Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-05
FAITH STRENGTHENED.
It is Easy to Danish Respect tor
the Bible il We Try.
DIR. TaImage Proves the ruin Oh ."'
lures by the Evidence OF the
Great Men scapegraees a"'
scoundrels Deny the IN
spIration OF the Bible.

| LARGE CONGREGATION on the subject OF
acknowledgements. the text helng.
/ Luke xviii. ). Lord increase our faith.
"Nhat "A pity he it. going there SAID
nv friend. most distinguished gen
eral of the army. when he was told that
the reason for my not being present on
a celebrated dav in RroolSlgn, was that
on that dag had sailed for the iioiy
Land tWhg do you say that2 M
anired some one Ny military friend
rcpiied: go he win be disillusioned
when ne gets aulic the sqnalor and
commonplace scenes Of Palestine. ana
his faith will be shaken IN Christianity.
for that Is often the result" The great
general miSiudged the ease. went 70
the Holy Land for the one purpose 81
\ having M. faith strengthened, and
4 that was The result which came OF II.
IN all our ioarneving, in All orr read
/ ing IN ali our associations, IN all our
plans augmentation. rather than the
/ depletion 80 our faith should be our
/ chief desire 1t is easy enough to have
our faith destroyed. ] can give you 2
recipe tor it, obliteration. Read intidei
/ hooks have long and frequent CONVEX
I >ation with slkcuties attend the lee
/ lures of those antagonistic 70 re-
! ljgion. give full swing 10 some
bad habit. ard your faith viii
be So completely gone that you viii
laugh at the idea that you ever had
any. II Won want to ruin vour faith,
You can do IL more easily than you can
/ do anything else. After believing the
Bible all my life. can see a plain way
I bv which in six weeks. | could enlist
my voice and pen. and heart and head.
and entire nature in the BON bardment
Of the Scriptures and the Church, and
all now hold sacred That it is easy
To Danish soon and forever all respect
for the Bible. ! prove lay the fact that
so many have done il. They were not
particularly brainy. nor had especial
force Of Will. but they SO thoroughly
accomplished the overthrow Of their
faith that they have no more idea that
the Bible is true. or that Christianity
amounts 10 anything. than they have
in the truth OF the ARABIAN Nights
Entertainments or the existence OF
Don QniNote's "windmills." They have
utSAiOAftl tHfiI iu4tu 81 AtibiRhE4AAY
that they never will have a return Of Il.
Fifty revivals Of religion may sweep
over the city. the town. the neigbhor-
hood where they live. and thev viii
feel nothing but silent or expressed
disgust. There are persons in this
house TO-DAY. who twenty years ago
gave up their faith and they win never
resume IL. The black and deep-toned
bell Of doom hangs over their head. and
take the hammer Of that bell and
strike it three times withal my might
and it sounds Woe Woe. Woe, Bat
my wish and the wish Of most Of Won,
rs the prayer expressed hT the disciple.
70 Jesus Christ. in the words Of my
text, Lord, increase our faith.
The first mode ~ accompli hing this
is 10 stady the Bible itself do not
believe there is an infdel now alive
who has read Tie Bible through Kui
as so important a document needs d be
read al least twice through ia order
that /, may be thoroughly under-t nd
ami road In cours nov offer one
hundred To- airs reward TO any infdel
who mas reld ,ac ribl, through t,vics
and rtaa i ia course. But ! cannot
take such man own word for IL Tor
there IS no Foundation Tor Integrity
except the iiih.t and the man who re-
iects the sou &c ef trntn how can ac-
cept his truthfulne,sa 30 must have
another witness in the case before
give thercvard must have the tes-
tiinony of some one who has seen him
read itall through twice. lnidels fish
in this Bible for incoherencies and con
tradictions and absurdities, and If vou
find their Bible, You will see inter
lineations in the Book of Jonah and
some of the chapters Of that unfortu-
nate prophet. nearly worn ont by much
use. and some parts of Second Samuel
or First Kings. You viii find dim with
ingermarSs, but the page which con-
tains tine ten commandments and the
Psalms of David and the Sermon on the
Mount and the Book OF John the Evan
gelist. viii not have single lead pen
ell stroke on the margin. nor any
ingernarks showing frequent perusal. !
The father IF one of the Presidents OF
the United States WAS a pronounced
inidel. ] knew it when many wears
ago ! accepted his invitation 70 spend /
the night in his home. lust before re-
firing al night lie said in iecose |
way: y suppose YOU are accustomed
ia read the Bible before going TO bed. |
and here is my Bible from which to
read. He then told me what portions !
he would like 10 have me read. and he |
only asked for those persons ON which |
he could easily be Factions
You know you can make fun about 1
anything. suppose you could take |
the last letter Your father or mother
ever wrote ami find something in the |
grammar or the spelling. or the tremor |
Of the peumanShip about which To be |
derisively critical. The internal evil /
dence Of the irutbfulness OF the Bible |
i 80 mighty that no one man ont Of the /
sixteen hundred million Of the worlds I
present population, os the vaster mil |
lions of the past ever read the Bible IN /
course, and read II praverfnllv and /