The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-05

AuOtueI. KNOW lndt was not dream
Thirdly" he said, with tears in his
eyes. Il have three motherless daugh
ters. They have no protector but my
self. l would rather kill them than
leave them in this sinful world if you
could blot out from it all the teach,
ings of the Gospel"
| Bishop James gives this reminis-
cence of Daniel Webster:
When Daniel Webster was in his
best moral state, and when he was in
the prime of his manhood, he was one
day dining with a company of literary
gentlemen in the city of Boston The
company was composed of clergymen,
lawyers, statesmen, physicians. mer-
chants, and almost all classes of lit
eraIy persons, During the dinner con
versation incidentally turned upon the
subject of Christianity. MIR Webster,
as the occasion was in honor of him,
was expected to take a leading part
/ in the conversation, and he frankly
states his religious belief in the
divinity of Christ, and his dependence
upon the atonement of the Savior 4
minister of very considerable literary
REPUTATION sat almost opposite him at
the table, and he looked at him and
said: Mr.. Webster, can you compre-
hend how Jesus Christ could be both
God and man.? Mr., Webster, with one
of those looks which no man can imi
tate. fixed his eyes upon him. and
promptly and emphatically said No
sir, | cannot comprehend it; and
would be ashamed to acknowledge him
as my Savior if | could comprehend
lit. If / could comprehend Him, He
could be no greater than myself, and
such is my conviction of accountability
to Cod, such is the sense of my sinful
ness before Him, and such is my
knowledge of my own incapaeity TO
recover myself, that feel ! need a
superhuman Savior"
Victor Hugo:
! 1T would not be worth while to live
| if we were to die entirely. That which
alleviates labor and sanctifies toll is
to have before us the vision of a bet
ter world through the darkness of this
life That world is to me more real
than the chimera which we devour
and which we call life. 1t is forever
before my eyes. 1t is the supreme
certainty of my reason, as it is the
supreme consolation of my soul"
Rabbi Gamaliel, as recorded in the
Talmud, once had prince say unto
him:
Your God is a thief he surprised
Adam in his sleep, and stole rib from
Ihim' The Rabbits daughter over
heard this speech, and whispered a
word or two in her fathers ear ask
ing his permission to answer this sing
uar opinion herself. He gave his con
sent. The girl stepped forward, and
feigning terror and dismay, threw her
arms aloft in supplication, and cried
out, My liege, my liege, Justice! re-
venge!" What has happened?' asked
the prince "A wicked theft has taken
place, she replied A robber has
crept secretly into our house, carried
away silver goblet, and left golden
one instead Would that such rob-
berries were of more frequent occur
renee, answered the price. Behold,
then, sir, the kind thief our Creator
was; he stole a rib from Adam, and
gave him beautiful wife instead
We'll said! avowed the prince"
Thomas Jefferson, speaking of the
Bible and home life says: Il have al
ways said, and always will say, that
the studious perusal of the Sacred
Volume will make better citizens, bet
ter fathers, and better husbands
John Quincy Adams said:
so great is my veneration for the
Bible that the earlier my children be-
gin to read it, the more confident will
be my hopes that they will prove use
full citizens to their country and re-
spectacle members of society"
Theodore Parker again:
There is not boy on the hills of
New England, not girl born in the
tilthiest cellar which disgraces a cap
ital in Europe. and cries TO God
against the barbarism of modern civil
ization; not boy nor a girI all Chris
tendon through, but their lot is made
better by that great Book"
Diderot, the French philosopher and
sccptic, was wont to make this con
lfession: No better lessons than those
of the Bible can teach my child"
Huxley, in an address upon educa-
ton, says: q have always been
strongly in favor of secular education
in the sense of education without the
ology; but | must confess / have been
no less seriously perplexed to know
by what practical measures the relig.
Iious feeling, which is the essential