The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-17

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en the lnereasa what II the caubef
( charge upon inHdeiity and agnosei-
cian khiT whole thing. II thers be No
hereafter, or II that hereafter b Bliss
ful without reference to how we llvo
and how we die. why not move back the
folding doors between this world ana
the next? And when our existence here
becomes troublesome why not pass
right over into Elysium? Put this
down among your most solemn rsfieo.
tions. There has never been q c2ss oe
suicide where the operator was noe
either demsnted. and therefore irre-
spon1ible, or an inndel. / challenge aN
the ages and I challenge the uhivsrss1
There never has been q case Of self-do.
struction while in full appreciation q
his Immortality and o. the fact thax
that Immortality would be glorious Or
wretched according as he accepted
Jesus Christ or rejected him. =.
You say It II Q business trouble o.
you say II In electrical currents. or IL II
this or It is that or IL is the other
thing. Why not 90 back, my friend,
and acknowledge that in every case u
is the abdication Of reason or the
teaching Of iandelity. which practical
" says: IF you don't like this life get
out OF It, and you will land either In
annihilation, where there are no notes
to pay, no prosecutions to suffer. no
gout to torment, or you will land where
there will be everything glorious and
nothing to pay for It," Infidelity has
always been apologetic for self-immo-
lation. After Tom Paine's Age Of
Reason" was published and widely
read there was a marked increase ol
self-slaughter.
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 ycS have
to say about the book commonly called
the Bible" The witness peplies: There
came . time in my life when I doubt
ed the divinity of the Scriptures, and I
resolved as lawyer and Judge would
try the book as I would try anything
in the court room, taking evidence for
and against. 1t was long and serious
and profound study, and using the same
principles of evidence in this religious
matter as / always do IN secular mats
terS, 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 IL to
follow its teachings" Judge, that will
do. Go back again to your pill
low Of dust on the banks Of the Ohio.A
Next put upon the witness stand .
president Of the United States-John
Quincy Adams. President Adams,
what have you to say about the Bihl6
and Christianity" The president re-
plies: II have for many years made &c
q practice to read through the Bible
once year. Ny custom IL to read four
or 1ve chapters every morning imme-
diately after rising from my bed. II
employs about an hour Of my time, and
seems to me the most suitable man.
ner Of beginning the day. In what
light soever we regard the Bible
whether with reference to recitation,
to history or to mortality. It is an In
valuable and inexhaustible mine Of
knowledge and virtue" Chancellor
Kent, what do you thin. OF the Bibler'
Answer, mo other book ever addressed
itself SO authoritatively and so pathst-
ically to the Judgment and moral sense
of mankind" Edmund Burke, what
do you think Of the Bible?" Answer;
''I 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 inndels-mostly made up
Of cranks and imbeciles-into the COM
pany Of intellectual giants. and turn
your back on an infdelity which de-
stroys body and soul.