Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-15

ries III the Old and New Testament !"
and some would say, "Ous with tho
book of Revelations" and others would
say, "Out with the entire Pentateuch, "
and the work would go Gu until there
W ,uld not be enough Of the Bible left to
be worth as much as last year al nansc
Tho expurgation of tho Scriptures means
their humiliation.
The Family bible.
am also oppc ed TO this propo sed ez-
purgation ct tho Scriptures for the fact
that in proportion as people become self
sacrificing ard good and holy and con-
secrated, they like the book as it is. I
have yet to find u man or woman dis
tinguishcd for self sacrifice. for conse-
Grafton to God, for holiness of life, who
wants the Bible changed Many of rs
have inherited family Bibles. Those BIZ
bles We're in use 90, 40, 90, perhaps 100
years i'll the generations Today ta,-o
down those family Bibles. and find out
if there are any chapters which havo
been erased by lead pencil or pen, and
If Ill any margins you can find tho
words. "This chapter nos lit TO read +"
There has been plenty Of opportunity
during tho last half century privately
to expurgatc tho Bible. Do you know
any case Of such expurRation? Did not
your grandfather give it to your father,
and did not your father give it to you?
Besides that I am opposed to the ex-
purgation of the Scriptures. because the
SO called indelicacies and cruelties Of
the Bible have demonstrated no evil re-
suit. A cruel book will prod ice cruelty.
An unclean book will produce un
cleanness. Fetch me vic, i'm. Out of
all Christendom and out OF all the ages
fetch me victim whose lie art has bcen
hardened to cruelty or WI ose life has
been made impure By this hook, Show
me one. One # the best fa niles ever
knew of, for 80 or 40 ye RS, morning
and evening, had all the III, mbers gath
cred together, and the ser ants Of tho
household, and tho strange that hap
pened to be within the ga4es-twice Il
day, without leaving out /. chapter or a
verse, they read this holy book, morn
ing by morning, night BY might. Not
only TIE older children, bui tho little
child who conld just spell her way
through tho verge while 'ler mothe-
helped her, the father beg inning and
reading one verse and then III tho mem
bers of the family in turn reading !,
verse. The father maintained his integ-
rity, the mother maintained her integ-
rity, the sons grew up and en- tered pro-
fessions and commercial life, adjoining
every sphere i'll the life in which they
lived, and the daughters went into fam
lilies where Christ was honored, and all
that was good and pure and righteous
reigned perpotually. For 80 years that
family endured tho Scriptures. Not ono
of them ruined by them
No Gliding Of Sin.
Now, if you will tell NE of family
where the Bible has been read twice u
day for 30 years, and the children have
been brought up in that habit, and tho
father went to ruin, and the mother
went to ruin, and the sons and daugh-
tiers were destroyed by it-if you will
tell me Of one such incident. l will
throw away my Bible Or l will doubt
your veracity. I tell you if man is
shocked with what no calls the indelica-
cies Of the word Of God he is prurient
in his taste and imagination If u man
cannot read Solomon's Song without
impure suggestion, he is either in his
heart or i'll his life hbertine
la n1<1 q
wickedness, uncleanness of all sorts, is
purposely and righteously disgusting
account, instead Of the Byronic and the
Partisan vernacular, which makes sin
attractive instead of appalling. When
those old prophets point you to n laza-
retto, you understand it is o lazaretto
When man having begun to do right
falls back into wickedness and gives up
his integrity, tho Bible does not say no
was overcome by the fascina- ions of tho
festive board, or that he surrendered to
convivialities, or that he became lit
tie fast in his habits / will tell you
what the Bible says, 1.-THE dog is turned
to his own vomit again and the sow
that was washed to her wallowing in
tho MIN, - NJ - ;,,c,,,+x~ NJ
oar,ands -, 49, Laaa
;na a,r.n ,,-;.,, : IL, III. p 80
r;tv Vic, - raads -, ~ 49, nIoa.s , la
mey - - a-o'o 49,
., o,,;,r s4a ,.,o
hroo5;na o,.ar H. .,asas;a.;e. -" p1op.o
,,oss :, 49, p;h,a - -. -. -, =.
-, ~; -, ~. ay su0 sno. w ln
,r;nas ama az 49, ~ ~ ~ ~. ~ 40 .no
az ~ ala,, - S,... aau .lo ~, nos'l -
oaors 20 $1,000 h... -, - :u.- :. .no
10 not that tha phi ~ S s 20 "an 10
A.. -. a. 80 20 u-'o0.ou, puo
haart ,as,,aa lei, 80 you :,'no anu
T ~, s no,, y. az A po.,o ':eiu
oorrsa that 49,, ~, pn - - ny u,
az. 49,, ," "a la ..ai ~ uoes ny. iiAo
onnta,ts oad u M . Ila.loai ~ 70 us
Soaod 81 ' - ~ - saAeu anu ou'-
h1e,, so 49,. sa.a1 'io ma. mas never
- ~ ha,'a. - us.,. 10 ias,ns on
~ aoas na, - -, p..sD' 10y u episcopa-
haort and ~ 49,, a-s naso man ,
-. -, ao..i az, ses in'o 'iio
- % "eA % nv 'i,e pew,, never
a s",,a.p, Doon on "a iauiciy y me