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BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY. MAY 14. 1884
The Inspiration of Ibe Bible.
A lecture bv 11. L. Hastings, before the Massa
chusetts Annual Convention ol the Y. M. C. Asso
ciations. at Spencer. October 13, ISM.
[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK ]
I said to this gentleman, "The Bible
does not ssy any such thing!" He re
plied that it certainly did; but I an
swered that it did not say any such
thing. He insisted that it did. "Well,"
said I, "find it!" And when you ask
an infidel to find anything in the Bjble,
you generally have him. He could not
find the place; so I turned over to the
eleventh chapter of Numbers, and there
read that instead of the birds being
packed like cord-wood on the ground,
three feet deep, the account says that
the Lord brought the quails from the
Bea, and let them fall by the camp, as
it were "two cubits high ," or about
three feet high upon, or above the lace
of the earth. That is, instead of Hying
overhead and out of reach, they were
brought to about three feet high, where
any one could take as many of them as
he chose. And this skeptical friend
had got the birds packed solid, three
feet deep, over a territory forty miles
across. As if I should say that a flock
of wild geese flew as high as a church
spire, and some one should insist that
they were pack ed solid from the ground
up a hundred feet high ! This is a
sample of the kind of arguments infi
dels bring to prove that the Bible is
not true!
The book, to my mind, bears the
marks of inspiration in the foresight
which it exhibits. This book foretells
things. You cannot do that. You
cannot tell what will be next year, or
next week. "The spirits" cannot tell
who will be the next president, or gov
ernor, or emperor. They may tell a
great many things which are past.
They may tell you who your grand
mother was, and may copy the inscrip
tion on your grandfather's grave-stone,
and may tell things which are written
iu the family record. They may re
veal many things in the past—for the
devil knows about the past—but they
cannot fortell the future. 1 did hear of
one spiritual medium who foretold her
own death, and she died within a few
hours; but when they got the stomach
pump, they pumped out of her stomach
poison enough to kill two or three.
That kind of prophecy requires no
omniscient foresight.
Years ago I talked with an infidel in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, and he
wanted me to give him some evidence
that the Bible was true. After some
conversation, I loaned him a little vol
ume, an abridgement of "Keith on
Prophecy." Some ten years after, as
I took my seat in a railway train, he
came and sat down beside me and be
gan to talk, and he said: "If you want
that book you can have it; but no one
else can have it at any price." It had
knocked his infidelity into atoms, and
he was a believer in Christ, and a mem
ber of the church.
The revelations of prophecy are facts
which exhibit the divine omniscience.
So long as Babylon is in heaps; so long
as Nineveh lies empty, void, and waste;
so long as Egypt is the basest of king
doms; so long as Tyre is a place for
the spreading of nets in the midst of
the sea; so long as Israel is scattered
among all uations; so long as .Jerusa
lem is trodden under foot of the Gen
tiles; so long as the great empires of
the woild march on in their predicted
course,—so long we have proof that
one Omniscient Mind dictated the pre
dictions of that book, and "prophecy
came not in old time by the will man."
We call this Bible a book; but here
are sixty-six different books, written by
thirty or forty different men. A man
may say, "I do not believe iu the book
of Esther." Well, what of that ? We
have sixty-live others left. What will
you do with them? A man says, "I
liud fault with this chapter, or with
that." Suppose you do '( If you were
on trial for murder, aud had sixty six
witnesses against you, suppose you im
peach one of them, there are sixty-live
left; impeach another, and you still
have sixty-four; impeach another, aud
you have sixty-three—surely enough
to hang you if you are guilty. Do you
not see that you cannot impeach this
book unless you do it in detail '( Each
book bears its own witness, and stands
by itself on its own merits; and yet
each book is linked with all the rest.
Blot out one, if you can. lam inclin
ed to think it would be dillicult to do
this. This book seems built to stay to
gether; it is inspired by 0110 Spirit.
Tho authorship of this book is won
derful. Here are words written by
by kings, by emperors, by princes, by
poets, by sages, by philosophers, by
fishermen, by statesmen, by men
learned in the wisdom of Egypt, edu
cated in the schools of Babylon, trained
up at the feet of rabbis in Jerusalem.
