Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-07-21

land where there Will be everything
glorious and nothing TO pay for it."
Intidelity has always been apologetc
for self-immola;ion, After Tom Paine's
Age of Reason" was published ana
widely read there was a marked in-
crease of se,f.slaughter,
Have nothing to do with an in6delity
SO cruel SO debasing, Come out of that
bad company into the company tthose
who believe the Bible. Benjamin
Franklin wrote: "Ot this Jesus of
Nazareth have to say that the system
OF morals lie left and the religion He
has given us are the best things the
world has ever seen or likely TO see. 3"
Patrick Henry, the electric champion
of liberty, says: The book worth all
other books put together is the Bible. !"
benjamin Rush, the leading physiolo-
gist and auatomist of his day, the
great medical scientist-what did he
say?" THE only true and perfect
religion is Christianity Isaac New
ton, the leading philosopher of his
time--what did he say? The sublim.
est philosophy on earth is the philoso-
ply of the Gospel" David Brewster,
at the pronunciation of whose name
every scientist the world over bows his
head; David Brewster, saying: "Oh,
this religion has been u great light to
me, very great light all my days"
President Theirs, the great French
statesman, acknowledging that he
prayed when he said: II invoke the
Lord God, in whom am glad to be-
lieve." David Livingstone, able to con-
quer the lion, able to conquer the
panther, able to conquer the savage,
yet conquered by this religion, So when
they find him dead they find him on
his knees.
Salmon p. Chase, chief justice of the
supreme court OF the United States, APP
pointed 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:
"There 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
anything in the courtroom, taking
evidence for and against. was a long
and serious and profound study, and
using the same principles of evi.
dence in this religious matter as
| always 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
it's teachings" Judge, that will do.
Go back again to your pillow of dust
on the banks of the Ohio" Next l put
upon the witness stand president of
the United States John Quincy
Adams. president Adams what have
you to say about the Bible and Chris
tianity?" The president replies: Il
have for many years made it practice
to read through the Bible once Il year.
NV custom is to read four or five chap
tiers 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
soever we regard the Bible whether
with reference to revelation, to history
or to morality, it is an invaluable and
inexhaustible mine of knowledge and
virtue" chancellor Kent, what do
YOU think of the B;blc?" Answer: NO
other book ever addressed itself Sc au-
thoritatively and SO patheticatly TO the
Judgment and moral sense of man
kind" "E lmund Rnrlte. what do you
think of the Rihle?" Answer: II
have read the i,bl", morning, noon
and night, and nave ever since been
happier and the better man for such
reading.
There is sorrowlesS world, and il
is SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is
only the lowest doorstep, and the au-
rora that lights up our northern heav-
ems, confounding astronomers as to
what it can be. is the waving of the
banners of the procession come to take
the conquerors home fro.n church mill
tant to church triumphant, and you and
| have 10000 reasons for wanting to go
there, but we wall never get there
either by scIf-,mmo.ation or impeni-
tencv. All our sins slain by Christ
who came to DO that thing, we want
to go in at just the time divinely ar
ranged, and from couch tdivinely
spread, and then the clang of the sepul-
chral gates behind us will be over
powered by the clang OF the opening Of
the solid pearl before us. o, God!
Whatever others may choose, give me
a Christians life, a Christians death,
Christians burial, q Christians i'm
mortality!