The record-union., 1899-06-05

matist. SAYS: 1.-THE farther the ages
advance in culture the more can the
Bible be used. Let mental culture go
on advancing, let the natural sciences
go on gaining in depth and breadth and
the human mind expand as it may. it
will never go beyond the elevation and
moral culture Of Christianity as it glis-
tens and shines forth in the gospel"
Daniel Webster said: II have read it
through many times. 1t is book OF all
others for lawyers as we'll as divines,
and 1 pity the man who cannot find In
it a rich supply of thought and. a rule
for conduct" Hallam, the author of
1.-THE Constitutional History of En-
gland" says: II see that the Bible fits
into every fold and crevice of the
human heart. / am man and believe
this is Gods book because it is mans
book" The italian editor, Signor Son.
zogno, who published an edition of the
Bible for the Italians, says: There is
one book which gathers up the poetry
and the science of humanity, and that
book is the Bible. 1t is a book that
Newton read continually, that Cromwell
carried in his saddle bags, that Vol
taire kept always on his study table. 1t
levers should alike study and that
ought to be found in every house."
Francis Bowen, late Professor of
Philosophy in Harvard College, in his
book, "A Laymans Study of the Eng
fish Bible" says: 1T IS not too much
to say that the books of the Old and
New Testament have exerted more in
fiuence on the course of human affairs
among civilized nations than all other
| books put together. Their imprint is
on most of the literature, the philoso-
ply, the legislation and the history Of
the past several hundred years"
Horace Greeley says: 1T is impossible
to mentally or socially enslave Bible
reading people, The principles Of the
Bible are the groundwork of human
freedom.
Professor Huxley asks men to "con-
slider the historical fact that for three
/ centuries this book has been woven
into the life of all that is best and
noblest in English history In the
same connection he admits that he sees
no way to morally educate a child
without the use of the Bible Ruskin
says: ITO my early knowledge Of the
Bible 1 owe the best part of my taste
in literature and the most precious
and, on the whole the most essential
part of my education" Charles Dudley
Warner says: st is the one book that
no intelligent person who wishes to
come into contact with the world of
thought and to share the ideas of the
great minds of the Christian era can
afford to be ignorant of. All modern
| literature and all art are permeated
with it. 1t is itself a liberal educa-
ton, as many great masters in litera-
| ture have, testified The late Fred
| erick Harrison, a PoSitiviSt in belief,
said to the students of Oxford: The
| English Bible is the true school of
English literature. If you care to know
the best that our literature can give
| in simple, noble prose work, learn and
inwardly digest the Holy Scriptures in
the English tongue
Professor Barrett of Harvard, reply
ing to an inquiry as to his assignment
of the English Bible to his students
for continuous reading, said that for
the last three centuries there had been
no master in English literature who
had not been a master of the English
Bible. Professor Moulton of the Uni
versity of Chicago, in his book, THE
Literary Study of the Bible," shows
the high place the Bible should have
in a modern liberal education.
LAS a piece of literature says Pro-
fessor Fairbairn, ''the Bible is the most
| marvellous thing in the world. It pos
sesses more than all a conception Of
God, and an idea of man, without a
parallel in the literature and relig-
| ions of the world. Think what the
Bible has been to the devoutest and
most pious of our race, the most moral
| the most humane, the most gentle to
man, the most obedient to God. Has
! it not been their inspiration for good
| the power that has entered their minds
and lifted them from the lowest of
| sensuous levels to the highest and
noblest of spiritual ideals?" A book
| that inspires men and women to di-
vineness of thought and character
must itself be divine in it's origin and
| source. 1t is inspired because it is
! inspiring.
| From certain quarters we hear a
good deal about the opposition of Sci
| ence to scripture. Let us hear what
| scientific men themselves say of the
| Bible Sir John Herschel says: ''All
| human discoveries seem to be made for
! the purpose of confirming more and
more strongly the truths contained in
| the Holy Scriptures" Sir Isaac New
| ton says: I'VE account the Scriptures
of God to be most sublime philosophy.
find more marks of authenticity in
| the Bible than in any profane history
! Whatever Professor Dana says:
Mature and the Bible are one in their
enunciation of the history of creation
They both contain conceptions infinite
ly beyond the reach of the human in
| tellect, and bear alike evidence of their
divine origin" DIR. Storrs says: Il look
| upon the Bible as the book for the
world. and / see it's divine authorship
| as plainly as l see the authorship OF
| God in the stars, which / know no
human mechanic could have built in
his workshop and flung out into
| space"
| Professor Wright says: In no equally
limited compass in ancient or modern
manuscript or published volume since
the first dawn of letters to the present
time are there to be found so many
conclusively established facts of gem
uine scientific value as in the first
| chapter of Genesis
When Henry NJ Stanley went to At
| RIGA he took with him $50 pounds Of
! books. AS the men who were with
him were stricken down by famine
| fighting and fever, the books one by
one We're dropped until only five were
| left. Two of these We're scientific books