Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-01-22


been found a seal inscribed with the
words "Haggai, son Of Shebaniah, "
thousands of years ago cut, showing
that the Prophet Haggai, who wrote a
part Of the Bible, was not myth. The
royal engineers have found. so feet be-
low the surface Of the ground at Jerusa-
lem, Phenician 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 history, that many
suppose are names Of imaginary beings,
are found, Gu. into imperisbable stones
which have within a few years been
rolled up from their entombment of
ages, such as Sennacherib and Tiglath-
Pileser. On the edge Of bronzed step
and on burned brick has been found tie
name of NebuchadnGzzar. Henry Raw
linson and Oppert and Hincks and Pal
estine exploration societies and Asyriolo-
gists and Egyptologists have rolled an
other Bible up from the depths Of the
earth, and 10, it corresponds exactly
with our Bible, the rock Bible just like
the printed Bible, inscriptions on cylin-
ders and brickwork cut $500 years be-
fore Christ testifying to the truth OF
what we read 1897 years after Christ.
The Tower Of Babel.
The story Of the tower Of Babel has
been confirmed by the fact that recently
at Babel an oblong pile Of brick llO
feet high evidences the remains Of a
fallen tower. In the inspired book Of
Ezra we read Of the great and noble
Asnapper, a name that meant nothing
especial until recently in pried up
Egyptian sculpture we have the story
there told of him as 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
times that they know not that the old
book is being proved true by the prying
eye Of the antiquarian and the ringing
hammer of the srch9ologist and the
plunging crowbar Of the geologist. No
more is infdelity characterized by its
blasphsmy than by its Ignorance, but
oh, what high mountain Of prejudice
against the Bible, against Christianity,
against churches, against all eyangeliz-
ing enterprises-a mountain that casts
its long black shadows over this con.
tinent and over all continents Geog-
raphers tell us that Mount Everest is
the highest mountain In the world. Oh,
no! The mountain Of prejudice against
Christianity is higher than the highest
crags that dare the lightnings Of heaven.
Before our Zerubbabel, can it ever be-
come a plain?
Another mountain Of hindrance is
that Of positive and outspoken i'm
morals. There is the mountain Of inc
briacy. It is piled high with kegs and
demijohns and decanters and hogsheads'
on which sit the victims Of that traffic
whose one business is to rob earth and
heaven Of the most generous and large
hearted and splendid Of the human race.
If their business was to take only the
mean and stingy and contemplate and
useless, we would not say much against
the work, for there are tens Of thousands
Of men and women who are nuisance
to the world, and their obliteration
from human society would be an ad-
vantage to all that is good. The re-
moval of these moral deficits would not
arouse in US much Of a protest. But in
sobriety takes the best.
The mountain Of inebriacy stands in
the way Of the kingdom Of God, and
hundreds Of thousands Of men, but for
that hindrance, would step right into
the ranks Of the Lords host and march
heavenward, each one taking regi-
meut with him. The mountain Of ine-
briacy is not an ordinary mountain, but
it is armed 1t is a line Of fortresses
continually blazing away its destructive
forces upon all our neighborhoods, towns
and cities, their volleys Of death poured
down upon the homes and churches.
Under this power more than 100, OOC
men and women are in this country
every year imprisoned, and an army Of
COO 600 drunkards almost shake the
earth with their staggering tread. II
causes in this country 800 murders and
400 suicides year.
Inebriacy on the Sea.
This mountain Of inebriacy has moi
only assaulted the land, but bombarded
the shipping Of the sea. and some OF the
most appalling shipwrecks ON Atlantic
and Pacific coasts have been the result
What sank the steamer Rothsay Castle
on the way from Liverpool to Dublin,
DESTROYING 100 human lives2 A drunker
sea captain. What blew up the Ber
Sherrod on the Mississippi and sent l5'
to horrible death? A drunken crew
What drove on the breakers q steamer
making its way from New York e
Charleston and sent whole families, OF
the way home from summer watering
places. TO the merciless depths OF the
sea? A drunken sea captain. Gather III
from the depths Of the river and iakel
and oceans the bones Of those ship
wrecked by intoxicated captains anC
crews, and you could build out OF then
temple Of horrors, all the pillars ant
altars and floors and ceilings fashioned
of human skulls. Is II possible that suct
mountain Of inebriacy can ever d
made a plaini
Yonder also is the mountain O.
crime, with its strata OF fraud anG
MALPRACTICE and malfeasance and black
mail and burglary and piracy anc
embezzlement and libertinism anc
theft, all its heights manned with tn'
desperadoes, tho outthroats. the pick
pockets. the thimble riggers, the plum
/ derers, the marauders. the piilagers
the corsairs, the wrcckers, ths bandits
the tricksters, the forgers, the thugs
the garroters, the fire hends, the dyna
miters. the shoplifters. the kleptomani
acs the pyromaniacs, the dipsomaniecs
the smugglers, the kidnapers, the Jacl
sheppards, the Robert Macaires AM
the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes o
the worldl Am not right In callin
them, when piled up together. q noun
taiuY But we cannot bring ourselves
appreciate great heights except BY com
parison. You think Of Mount Washing
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