It was written by men in exile, in the
desert, in shepherds' tents, in "green
pastures" and besides "still waters."
Among its authors we find the tax
gatherer, the herdsman, the gatherer
of sycamore fruit; we find poor men,
rich men, statesmen, preachers, exilss,
captains, legislators, judges; men of
every grade and class are represented
in this wonderful volume, which is in
reality a library, filled with history,
genealogy, ethnology, law, ethics, pro
phecy, poetry, eloquence, medicine,
sanitary science, political economy,
aud perfect rules for the conduct of
personal arid social life. It contains
all kinds of writing; but what a jum
ble it would be if sixty-six books were
written in this way by ordinary men.
Suppose, for instance, that we get
sixty-six medical books written by
thirty or forty different doctors of
various schools, believers in allopathy,
homeopathy, hydropathy, aud all the
other "pathies," bind them all togeth
er, and then undertake to doctor a man
according to that book! [Laughter.]
What man would be fool enough to
risk the result of practicing
such a system of medicine? Or sup
pose you get thirty-live editors at work
writing treatises on politics, or thirty
five ministers writing books on theolo
gy, aud then Bee if you can get any
leather strong enough to hold the
books together when they are done.
But again, it required fifteen hun
dred years to write this book, and the
man who wrote the closing pages of
it hau no communication with the man
who commenced it. How did these
men, writing independently, produce
such a book? Other books get out of
date when they are ten or twenty
years old; but this book lives on
through the ages, and keeps abreast
of the mightiest thought and intellect
of every age.
Suppose that thirty or forty men
should walk in through that door
One man comes from Elaine, another
from New Hampshire, another from
Massachusetts, and so on from each
State, each bearing a block of marine
of peculiar shape. Suppose I pile up
these blocks in order, until 1 have the
figure of a man, perfectly symmetrical
and beautifully chiseled, and I say,
"How do these men, who have never
seen each other, chisel out that beau
tiful statue?" You say, "That is
easily explained. One man planned
that whole statue, made the patterns,
gave the directions and distributed
them around; and so, each man work
ing by the pattern, the work fits accur
ately when completed." Very well.
Here is a book coming from all quar
ters, written by men of all classes,
scattered through a period of fifteen
hundred years; aud yet this book is
fitted together as a wondrous aud har
monious whole. How was it done?
"Holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost." One
mind inspires the whole book, one
voice speaks in it all, and it is the
voice of God speaking with resurrec
tion power.
Again, I conclude that this book
has in it the very breath of God, from
the effect that it produces upon men.
There are men who study philosophy,
astronomy, geology, geography, and
mathematics; but did you ever hear a
man say, "I was an outcast, a wretch
ed inebriate, a disgrace to my race, and
a nuisance in the world, until I began
to study mathematics, and learned the
multiplication table, and then turned
my attention to geology, got me a
little hammer, and knocked off the
corners of the rocks and studied the
formation of the earth, and since that
time I have been as happy as the day
is long; I feel like singing all the time;
my soul is full of triumph and peace;
and health and blessing have come to
my desolate home once more?"
Did you ever hear a man ascribe his
redemption and salvation from intem
perance and sin and vice to the multi
plication table, or the science of mathe
matics or geology ? But I can bring
you, not one man, or two, or ten, but
men by the thousand who will tell you,
"I was wretched; I was lost; I broke
my poor old mother's heart; I beggar
ed my family; my wife was heart
stricken and dejected; my children fled
from the sound of their father's foot
steps; I was ruined, reckless, helpless,
homeless, hopeless, until I heard the
words of that Book !" And he will tell
you very word whicb fastened on his
soul. It may be it was, "Come unto
Me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, aud I will give you rest:" per
haps it was, "Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin oi the
world;" it may have been, "God so
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever belioveth
in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life." He can tell yon the
very word that saved his soul. And
since that word entered his heart, be
will tell you that hope has dawned upon
his visioD; that joy has inspired his
heart; and that his mouth is fiMed with
grateful song. He will tell you that
the blush of health has come back to
his poor wife's faded cheek; that tho
old hats have vanished from the win
dows of his desolate home; that his
rags have been exchanged for good
clothes; that his children run to meet
him when becomes; that there is bread
on his table, fire on his hearth, and
comfort in his dwelling. lie will tell
you all that, and he will tell you that
this Hook has wrought the change.
