Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-18

have ever since been the happier and the
better man for such reading"
Next I put upon the stand William e.
Gladstone, the head of the English gov
eminent, and I hear him saying what
he said to me in January of 1890, when
in reply to his telegram, ''Pray come to
Hawarden tomorrow" | visited him.
Then and there I asked him as to wheth-
er in the passage of years his faith in the
holy Scriptures and Christianity was on
the increase or decrease, and he turned
upon me with an emphasis and enthus1-
ism such as no one who has not con-
versed with him can fully appreciate
End expressed by voice and gesture and
:llumined 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
will take of your time now, for, from
the reports OF what is going on in Eng
land Just now, I think you are very
busy
The next man put upon the witness
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, yes! I rememberl" But I see
many witnesses present today in the
courtroom. and I call you to the witness
stand, but I 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 his
changed my entire nature says
one. cit brought me from drunken
ness and poverty to sobriety and a
good home,;' says another. ''It solaced
me when I lost my child" says another.
cit gave me hope of future treasures
when my property was swept off by the
last panic,'' says another. cit has given
me a peace and satisfaction more to me
than all the world beside" says another.
cit has been to me light and music and
fragrance and radiant anticipation, %
says another All! stop the procession
of witnesses. Enough! Enough! ALI
those voices of the past and the present
have nightly increased our faith.
TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS.
Again, our belief is REINFORCED by ar
theological exploration. We must con-
fess that good men at one time were afraid
of biologists hammer and chemists cru
chile and psychologists 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? Contri buttons from churches and
Christian benefactors. I saw the marks
of the shovels of that exploring society
- Inln ND
all up and down from the Dead sea to
Cesarea Philippi. dig awayr' 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 Israeites in Egyptian
bondage, as we find it in the Bible
there. in imperishab1e stone, representa-
tons of the slave, of the whips and
of the taskmasters who compelled the
making of bricks without straw. Elk
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, q stone, az
l remember it, presenting perhaps two
feet of let+ared surface. 1t contains words
in three languages. That stone was the
kew that unlocked the meaning of al
the hieroglyphics Of tombs and obelisks
and tells over and over again the same
events which Moses recorded.
The sulphurous graves Of Sodom ant
Gomorrah have been identified. The re
mains of the tower of Babel have beer
found. AsSyrian documents lifted from
the sand and Behistun inscription hun
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 Il
lid will find it's confederation in ancien
city disentombed, or ancient wal
cleared from the dust of ages, or ancien
document unroIled by archaologist.
Before the world rolls on as far int
the twentieth century as it has alread.
rolled into the nineteenth an inide
will be man who does not believe hi
own senses. and the volumes now crit
ical and denunciatory Of the Bible, /
not entirely devastated by the book
worms. will be taken down from tn
shelf as curiosities Of ignorance or idiocy
All success to the pickaxes and crow
bars and powder blasting of those apos
ties of archaeological exploration. lik
theringing defiance of the old Huguenot
to the assailants Of Christianity: ''POun
away. you rebelsi Your hammers break
but the anvil of Gods word stands"
How wonderfully the old book hang
together. It is library made up OF q
books and written by at least 80 authors
It is a supernatural thing that they hav
stuck together. Take the writings of an
other 80 authors, or any 10 authors, or an
authors, and put them together, an
how long would they stay together
Books Of ELEGANT extracts" compile
from many authors are proverbiall
i linz ON i, laoO