The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-20
GREAT IS THE HOLY WRIT
No Book May Be Compared
With the Bible.
ORIGIN OF ITS CHAPTERS
Many Men, in Various Walks of Life.
Contributed Propeetic Words - In
huence of the Bible on Civili-
Zation-Helped Thousands.

Rev. G. w. Healy, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, yesterday delivered an
impressive sermon. The text was from
Hosea viii, IL: Il have written to him
the great things of my law, but they
We're counted as a strange thing" Mr.
Healy said, in part:
There are in every age, mere or less,
attacks on things sacred. The time in
which we live has many peculiarities,
and prominent among them is the dis
regard for all authority. Any restraint
is repudiated as an infringement on
ones personal liberty. We find this
expressed in a variety of ways. Only
one of them will be spoken of at this
time. That is the vigorous attacks made
on the Bible in our time. For our con.
sideration. may we not speak briefly of
some of the things that distinguish the
Bible as great? 1.-THE of its excelen-
cies cannot be mentioned in the brief
half hour. but we may at least give a
brief outline to be filled in at our
leisure
First, the Bible is great because Of
it's author. God wrote it. We estimate
a book largely by its author. That is
the authority on which certain state
ments are made; then we are ready to
accept or reject them. OF course, Sec
tions of the book are attributed to GER
ldlH DIGD, DuL lllSSt iIl6ft nave Sdlu
they wrote as they We're moved by the
Holy Ghost
Again. the book is great because of
what it has done. The mightiest results
show themselves where the Bible has
gone. With this book before them
William Tyndal and Miles Coverdale
completed the work of the venerable
Bede and John Wycliffe by giving us an
English Bible. and created an epoch in
the history of English literature, to be
used by Shakespeare and Edmond
Burk. With the Bible in his hands, John
Calvin was to conceive and plan re-
publics and Hoblein to paint the faces
of the Holy Mother and her Child
Taught by that book, Gustayus Nasa
was to nurture and protect the land
of flowing splendors,' while Angelo was
placing sacred scenes on the Sistine
vaults or fixing them in stone With
this book before him, Shakespeare was
to write his plays: by it Sir Walter
Raleigh, knight. discoyerer thinker
statesman, martyr, was to die, Bacon
was to lay the foundation of modern
research, and those three stars were to
blaze like constellation of glory over
the age of EliZabe With the Bible
in their hands, the English people We're
to see the Armada dashed to pieces.
while Edmond Spencer mingled his de-
hcfous notes with the tumult of the aw-
full wreck. From its poetry, Cowper.
Wordsworth. Tennyson and Browning
caught their inspirations from its
craftsmanship, Burk and John Bright
learned how to create and redeem insti-
tutions: from its melodies, Mendelssohn,
Beethoven, Handel and Bach wrote
oratories, masses and symphonies: from
its truth, Wherefore, John Howard
and Florence Nightingale emancipated
slaves, reformed prisons and mitigated
the horrors of war; from it's prophecies,
Dante'S dream of a united Italy was to
be realized by Count Cavour, Garibaldi
and Victor Emanuel. Andrew jackson
SAID that the Bible was the rock on
which the republic rests and Victoria
said it was the secret of England's po-
litical greatness. No other book has
ever produced such a roll as this No
other book has anything like those won
ders. With that book in my hands.
want to make the pilgrimage of life,
and bye and bye be sharer in the inn
mortal hopes which 1t promises"