Now this book is working just such
miracles, and is doing it every day. If
you have any other book that will do
such work as this, bring it along. Tho
work needs to be done; if you havo
any other book that will do it. for
Heaven's sake bring it out. But for
the present, while we are waiting for
you, as we know this book will do the
work, we mean to use it until we can
get something better.
What we most ueed is the book it
self. It is its own best witness and de
fender. Christians sometimes try to
defend the word of God. It seems like
half a dozen poodlo dogs trying to de
fend a lion iu his cage. The best thing
for us to do is to slip the bars and let
the lion out, and he will defend himself.
And the best thing for us to do is to
bring out the word of God, aud let "tho
sword of the Spirit" proye its power,
as it pierces ' even to the dividing
asunder of soul aud spirit."
(Concluded Next Week.)
—The men who write circus bills
will he glad to learu that the new
English dictionary will be thirty-seven
volumes long.
—When a Dakota woman marries
she retains her presence of mind as
well as her real and personal estate.
—lf you would be rich and happy,
my son, be a broker. He makes money
whether he sells or buys.
—lt is no compliment to speak of an
individual as a square man. If he's
square he must l>e flat on all sides.
—lt makes a red-nosed man very
angry to have a little girl ask hiiri in
the presence of othors if it hurts him
any.
—Why were the brokers ia the panic
of 1 like I'liaraoh's daughter '{ He
cause they .saved a little prophet from
the rushes on the banks.
—An article containing a dozen hints
on how to take caro of a horse is going
the rounds of the press, but there is not
one hint as how to got the horse.
COMMUNICATED.
Portersville School.
EDS ClTlZEN: —Portersville school
closed a session of seven months, on
Thursday, April 10, 1884. The report
of said school is as follows:
No. of scholars enrolled, 82. No.
that missed no days during term, 7.
Average attendance during term, 50.
Percent of attendance during term, 94.
Progress and conduct, middling good.
Genaral condition of the school, good
And in closing this session, I return
thanks to the Directors, patrons and
friends of Portersville School, for their
help, sympathy and interest manifested
towards me as a teacher during the
past term, and 1 hope that the patrons
of Portersville school will take a deeper
interest iu the future of their school,
and help to build it up, and making it
strong and sure in the right and proper
view of education. The success of the
common schools of Butler county de
pends in a great measure on the interest
taken, and support given by the parents
of the pupils, and friends of education
in general The directors may secure
the services of a good teacher, one
I capable to teach the school well, and
do much good, but if that teacher does
not have the help and sympathy of all,
he will fail just as far as be fails to have
yonr help. On the other hand if the
directors get a school maßter—a person
who does not like to teach, a person
who has no love for the calling, and
merely teachers to make a few dollars
easy, too lazy to fill up the report to
the secretary, almost too lazy for any
thing, if parents visit the school
taught by the above described individ
ual, they will cause him some uneasi
ness, and may be an apprehension that
they will report him to the directors
and cause him trouble if not at present
it may be in the future, for the school
master only intends to teach one term
in the same school, and then move on,
and parents should be the cause of the
removal of the school master out and
beyond the limit of teaching, that he
may engage in something suitable to
his taste and verify his words to-wit:
"I* do not love teaching, I do not like
long terms, I do not like the wages
paid, I do not like to make out
the monthly report, but I like
like to have the Secretary give me my
monthy order without prying into the
report so made". Give the taxpayers
teachers that will work in the school
room, parents that will visit the school
room, directors that will pay good wa
ges for long terms, and the common
schools of Butler county will
be successful, so say all.
J. G, MCCULLOUOU, Teacher.
Mourning Households.
GLADE MILLS, May 3, 1884
EDS. CITIZEN: —The home of Mr.
