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Tillie smiled as she took it from him. "Thank you, Absalom. I don't care if it's LITTLE, so long as it's interesting and instructive," she spoke primly. "The Bible's such a big book, I thought the bigger the book was, the nearer it was like the Bible," said Absalom. "But there's the dictionary, Absalom. It's as big as the Bible." "Don't the size make nothin'?" Absalom asked.
Thomas Bradly, nothing daunted, sat him down very deliberately on a large smooth stone on the opposite side of the doorway, and remarked quietly, "As to the Bible's being a failure, I suppose that depends very much on experience. I've got an eight-day clock in our house. I bought it for a very good one, and gave a very good price for it, just before I set up housekeeping.
Again, the Bible's promises, so confident, so lofty, so marvelously responsive to the longings and cravings of every kind of desolation and woe, had a soothing effect upon her; and they helped to put her in the frame of mind to find for conversation or, rather, for her monologues to him subjects which her instinct told her would be welcome visitors in that prison.
Niggers, no man can claim to be wise unless he can `render a reason. He may be, p'raps, but he can't claim to be. I believe the Bible's true because o' two facts. Fust of all, men of the highest intellec' have found it true, an tried it, an' practised its teachin's, an' rested their souls on it. In the second place, as the parsons say, I have tried it, an' found it true as fur as I've gone.
It can lead us up to the threshold of a great experience where we must enter, each man for himself, and that service to the spiritual life is the Bible's inestimable gift. At the beginning, Christianity was just such a first-hand experience as we have described. The Christian fellowship consisted of a group of men keeping company with Jesus and learning how to live.
Between ourselves, I've always thought that there was nothing very heterodox in socialism; in fact, I often think, Le Breton, the Bible's the most thoroughly democratic book that ever was written. But we haven't got to deal in practice with first principles; we have to deal with Society with men and women as we find them.
Did ye have a dish less a 'tato less, the day ye sent me your charity I 'spose ye calls it? Och! fie! But the Bible's the poor cretur's comfort." "I am glad to hear you say that, Dame," said the good-natured Lester; "and I forgive every thing else you have said, on account of that one sentence."
Everything depends on a right point of view. There may be many view-points, from which to study any subject; but of necessity any one view-point must take in all the essential facts concerned. If not, the impression formed will be wrong, and a man will be misled in his actions. In these talks I make no attempt to prove the Bible's statements, nor to suggest a common law for their interpretation.
"It's well for you infidels to dodge like foxes because the world's law favours you," he said; "but God guards His own in His pocket, as you shall see this day." Then he pointed to the colonel and said: "When did this dog die in his sins?" "Moderate your language," said the doctor. "Moderate the Bible's language, and I'll moderate mine. When did he die?"
The fact that they have tried, time and time again, only to fail each time more hopelessly, explains why they will not why they cannot accept the challenge thrown down by the Christian world to produce a book worthy to take the Bible's place.
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