Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-02-01
is YOUR BIBLE DUSTY
fGaston R. Coyner)

ner of some closet covered over with
dust? | heard recently that Sam
Jones once said that some folks had
so much dust on their Bibles that
the word damnation could be written
on them. Do you put some worth
less novels on your tables and throw
Gods Word in place where it can't
be seen? Do you women, young and
old alike, prefer some fashion maya
zine or good-for-nothing novel to the
Word of God? May God help you
if you do. What do you ever ex-
pect to get out of this life and the
life to come if you neglect to read
the Word of God?
Some may advance the argument
that the Bible is uninteresting and
therefore they don't read it. That's
exactly the reason some think it I'M
Observation-Disclosures they don't read
it. 1t is the most wonderful Book
in existence. 1t is the only Book
in existence. 1t stands out in soli-
tary grandeur; and all other books
compared to it fade away into in
significance. When Sir Walter Scott
that great literary genius lay dying,
he asked some one to read to him.
The person asked, what book shall
! read?" Sir Walter replied" There
is only one Book" He meant the
Bible.
The reason you say this Book is
unistering is that you don't know its
Author. If you knew God you
would want to read His Eternal Word
of Truth. A young lady once laid
down book which she had just fin
ished with the remark that it was the
dullest story she had eveer read. In
the course of time she became en-
gagged to young man, and one night
she said course to him: 81 have
! ok in my labrary whose authors
name, and even initials, are precise
ly the same as yours. Isn't that
. s.lsular coincidence? II do not
think So" he replied. 'Why not,
pra. ?" "For the s'-nplereason that
/ wrote the book" That night the
young lady sat up until two o'clock
reading the book again. And this
time it seemed the most interesting
story she had ever read: The once
dull book was now fairly fascinating
because she knew and loved the au-
thor. So a child of God finds the
Bible interesting because he knows
and loves the Author. 1t is
his Fathers message addressed to
him.
Have you let the things of the
world turn your thoughts away from
the Bible? Young men are you read
ing some of the damnable, rotten
hell-begotten, internal works of the
devel, that are put up in booklets
selling for fifteen or twenty-five
cents There is lot of it out that
is not permitted to be sent through
the mails but the devil has made
use of the express companies for the
distribution Of his soul-destroying
books. If you enjoy reading vulgar
stories, hell-biackened jokes and
other trash, pray that God in His
great mercy may send His Holy
Spirit into your heart and so convict
you of sin that you will cry out,
"God, forgive me; I want to read
your Book!"
Do you older men have in your
libraries the works of infidels and
atheists, and read them and believe
them as they attempt to tear down
the Word of God: but yet leave the
Bible closed and never once think to
read it, to see if what you have read
is true? Bring to me any thing that
an atheist or infidel or skeptic has
said is not true in the Bible and I'll
take the Bible and show you in
short time that the atheists, infidels,
skepics and agnosics are the big liars
that ever trod Gods green earth. /
have proved old Tom Paine and Ro-
bert Ingersoll liars from the heels
up and / have done it with their own
writings. Space does not permit or
| would give illustrations to show
how have done it. I'll do it later.
Men and women, get rid of that
trash stuff you have been using to
poison your brain. Get the Word of
God and read it, and you will re-
ceive blessings after blessing.
If it were possible, it would give
me great deal of pleasure to have
all the devils literature in one heap
spray it with gasoline, and then APP
ply the match that would ignite it
and destroy it from off the face Of
the earth. But such cannot be. You,
however, can destroy what you may
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