Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — The Bible. [ARTICLE]

The Bible.

In the fyntiidl of the 20th inst.. is an , excellent article entitled ‘/The Bible” -of which the following is an extract: There is one striking faetconnected with the' composition of the Bible, whibii irtfpjMO es upon it, a character peculiar to itself.. jths.abo.okwhich sonic forty’ writers, poets, propfieta, kirigs, judgbS, statesmen and heroes of e very degree of cultivation, and in every, stage of society, living through the course of fifteen centurH’s, and distributed over the ancient world, from the idolatrous banks of Ohcbbr to meti(»politan Roriie, concurred to I lendp their writings present us with the longest, rhdst varied, and instructive record of man, under .all the lights arid shadows of tence, JbpVhiph the student can resort. It Is from this great number! of facts, irrihgds, sentiments; and re- 1 flectiofts,' iEs CosmopoThaii cast JqFJ the’ with the fact that it was not the work of a critical !or that it excels other j ! books’ in its tendency to excite intel-; lectuul. inquiry and elicit profound emotion; Wearc apt to estimate the value'of a Hook in a system of education by very false standards. It is not the book in wliieli alHhe results ! of knowledge in a particular depart-; mentjiave been elaborately wrought; rip by a great thinker, sb as to be ’ immediately available for the pur-1 poses pf practical Instruction, Which I is 'most Valqhble in education. A : stream of ideas may be’thus pourd | into' the mind,'of which however' it' will bo as speedily emptied. Th 6 stitriulnts. administered to the .fancy and the reason, is sb gentle, that 'thdse powers are riot cajled into ac- ! tivc play . The Bible is a book of an ! opposite- character. It brings the world home to 4 man, supplies him; with the scenes, the thoughts, and < the. 'characters;Which travel and ex-j Irbirencc’ would fqrnish, but leaves! him to discipline ' his faculties ‘by I out bf the lected, hnottn intellectual garniture.