The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-03-28
ARP And HIS BIBLE.
Bill SAYS lie Likes TO Read Til?
ApOcrapha
HE QUOTES SOAR OF THE BOOK
Talks About Family Influence in Good
Government for the Whole of Our
Country.

Inc GamlIy Is the most important III
StitutionS upcl the earth. II is the
hope Of the world. It's influence is
greater than that of kings. emFerorS
Or cahine.S. Parents and children
gathered around the hcarThstOneS in
separate families make up commuEi-
ties, and they make states and nations
and choose their rulers. AS the faHi-
les are. 50 is tho gcvernment-good
Or bad-nen-unmarried men arc
merely individuals ard feel no great
responsibility outside Of their indivld-
Ual comfort and welfare. But par
ents are concerned for their children.
We live for them and would die for
them. consequently we want good gov
ernment that will protect them. But
it is no. 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 Of safeguard to the COM
munity. and the rest are of but little
consequence. If they were TO move
away it would add to our peril. 50
it is in all communities. The few
protect the many. So it is in church
and state Twenty members OF our
legislature control its legislation. Ten
members OF an average church mem
he~shiD give the church its character.
Sodom was destroyed because len good
men could not he found. If all men
were good we would have no need Of
courts or prisons But for every
church that is sci on hill there is Il
iail in the valley. | hear the preacher
calling and the bell tollirg from the
one. and imagine hear the devil call
ing srom the other. and he cries ou.
as the sergeants did in the old muster
language. Oh. yes. Oh. yes, All who
belong 10 Captain Satan's company
phr3de here" And the people are go
ing and coming all the time some 10
one call and more to the other. But as
the devil can't be heard afar of. he
goes about calling, and even invades
the sanctuary and calls aloud while
the preacher is preaching.
Man never erects a house OF prayer
But what the devil builds pulpit
there,
And twill be found upon examination
The devil has the largest congrega.
tion."
His pulpit is always az the rear end
where the young people love to SIT.
and You can tell haw popular ne IS
BY ;he number who sit there.
I was Illuminating about this family
institution and its great Importance
in the world becaUee have been read
t2g abcl.t i; in the Apocrypha, which
is cne Of our family Bibles. heard
a preacher say once that Bible with
the Apocrypha in it should not sta?
in his house Well. it took 1925 Years
10 exclude il from the Protestant
Bible. and most CT It is in the Romoah
Catholic Bible vet. What is called
sacred canon was rot established uu-
Ill The sixteenth century. and for CEN
turies before that almost every great
theolcgian had his own catalogue OF
inspired books rs he believed them.
For 500 years crly zen OF Paul's epis-
ties were admitted. The Book OF 81.
lanes and the Revelation OF ST. John
were excluded. So were Esther and
Daniel and Jonah in the Old Tesla
nent Lu.her tried TO have Hebrews,
and James. and Jude. and the Reyela-
lions OF st. John excluded, but failed.
But ali differences OF opinions seem
TO have been harmoniZed at the 'coun
ell of Trent by all Ci2riStianS and ;ke
ApoCryDhia was LETT in. not as an IT,
spired part. but TO be read for relig-
icus instruction. In 1926 it was eX.
cluded from the Protestant Bible. bur
it remains in many OF the Old time
family Bibles and is in one OF mine. |
dare 10 peruse it sometimes. especially
The Wisdom CT Jesus the Son o!
Sirach." which is called EcclesiasticuS.
which has fifty chapters and IS as full
Of mqyims anl morals and instruction
for the family as are the proverbs OF
solomon. Addison says that if this
book had been LEFT in the canon or II
!; had the name OF some great Greek
r51ilcscDher. il would have commando
:he admiration OF mankind. To my
mind it is the condensation c: Wis
dom for family government II Is as
pointed and pungent as anything that
solomon ever wrC;e. This Jesus was
2 better man than Solomon. He iivea
and wrote 500 years after Malachi. the
last OF the prophets. In the close OF
his narrative concerning Moses and
the prophets, he says Of Solomon:
-"}y his body he was brought into sub
lection and didst stain his honor and
pollute his seed and brought wrath
uDon his children. and his kingdom
was divided" l never did have pro-
found admiration for mar who sail.
''Rejjjoice. Oh. 'yohng man, in the
wife Of thy youth. and be thou alwaya
rarisred with her love" and then
goes OF and marries 800 wives AMI