Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-18

nave ever SluCe D@~O the napier ana the
better man for such reading"
Next put upon the stand William e.
Gladstone, the head of the English gov
ernment, and hear him saying what
he said to me in January of $780, when
in reply to his telegram, "Pray come to
Hawarden tomorrow" l visited him.
Then and there asked him as to wheth-
er in the passage of years his faithin the
holy Scriptures and Christianity was on
the increase or decrease, and he turned
upon me with an emphasis and enthusi-
asm such as no one who has not con-
versed with him can fully appreciate
and expressed by voice and gesture and
illumined countenance his ever increas-
ing faith in God and the Bible and Chris
tianity as the only hope of our ruined
world. "That is all, Mr.. Gladstone, we
AZ, take of pour time now, for. from
o what is going ON in Eng
busy" ~" wy
The next man put upon the wlrn,-
stand is the late Earl of Kintore, and
ask him what he thinks of Christianity,
and he replies, "Why do you ask me
that? Did you not hear me preach Christ
in the Midnight Mission of London?"
ooh, yesl rememberr But l see
many witnesses present today in the
courtroom, and l call you to the witness
stand, but 1 have only 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. "It brought me from drunken
ness and poverty to sobriety and a
good home" says another. 1T solaced
me when l lost my child" says another.
"It gave me hope of future treasures
when my property was swept off by the
last panic" says another. "It has given
me peace and a satisfaction more to me
than all the world beside" says another.
at has been to me light and music and
fragrance and radiant anticipation"
says another. Ahi stop the procession
of witnesses. Enoughl Enoughl All
those voices of the past and the present
have nightly increased our faith.
TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS.
Again, our belief is REINFORCED by ar
Genealogical exploration. We must con-
fess that good men at one time were afraid
of geologist's hammer and chemists cru
chile and arch@ologist's investigation,
but now intelligent Christians are re-
ceiving and still expecting nothing but
confirmation from all such sources. What
supports the Palestine Exploration soci-
ETY.? Contributions from churches and
Christian benefactors. saw the marks
of the shovels of that exploring society
amid the ruins of ancient Jericho and
all up and down from the Dead sea to
C@sarea Philippi. "Dig awayF' says the
church of God, "and the deeper you dig
the better like"
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 imperishahle stnIa rnpraoAntA
tions of the slave, of the whips and
of the taslxmasters who compelled the
making of bricks without straw. Ex-
humed Nineveh and Babylon, with their
dusty lips, declare the Bible true. Ma
poleon's soldiers in the Egyptian cam
paign pried up stone, which you may
find in the British museum, a stone, as
l remember it, 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
Gomorrah have been identified. The re-
mains of the tower of Babel have been
found. Assyrian documents lifted from
the sand and Behistun inscription hum
dreds of feet high up on the rock echo
and re-echo the truth of Bible history.
The signs of the time indicate that al
most every fact of the Bible from lid to
lid will find it's corroboration in ancient
city disentombed, or ancient wall
cleared from the dust of ages, or ancient
document unrolled by archeologist.
Before the world rolls on as far into
the twentieth century as 1t has already
rolled into the nineteenth an inhdel
will be a man who does not believe his
own senses, and the volumes now crit
lcdl anu aucuunCAdbSty VI ehO DAHASt -
not entirely devastated by the book
worms. will be taken down from the
shelf as curiosities Of ignorance or idioey.
All success to the pickaxes and crow
bars and powder blasting of those apos-
ties of archaeological exploration. ! like
the ringing defiance Of the old Huguenots
to the assailants of Christianity: rPound
away, You rebelsl Your hammers break,
but the anvil Of Gods word stands"
How wonderfully the old book hangs
together. It is library made up OF %
books and written by at least 80 authors.
II is a supernatural thing that they have
stuck together. Take the writings OF any
other 80 authors, OF any 10 authors, or any
8 authors, and put them together, aaq
how long would they stay tempiled
Books of elegant extEg proyerbially
from many anagF' knew one such book
short liyeduse the publishers phrase,
wAh life in it" for five years.
Why is II that the Bible, made mp OF
the writings Of at least 30 authors, has
kent together for long line OF centu-
ries when the natural tendency would
have been 10 fly apart like loose sheets OF
paper when a gust Of wind blows upon
themY II IA because God stuck them to-