The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-29
iIlustrate the Sacred Word. /"

thousand batteries. But the moment
the rays of truth were concentrated
upon their ramparts they melted away
The last clouds of ignorance are pass
ing. and the thunders of infidelity are
dying upon the ear. The union and
harmony of Christianity and science is
sure token that the flood of unbeliei
and ignorance shall never more go over
the world"
Sir John Herschel declared:
"All human discoveries seem to be
made only for the purpose of confirm
ing, more and more strongly, the
truths contained in the Sacred Scrip
lures"
Mitchell, the great astronomer:
THE Bible furnishes the only fitting
vehicle to express the thoughts that
oYerwhelm us when contemplating the
stellar universe"
Lieutenant Maury gave utterance to
this
'In my investigation of natural
science, | have always found that
whenever | can meet with anything in
the Bible, on any subject, it always
affords me fine platform on which to
stand"
Sir David Brewster exclaimed once:
IF the God of love is most appro-
priately worshipped in the Christian
temple. the God of nature may be
equally honored in the temple of
science. Even from its lofty minarets,
the philosopher may summon the faith
full to prayer; and the priest and the
sage exchange altars without the com
promise of faith or knowledge"
And here is the testimony of man
who was the equal of any of the scien-
lists of the past century, who was not
the President of a little obscure the
illogical seminary or cemetery" as
this prodigy of intellect who has been
turning his yials of wrath upon the
Bible through the columns of the Chief
tain for the past month or so, has de-
clared; but a man of profound scien-
tific ability, one whose name will live
long after such characters as Inger-
sol and his ilk have passed into obliv
.ion-Professor Seelye:
"A nations intellectual progress has
always followed-not preceded-some
moral impulse. The history of the
fine arts shows that some form of re-
ligion gave them their earliest impulse.
There has never been great genius
but has been inspired in some sense
by religion The thoughts of the in
tellect are lofty in proportion as the
sentiments of the heart are profound. |
If we begin the attempt to improve
men with the intellect We end where
we begun Education will not remove
corruption 1t may guide vice as in |
ancient Rome and Athens, but will not
uproot it. A goddess education has
no power to purify. instruction in |
morality also has failed to regenerate. |
No man does his duty simply because
he knows it unless he loves it; nor |
are nolitical and social changes effec- |
tive. Social evil has its root in the |
individual heart, and cannot be re-
moved except by influences operating
within it. This fountain of mans COR
ruption must be purified in order to de-
liyeranee from social vice"
Take the testimony of statesmen
whose names are enrolled on the i'm
perishable scroll of fame, and note the
regard and reverence they manifest to-
ward this Book of Books.
We begin with Patrick Henry:
There is a book worth all other
books which were ever printed
John Adams: The Bible is the
best book in the world" +
John Quincy Adams: so great is
my veneration for the Bible, that the
earlier my children begin to read #,
the more confident will be my hopes
hat they viii prove useful citizens TO
heir country, and respectable mem
oers of society"
General George Washington 1T is
impossible to govern the world with
,ut God. He must be worse than an
nfidel that lacks faith, and more than {
wicked that has not gratitude enough J
o acknowledge his obligation
Andrew Jackson. pointing to the
amily Bible on the stand, during his
asst illness, said to his friend: THAT
'ook, sir, is the rock on which our re-
lublic rests"
General Harrison, in his inaugural !
Lddress said: Il deem the present oc-
aston sufficiently important and sol t
mn to justify me in expressing to my /
elbow citizens a profound reverence
or the Christian religion, and a thor
ugh conviction that sound morals. re.
igious liberty, and just sense of re-
gious responsibility, are essentially :
with all true a1d lasting a
appiness. q