The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-09-27
IMMORTALITY
| : !; Fact. Says the Rev. S;,ln Jones.



physically. Metaphysics and mur
aphysic, are Synonymous terms Will
nlc. believe in an eternal lcavct
nd an eternal he'll ! believe that !;
il part Of lhr Inhabitants Of both
countries are furnished from this
World, and from my standpoint fear
the latter country will receive most OF
Ut cmiyrants. have simple, un
wcrvng faith in all the doctrines and
truths Of Christianity. | have three
-ood reasons for my faith in the i'm
loriality of the soul
First, my Bible says: "Wc shall
i've forever, even those who are in
their graves shall come forth, they
hat have done good to the rcsurrcc
ION Of life and they that have done
evil to the resurrection Of damnation. :
believe the old Book from lid to lid.
believe it is an inspired book; be-
l.cvc it is not only truth, but inspired
truth. Its mysteries make me believe
it the more: because no man ever un-
Ccrstood or ever will understand the
Bible convinccs nc that some one
greater than man wrote it. However.
its mysteries do not worry ME much /;
it is the parts of the Bible that un-
dcrstand that give me trouble. The
hardest, slickest, stccpost hill ever
tried to pull is the page of the Bible
whtTc the Tea Commandments arc re-
corded. A fellow who believes only
what he understands has very long
head or a very short creed. The sci
cnces of theology and botany have
never claimed much Of my time, but l
90 lov, [. miuglc wish flowers and
good people. The best proof of all
the truth, uf the Scripture to mo is
the fact that wherever and whenever
| have lad opportunity and facility to
test any truth of the Bible have al
ways found it true. Then l would be
Il great fool to claim that it is not true
somewhere else and further along
where I have not had opportunity and
facility to test it. l feel good deal
like the old woman whom the infdol
told her chat he could prove to her
own eyes that the Bible was lie.
Law" she said, II would believe
the Bible before would my own eyes"
What do you moan by that p said
the in6del. She answered: "These
old eyes Of mine have failed me q
thousand times, but tho blessed old
Book has mover failed me at o single
point" 7 believe that tho whale
swallowed Jonah, and if the Bible had
said that Jonah swallowed the whale,
I should have expected to have met
Jonah some day with girth expanded.
1 have no patience with higher criti-
cism, 80 called, nor tho ;ns;a;oas her
csies which are born Of esnosticism.
When We 60 beyond the sweep of the
telescope and below the end Of the
geologist's pick one man knows as
much as another about tho beyond and
the below. If the Biblo teaches any
thing clearly, uumistakably, it teaches
the Immortality Of the soul.
Second, the testimonials Of good
men, living and dying, have long since
convinced me Of the Immortality Of
man. I have seen the emaciated con-
sumpti7o, when death had stripped
him Of his flesh and robbed him Of
vitality until there seemed to be moth
ing loft scarcely to bury, and yet when
death walked into the chamber to
strike him the last fatal blow in a
vital spot l have seen him lift his
hands and shout with his last breath,
"Life, life, eternal life" There is no
testimony stronger, better, than the
piled up volumes from the lips Of our
blessed dead. When DR.. John b..
McFarrin. thu master of southern
Methodisnl, was spending about his
last day on earth, has son, who also
was preacher, walked up to his
couch and said: Gather, ought l to
20 to my appointment in the country
and preach to-day and leave you; I
might not bo here to tell you good
byc?' The dying father looked up
into the face Of his boy and said: $50,
son, and preach the gospel to your
people, if your old father slips off
while you are gone you know where TO
find me-" Bishop Haygood, of our
church, said to me onco that he sat by
the side of Bishop Pierce and talked
with him up to the edge Of eternity
Ills mind, said he. was clear, his eye
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