Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-14

a glorious somewhere. And infidility
holds the upper end of the rope foi
the suicide, and aims the pistol with
which the man blows his brains out,
and mixes the strychrinc for the last
swallow. II infidelity could carry the
day and purSuade the mljority of peo-
make any difference how you go ont of
this world you will land safely, the
Potomac would he so full of corpses
that boats would be impeded in their
progress and the crack of the sui
cidc's pistol would be no more alarm
ing than the rumble OF a street ear.
have some times heard it discussed
whether the great dramatist was a
Christian or not. He was a Christian.
In his last will and testament he COM
mends his soul to God through the
he considered appreciation of future
existence the mightiest hindrance of
self-destruction:
For who would bear the whips and Scorns Of
time,
The oppressof's wrong. the proud mans con-
tumely,
The pangs OF despis'd love the laws delay,
The insolence OF office. and the SpurnS
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels
bear,
To grunt and sweat under weary life.
But that the dread of something after death
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveller returns puzzles the willi"
Would God that the coroners would
be brave in rendering the right ver-
dict, and when in n case of irresponsi.
bility they say, while this man was
demented he took his life" in the
other case say, "having read iniidel
books and attended infidel lectures,
which obliterated from this mans
mind all appreciation of future, ret
ributiOn, he committed self-slaugh-
ter.
Have nothing to do with an infidel.
ity so cruel, so de blasting. Come out of
that bad company into the company of
those who believe in the Bible. Ben
jamin Franklin wrote: of this Jesus
of Nazareth | have to say that the sys-
| TEN of .norals He left and the religion
| lie 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. "
Ben jamin Rush, the leading physiol.
| ogist and anatomist of the day the
great medical scientist-what iii he
say? The only true and perfect re-
lieion is Christianity" Isaac New
ton, the leading philosopher OF
| his time what did he say? The
sublimest philosophy on earth is
the philosophy of the Gospel.
| David Brewster. at the pronuncia
ton of whose name every scientis,
the world over bows his head-David
| brewster saying: On, this r'ligion
has been a great light to me. very
great light all my days" President
| Theirs, the great French statesman,
acknowledging that ne prayed when
he said: II invoke tn, Lord Go /, in
whom | am glai to believ,." David
Livingstone, able to conquer the lion.
able to conquer the panther, able To
conquer the savage, yet coIqu.rcl bv
this religion, SO when they find him
dead they find him on his knees.
Salmon Z. Chase, chief justice of the
supreme court of the United ) at.s.
appointed by President Lincoln, will
take the witness stand. Chief Ju y
tice Chase please to state what you
have to say about the book commonly
called the Bible" The witness r,
plies: There came time in my
life when | doubted the divinity OF
the Scriptures, and l resolved as Z
lawyer and judge l would try tn,
book as l would try anything in tn,
courtroom, taking evidence for ant
against 1t was a long and serious ant
profound study. and using the same
| principles of evidence in this religious
matter as l always do in secular mat
tiers, ! have come to the decision that
the Bible is supernatural book. that
it has come from God, and that tn,
only safety for the human race is t.
follow its teachings" Judge, tina
will do. Go back again to your pillow
of dust on the banks of the Ohio.
Next put upon the witness stand ;
president of the United States-Johr
Quincy Adams. president Adams
what have you to say about tn,
Bible and Christianity?- The
president replies: II have for many
years made it a practice to reaC
through the Bible once a year. Ny
custom is to read four or five chapter.
every morning Immediately after ris
ing from bed. 1t employed about ar
hour of my time, and seems to me the
most suitable manner of beginning
the day. In what light soever we re
gard the Bible, whether with referenc,
to revelation, to history or NOR
atty, it is an invaluable and inexhaust
ible mine of knowledge and virtue.
Chancellor Kent, what do you thinl
of the Bible?" Answer: mo other bool
ever addressed itself so authorita
lively and so pathetically to the judg
ment and moral sense of mankind.
Edmund Burke, what do you think o
the Bible?' Answer: II have read the
Bible, morning, noon and night, an'
have ever since been the happier ano
better man for such reading" Young
men of America, come out of the circle
of infidels-mostly made up of crank:
and imbeciles-into the company O
intellectual giants, and turn your bach
on an intidelity which destroys body
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