judgment in its garland and pours
eternal harmonies in its rhymth.
Everything this book touches it makes
beautiful, from the plain stones OF the
summer thrashing floor, and the daugh-
tiers of Major filing the trough for the
came.s, and the fish pools Of Heshbon, up
to the pSalmiSt praisng God with diapa-
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leading forth Orion, Arcturus and the
PleiadeS. 1t is wonderful poem. and
great many people read it. as they do
Thomas Moore's "LaHa Rookh." and
Walter SCOTS LADY of the Lake." and
Tennyson's Charge OF the Light Brig
ade," 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 salvation.
Then there are others who come to
this book as SkepticS. They marshal
passage 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 they try the account of Moses
the creation by modern de-
csions in science, and resolve that in all
questions between the scientific explorer
and the inspired writer they will give
the preference to the geologist These
men-these spiders, l will say-suck
poison out of the sweetest flowers. They
fatten their intdelity upon the truths
which have led thousands to Heaven, and
in their distorted vision prophet seems to
war with prophet, and evangelist with
evangelist, and apostle with apostle. and
if they can find some bad trait of char
acter in man of God mentioned in that
Bible these carrion crows cav and flap
their wings over the carcass Because
they cannot understand how the whale
swallowed Jonah they attempt the more
wonderful feat Of swallowing the mon
ster.whale of modern skepticism. They
do not believe it possible that the Bible
story should be true which says that the
dumb ass spake, while they themselves
prove the thing possible by their own
am amused beyond bounds when l
hear one OF these men talking about a
future life. Just ask man who rejects
that Bible what heaven is, and hear him
befog YOUR sQnl. He will tell you that
heaven is merely the development Of the
internal resources of man: it is an effio-
rescence OF the dynamic forces into
state of ethereal and transcendental lu-
ip close juxtaposition to the
ever present was" and the. great Ito
be-" and the everlasting mo-" Consid-
ering themselves wise, they are fools for
lime, fools for eternity.
Then there is another class of persons
who come to the Ible as controversial
SITS. They are enormous Presbyterians
n fierce Baptists or violent MettodistS
They cut the Bible to suit their creed in
stead Of cutting their creed to suit the
Bible. If the Scriptures think as they
10, well: if not, so much the worse for
he Scriptures. The Bible is merely the f.
MILESTONE on which they sharpen the |
iissecting knife of controversy. They |
ome to it as Government in time Of |
var comes to armorieS or arsenals for |
weapons and munitions They have de- !
Jared everlasting war against all other |
ectS, and they want so many broad |
words, so many muskets, so many how |
tiers, So many columbia so much grape !
nd canister, so many fieldpieces with |
which TO rake the field of dispute, for
hey mean to get the victory though the
eavens be darkened with the smoke and
ne earth REM with the thunder What
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