Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-23

that would be begging tne qucstion'
So / shall ask each witness
to lift his hand toward Heaven
in affirmation. Salmon p. Chase, chief
justice of the supreme court of the Unit
ed States, appointed by President Lin
coln will take the witness 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 time
in nv life when doubted the divinity
of the Scriptures, and resolved, as a
lawyer and judge, / would try the
book as would try anything in the
court room, taking evidence for and
against. 1t was Il long and serious
and profound study, and using the
same principles of evidence in this re-
ligious matter rs always do in secu-
lar matter matters, l 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 n
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
u practice to read through the Bible
once 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 l 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: ''We account the Scriptures
of God to be the most sublime philoso-
ply"
Next / put upon the stand the most
famous geologist of all time, Hugh
Miller. an elder of DIR. 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
of the Bible?" Answer: mo other
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: II have read
the Bible morning noon and night, and
have ever since been the happier and
better man for such reading"
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 hear me preach Christ
in the Midnight Mission of London
"Oh, YES. | remember" But l see
many witnesses present to-day in the
court room. and call you to the wit
ness stand. but have only q 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.
ut brought me from drunkenness and
poverty to sobriety and a good home, y"
saws another. 1T solaced me when l
lost my child" says another. at gave
me hope of future treasures when my
property was swept off by the last
panic" says another. at has given me
peace and satisfaction more to me
than all the world beside" says anoth-
err. 1T has been to me light and
music and fragrance and radiant an
ticipation," 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
lists crucible and archeologist's inves-
tigation, 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-
tions 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,
representations of the slave, of the
whips and of the task-masters who
compelled the making of bricks with
out straw. Exhumed Nineveh and
babylon, with their dnsty lips declare
the Bible true.
Napoleon's soldiers Ia the Egyptian
campaign pried upa stone, which you
may find in the British museum, a
stone, as l remember it. presenting
perhaps two feet of lettered surface.
It contains words in three languages.
That stone was the key that unlocked
| the meaning of all the hieroglyphics