The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24

All the hosts of heaven shall be dis
solved and the heavens shall be rolled
together as a scroll?'
Not few people protested religion
aIter that star falling, but l am no;
able to tell the reader how many OF
| them held out after the scare wore
or. Get a fellow in a tight place and
| nell promise literally; but he don''
always keep his promises, when the
danger or the supposed danger. is
| passed.
Many q fellow, with a bad case at
typhoid fever, has made very solemn
promises he didn't remember, much
| Tess keep, after he got well. Star
| lalllng, earthquake, or typhoid fever
religion is not, generally speaking, nt
the lasting kind. But. l Guess it's bet
ter to scare some people, or they NAV
never get any religion of any kind
| the world must admit that fellow
had better go to heaven scared. than
| not to get there at all.
[ heard a man the other day talk
| ing in a very consequential way OF
'broad-minded and marrow minded
people; and l had the curiosity to
| listen, as | was anxious to find out
| what he meant. l learned this, that
a predetermined man is one who does
not accept the Bible as the Word OF
| God, and the narrow minded is one
who does.
He went on to say that he had
rather his son should have no educa-
| ton than for him to be educated at a
sectarian school He harped upon
"liberality," and / learned that what
he called liberality was nothing more
nor less than infidelity.
IL
pie and very liberal in their religious
views. They had plurality of gods
and, l suppose, each person Worship
ped the god he liked best. When Paul
went to Athens he found that "all the
Athenians and strangers which were
there, spent their time in nothing else,
but either to tell, or hear something
new"
And when he stood in the midst of
Mars Hill, he said: "Ye men of Athens,
perceive that in all things ye are
too superstitious. For as L passed by,
and beheld your devotions. l found an
altar with this inscription, To the IN
known God"
Paurs meaning was, l perceive you
are very religious; you worship all
the gods of which you have any
knowledge, and lest there may be
some other God not included in your
calendar, you have an inscription "to
the Unknown God"
There is danger of our becoming
like the idolatrous heathcns, who
'spend their time in nothing else but
either to tell or hear something new"
We don't like the idea of being tied
down to old-time doctrines, taught at
Sinai and in the Sermon on the
Mount but we love to tell and hear
something new all the time. We
have itching ears and they must have
something that borders on the I'M
heard of and marvellous.
Advanced thinkers who have we'll
studied human nature, and thorough
~ understand that the carnal mind is
enmity against God, are undermining
the worlds faith in the Bible, as a
true revelation of God. and of his
Son, Jesus Christ; and are substitu-
ting therefor the same kind of wis
dom the Greeks had, when, in their
liberality. they believed in all the
gods that were made by men. and
only had a vague idea of the unknown
or true God. | am afraid that the So
called broad guaged education, which
some fathers are choosing for their
sons. Will turn out TO be their ruin.
Scientists and advanced thinkers, it is
suspected, depend more on their own
learning than they do on the illumi-
nation Of the Holy Ghost, whose Of