Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-18

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and woman are stretched up toward tbs
tree as il to pluck the fruit. Thus The
Bible story of the fall is confirmed
In D museum at Constautinople yo1
see q piece Of the wall that once in the
ancient temple of Jerusalem separated
the court Of the Gentiles and the court
of the Israelites, to which Paul refer:
when he says Of Christ, ssHe is oul
peace, who hath broken down the mid
die wall of partition between u.s. Or
tablets recently discovered have been
found the names of prominent men OF
the Bible, spelled a little different, &C
cording to the demands Of ancient Ian.
guage. "Adamu" for Adam, A bramn'
for A braham, ssAblu'' for Abel, and sc
on. Twenty two feet underground has
been found seal inscribed with the
words ssHaggai, son Of Shebaniah, -
thousands Of years ago cut, showing
that the Prophet Haggai, who wrote a
part of the EibIe, was not myth. The
royal engineers have found so feet be-
low the surface Of the ground at Jerusa-
lem. Phnnician 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 imperishabIe stones
which have within a few years been
rolled up from their entCsnbment 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
irson 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, il 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
fallen tower. In the inspired book of
Ezra we read of the great and noble
Asnapper, name that meant nothing
especial until recently i'll pried up
Egyptian sculpture we have the story
shere told Of him as great hunter as
well as q great warrior. What [ say
now is news to these 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 archRologist and the
plunging crowbar Of the geologist. No
more is infdelity characterized by its
blasphemy than by its ignorance, but
oh, what high mountain Of prejudice
against the Bible, against Christianity,
against churches, against ali 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
is higher than the highest
crags that dare the lightnings of heaven.
Before our Zeru bbabel, 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. 1t 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, fer there are tens of thousands
IT men and women who are d nuisance
20 the world. and their obliteration
rom human society would be an adj
vantage to all that is good. The re-
noval of these moral deficits would not
arouse in US much Of a protest. But in
'obriety takes the best.
The mountain of inebriacy stands in
The way of the kingdom of God, and
hundreds Of thousands of men, but for
hat hindrance, would step right into
he ranks Of the Lords host and march |
each one taking regi- |
nent with him The mountain of ine-
piracy is not an ordinary mountain, but
t is armed 1t is line of fortresses
blazing away it's destructive
orces upon all our neighborhoods, towns
md cities, their volleys of death poured
Town upon the homes and churches
Under this power more than 100, 900
nen and women are in this country
very year imprisoned, and an army of
100, 600 drunkards almost shake the
arth with their staggering tread. It
auses in this country 800 murders and
90 suicides q year.
Ineoriacy on the Sea.
This mountain of inebriacy has not
My assaulted the land but bombarded
he shipping of the sea. and some of the
most appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic
nd Pacific coasts have been the result
What sank the steamer Rothsay Castle,