The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-09-22

lawyer and judge, 1 would try the
book as would try anything in the
court room, taking evidence for and
against 1t was q long and serious
and profound study. and using the
same principles of evidence in this re-
ligious matter as always do in secu-
lar matter matters, have come to the
decision that the Bible is supernat-
ural book, that it has come from God.
and that the only safety for the human
race is to follow its teachings"
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
and Christianity?" The president re-
plies: Il have for many years made it
a practice to read through the Bible
once a 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,
to history or to morality, it is an in
valuable and inexhaustible mine OF
knowledge and virtue
Next 1 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: I'VE account the Scriptures
of God to be the most sublime philoso-
ply
Next l 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 DR.. 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
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: Il 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 1 asked him
as to whether, in the passage Of years,
his faith in the Holy Scriptures ard
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 l 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! l remember" But l see
many witnesses present to-day in the
court room, and 1 call YOU to the wit
ness stand, but 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.
1T brought me from drunkenness and
poverty to sobriety and a good home"
SAYS another. 1T solaced me when l
lost my child" says another. 1T gave
me hope of future treasures when my
property was swept off by the last
panic" says another. 1T has given me
a peace and satisfaction more to me
than all the world beside" saws anoth-
er. 1T has been to me light and
music and fragrance and radiant an
says another.
Again, our belief is reinforced by
archaeological exploration. We must
confess that good men at one time were
afraid of biologists hammer and chem
st's crucible and psychologists inves-
tiga ton. 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 imperishable stone,
of the slave, of the
whips and of the task-masters who
the making of bricks with
put straw. Exhumed Nineveh and
Ba bylon, with their dusty lips declare
the Bible true.
Napoleon's soldiers in the Egyptian
pried up a stone, which you
nay find in the British museum,
stone. as l remember it. presenting
oorhans two feet Of leffared surface