Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-11
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state what you have to say about the boot
| commonly called the Bible" The witnesa
replies: "There came time in my life
| when doubted the divinity Of the Script.
ures, and resolved as lawyer and judga
I would try the book as would try every.
thing else in the courtroom, taking evi.
| dence for and against. It was long and
serious and profound study, and using the
same principles of evidence in this religious
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 It's teachings" "Judge,
that will do. Go out back again to your
| pillow Of dust on the banks OF the Ohio"
dent of the United States-John Quincy
Adams. President Adams. what have
you to say about the Bible and Chris
tianity?" The President replies: IT have for
many years made 1t practice to read
through the Bible once year. My GUS
tom is to read four or five chapters every
morning Immediately after rising from my
bed. 1t employs about an hour of my time,
and seems to me the most suitable manner
of beginning the day. In what light So
ever we regard the Bible, whether with
reference to revelation, to history or to
morality, it is an invaluable and inex-
haustible mine Of knowledge and virtue.'
Chancellor Kent, what do you think Of
the Bible2" Answer: s'No other book
ever addressed itself SO authoritatively
and SO pathetically to the judgment and
moral sense of mankind Edmund
Burke, what do you think Of the Bible?"
Answer: 81 have read the Bible morning,
noon and night, and have ever since been
the happier and the better man for such
reading"
Young men of America, come out of the
circle Of infidels-mostly made up of
oya ka in pf fha ~ of
intellectual giants, and turn your back
on an infldelity which destroys body and
soul.
All! Infidelity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence of God, angels
and men, stand up, thou monster! Thy lip
blasted with blasphemy, they 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 monster,
1nfidelity. Part man. part, panther, part
thy sentence! Thy hands red with the
blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet
crimson with the human gore through
which thou hast waded, stand up and take
thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit,
and sup on the sobs and groans of those
thou hast destroyed, and let thy music be
the everlasting miserere of those whom
thou hast damned! I brand the forehead
of infidelity with all the crimes of self-im-
notation for the last century ON the part
of those who had their reason.
My friends, If ever your life, through it's
abrasions and its molestations. should
seem to be unbearable, and you are tempt
ed to quit it by your own behest, do not
consider yourself as worse than others.
Christ Himself was tempted to east Him
self from the roof of the Temple, but as
He resisted, SO resist ye. Christ came to
medicine all wounds. In your trouble I
iha fo inc Of la bo
have had it worse than you will ever have
1t, have gone songfully ON their way. Re-
member that God keeps the chronology of
your life with as much precision as He
keeps the chronology of nations, your
grave as we'll as your cradle. Why was it
that at midnight, just at midnight, the de-
stroying angel struck the blow that set the
Isreelites free from bondage? The four
hundred and thirty years were up at twelve
o'clock that night. The four hundred and
thirty years we're not up at eleven, and one
o'clock would have been tardy and too
late. The four hun lred and thirty years
were up at twelve O'Clock, and the de-
stroying angel struck the blow, and Israel
was free. And God knows Just the
hour when 1t is time to lead you up from
earthly bondage. By His grace make not
the worst OF things, but best Of them. II
you must take the pills, do not chew them
Your everlasting reward will accord with
your earthly perturbations, just as Caius
gave to Agrippa chain of gold as heavy
as had been chain of iron. For the ask
ing you may have the same grace that was
given the Italian martyr Algerius, who,
down In the darkest of dungeons, dated his
letters from "the delectable orchard OF the
Leonine prison." And remember that this
brief life is surrounded by rim, a very
thin, but very important rim. and close up
to that rim is q great eternity and you had
better keep out of it until God breaks that
rim and separates this from that. To get
rid Of the sorrows OF earth. do not rush
into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm
OF summer insects, leap not into a jungle
Of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrowless world, and 1t is so
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the
lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights
up our northern Heavens, confounding
astronomers as to what it can be, is the
waving of the banners of the procession
come to take the conquerors home from
church militant to church triumphant, and
you and have ten thousand reasons for
wanting to go there, but we will never get
there either by self-immolation or impeni-
tency. All our sins slain by Christ who
came to do that thing, we want to 60 in
at just the time divinely arranged, and
from a couch divinely spread, and then
the clang of the sepulchral gates behind
US will be overpowered by the clang of the
opening of the solid pearl before US. o
God! Whatever others may choose, give
me Christians life, q Christians death,