The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-05-02

At the Methodist church last night
an unusually fine audience. composed
CT the choicest citizens of Cordele,
gathered when DR., keer Boyce Tupper
lectured on THE Literary Glory of
the Bible, which was one of the best
of his efforts here. Many people heard
him and enjoyed the intellectual treat
The following is an abstract of the
lecture which DR.. upper delivered
and which was nearly an hour in
length:
The Bible is the matchless book of
letters as well as the Incompatible
book of religion, It. is rich with the
sweetest strains of poetry, the most
memorable deeds of history, the most
inexhaustibe stores of philosophy, the
most thrilling incidents Of biography
as well as the loftiast teachings in
morals and ethics, In depth of thought
in wealth Of imagery, in beauty and
purity of diction in simplicity and dig
nifty, i'll brevity and comprehensiveness
the scriptures are not only unsurpass-
ed but, also, unequalled in the realm
of literature
Take a cur5ory survey of the con
tents of this more than human book.
Genesis, with its wondrou5 revelations
of the beginning Of things; Exodus,
with its elevated type of history Levitt
Gus, with it's profound treatise on law;
the Psalms, with their lyric and dra-
maticmeditations; job TIC 6ublimeSt
Of souIepics; Esther, Ruth and the
Gospels with their noble biography;
the Epistles of the Apostles with their
rare, unique commingling of emotions
nd logic. Weel dose even the az
nostic Huxley make earnest plea that
the Bible be can instrument for popular
education" to be read daily in the
schools and colleges of the world To
the literary, as well as to tE5 spirit
ual treasures, OF this ancient book Of
Godbear enthusiastic tribute such
scholars aa Sir Isaac Newton, John
Milton. Edmund Burke, John Eu3kin,
William e. Gladstone and hundreds
OF others Of the worlds intellectual
maSnat4s
Eut mole than this Not only does
the Bible contains IT, finest liturature.
it. also creates such in other books
beyond itself. When Wycliife sent
out his cclporteurs through England
with IT, scriptures in the common
version there was no English litera-
ture and hardly any English language
Chauccr's Tales" appear just at this
time The palmieGt period of English
literature was cCntemperan9Ou5 with
Coyerdale's and Tyndale's Bibles. Ba-
cons moral Essays" borrow much
from the Bible Ruskin's quotations
from. and reference to, the scriptures
number many thousands Th3 Red
Cross Knight in Spencers 'Farle
Queen" gets its suggestion from the
last chapter of Ephesians, andPope's
Messiah" from Isaiah, and Byron'3
lode TO Darkness" from jeremiah, and
WOrdwOrth's lode to Immortality"
from FIRST Corinthians and BryaDt'a
"Ihanatopsis" from Job and Hall
Gaines "Ceemster" from the Prodigal
Son parable without the bible there
could have been no Bunyan's pro
gI8sG." no Dante's Inferno" no Tas
SOS Jerusalem" no Millions "Samp
SON" no SCOTS "Rebecca." no Burns
"Cotter'5 Saturday Night" no Byron's
Hebrew Melodies" Shakespeare
goes 10 the bible 9GS times for quota
ton reference. allusion sentiment,
and illustration, referring to 50 of the
sc books of the Bible buther'5 Bible
gave fixity to the German language.
Cslvin's writings on the Bible gave
formation to the French Language and
Tyndale'5 translation of the Bible gave
standard to the English Bible, TINS
the three leading languages Of the
world getting complexion ard diiec-
ton from the Word Of God Beauti-
fully sings our American poet, Whit
tier: