The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-31


tuition upon the earth. 1t is the hope of
the world It's influence is greater than
that of kings, emperors or cabinets. Pa
rents and children gathered around the
hearthstones in separate families make up
communities, and they make States and
nations and choose their rulers. AS the
families are, so is the government-good
or bad-men-unmarried men are merely
individuals and feel no great RESPONSE
bility outside of their individual comfort
and welfare. But parents are concerned
for their children. We live for them and
would die for them, consequently we want
good government that will protect thenh
But it is not every family who feels this
deep concern. From my window | see
the homes of many neighbors and can
count on my fingers those whose presence
is a safeguard to the community, and the
rest are of but little consequence. IL
they were to move away it would not add
to our peril. So it is in all communities.
The few protect the many. So it is in
church and State. Twenty members OF our
Legislature control it's legislation. Ten
members of an average church member
ship give the church it's character. Sodom
not be found. If all men were good we
would have no need of courts or prisons.
But for every church that is set on a hill
there is jail in the valley. hear the
preacher calling and the bell tolling from
the one, and imagine / hear the devil
calling from the other. and he cries out
as the sergeants did in the old muster
language, "Oh, yes! Oh, yes! All who be-
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here" And the people are going and
coming all the time, some to one call ana
more to the other. But as the devil can't
be heard afar off, he goes about calling,
and even invades the sanctuary and calls
aloud while the preacher is preaching.
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MAN never erects house of prayer
But what the devil builds pulpit there,
And twill be found upon examination
The devil has the largest congregation.
His pulpit is always at the rear end
where the young people love to sit, and
YOU can tell how popular he is by the
number who sit there.
was Illuminating about this family in
stitution and it's great Importance in the
world because have been reading about
family Bibles. 1 heard a preacher say
once that a Bible with the Apocrypha in
it should not stay in his house. Well, it
took 1926 years to exclude it from the
Protestant Bible, and most of it is in the
Roman Catholic Bible yet. What is called
a sacred canon was not established until
the sixteenth century, and for centuries
before that almost every great theologian
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as he believed them. For 80 years only
ten of Paul's epistles were admitted. The
Book of St. James and the Revelation Of
st. John were excluded. So were Esther
and Daniel and Jonah in the Old Testa-
ment. Luther tried to have Hebrews, AMI
James and Judge, and the Revelations OF
st. John excluded but failed. But all
differences Of opinion seem to have been
harmonized at the council of Trent by all
Christians and the Aprocryphia was let
in, not as an inspired part but to be
read for religious instruction. In 1926 1t
was excluded from the Protestant Bible
but it remails in many Of the CD time
family Bibles and is in one OF mine
dare to peruse it sometimes, especially
1.-THE Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,"
which is called Ecclesjastics. which has
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and morals ana instruction for the fam
lily as are The p:overbs of Solomon. Ad-
Olson says that if this book had been left
in the canon. or If it had the name Of
some great Greek philosopher, it would
have commanded the admiration of man
kind. To my mind it is the condensation
of wisdom for family government. 1t is
as pointed and pungent as anything that
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better man than Solomon. He lived and
wrote 300 years after Malachi, the last OF
the prophets. In the close OF his narra-
tive concerning Moses and the prophets,
he says of Solomon: by his body he was
brought into subsection and didst stain
his honor and pollute his seed and brought
wrath upon his children, and his king
dom was divided" / never did have
profound admiration for a man who SAID.
Rejoice, oh, young man, in the wife OF
thy youth, and be thou always ravished
with her love-" and then goes off and
marries 300 wives and takes 700 concu-
bines His precepts were good but his
example was bad, very bad My doctrine
has always been that man has no more
right to two wives than woman has to
two husbands. Let him stand by his
IudFIIdS0 fOWS. 10 lnC ldJuAStAoh "a
Jesus the son of Sirach. AS q sample OF
his wisdom let me quote:
"A man that breaketh his wedlock, say
ing, Who seeth me; am / not comprised
about with darkness he forgetteth that
the eyes Of the Lord are ten thousand
times brighter than the sun"
Blessed is he who hath virtuous
wife, for the number of his days shall
be doubled"
"A silent and loving woman is a gift
from the Lord"
"A fool will peep in at the door OF the
house, but he that is we'll nurtured will
stand without"
do not banquet upon borrowed
money"
Commend not a man for his outward
appearance, for many kings have sat
down upon the ground, and one that was
never thought of hath worn the crown.
"A friend cannot be known in prosper
ity, and an enemy cannot be hid in ad-
versity."
'Use not much the company OF a wo-
man who is singer lest thou be captured
with her voice.
aRaioica not over thine enemy when he