The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-22

tree as if to plCck the fruit Thus the
Bible story IF the fall is confirmed.
Ii museum at Constautinople you
SIZE "a piece If the wall that once in the
ancient temple of jerusalem separated
the court Of the Ceutiles and the court
of the Isrucltfs, to which Paul refers
when he saws of Christ, "He is our
peace, who hath broken down the mid
die wall of partition between us. " On
tablets recently discovered have been
tound the names Of prominent men of
the Bible, spelled little different, ac-
cording to the demands of ancient Ian
guage. "Adamu" for Adam, "Abramn"
for Abraham, "Ablu" for Abel, and 80
on. Twenty two feet underground has
been found seal inscribed with the
words "Haggai, son Of Nhebaniah, "
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, cut into imperishable 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 the
name of NebuchadneZzar. Henry Raw
linson and Oppert and Hincks and Pal
estine exploration societies and Asyriolo-
gists and Psychologists 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 10
feet high evidences the remains Of a
fallen tower. In the inspired book of
Ezra we read of the great and noble
Asnapper, name that meant nothing
especial until recently in pried up
Egyptian sculpture we have the story
there told of him rs great hunter as
well 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 archeologist and the
plunging crowbar of the geologist. No
more is infidelity characterized by its
blasphemy than by it's ignorance, but
oh, what a high mountain of prejudice
against the Bible, against Christianity,
against churches, against all evangeliz-
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 plain?
Another mountain Of hindrance is
that of positive and outspOken i'm
morals. There is the mountain of inc
briacy. 1t is piled high W tn kegs and
demi Johns 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 adj
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 a regi-
ment with him. The mountain Of inc
briacy is not an ordinary mountain, but
it is armed 1t is line of fortresses
blazing away it's destructive
forces upon all our eighborhoods, towns
and cities, their volleys of death poured |
down upon the homes and churches.
Under this power more than 100, 900
men and women are in this country
every year imprisoned, and AN army of
900, 900 drunkards almost shake the
earth with their staggering tread. 1t
causes in this country 300 murders and
400 suicides IA year.
Inebriacy on the Sea.
This mountain of inebriacy has rot !
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 lives? A drunken
sea captain. What blew up the Ben
Sherrod on the Mississippi and sent / sc
to horrible death? A drunken crew.
What drove OIL the breakers a steamer
making it's way from New York &c
Charleston and sent whole families, ON
the way home from summer watering