Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-05

Tor such reading. Next | put upon
the stand William +. Gladstone the
bead of the English Government. and
hear him saying what he said to me in
January of $780, when. in reply to his
telegram, pray come to Hawarden to
morrow | visited him Then and
there asked him as to whether 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 enthu-
siasm such as no one who has not con-
yersed with him can fully appreciate.
and expressed by voice and gesture,
and illumined countenance his ever in
creasing faith in God and the Bible and
Christianity as the only hope of our ru-
ined world. THAT is all, Mr.. Glad
stone, we will take of your time now
for, from the reports of what is going
or in England just now, | 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 Christian
ity, and he replies: ''Why do you ask
me that? Did you not hear me preach
Christ in the Midnight Mission of Lon
don?' ''Oh, yes! / remember" But
see many witnesses present to-day in
the court room, and call you to the
witness stand. but have only a second
OF time for any one of you. AS you
pass along just give one sentence IN re-
gard to Christianity. Under God IL
has changed my entire nature, = says
one, ut brought me from drunkenness
and poverty to sobriety and a good
home" says another. ut solaced me
when / lost my child says another.
ut gave me a hope of future treasures
when my property was swept off by
the last panic. says another. 1T has
given me a peace and satisfaction
more to me than all the world beside,
saws another. ''It has been to me
IA hit and music and fragrance and
radiant anticipation. says another.
All stop the procession of witnesses.
Enough. Enough. All those voices of
the past and the present have nightly
increased our faith.
Again. our belief is reinforced by
archaeological exploration. We must
confess that good men at one time were
afraid of biologists hammer and
chemists crucible and archeologist's
investigation. but now intelligent
Christians are receiving and still ex-
pecting nothing but confirmation from
all such sources. What supports the
palestine Exploration Society," Con.
tributions from churches and Christian
benefactors. | saw the marks of the
shovels of that exploring society amid
the ruins of ancient Jericho. and all up
and down from the Dead Sea to Ccs-
aria Philippi dig away" says the
Church of tod. ''and the deeper you dig
the better | like The discovered
monuments of Egypt have chisseled on
them the story OF the sufferings of the
IsraeIites in Egyptian bondage. as we
find it in the Bible: there, in imperish
able stone, representations of the slave.
of the whips and of the task-masters
who compelled the making of bricks
without straw. Exhumed Nineveh |
and Babylon, with their dusty lips, |
declare the Bible true. Napoleon's |
soldiers in the Egyptian campaign |
pried up a stsne. which you may find |
in the British museum, a stone. as ! |
remember. presenting perhaps two
feet of lettered surface. 1t Contains |
words in three languages. That stone
was the key that unlocked the mean
ing of all the hieroglyphics of tombs
and obelisl1s and tells over and over
again the same events which Moses re-
corded. The sulphurous graves OF |
Sodom and Gomorrah have been iden-
tilted. The remains of the Tower OF /
Babel have been found. Assyrian 4
documents lifted from the sand and |
Behistun inscription. hundreds Of feet |
high up on the rock, echo and re-echo I
the truth of Bible history. The signs
Of the time indicate that almost every 4
fact of the Bible from lid to lid will 1
find its confederation in ancient city 4
disentombed. or ancient wall. cleared 4
from the dust of ages, or ancient /
document, unrolled by arehHolo-
gists Before the world rolls on a.
far into the twentieth century a
it has already rolled into the nineteeth
an infidel will be man who does not
believe his own senses. and the vol
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tho Bible. if not entirely devastated by
tho bool, worries will be taken down
from the shelf as curiosities of ignor-
anoe or idiocy. All success to the pick
axes and crowbars and powder-blastinr
Of those apostles of archaeological ex-
pIoration. like the ringing defiance
Of the old Hugenots to the assailants
OF Christianity: Pound away, you reb-
els Your hammers break. but the an
vii of Gods Word stands" How won
derfully the old Book hangs together.
Ii Is a library made mp of sixty-six
books and written by at least thirty
nine authors. 1t is supernatural
thing that they have stuck together.
Take the writings of any other thirty
nine authors. or any ten authors. OF
any five authors. and put them to
rether. and how long would they stay
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