Jacob Reiber, Glado Mills, Pa., and
the homes of Michael Knauf and of
Mrs. Mary S. Osborn, of this vicinity
have recently been visited by the mes
senger of death.
Those families are intimately con
nected through intermarriage.
The first visitation was at the house
of Mr. Reiber on the 14th day of March,
last, by which Charles W. Reiber, son
ot Jacob and Elizabeth Reiber, was
taken to bis eternal home. He died at
the age of 24, and leaves a wife, (a
grand-daughter of the venerable Ed
ward W. Hays of Penu township) and
one child to mourn his loss. Charles
had been living for some time past in
Allegheny City, but being iu ill health,
he came with his wife and child some
time in February last to his old home
hoping his health might be improved
by a short sojourn at his father's house,
But in this, he and his friends were
disappointed. He bad come back to
his former home to die. A short time
after reaching his parental home, he
was prostrated with typhoid fever, un
der which he gradually declined until his
mortal powers failed, and he peacefully
closed his eyes in death, on the day
above mentioned. Charles was a
young man highly respected by bis
neighbors and acquaintances. He
possessed largely those amiable quali
ties that win the esteem and friendship
of others. Nor was this all, though he
died in early manhood, the Master did
not call him from earth until he bad
called him to make preparation for his
departure. This call be obeyed, and
when sixteen years of age, be publicly
consecrated himself to the Lord, and
united with the Presbyterian church of
Middlesex. During bis entire illness,
and in prospect of death he was peace
ful and resigned, abiding in a blissful
Immortality. A large concourse of
people followed hiß remains to their
resting place in the grave.
Next, death visited the home of Mr.
Knauf. His little grandson, Russell,
and son of Michael Knauf, Jr., grand
son also of Jacob and Elizabeth Reiber,
died, April Bth, aged 13 months. Then
on the '2Bth of the same month, the
tho house of Mrs Osborn, widow of the
late Harvey Osborn, of Penn township,
was entered by the remorseless messen
ger, and the cold band of death was
laid upon her little grandson, the son
of William Osborn, and grandson also,
of Michael Knauf. Little Elgie died
at the age of eight months.
"Fare ye well, sweet buds of beauty,
Little angels, fare ye well.
For you were too pure and holy,
iu a world like this to dwell.
O.
—Pork packing—Fattening hogs.
—A column article—A monumnet.
—A man who is locked up for
drunkenness ia certainly in a tight
place.
—A pretty pass—An annual on the
railroad.
—Stablemen have a reputation of
being unstable men.
—A frizzed top on the head of a fair
maiden is never spun with a string.
it Yourself. With the
Diamond Dyes any lady can get as
good results as the best practical dyer.
Every dye waranted true to name and
sample. 10c. at druggists. Wells,
Richardson Jc Co., Burlington, Vt.
Bogus Butter.
A rare example of legislative clap
trap is witnessed in the passage bj
the New York Senate of a law to pro
hibit, under heavy penalties, the man
ufacture and sale of substitutes for
butter. This, of course, would be very
pleasing to the New York Orangers
if it could only be carried into effect.
There is already a law in New York,
as well as in many other States, which
if vigorously enforced, would protect
consumers and producers alike from
the extensive sales of the fraudulent
substitutes for butter. This law re
quires that every package containing
oleomargarine or other similar prepar
tions shall be plainly marked, and pro
vides for the punishment of persons
making fraudulent sales of the same
for butter. As this law has been per
mitted to fall into contempt, the New
York Senate proposes one still more
impracticable, and which could be en
forced only by a gross violation of per
sonal rights.
The power of the Stale to prohibit
the sale of these preparations, if neces
sary for the protection of the public
health, may not be questioned. But
it has been proved that oleomargarine,
batterine and the rest of these substi
tutes for butter are not more harmful
to the consumers than the lard and
tallow of which they are made. These
chemical compounds may be of great
commercial value tor other uses be
sides their substitution for butter.
