The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-03

hone of the world. Its influence il
greater than that Of kings, emperors
or cabinets. Parents and children
gathered around the hearthstones in
separate families make up communi
ries, aud they maau States and ma.
tons 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 responsibility outside of otheir
individual comfort and welfare. But
parents are concerned for their chill
dreu. We live for them and would
die for them, consequently NO want
good governments that will protect
them. But it is not every family who
feels this deep concern. From my
window I 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. If they we're
to move away it would not add to our
peril. So it is in all communities.
The few protect the many. SO it is
church and State. Twenty members
Of our legislature control it's legisia-
ton. Zen members Of an average
church membership give the church its
character. Sodom was destroyed be-
cause ten good men could not be
found. If all men were good we
would have no need Of courts or pris-
ons. But for every church that is set
on hill there is Q Jail in the valley.
l hear the preacher calling and the
bell tolling from the one, and imagine
Ihesr the devil calling from the 9TH
er, and he cries out as the sergeants
did in the old muster language, "Oh,
yes! Oh, yes! All who belong to Cap
tain Satan's company parade here"
And the people are going and coming
all the time some TO one call and more
to the other. But as the devil can't
be heard afar off, he goes about call
ing, and even invades the sanctuary
and calls aloud while the preacher is
preaching.
"Man never ereots house Of prayer
But what the devil builds pulpit
there,
And twill be found upon examina-
tivn
The devil has the largest congrega-
tion."
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.
Twas Illuminating about this family
Institution and its great Importance in
the world because I have been reading
about it in the Apoc-ypha, which is
one of our family Bibles. I heard q
preacher say once thata 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 il is in the Roman
Catholic Bible yet. What is called &
sacred canon was not established until
the sixteenth century, and for centur-
les before that almost every great theo-
logan had his own catalogue ofinspir=
Cd books as he believed them. For
SUI years only ten Of Paul'a epistles
] we're admitted. The Book of ST.,
James aud the Revelation. OF st. John
we're excluded. So were Esther and
Daniel and Jonah in the Old Testa-
neat. Luther tried to have Hebrews,
and James, and Jude. and the Revela-
slOns Of St. John excluded, but failed.
But all differences Of opinion seem TO
] have been harmonized at tie council
Trent by all Christians and the
0esspaia was ieIt IN, not as an ln-
8 splred part, but to be read Cor religious
instruction. In 1926 :it was excluded
4 4 'seas :hao Protestant Bible, but it re.
4 mains nal in many Of she old time family
4 siOles and is in on OF mine. T dare
a@ peruse it rruetimes, especially
Tho Wisdom OK Jesus. the Son OF
o''ach," which 10 called Ecolesiasti-
A .us, which has fiesy chapters and is as
4 q ,ali Of maxims and morals and instruc-
a 4 :. a0n for the family 40 are the Proverbs
Il 8a solomon. Addison says that if
.aia book had been left in che cannon,
) y v u IL had che name Of some great
s'ssk philosopher, it wsuld have
....amanded :. the admiration Of man
nnd. To my mind is ii the condensa-
noa s Of wisdom fos family govsarinment.
{ Il 4 . as pointea and pnngens as any
,alns that solomon ever wSota. This
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