Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-26

the ancient Temple of Jerusalem sep
arated the court of the Gentiles and
the court of the Israelites, to which
Paul refers when he says of Christ,
He is our peace. who hath broken
down. the middle wall of partition be-
tween u.s." o. tablets recently dis
covered have been found the names of
prominent men of the Bible, spelled a
little different, according to the de-
mands of ancient language. "Adamu"
Tor Adam, "Abramn' for Abraham,
"Abiu' for Abel, and so on. Twenty
TWO feet under ground has been found
a seal inscribed with the words "Hag-
gal, son of Shebaniah," thousands of
years ago cut, showing that the Pro-
phet Haggai, who wrote part of the
Bible, was not myth. The Royal
Engineers have found, eighty feet be-
low the surface of the ground at Jeru-
salem, Phoenician pottery and hewn
stones with inscriptions. showing that
they were furnished by Hiram, King
OF tyre, just as the Bible says they
were. The great names of Bible his
tory, that many suppose are names of
Imaginary beings, are found cut into
imperishable stones which have within
few years been rolled up from their
entombment of ages, such as Sen
nacherib and Tiglath- Pileser. On the
edge OF a bronzed step, and on burned
Drlck has been found the name Of Ne
DnCn16nPzZqr Do
oppert and Hincks, and Palestine ex-
piofatlon societies, and Psychologists.
and Psychologists, have rolled another
biple up from the depths of the earth,
and 10! 1t corresponds exactly with our
Bible, the rock Bible just like the
printed Bible. inscriptions on cylinders
ana Drick-work cut thirty-eight hun
dred years before Christ testifying to
the truth of what we read eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven years after
Christ. The story of the Tower of
Babel has been confirmed by the fact
that recently at Babel an oblong pile
OF brick one hundred and ten feet high
evidences the remains Of fallen tower
In the Inspired Book of Ezra we read
OF the great and noble Asnapper, a
name that meant nothing especial, I'M
til recently, in pried-up Egyptian sculp-
ture, we have the story there told Of
him as a great hunter as we'll as a
great warrior. What l say now is
news to those prejudiced against the
Bible. They are SO far behind the
hat
Old Book is being proved true by the
prying eye of the antiquarian and the
ringing hammer of the archaeologist
and the plunging crowbar of the geolo-
gist. No more is infdelity character
lied by its blasphemy than by its ig-
norance, but oh! what high noun
tain of prejudice against the Bible,
against Christianity, against churches,
against all evangelizing enterprises--a
mountain that casts its long, black
shadows over this continent and over
all continents. Geographers tell us
that Mount Everest is the highest
mountain in the world Oh, no! The
mountain of prejudice against Chris
tianity is higher than the highest
crags that dare the lightnings of
heaven. Before our Zerubbabel can it
ever become plain?
Yonder also is the Mountain of
Crime, with its strata of fraud. and
malpractice, and malfeasance, and
blackmail, and burglary, and piracy,
and embezZlement, and libertinism,
and theft, all its heights manned with
the desperadoes, the cut-throats, the
pick-pockets, the thimble- riggers. the
plunderers, the marauders, the pillag-
ers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the
bandits, the tricksters, the forgers. the
thugs, the garotters, the fire-fiends, the
dynamiters, the shoDlifters, the klepto-
maniacs, the pyromaniacs, the dip
somaniacs, tho smugglers, the kidnap-
pers, the Jack Sheppards, the Robert
Macaires, and the Macbeths of vilainy.
The crimes OF the world! Am | not
right in calling them, when piled up
together, a mountain? But we cannot
bring ourselves to appreciate great
heights except by comparison. You
think of Mount Washington as high.
especially those of you who assembled
as of old, ON muleback, or more re-
Gently by rail-train, to the Tip Ton
House. Oh, no! That is not high!
For it is only about six thousand feet.
whereas, rising on this western hem
isphere are Chimborazo, twenty-one
thousand feet high, and Mount Sa-
hama, twenty-three thousand feet high,
and Mount Sarota. twenty-four thou
sand eight hundred feet high. But that
is not the highest mountain on the
western hemisphere. The highest
mountain is the Mountain of Crime,
and is it possible that this mountain,
before our Zerubbabel. can ever be
made a plain?
There is also the Mountain of War.
the most volcanic of all mountains,-
the Vesuvius which not content. like
the Vesuvius of Italy, with whelming
two cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii
has covered with its fiery scora thou
sands OF cities and. would like to whelm
all the cities of both hemispheres.
Give this mountain full utterance, and
it would cover mp Washington and New
York and London as easily as house
holder. with his shovel. at ten o'clock
at night banks CRATE fire with ashes.
This mountain Is pile OF fortresses,
barricades and armories, the worlds