St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-08-13

Oh mOE8lS ne leIG HOO tuc lcliRiOu Ae
has given us are the best things the
world has ever seen or likely to see.
Patrick Henry, the electric champion
ofiiberty, says: "The book worth all
other books put together is the Bible"
BENJAMIN Rush, the leading physiolo-
gist and anatomist of his day, the
great medical scientist-what did he
say?" 1.-THE only true and perfect
religion is Christianity" Isaac New
ton, the leading philosopher OF his
time-what did he say? 1.-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 great light to
me, very great light all my days.
President Th,crs, 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. ap-
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 rese tved, as q lawyer and judge,
would Is the book as l would try
anything in the courtroom, taking
evidence lor and against. Twas long
and serious and profound study. and
using the same principles of evil
dencc in this religious matter as
always do in secular matters, l
have come to the decision that the
Bible is q supernatural book, that it
has come from God, and that the only
safety for the human race is to follow
its teachings" Judge, that 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 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 year.
Ny 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 Bible?' Answer: mo
| other book ever addressed itself so au-
thoritatively and SO pathetically to the
| Judgment and moral sense Of man.
kind" Edmund Burke, what do you
think of the Bible?" Answer: 81
have read the Bible, morning, noon
and night, and have ever since been
happier and the better man for such
reading"
Young men of America, come out OF
the circle of infidels-mostly made up
of cranks and imbeciles-into the CON-
pany of intellectual giants. and turn
your back on an infidelity which de-
stroys body and soul.
All! Infidclity, stand up and take
thy sentence! In the presence of God.
angels aud men. stand up, thou mon
ster! Thy lip blasted with blasphemy.
tby cheek SCARED with uncleanness,
thy breath foul with the corruption OF
the ages! Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat,
buzzard of the nations, lcper of the
centuries! Stand up, thou monster,
Infidelity! Part man, part panther,
part reptile, part dragon, stand UP
and take thy sentence! Thy hands
red with the blood in which
thou hast washed, thy feet Grim
SON with the human gore through
which thou hast waded, stand up ant
take thy sentence! Down with thee t,
the pit, and sup on the sobs AID groan!
of thoss thou lMst destroyed, and lei
thy music be the everlasting miserert
of those whom thou hast damned!
brand the forehead of infidelity will
all the crimes OF self-imnolation fol
the last century on the part of those
who had their reason. 2
NY friends, if ever your life, through
its abrasions and its molcstations
should seem to be uubearable, and yor
! are tempted to quit it by your own be
hest, do not consider yourself wors,
than others. Christ himself wa
tempted to cast himself from the roo
OF the temple, but as He resisted, 81
resist ye. Christ came to medicine nj
wounds. In your trouble prescrib'
life instead OF death. Peopl,
who have had it worse thar
you will ever have it have gon
songfally on their way. Remembe
that God keeps the chronology OF you,
life with as much precision as lie keep
the chronology OF nations, your grave
| as well as your cradle. Why was i
that at midnight, just at midnight, tn
destroying angel struck the blow tina
, set the Israclitcs free from bondage
The. 43o years were up Mt - O'Clock
that night. Tho 40 years were not NJ
, at II, and one o'clock would have beer
tardy and too late. The 430 years wer
mp Mt IL o'clock, and the destroying
angel struck the blow, and Israel wa
free. And Col knows just the hou
when it is time to lead ,you up from
!. earthly bondage. b. Ills grace. max
not the worst of things, but the hes
OF them. II you must take tn
:, pills do not chew them. You
). everlasting rewards will nccor
!. with your earthly -pcrturbntions
;, just as Gains gave to Agrippa
chain of gold as heavy as had been
, chain of iron. sFor the asking you ma
have the same grace that was given til
Italian martyr, Algerius. who, down j
the darkest of dungeons, dated his lie
ter from 1.-The deicctablc orchard I
the Leonine. prison" And remem bs
; that this brief life is surrounded b
rim, very thin but very in
portant rim, and close up to that Ri
is a great eternity. and You had bette
? keep out Of it until God breaks th'
: rim and separates this from that. !
get rid of the sorrows of earth, do NJ
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