The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

and that the only safety for the human
race is to follow it's teachings"
Next 1 put upon the witness stand a
president of the United States-John
Quincy Adams. president Adams,
what have you to say about the Bible
and Christianity?" The president re-
plies: Il have for many years made it
a practice to read through the Bible
once year. My custom is to read four
or five chapters every morning immedi-
ately after arising from my bed. 1t
employs about an hour of my time
and seems to me the most suitable
manner of beginning the day. In what
light soever we regard the Bible,
whether with reference to revelation,
70 history or to morality, it is an in
valuable and ineXhaustible mine of
knowledge and virtue"
Next / put upon the witness stand
Sir Isaac Newton. the author of the
Principal and the greatest natural
philosopher the world has ever seen.
''Sir Isaac, what have you to say con-
corning the Bible?" The philosophers
reply is: 1--WE account the Scriptures
of God to be the most sublime philoso-
ply"
Next I put upon the witness stand
the enchantment of letters, Sir Walter
Scott, and when | ask him what he
thinks of the place that our great book
ought to take among other books he
replies: ''There is but one book, and
that is the Bible"
Next l put upon the stand the most
famous geologist of all time, Hugh
Miller, an elder of DIR. Guthrie's Pres
byterian church, in Edinburgh, and
Faraday, and Kepler, and they all
testify to the same thing. They all
say the Bible is from God and that the
mightiest influence for good that ever
touched our world is Christianity.
Chancellor Kent! What do you think
of the Bible?" Answer: mo other
book ever addressed itself so authorita-
lively and so pathetically to the judg-
ment and moral sense of mankind"
Edmund Burke! What do you think
of the Bible?" Answer: II have read
the Bible morning noon and night, and
have ever since been the happier and
better man for such reading"
Next put upon the stand Will lam
E Gladstone, the head of the English
government, and l hear him saying
what he said to me in January of 1890,
when, in reply to his telegram, pray
come to Hawarden, tomorrow" Wis
tied him. Then and there | asked him
as to whether, in the passage of years,
his faith in the Holy Scriptures and
Christianity was on the increase or de-
crease, and he turned upon me with an
emphasis and enthusiasm such as no
one who has not conversed with him
can fully appreciate, and expressed by
voice and gesture and illumined coun-
tenance his ever-increasing faith in
God and the Bible and Christianity as
the only hope of our ruined world.
The next man put upon the witness
stand is the late earl of Kintore, and l
ask him what he thinks of Christianity,
and he replies: ''Why do you ask me
that? Did you hear me preach Christ
in the Midnight Mission,' of London?"
''Oh, yes, / remember" But l see
many witnesses present to-day in the
court room, and / call you to the wit
ness stand, but have only a second of
time for any one of you. AS you pass
along just give one sentence in regard
to Christianity. Under God it has
changed my entire nature" says one.
at brought me from drunkenness and
poverty to sobriety and a good home, "
says another. 1T solaced me when 1
lost my child" says another. at gave
me hope of future treasures when my
was swept off by the last
panic" says another. ut has given me
a peace and satisfaction more to me
than all the world beside" says anoth-
er. 1T has been to me light and
music and fragrance and radiant an
says another.
Again, our belief is reinforced by
exploration We must
confess that good men at one time were
afraid of biologists hammer and chem
lists crucible and psychologists inves-
tigation, but now intelligent Christians
are receiving and still expecting moth
ing but confirmation from all such
sources What supports the "Pales-
tine Exploration society,"" Contribu-
tons from churches and Christian ben
efactorS The discovered monuments
of Egypt have chiseled on them the
story of the sufferings of the Israelites
in Egyptian bondage, as we find it in
the Bible: there, in imperisha5le stone,
of the slave, of the
whips and of the task-masters who
the making of bricks with
out straw. Exhumed Nineveh and
Babylon, with their dusty lips declare
the Bible true.
Napoleon's soldiers in the Egyptian
pried up stone, which you
may find in the British museum,
stone, as l remember il, presenting
perhaps two feet of lettered surface.
1t contains words in three languages
That stone was the key that unlocked
the meaning of all the hieroglyphics
of tombs and obelisks, and tells over
and over again the same events which
Moses recorded. The sulphurous graves
of Sodom and Gomarrah have been
identified. The remains of the tower
of Babel have been found. Assyrian
documents lifted from the sand and
Behistun inscription, hundreds of feet
high up on the rock, echo and re-echo
the truth of Bible history. How won
derfully the old book hangs together.
1t is library up made of sixty-six
books and written by at least thirty
nine authors. 1t is supernatural
thing that they have stuck together.
Take the writings of any other thirty
nine authors, or any ten authors, or
any five authors, and put them togeth-
er, and how long would they stay to-
gether? Why is Il that the Bible.
made up of the writings of at least
thirty-nine authors, has kept together