The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-26

omy or chemistry. And yet it
does train the mind for it's loft
lest flights and its broadest ex.
pIorations. I have always found
''ln my scientific studies that
when I could get the Bible to
say anything on the subject, it
afforded me a firm platform to
stand upon, and another round
in the ladder which I could safe
ly ascend" It throws it's beams
into the temples of science and
literature, no less than those of
religion, and so prepares the
| way for mans advancement in
philosophy, metaphysics, and
natural science, no less than in
the realm of ethics, and, as it
saves the soul, it exalts the in.
tellect.
The Bible is adapted to every
possible variety of taste, tenn.
permanent, culture, and condition
1t has strong reasoning for the
intellectual; it takes the calm
and comtemplative to the we'll.
balanced James, and the affec-
tionate to the loving and beloved
John. The pensive may read
the tender lamentations and the
funeral strains of jeremiah. Let
the sanguine commune with the
graphic and creative Joel; and
plain and practical may go to
the wise Ecclesiastes or the out
spoken Peter. They who like
brilliant apothegms, should
study the book of Proverbs; and
the lover of pastoral and quiet
delineations may study with the
sweet Singer of Israel, or richly
endowed Amos and Hosea. II
you would take the wings of i'm
agination, and leap from earth
to heaven, or wonder through
eternity, then open the revela,
ton, and pour over and fill
yourself with the glory of the
New Jerusalem, and listen to
the Seven Thunders, and gaze
on the pearly gates and the gol'
den streets Of the heavenly city
i Not only is this Book precious
to the poor and unlearned, not
only is it the counsellor and con
fdence of the great middle class
of society, both spiritually and
mentally speaking, but scholar
and sage, the intellectual Mon
Iarchs of the race, bow to its
authority. It has encountered
the scorn of a Lucian, the mys tic
philosophy of a porphyry, the
heartless skepticism Of a Hume
the lore of a Gibbon, the sneer=
of a Voltaire, the rude weapons
of Il Paine, and the subtle. many
sided neology of modern Germ
any. But none of these things
have moved it. Nay, parallel
with these attempts at it's sub
jugations and triumphant ovel
them at all, advanced the noble
works of such commanding in
tellects as Newton, Chalmers
Robert Hall, Bowditch Chan.
ming, testifying that, to them
the Bible bore the stamp Of
special revelation and the sea
of the eternal God. To multi
tudes of our race this book is
not only the foundation of theil
religious faith, but their daily
practical guide. It has taken
hold of the world as no other
book ever did. Not only is il
read in all Christian pulpits, bu
it enters every haOitation from
palace to the cottage. It is the
golden chain which binds hearts
together at the marriage alter;
lit contains the sacred formula
for the baptisnal rite. 1t blends
itself with our daily converse
tion, and is theosilver thread OF
all our best reading, giving its
hue, more or less distinctly tc
book, periodical, and newspa'
pers. When the good mother
parts with dear boy, other vol
umes may be placed in his HANDS
but I am sure she will folo