The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-07-15

and the crack of the suicides pistol
would be no more alarming than the
rumble of street car.
Have nothing to do with an infidel.
ity so cruel, so debasing. Come out OF
that bad company into the company
of those who believe the Bible. Ben.
jamin Franklin wrote: 'Of this Jesus
of Nazareth | have to say that the svs-
tenn of morals He left and the religion
He has given us are the best things
the world has ever seen or is likely to
see." Patrick Henry, the electric
champion of liberty, says: The book
worth all other books put together is
the Bible"
Salmon p. Chase. chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States,
appointed by President Lincoln, will
take the witness stand. "Chief Justice
Chase, please TO state what You have TO
say about the book commonly called
the bible" The witness replies:
"rhere came time in my life when
doubted the divinity of the Scriptures,
and | resolved as a lawyer and Judge
would try the book as | would try
any thing in the court room, taking
evidence for and against. II was II
long and serious and profound study,
and using the same principles of evil
dence in this religious matter as l al.
ways do in secular matters, l have
come to the decision that the Bible is
! a supernatural book, that it has come
from God, and that the only safety for
the human race is to follow its teach
ings."
Young men of America, come out OF
the circle of intidels-- mostly made up
of cranks and i'm beciles--into the com.
pany of intellectual giants, and turn
your back on an infidelity which de.
stroys body and soul. Ali infdelity,
stand mp and take thy sentence! In
the presence of God, angels, and men,
stand up, thou monster! Thy liz
blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek
SCARED with uncleanness, thy breath
foul with the corruption of the
ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat
buzzard of the nations, leper of the
centuries! Stand up, thou mon
ster, infidelityl Part man, par
panther, part reptile, part dra
gon, stand up and take thy sentence
Thy hands red with the BLOOD
in which thou hast washed, thy fee
crimson with the human gore through
which thou hast waded, stand up anC
take thy sentence! Down with the,
to the pit and sup on the sobs anC
groans of those thou hast destroyed
and let thy music be the everlasting
miserere of those whom thou has
damned! l brand the forehead of in
fidelity with all the crimes of self-im
notation for the last century on tn,
part of those who had their reason.
There is sorrowless world, and i
is so radiant that the MONDAY sun i
only the lowest doorstep, and tn
aurora that lights up our northern
heavens, confounding astronomers a
to what it can be, is the waving of tn
banners of the procession come L
take the conquerors home from churcl
. militant to church triumphant an,
, you and | have 10000 reasons TO
wanting to go there, but we viii
never get there either by self-immola
, ton or impenitency. All our sin
slain by Christ who came to do tina
! thing we want to go in at just tn
| time divinely arranged, and from tn
, couch divinely spread, and then tn
, clang of the sepulchral gates benin,
) us will be overpowered by the clani
[ of the opening of the solid pearl be
| fore us. o, Godl Whatever other
may choose, give me Christians life
, Christians death, a Christians burial
a Christians Immortality