The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-06-12
EDITORIAL MedItations.

of four years unquestioned possession,
studying, noddiug, fighting flies and
writing.
Under such circumstances the hu.
man mind natursliy drifts away and
becomes absnrbe,i ia many subjects.
ard si.amE. Ia II may seem Ia tie
average reader. our thoughts have
gone from one thing to another this
Saturday M"rning. and finally
dwells for time on the subject at
THE BIBLE.
Go with Inc in your thoughts for
moment and search the sacred pages
of this most wonderful book. and We
hnd it is not only the revealer of the
unknown God to man, but Hi, gra hi
interpreter as the God of nature.
In revealing God the prnfnundest
mysteries of creation have been un.
locked, aud it might be termed
field glass through which we are able
To look from nature up To natures
God.
We may stand in awe and gaze up
on nature and conclude hat there IS
n good ,pirit overruling all things,
but 1t Is only when we are armed with
the bible, or Gods will revealed to
man, that nature is capable of ris
ing TO her highest majesty, and kind
ling IN our souls the highest emana-
lions of moral beauty and sublimity.
Nature l"ses It's enchanting dirges
and life its most enabling traits and
incentives Without Gods will TO man
revealed through the bible. Had
not Muses. written the law upon the
tables of stone on the mount, what
would landscapes be to the humaneye
today more than sandy desert?
One author, iii speaking of the BIZ
bic, breaks forth in substantially the
following eloquent strain: "Go stand
with your open bible upnn the Ar
! opagus of Athens where Paul stood
SO long ago: In thoughtful silence
look around upon the site of nil that
ancient greatness; look upward to
those still glorious skies of Greece
and what conceptions, wisdom and
power will all those memorable scenes
Of nature and art convey I" your
mind now, more than they did to an
ancient w"rshiper OF Jupiter and
Apollo. They will tell of Him who
made the worlds, by whom and
through whom and for whom are all
things"
Listen: ''To You that landscape of
exceeding beauty so rich in the mon
nments of departed genius, with its
distant classic mountains, it's deep
blue SEA and its bright bending skies
Will he telling tale of glory the Gre
clan never learned, for it Will speak to
yo" II" more of its thirty Thousand pet
ly c"niehding deities, hut of the one
living and everlasting God"
This same author graphically de.
scrlbes David and Isaiah as thew
stood under the star.spangled canopy
of night, and asks he reader To look
away to range of planets, suns and
adnman,lne spheres wheeling I'M.
shaken through the void immense.
and another author goes to the heights
OF Niagara and in the sullen rom Of
The plunging waters below hears the
voice of God, who il revealed i'm the
bible as Sitting above the water.
floods forever"
The conception of the Deity, which
this. the grandest of all books, has
given, enables us to convert all of
the beauties "t nature, scientific work
and rapid strides in literary attain.
nenis as the work of His omnipotent
hand III trading for other talents.
81 have always found" said n IA.
iron IT the National Institute Mt
Washington, "in my scientific stud.
les that when could get the bible to
say anything on The subject it afford.
ed firm platform to stand upon and
another round in the ladder by which
| could safely ascend"
The bible is adapted to every pos.
sIble variety of talent, temperament.
culture and condition. 1t affords
strong reasoning for the intellectual
yet plain and simple in teaching the
way of life aud salvation.
This grand subject, "the bible -
aud its influence IN mankind where
it is revcred is too sublime and t,o
broad to he justly dealt with in the
limited time and space we have had