Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-23
WHEELING REGISTER MONDAY. NOVEMBER % 1896.

every tongue, the Bible continues on
its way, vastly more influential every
year and read by increasing numbers.
Other books pass out of notice, serve
their purpose and are not missed There
have been books of considerable value,
but they have had only a local repu-
tatiOn and are gone. Novels, travels
biographies have been penned and have
now ceased to exist, or at best rare
copy is to be found among the anti
quarians. Some of these books have
been superseded by those that better
serve the same purpose. That which
was once regarded as science is no
longer such. The chemistry of former
times is to-day only a curiosity which
eXcites a smile from the advanced
scientist. But the Book of God has
never been superseded; neither Chris
tian nor infidel can improve it; here it
is, the text book for the ages-beauti-
full, grand, yet simple, its facts and
imagery far more attractive than any
thing elsewhere produced.
Have we not in all this an evidence
that the Bible came from God? From
whom could it come, but from God?
The difficulty with unbelievers is that
they do not examine it. What right
would one have to say, Il do not be-
lieve in the beauty and superiority Of
Shakespeare, if he did not read and
study him? Instead of comparing one
part of Gods Book with another and
making an honest and searching exam
nation, the infidel accepts a crude idea
of what he suppOses it to contain. Any
man who carefully and thoroughly eX-
amines will be convinced that the Book
is no fraud; that it could not be fabri-
cated-more and better, he is likely
to be convinced that il is the Book his
soul needs. Men object to the super
natural. If God wrote the Book, then
every miracle is true and every claim of
Christ to divinity and atOnement and
the resurrection is true. We claim
that GCd did inspire the writing of the
Book, and the proof is satisfactory
that He did
This Book knocks at the door of your
heart, my friends, and asks to be re-
ceiyed for the peace il will bring you,
and the help it will furnish you. 1t is
the only book that teaches how to find
JOY in sorrow, strength in weakness,
and light in darkness. Science never
yet silenced a guilty conscience, but
this Book will Mere literature never
yet healed a broken heart, but this
Book has. All the novels in the world
never yet smoothed a dying pillow.
But the soul that rests on the promise
of this Book of books goes down to
the dark river in calm confidence, in
serene cheerfulness,
From age to age the Bible keeps its
place, frowning only on sin, smiling al
ways on virtue, and encouraging the
sinner to trust i'm a Saviour whose
blood alone can cleanse from sin. Let
the world grow as it will, advancing
in all the arts of civilization, it will
never outgrow its need Of the Bible.
Humanity is climbing 10 higher
point. but the Bible still keeps ahead,
crying Excelsior Poets and orators
will here find their best inspiration,
patriots and statesmen the foundation
principles of good government, educa-
tors their most helpful textbook, men
of law their best code men OF business
the true secret of success, and the in
mates of home the elements that con-
stitute genuine happiness.