Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-06-08
SOME GREAT QUEER CHARAC-
TIERS.

,. u, was ny the consent OF all an
Equity the wisest and purest man Of
lis time. Xenophon said that none
departed from his lectures without be-
coming a better man. He never wrote
word, but his sayings, handed down
by Plato and his other disciples, are
immortal. Cicero called him the
founder of moral philosophy. Socrates
believed that he was in constant COM
munication with a voice from the
spirit world, which inspired him. His
fame and influence grew to such pro-
portions that the Thirty Tyrants had
him arrested. tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to drink the poison, hemlock
At that trial, Socrates said, "The cause
OF this is that which you have often and
in many places heard me mention; be-
cause ! am moved by certain divine
and spiritual influence. This began with
me from childhood, being kind of
voice" After Socrates lived, there
was bigger breed Of intellectual man
hood in the world. The thoughts that
re uttered will live through all etern-
;ty.
ST. Paul was another man who heard
voice from the spirit world. All
Christianity knows his story by heart;
now, on his way to Damascus to persc-
ute the Christians, the Spirit Of Christ
lppeared to him at midday; how ne
:ver after that, listened to that voice !;
now he was beaten, put in jails, and at
asst suffered death by having his head
ievered from his body, because he
'beyed that voice. The words that
Paul uttered will ring down through
he ages until the end OF time.
st. Patrick was another man who
heard and needed the voice which spoke
him from the spirit world. That
Scotchman, sold into slavery in his
childhood, like Jospeh, loved the people
the land in which he had been
ilave. A voice kept telling him to 20
back to Ireland and he went. With
he Cross of Jesus Christ as his only
Weapon, his victory was complete. He
spoke to the heart Of Ireland, say
ing, ~ love you" And, like an echo,
clear, distinct, there came back the re-
Spouse from almost every heart, from
the old and the young, the rich and
the poor, 81 love you"
Joan Of Arc, little French peasant
girl, was another who heard a voice
from the spirit world. The English
government had its foot on the neck OF
France and was binding that country
with chains. French soldiers were de-
moralized, and there went up a mighty
cry to God for deliverance A voice
spoke to this child, telling her to 90
and save her country. She made ex-
cuses, but the voice kept insisting,
promising complete victory Her
ather said he would rather drown her
with his own hands than let her 70 to
he army. People made fun of her.
>ut the voice kept insisting that she
20. Just because all other hope had
gone, the King of France accepted her
leadership. The spirit of God seem
I'd to radiate from that pure girl out
into the will power and muscles of
each French soldier, and they freed
heir country from the shackles of
English rule. Joan of Arc perform
ID the same service for France that
Washington did for the United States.
Ind as a reward, she was burned at the
stake, as witch.
A few years after the Civil War,
there began to preach in Georgia a
man whose fame spread rapidly. He
vas called to one of the big Presbv-
:erian churches in Nashville, Tenn.
This man surprised his relatives and
friends by saying that a voice from the
;pirit world spoke constantly to him
md inspired him. Because he insist
ID that this was true, he was brought
back to his native State and confined
the hospital for the insane at Mill
1dgeville, Ca, where for several wears
ne devoted his time to reading and
communng with the voice My faith
er visited him and advised him to cease
mentioning to any one about the voice
soon after that this sanity man was
released, and next to the largest crowd
that ever saw in our little town came
10 hear him preach. The largest crowd
came to public hanging. This mans
story greatly aroused my childish cur
iosity, and used to watch him secretly
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