Milford chronicle., 1893-09-22

II TO your door to prove that it is a penuin
Is letter The internal evidence settles il. am
IL by the same process you can forever eettI
B.. the fact that the Bible is the handwritin
and communication OF the infinite God.
WEIGHTY TESTIMONY.
at Furthermore as have already intimated
m we may increase our faith by the testimon,
a OF others Perhaps we Of lesser brain ma
n have been overcome by superstition or en-
& ioled into an acceptance Of a hollow pre
tension. So l will this morning turn hi,
10 house into courtroom and summon wifi
,e nesses, and you shall be the jury. and
N now impanel You for that purpose. and
Il will put upon the witness stand men whom
d all the world acknowledge to be strong in,
u tellectually and whose evidence in anv
i other courtroom would be incontrovertible
L win not call to the witness stand anv min
4 ister of the gospel, for he might be- prefa-
! diced.
There are two ways of taking an oath in
7 a courtroom. One is by putting the lips to
the Bible, and the other is by holding up the
right hand toward heaven. Now, as in
! this case it is the Bible that is on trial. we
! will not ask the witness to put the book to
! his lips for that would imply that the
= sanctity and divinity of the book are settled.
! and that would be begging the question.
/, toward heaven in affirmation.
Salmon p Chase. chill iustiee OF the su.
preme court Of the United States. appoint-
ed by President Lincoln, will take the wit
ness stand. "Chief Justice Chase. upon
your oath, please to state what you have to
say about the book commonly called the
Bible" The witness replies: There came
a time in my life when l doubted the divin-
ity Of the Scriptures, and l resolved as
lawyer and judge I would try the book as
! would try anything in the courtroom.
taking evidence for and against 1t was a
long and serious and profound study and
using the same principles of evidence in
this religious matter as / always do in sec
ular matters | have come to the decision
that the Bible is a supernatural book. that
it has oome from God, and that the only
safety for the human race is to follow its /
teachings" Judge, that will do. Go back /
again to your pillow of dust on the banks /
/ of the Ohio"
Next / put upon the witness stand a .
/ president of the United States-John
/ Quincy Adams. president Adams. what
have you to say about the Bible ard Chris
/ tianityf" The president replies: ~ have
tor many years made it practice to read
through the Bible once year My custom
10 80 AAelAA A0AAL Jl awe NllllAefs every morn
ing Immediately afterrising from NV 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 refer
ence to revelation, to history ortomoralitv.
it is an invaluable and ineXhaustible mine
Of knowledge and virtue" n
Next l put upon the witness stand sly
Isaac Newton, the authoro of the "Principia"
and the greatest natural philosopher the
world has ever seen. "Sir Isaac, what have
ycp 70 say concerning the Bible" The
philosophers reply IS, I'VE account the
Scriptures Of God to be the most sublime
philosophy"
Next l put upon the witness stand the
enchantment of letters, Sir Walter Scott q
and when ! ask him what be thinks of the
place that our great book ought to take
amongp other books hereplies. "There is but
one book, and that is the Bible"
Next put upon the stand the most IA
nous geologist OF all time Hugh Miller. an
elder Of Dr. Guthries Presbyterian church l
in Edinburgh, and Faraday and Keppler A
and they all testify TO the same thing. They d
all say the Bible is from God, and that the Y
mightiest influence for good that ever
touched our world is Christianity. o.
Chancellor Kent, what do you think OF y
the Biblef" Answers mo other book ever y,
addressed itself SO authoritatively and So u
pathctically to the judgment and moral q
sense of mankind u
Edmund Burke, what do you think of
the Bibe" Answer: Il have read the b. u
BILE morning noon and night, and have ever tt
since been the happier and the better man Oh
lOr such reading" al
Next l put upon the stand William F. W
the head of the English govern So
nent, and l hear him saying what he said u,
% me in January Of 1890, when, in reply to H.
lis telegram, pray come to Hawarden to- it
morrow" / visited him. Then and there l q
sked him as to whether, in the passage Of OIL
ears, his faith in the Holy Scriptures and Pi
was on the increase or decrease. &c
nd he turned upon me with an emphasis A.
nd enthusiasm such as uoone who has no5 p.
pnversed with him can fully appreciate nl
nd expressed by voice and gesture and Vu
llumined countenance his ever increasing
aith in God and the Bible and Christianity
S the only hope Of our ruined world. W.
This is ali, Mr.. Gladstone, we will take Of IS
our time now, for from the reports of 'el
hat is going on in England just now | rI'
link you are very busy" yo
The next man l put upon the witness ~ ~
-and is the late Earl of Kintore, and ask ;M4' M
i'm what he thinks of Christianity, and he 10
splies; why do you ask me thatf Did srS
Du not hear me preach Christ in the Mid ~
light Mission of l.ondonl "Oh, yesl / Tn
member" But / see many witnesses th'
,asent TO-DAY in tbe eonrfroor, o,,5 7 oaII the
lu to the witness stand, but have onlva IN
cond Of time for any one Of you, AS .al
u pass along just give one sentence All
regard to Christianity. Under God y ga
has changed my entire nature"
Us one 1T brought me from drunk loi
mess and poverty to sobriety and bas
good home" says another 1T solaced oo,,
e when l lost my child" says another es +
t gave me a hope of future treasures -
hen my property was swept off by the MO-
st panic" says another. 1T has given 80,
e a peace and a satisfaction more to me e-r-
an all the world beside" says ano6her. ~. -
: has been TO me light and music and ,,,,ii
igrance and radiant anticipation" +" SAYS N n
other. All, stop the procession Of wit .,.o -
sses. Enough Enoughl All those voices
the past and the present have nightly ri,i
reased our faith. ~, 80
THE EVIDENCE OF sorsNCE. ~,
again our belief isre-enforced by archmo. -
~ Ia "a y. lii i'lsy ceiilss unat ined
So 'i- ~, -. a,d - at. -, ii crea
i,' e+eetI @ Jo1,0 t,,t ra, i,e az diff,
ioent Tlbriseians ave reos3,;ne, an5 st,ii pect
,ecting nothing but confirmation from Hei, q,
such sources. What supports the Pal VI
inc Exploration societyi Contributions oetV
N churches and Christian bencfactors. essL
aw the marks of the shovels Of that Cnrl
,loring society amid the ruins Of ancient ent
icho, and al up and dOwn from the IN IN u
I'd sea TO Cesarea Philippi. "Dig awayl" Blol
S the church Of God, land the deeper Wll5
dig the better like.n prov
Undiscovered monuments Of Egypt have IsIei ~ Z,
5eled on them the story Of the sufferings an d
the Israelites in Egyptian bondage, as wIol
find it in the Bible; there, in imperish- In.
stone, representations Of the slave, of but
whips and Of the taskmasters who Us Dc