The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-06-13

| tnis oli worn out boOg. DO YOU knov =
astruggle book has in order TO eet 49,
one century ort two centuries? Some olS Ivy
during a fire in a seraglio OF Cons,
nople, were thrown into the street. \
/ without any education picked up one o,.s
books. read II. and did not see the vain !,
A scholar looked over his shoulder Ana .
II was the first and second decades oi n
and he offered the man large reva,t /,
would bring the books TO his study L.a
the excitement Of the fire the two part,t :.
the first and second decades OF Livy wa,,
ever lost. Pliny wrote twenty books ~ ,
tory. All lost. The most OF Mep,,,.
writings lost. OF 1870 comedies OF pI,..
all gone but twenty. Euripides wros"
dramas. all gone but nineteen. F.,k,.
wrote 100 dramas, all gone but seven y.
wrote the laborious biographies Of 7o1 i
mans, not n fragment left. Quintilmb ~
his favorite book on the corruption ~ /.
quence, all lost. Thirty books Of Ta..
lost. Dion Cassius wrote eighty books j.
twenty remain. Berosius's history All !
Nearly all the old books are mumris
and are lying In the tombs Of old lb,,s
aud perhaps once in twenty yenr. soros =
comes along and picks up one Of them !,
blows the dust of aud opens IL and ~.
the book he does not want. But MI,
book, much OF II forty centuries ola s,,'
to-day more discussed than any otba, y
and II challenges the admiration Of nm
good and the spite and the venom. api
animosity, and the hypercriticism oi y
and hell. appeal to your common sas,l
n book so divinely guarded and pr5tetsi
'ts present shape must not be in jus,,bs \
hat God wants Il to come 90 Us AMI i
pleases God ought IL not TO please u.9
Not only have all the attempts 10 dal
from the book failed, but all the atten1,l
add to IL. Many attempts were madei5
the apochryphal books TO the Old Test,-l
The council OF Trent, the synod Of Jeru,ll
the bishops Of Hippo, all decided ,b,,
apochryhal books must be added 10 tba
Testament. "They must stay in. salImI
learned men, but they staid out. NJ
not an intelligent Christian man that t,I
will put the book OF Maccabees or tho
OF Judith beside the book Of I.ai,b
Romans. Then great many said
must have books added TO the New
ment." and there were epistles ami
pels and apocalypses written and \
to the New Testament, but they have
fallen out. You cannot add anything
cannot substract anything. Dlyinely
tected book in the present shape. "a
man dare to lay his hands on 1t with n.
tention of detracting from the book O,
ing out any OF these holy pages.
Besides that, am opposed 10 this exon
tlon of the Scriptures because itthe AZ,
were successful, 1t would be the annihla
of the Bible. 1nfidel geologists wouJ
"Out with the Book OF Genesis inaN
tronomers would say, "Out with hs
of joshua people who do not bels,
the atoning sacrifice would say. "0a
the Book of Leviticus:" people who b
believe in the miracles would ,ay. "O-
all those wonderful stories In the Oh
New Testament aud some would
"Out with the Book Of Revelation
others would say. "Out with the eu,r
tateuch," and the work would 70 %
there would not be enough OF the llh
to be worth as much as last year, a.rl
The expurgation Of the Scriptures
their annihilation.
| am also opposed 10 this proposed a
CATION OF the Scriptures for the fact
proportion as the people become ,aLs
llcing and good and holy and coaS,a
they like the book rs IL il. hayeyau
a man or a woman distinguished f
sacrifice, for conservation 10 God. ig
ness of life, who wants the Bible ar
Many OF us have inherited family D
Those Bibles were in use twenty. f0rr
perhaps 100 years in the generation
day take down those family Bibles. a.i
out IL there are any chapters whiA
been erased by lead pencil or pen, All
any margins you can find the wOrk
chapter not fit to read" There M
plenty OF opportunity during the ls
century privately to expurgate The
Do you know any case of such expgr;l
Did not your grandfather give il %
father, and did not your father g.W
you?
Besides that / am opposed 70 u,
purgation OF the Scriptures, brrau.ea
called indelicacies and cruelties 9th
have demonstrated no evil result 4
book will produce cruelty. An uncla.
will produce uncleanness. Fetch nsl
tim. Out OF all Christendom and 01
the ages fetch me victim whose hg
been hardened to cruelty or who's
bean made impure by this book 81
one. One OF tho best families Iew
OF, for thirty or forty year,, morli-
evening. had all the members gl,ir
gether, and the servants OF the hj1
aud the strangers that happened toe'
the gates-twice a day, without leau
"a chapter or a verse, they read tA
book. morning by morning, night "
Not only the older children, but IN /
child who could just spell her way
the verse while her mother helped n
father beginning and reading one VI
then all the members OF the family
reading verse. The father mana
integrity, the mother maintained hs
rity, the sons grew up and enter
fesslons and commercial life. aiornll;
sphere in the life in which they l'a
the daughters went into families
Christ was honored, and all that w
and pure and righteous reisnei pm
For thirty years that family enlll
Scriptures. Not one Of them r4l
them. h
Now, II you will tell mo OF 4 anil ln
the Bible has been read twice adiy
year, aud the children have u''a
up in tnat habit, and the i%ls
ruin, and the mother went 10 rum .
sons and daughters were deSlrolel ~
II you will tell me of one such ID p
will throw away my Bible or / w
your yeraclty. / ltellyOu II mars
with what he calls the iut'fal y
word OF God he is prurient ia us IT
Imagination. III man cannot Fs
mons Song without impure s1sss IN
is either in his heart or in his luea
The Old Testament description o.
ness. uncleanness OF all
purposely and righte0u-Y y
ing account, instead OF zoe
aud the Partisan vernacular, Eu
sin attractive instead of aPpaIus
those old prophets point you toa ~ .
YOU understand it is II lazarete sr.t
man having begun TO do right ,aIs II
wlckedness and gives up hlSH y
Bible does not say he was over,
destinations of the festive board. A