What right, then, has the State to
prevent their their manufacture and
sale? The wrong to the consumer is
done only when they are passed on
him for what they ure not. But it is
very easy to prevent this species of
fraud without ao violent a measure as
the prohibition and .sale of commodi
ties that are not hurtful to the public
health.
There is no doobt that the farmers
in New York, as well as in Pennsylva
nia, have suffered mnch by the com
petition of this substitute for dairy
butter, but it is no business of the
State to protect its citizens from com
petition as long as it is not associated
with fraud. It appears from the testi
mony of a good many witnesses that
this artificial butter is often found to
be better and more palatable than the
the dairy butter with which it com
petes. The State has just as much
right to prohibit the making of dairy
butter as to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of oleomargarine. The ab
surdity would be no greater or less in
the one case than in the other. The
New York bill only shows to what
ridiculous lengths lawmaking can be
carried in this land of the free and
home of the brave.
As has been repeatedly shown,
there is ia most of the States, New
York and Pennsylvania among the
rest, enough law to punish the sale of
fraudulent adulterations of food. But
the machinery for the enforcement of
the law is what the State Legislatures
take especial pains not to provide. The
reason is that the adulterators of food
and drink are too powerful an element
in the State for the law-makers to
offend. In order, then, to cover up
the cowardice of the Legislature, or
perdaps to pinch manufacturers of
oleomargarine, parade is made of such
bills as this of the New York Senate.
There can hardly be a Granger in New
York so stupid as not to be aware of
the utter futility of a measure like this.
But let it be proposed to establish, in
connection with the police system,
chemical laboratories in New York
city and in several other cities of the
State for the detection of frauds in
food and there will be none of the
eagerness for its passage that is wit
nessed in regard to this oleomargarine
bill in the New York Senate. It is as
much the duty of the State to establish
these chemical laboratories for the de
tection of fraud in food as to maintain
police for protecting the property of
citizens from pickpockets and burglars.
Yet as this is the only method for put
ting an end to food adulterations it is
carefully evaded. Some of the Grang
ers who are now urging the New
York Legislature to prohibit the man
ufacture of oleomargarine would be
loud in their protests against such an
invasion of the rights of the citizens as
the establishment of laboratories for
the detection of fraud in butter, cheese
and other commodities. But these
laboratories, thoroughly manned by
competent and conscientious chemists,
are the only police force that can bunt
down the fraudulent adulterations of
the food of the public.
Why He Was Promoted.
It is related of an ex-member of
Congress from tbe West, who died
last month, that iu 1863 be received a
call in Washington from a captain in
a volunteer regiment who wanted to
expose some crooked things about a
certain pork contract. The member
received him very coldly, and made
light of his grave charges, bat hardly
had the Captain returned to his regi
ment when he was promoted to Col
onel and assigned to another. At tbe
close of the war be happened to meet
the Congressman, and in hi* gratitude
be called ont:
"That promotion came from you,
and I thank you with all my heart"
"Oh, you don't owe me'anything."
"Hot didn't you secure my promo
tion?"
"Certainly."
"And shouldn't I be grateful?"
"Not by a jugful! As Captain de
tailed in the Quartermaster's depart
ment, you were threatening to expose
a shortage in my pork contract, by
which I made s<>o,ooo. I had you
Sromoted to get you out of the way.
fo thanks, no thanks; good day."
—A rich man is generally spoken of
as being "well heeled.But the
youth who first ventures forth to see
the rich man's charming daughter
will also find the old gentleman is occa
sionally also well toed.
—A safety match—Marrying an
heiress.
How to Make Postmasters.
It is said that the civil service re
formers at Washinton are racking their
wits as to how to remove the fitty
thousand post offices of the land from
the debasing influence of party politics.
Why would not the original custom re
garding these offices answer the pur
pose ? Whenever there was a change
of administration in old times the per
sons who most used a post office unit
ed, without rogard to party distinctions,
in recommending the appointment of
some person—generally the incumbent
for the time being—whom they could
trust to handle their letters. In some
localities this custom has been follow
ed, and has been respected at Wash
ington so thoroughly that there are
postmasters who have been continuous
ly in service for forty years.
