The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-01-31

in the classrooms Of that learned in
| st;tution had ever done more in the
way Of fitting them for their coming
profession.
/ hear from different sources that
there is great deal OF infidelity IN
some Of the theological seminaries OF
our day. They think that the garden
| of Eden is an allegory, and that
| Moses did not write the Pentateuch,
| and that the book of Job is only
drama, and that the book of Jonah Is
an unreliable fish story, and that wa
fer was not turned into wine, al
though the bartender now by large
! dilution turns wine into water, anu
| that most of the so-called miracles OF
The Old and the New Testaments were
wrought by natural causes. "nen
those infidels graduate from the the-
illogical seminary and take the pun
pits of America as expounders OF the
HOLY Scriptures, what advocates they
will be of that Gospel for the truth
of which the martyrs died! Han the
Polycarps and Hugh Latimers and
John Knoxes of the twentieth CEN
tury. BELIEVING the Bible is true IN
spots! Would to God that some great
revival of religion might sweep
through all the theological semina-
ries of this land, confirming the faith
of the coming expounders OF an en-
| tire Bible!
Furthermore, in that scene OF the
text God sanctions borrowing and sets
forth the Importance OF returning. l
do not think there would have Deen
any miracle performed II the young
man had owned the ak that shipped
the helve. The young man cried out
in the hearing of the prophet: Aias,
master, for it is borrowed" lie hao
a right to borrow. There are times
when we have not only right to Dor
row. but it is duty to borrow. lhere
are times when we ought to lend, for
Christ in His sermon on the Mount de-
clared: "From him that would borrow
of thee turn thou not away" 1t is
right that one borrow the means OF
getting an education, as the young stu
dent of my text borrowed the ak. II
is right to borrow means for the 1or-
warding of commercial ends.
If in any assembly it were requested
that those who had never borrowed
hold up their hands, none would be
lifted or if here and there hand were
lifted we would know that 1t was =
case of inveracity Borrow! Why,
we are borrowing all the time. we
borrow from the Lord the sunhght
that shows US the way, our water that
slakes our thirst, the food that re-
freshes us three times day, the Pill
low on which we slumber. We borrow
gladness from our friends; we borrow
all elevated surroundings. The church
borrows all it's beauty from the Christ
who founded it. In our songs and ser
mons we borrow from the raptures OF
Heaven.
We borrow time; we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrowing
implies a return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, in i'm
provement of ourselves and helpful'
ness for others. For what we borrow
in the shape of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents in their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought fol
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood and womanhood for all the ages
to come we ought to be paying back
Hayden, the painter, said his ruin be
, gan the day he began to borrow money
and he wrote in his diary: Here be
gan debt and obligation, out of which
, l have never been and never shall bt
extricated as long as live" DR.
Johnson said: "Do not accustom your
self to consider debt only as an in
convenience. You will find it calam
ity." We have a right to borrow fol
; the absolute necessities, expecting t.
! pay back again. but we ought never Il
borrow for the luxuries.
Let all those who toll for their edu
/. cation remember that they are es
' pecially favored, and if things g.
against them and the ak head shoul,
: fly the helve that every hindermen
: may some time turn out advantage
> ously, as the accident by the rive
Jordan, which seemed to finish tn
. young students capacity to help bull
the new seminary, resulted in
splendid demonstration of the powe
= of Elisha's God to help anyone VIII
helped himself. No AK that was eve
. welded has wrought so we'll as tina
ak, the handle and head of whic
parted.