The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-08-24
The Wonderful Book.
The Bible is a wonderful book.

1t is hammer that smites the
rock heart of a sinner till it falls in
contrition.
1t is milk for the babe in Christ.
1t is meat for the strong Christian.
1t is medicine for the healing of
soul sickness.
1t is bread for the hungry. 1t is
a signboard to the wayfarer.
1t is light in a sin-darkened world.
1t is a solid foundation for the
spiritual householder.
1t is honey sweet to the pure, but
bitter to the unholy.
If taken whole, it is a sure anti
dote to fanaticism.
1t is TRUTH, therefore unchange-
able.
By faith it becomes the power of
God.
1t is rock in weary land.
1t is a prophet, foretelling things
to come for ages. and all eternity.
1t is a true fortune-teller, fore
telling the eternal home of all the
human family.
1t is mirror. into which we can
look and see ourselves as we are.
1t is an X-ray that photographs
the diseases of the spirit.
1t is life to to those who by faith
receive it.
1t is a judge, pronouncing the
sentence of those who look in its
pages.
1t is eternal, abiding forever.
1t can be handled deceitfully and
corrupt the hearers.
1t can be thrown at the hungry,
like bone at a hungry dog, in such
way that it will drive the lost
sheep farther away.
1t can be broken in pieces and yet
remain whole.
1t is seed that has been sown in
a wider field than any other crop.
All its matured crops, are holiness
of heart.
It is leaven that cannot become
unleavened.
We read it to be wise, obey it to
be holy, follow it to be in peace. and
give it away to have plenty of it.
To scatter it abroad is only to
make it increase on our hands.
1t is the marvel of the ages, being
the oldest complete book, having
the widest influence. and the noblest
teachings of any book in the world.
1t brings the greatest misery the
human heart ever receives, and yet
is the source of the greatest happi-
ness, and sweetest joy the human
heart can conceive Of.
1t has been hated as no other book
has been, and yet has been the most
highly loved, and sometimes by the
same persons.
1t has withstood the dynamiting
of all sceptics, and the chiseling OF
infdels, and shows not scar.
Will some one please ask the
Higher (?) critics" what the trou-
BILE is with. the Bible as it now is,
seeing it does the work it sets out
to do, viz: when people take it as it
| is, believe it. obey it, reverence it,
honor it, and give it the place in
their life it demands: it makes, not
simply better men, but good men,
pure men, holy men; lifts them to
the highest plane of morality and
spirituality that can be conceived Of.
If this is true, and it is by million
of witnesses. then what is wrong
with it? Why pick flaws in it? If
men are able to make a better one,
let them do so in their own name.
Then let them prove it is better
one, by taking it among the vile, the
impure, the criminal, the outcast,
the drunkard and the harlot, and let
them show us the fruit, in regenerat-
ed, sanctifed, holy. upright men and
women, and we will consider their
claims, but until they do. let us
stand by the old Book that has, and
is, standing the test and bringing
forth the fruit. Amen.-Rev " Ii
G,l1ev IN Christian Witness.