Milford chronicle., 1893-09-22
STUDY THE BIBLE.

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words Of my text, Lord, increase on
faith"
STUDY THE BIBLE.
The first mode of accomplishing this j
to study the Bible itself do not believ
there is an infidel now alive who has rea,
the Bible through. But as so important
document needs 20 be read at least twic
through in order that it may be thoroughly
understood, and read in course, I now offeI
800 reward to any infidel who has read tn,
Bible through twice and read it In course
But cannot take such a mans own word
for it, for there is no foundation for integ
rity except the Bible, and the man who re
| Jects the source of truth, how can accept
his truthfulness2
So must have another witness in the
case before l give the reward must have
phe testimony of some one who has seen
him read it all through twice. Infidels fish
| in this Bible for incoherencies and CONTRA
dictiOns and absurdities, and if you find
their Bible you will see interlineations in
the book Of Jonah and some of the chap
ters of that unfortunate prophet nearly
worn out by much use, and some parts Of
II Samuel OF Kings you viii find dim
with finger marks, but the pages which
contain the Ten Commandments, and the
psalms OF David, and the sermon on the
mount, and the book of John the Evan
gelist will not have single lead pencil
stroke on the margin nor any finger marks
showing frequent perusaL
The father of one of the presidents of the
United States was pronounced infidel I
knew it when many years ago accepted
bis invitation TO spend the night in his
home. just before retiring at night he said
in a jocose way, Il suppose you are aecus-
toned to 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 to have me read, and he only
asked for those portions ON which he could
easily be facetious.
You know you can make fun about any
thing. 1 suppose you could take the last
letter your father Ormother ever wrote and
find something in the grammar, or the spell |
ing. or the tremor Of the penmanship about
which 10 be derisively critical The inter
nal evidence Of the tTuthfulness of the Iii
BILE is so mighty that no one man out Of the
l,69O000,000 of the worlds present papula-
tiOn, or the vaster millions Of the past ever
read the Bible in course and read it prayer
fully and carefully but was led to believeit. /
John Murray, the famous book publisher |
Of Edinburgh and the intimate friend of (
Southey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning |
and Washington Irving, bought of Moore, /
5he poet, the Memoirs of Lord Byron" |
md they were to be published after Byron's
ieath. But they were not fit to be pub
ished, although Murray had paid for them
10000. That was a solemn conclave when
light Of the prominent literary people of
hose times assembled in Albemarle street
.fter Byron's death to decide what should
'e done with the Memoirs" " which were
harged and surcharged with defamations
nd indelicacies. The memoirs" were
cad and pondePed, and the decision came
hat they must be burned, and not until
he last word Of those 'sMemoirs" went TO
shes did the literary company separate.
But suppose now all the best spirits of
Il ages were assembled to decide the fate
the Bible, which is the last will and
of our heavenly Father, and
lese memoirs of our Lord Jesus, what
'ould be the verdict2 Shall they burn.
E shall they live? The unanimous YER
let of all Is Let them live, though all
se burn.o Then put together On the other
and all the debauchees and profigates
ld assassins of the ages, and their unani-
ious verdict concerning the Bible would =
2, LET it burn"
Mind you, do not say that all infdels
e immoral, but do say that all the scape-
aces and scoundrels Of the universe agree
ith them about the Bible Let me vote
it'll those who believe in the Holy Scrip
Tres Men believe other things with half
9 evidence required to believe tho Bibls !
le distinguished Abner Kneeland rsjeoted =
Q Scriptures and then put all his money !
to an enterprise for the recovery Of that /,
Gus pocus, Captain Kidd's treasures =,
neeland's faith for doing SO being found =,
on q mans statement that he could tell q
lere those treasuresW were buried from the -
oks of glass Of water dipped from the L
sdson river h
The internal evidence Of the authenticity n
the Scriptures is so exact and SO vivid =
at no man honest and sane can thor 3,
ghly and continuously and prayerfully <,
ID them without entering their disciple.
ip. So put that internal evidence para1 e
lunt- How are you led Co believe in a n
ter xo1 receive from husband or wife Or n