The Oberlin evangelist Volume 14 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...and so earnestly does he dwell upon it from day to day for years, that he seemed to have the whole Bible in solution. The Bible was the very book calculated to,satisfy the cravings of his mighty intellect. Again, let us follow one of those Felix NefT-like colporteurs among the Alps, and we shall find a poor woman, whose whole soul is permeated with the only part of the Bible which she had--the Book of John. She says "it is full of good reading." Again, go with me to a plantation in Virginia. There is one slave of more cheerful and happy countenance than his fellows, and he Bays, "Master, when 1 am in trouble I just lay flat down upon the promises of the Bible, and then I pray straight up." It is the book for all. You remember the closing scene in the life of Walter Scott, the Wizard of the North. He said, "Lockhart, read to me." "What shall I read I" Turning his dying eyes on him, he said, "Lockhart, there is but one book!" There is no intellectual want which this book cannot satisfy. Charles James Fox became the greatest master ol English eloquence, by nightly and daily readings of the Book of Job. It was this light which stole into the dungeon of John Bunyan, and enabled him to give us the most precious book this side of the Bible, his own Pilgrim's Progress to the Pilgrim's fiest. And as a conservative power, il is that which holds us from drifting away from truth upon the rocks of ruin. Nothing would do so much good as to go into those rooms, where earnest reformers are seeking to work out the problems of social progress, and tell them, "here is the Bible, in which these problems are solved." We must not let them shake down the pillars of society. We must carry our Bible where a statesman whose...