There is no other office under the
power of the national administration
that offers so little excuse for change as
that of postmaster. All that is expect
ed of the incumbent is that be shall re
ceive, distribute and forward mail mat
ter promptly and honestly. The office
does not require a learned man. It
merely needs some one in whom the
people who send or receive letters have
confidence. To-put a professional poli
tician in charge of a post office is to
weaken public confidence in the depart
ment, for rightly or wrongly, the peo
ple believe that any man who makes a
business of politics is mean enough to
steal a letter or anything else which he
believes will further the purposes of
bis party. There is no possible reason
for making a postmaster anything but
what the founders of our government
intended he should be—the servant of
the community in which he lives.
Hence the fewer the changes, except
for cause, in the post offices the better
the government, no matter which party
it represents, will appear to the eyes of
the public at large.
Didn't Want to Live For Her
Alone.
The other night, when one of our
prominent society young men called to
see his girl be found her mother sitting
quietly before the fire. After bidding
him "good evening" she looked him
full in the face and said: "Do you
really love my daughter Emma?"
"Well—ah—my dear madam," stam
mered the youth, turning red in the
face, "I have only been coming to see
your daughter two months, and I
really think you are a little premature
in propounding such a question."
"That's where we differ, young man.
If the seed of your sowing now will
bring forth a matrimonial harvest I'm
willing to put up with you a while
longer, but if you are coming here
three nifrbts out of the week just to
pass away the time you bad better
cease coming at once." "Yes. Well,
really, madam," put in the youth, bis
voice al lin a quiver, "since you press
me so closely for an answer I must
admit that I am yerv fond of Emma,
and that I live for her alone "
"Yes," broke in the anxious mamma;
"that's the trouble with you young
men; you waste too much time living
for a girl alone, when you ought to be
living with her. I'm a plain old-fash
ioned woman and always say what I
think. Now I'm willing to give you
a month longer as a trial, but if at the
end of that time I don't Jsee a spankin'
fine new ring on Emma's finger your
visits to this house will be cut off."
And 10 the great relief of the young
man she left the room and sent in her
daagbter, who, of course, was utterly
unconscious of the "good licks" her
mother had been putting in for her.
A Boy's Ideas of Heads.
Heads are of different shapes and
six*. They are full of notions. Large
beads do not always hold the most.
Some persons can tell just what a man
is by the shape of his head. High
heads are the best kind. Very know
ing people are called long-beaded. A
fellow that won't stop for anything or
anybody is called hot-headed. If be
isn't quite so bright, they call him soft
headed; if be won't be coaxed nor turn
ed they call him pig-headed. Animals
have very small heads. The beads of
fools slant back. Our heads are all
covered with hair, except bald heads.
There are other kinds of beads t esides
our heads. There are barrel beads,
heads of sermons —and some ministers
used to have fifteen heads to one ser
mon; pin-heads, heads of cattle, as the
farmer calls his cows and oxen; head
winds, drum-heads, cabbage heads,
logger-heads; come to a bead, like a
boil; heads of chapters, head him off,
head of the family, and go ahead—but
first be sure you are right."— Young
American.
—The old saying that honesty is the
best policy doesn't apply * hen a man
becomes a lawyer.
"Jumbo eats a bushel of oniona
daily. His appetite is similar to that
of a Philadelphia girl.
—A young man calls bis sweeet
beart "rare opportunity," because she
is worthy of being embraced.
A Maine woman married a dead
man. This is the most ghastly leap
year incident 1884 has yet produced.
—Do not let adversity discourage
you, my son. Were it not for the
kicks it receives' the football would
never get up in the world.
—Even small children have an eye
for the eternal fitness of things. Qive
a three-year-old boy a hammer and be
will immediately cry for a looking
glass.
—Alcohol is a good cleanser of
glass, and this may be why a Chicago
editor gives the following household re
cipe : "To polish windows simply
breath on them and then rub briskly."
—A Pennsylvania girl stepped into
a newspaper office to propose to the
editor and found him dexterously sew
ing up a hole in his coat. Under the
circumstance* she conciuded that b#
was eligible.
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