Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-04

case it is the Bible that Is on trial. we will
not ask the witness to put the book to his
lips, for that would imply that the san city
! and divinity of the book is settled, and that
would be begging the question. SO shall ask
each witness to lift his hand toward heaven
| IN affirmation.
Salmon +. Chase. chief Justice OF the SUI
preue court of the United States appointed
by President Lincoln. will take the witness
stand "Chief Justice Chase upon your
oath, please state what you have to say about
the book commonly called the Bible" The
witness replies ''There came time in my
life when doubted the divinity Of the Scrip
lures, and resolved. as a lawyer and Judge.
| would try the book as 1 would try ANYTHING
IN the courtroom, taking evidence for an :
against. II was q long and serious and pro-
/ Sound study, and using the same principles
ot evidence in this religious matter as l al
ways do in secular matters | have come 10
the decision that the Bible is a supernatural
book, that IL has come from God, and that
the only safety for the human race is to fol-
low its Teachings" Judge, that will do.
Go back again TO your pillow of dust on the
banks of the Ohio"
Next put upon the witness stand a Presi-
dent of the United States-John Quincy
Adams. President Adams, what have you TO
say about the Bible and Christianity" The
President replies ~ have for many wears
made it a practice to read through the Bible
once year. My custom is to read four or
; five chapters every morning Immediately
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 soeve- we regard the Bible.
whether with reference to revelation, TO his
tory or to morality, il is an invaluable and
ineXhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. ="
Next 1 put upon the witness stand Sir
Isaac Newton, the author of the ''Principa"
md rh.S mi har f1,a
world has ever seen. ''Sir Isaac. what have
you to say concerning the Bible?" The
philosophers reply is, 1--WE account the
Scriptures of God to be the most sublime
philosophy"
Next put upon the witness stand the en-
chantment OF letters, Sir Walter Scott. and
when l 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 put upon the stand the most famous
ceolOgist Of all time. Hugh Miller. an elder
Of DR.. Guthres Presbyterian church in Ed
in npurgh, anl Faraday and Hepler, and they
all testify 20 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: NO other book ever
addressed itself 50 authOritatively and so
pathetically 10 the Judgment and moral sense
OF mankind" ."
Edmund Burke. what do you think the
Bible" Answer Il have read the Bible
morning, noon and night, and have ever
since been the happier and the better man
Tor such reading"
Next 1 put upon the stand William I. Glad
stone. the heal OF the English government,
and hear him saying wnat he said 10 me in
January OF 1880, when in reply 10 his tele-
cram. PRAY come to Hawlr len tomorrow" "
/ han nm k4Are I 1=L-a a i'm,
A. TO whether in the passage OfyearS his faith
III the Holy Scriptures anl Christianity was
On the increase or lie 'r-.JS. AMI ne turned
upon me with an emphasis ami enthusiasm
such rs no one vino has not cOnverSad with
him can fully appreciate and expressed by
voice and gesture aud ilIumiued countenance
hiS ever increus NJ iath in Go ami the Bible
and Christianity 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 England Just
now. think you are very busy
The sulphurous graves of Sodom and
Comorrah have been identified. The re-
mains of the tower OF Babel have been
found. AssyTial documents lifted from the
sand and Behistun inscription hundreds OF
feet high up on the rock echo and re-echo
the truth of Biole history. The signs of the
time indicate thai almost every fact OF the
Bible from lid to III will iini its cOrrObOrG-
tion in ancient city discntombei, or ancient
wall cleared from the dust ofages. or ancient
document unrOllei Dy grchROlOgist.
Before the world rois on as far into the
twentieth century ~ it has air 'aly rolled
into the nineteenth an inidel Will be man
who does not believe mis- own senses. Hndthe
volumes now critical ami dcnunciatory Of
the Bible. If not entirely devastated by the
boo ot-warms. will be- taken down from the
shelf - curios,tirs o. Ignorance or iiiory.
All Success 20 the pickaNes ami crOwpars AMI
pow Ter blasting o those apostles Of archBp-
logical exploration. | ike the ringing de-
fiance Of the old Hu-urnOts to the a-saiiants
Of Christianity: Pound away, you rebels
Your hammers break, but the anvil OF GODS
word stands"
How wonderful the old book hangs to-
yether Ii Is a library made up Of 66 books
and written by At least SO authors. 1t is a
supernatural thing that they have stuck to-
gether. Take the writings OF any other By
authors. or any 10 authors, or any authors.
and put them together and how long would
they stay together? Books OF "elegant ex-
tracts" compiled from many authors are
uroverbially short lived. l never knew one
such book which, TO use the publishers
parase, chad life in it, for five years.
Why is it that the Bible. made up Of the
writings of at least 80 authors, has kept to-
,ether for a long line of centuries when the
natural tendency would have been TO uy
apart like loose sheets Oi paper when a gust
oi wind blows upon them? 1t Is because God
stuck them together and keeps them to-
,,,thar. But for that Joshua would have
wan lered off in one direction. and Paul into
.uother. and Ezekiel into another, and Ha-
i6kkuk into another, and the 80 authors IN
10 80 directions.
Put the writings OF Shakespeare and Ten
nvson and LongfellOw, or any part otthem,
together. How long would they stay TO-
.;,-thcr? No book bindery could keep them
together. But the cannon OF the Scripture
Is loaded now with the same am munitlon
With which prophet and apostle loaded IT.
Bring me all the Bibles Of the earth into
.,ae pile. and blindiOld me so that cannott tell
the difference between day and night, ana
out into nv hand any one OF all that Alpine
mountain of sacred books. and put my 1nSer
or. the last page of Genesis and let me know
I and can tell YOU what Is on the next page
namely. the first chapter of Exodus or
While thus blindfolded put my finger on the
il,t chapter of Matthew and let me know 1t,
tnI will tell you what is on the next page
namely the first chIp-nr OF Marx. In the
r,iie of 500, 600 900 Bibles there will be no
.-xception. In other words. the book gives
me confidence by its supernatural aihesloh
Of writing to writing
Even. the stoutest ship sometimes shifts its
cargo, and that is what made our peru the
!,reater in the ship Greece OF the NaIioha
line when the cyclone struck Us OIL the coist
pf New .oundland and the cargo OF IRON t''i'
eli!ted rs the snip swung from Iarboard &c
ltarDoard and from star1olri 10 ihrooit
But. thanks be TO God, this OLD Blbie snip,
80 Oh II mas been in thousands of years OF
,ampast. has kept its cargo of gold ami pre-
,.ous stones compact an! sure, and in all tl the
.enturies nothing about it has SHIFTED ther5
+bry stand. shoulder TO shoulder, David ana
Solomon and Isaiah and Jeremiah anu Eze ,
.-ieI ami Daniel and Hosea and Joei ani
kr,os ana Obadiah and Jonah and Micah 2nl
nahum and Habbakkui and Zephanlah ana
aa1...ai and Zechariah and Malachi ana: MT
rhayy and Mark ~ We and Johnan ffu
-, ,.erer. all there. and with certainty OF
beirg there until the heavens and the ea6tn,
the creation Of which IS descrlpen IN tiIe .,a,
-, of the RibIe. shall have collapsed, ano
tbe Iybile horse OF the conqueror, described
IN M, last hook ofthe Bible, shall paw ths