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THE
BIBLE.
At page 45 in this book I have said something of this Book or
Books, and placed on record the following appropriate sayings from the pen
of John Locke, the eminent English theologian, which are well worthy of
repetition here:
It [the Bible] has God for its author, salvation for its end, and
truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
It is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting.
The Bible is a library in itself, not only on account of the vast
amount of knowledge it contains, but because of the multitude of its
Books, Chapters, Verses, etc., and as a matter of interest to the general
reader, particularly the juvenile portion, I here append a summary of
Bible Facts, a portion of which already appear in this volume at page 238.
The Bible contains as follows:
39 books in the Old Testament, 27 in the New; 929 chapters in the
Old, 260 in the New; 23,214 verses in the Old, 7,929 in the New; 592,439
words in the Old, 181,253 in the New; 2,728,100 letters in the Old,
838,380 in the New. A
recapitulation of these figures shows that there are in the entire Bible
66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,143 verses, 773,692 words, and 3,566,480
letters.
The middle chapter is Job xxix; the middle verse is Psalm cxviii:
8; the shortest chapter is Psalm cxvii; the shortest verse is John
xi: 35, "Jesus
wept;" there is another in the New Testament as short in point of
words, but not in letters, viz.: First
Thessalonians v: 16,
"Rejoice evermore:" the shortest verse in the Old Testament is,
"Remember Lot's wife." Ezra
vii: 21 contains all the
letters of the alphabet. The
word "and" occurs in the Old Testament 35,543 times, in the New
10,684; total, 46,227 times in the entire Bible.
The word "reverend" appears but once, and will be found
in Psalm cxi: 9.
The word "girl" appears twice in the Bible--in Joel iii:
3, and in Zechariah viii: 5;
the word "boy" three times--in Genesis xxv:
27, Joel iii: 3, and
Zechariah viii: 5.
The nineteenth chapter of Second Kings and the thirty-seventh
chapter of Isaiah are alike. There
is no date from beginning to end in the Bible.
It comprises some sixty documents, and is supposed to have been
written by about forty men. Fifty-four
miracles are recorded in the Old Testament and fifty-one in the New, total
105. In the book of Esther
the Deity is not once mentioned. OUR
NATIVE LAND.
OUR LAND is indeed a land of liberty.
No tyrant have we to reign over us, to bind us down in oppression's
chain; but we are a free people who enjoy the rights and privileges of a
free and moral government. We
have no king to rule over us, and make laws of injustice, and compel us to
submit to his authority, who could, if he pleased, reduce us to poverty
and wretchedness, and make us miserable by his own power, which he could
exercise over us at his own will if he chose.
No, thank Heaven, we are not under such a Government as this; but
we are in a land of liberty, a land of freedom where we enjoy the smiles
of Heaven, as it were, and have the privilege of hearing the gospel
preached, and also of reading the Bible, which is the best of books, and
which teaches men the way to heaven, revealing to us what we must do in
order to inherit eternal life beyond the grave.
Truly if there are any people who enjoy liberty and freedom they
are the American people, who live at the present period of time. And who is there among us Americans that does not love and
admire his native land, which is so dear to us?
It was for our native land that our ancestors fought so bravely,
and died so willingly on the fiend of battle!
They were faithful and true to their country, and looked forward
with the expectation of finally achieving a glorious victory over their
cruel oppressors; and after a Bong and hard struggle they succeeded in
their attempt, and came off conquerors over their enemies.
We are the people who now enjoy the fruits of their victory, and we
ought to cherish FRIENDSHIP, LOVE and PEACE. FRANCIS C. WAID. Blooming Valley, I851-52.
In connection with the above I have thought it not out of place to
add a list of the Presidents of the United States, in a condensed form
necessitated by lack of space. PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. GEORGE WASHINGTON, the
"Father of our Country," was born in Westmoreland County, Va.,
February 22, 1732, a son of Augustine and Mary
(Ball) Washington.
His great-grandfather, John Washington, emigrated from England to
Virginia in 1657, and became a prosperous planter.
He had two sons, Lawrence and John,
former of whom married Mildred Warner, and
had three children, John, Augustine and Mildred.
Of these Augustine, the father of
George, first married Jane Butler, who bore
him four children, two of whom, Lawrence and
Augustine, reached maturity. Of
six children by his second marriage, George
was the eldest, the others being Betty, Samuel, John
Augustine, Charles and Mildred. Augustine
Washington, father of George, died in 1743.
As the life of George Washington is a
portion of American History as familiar to every true American as
household words, nothing more need be said here, even did space permit,
further than to give a brief record of his presidential life.
In February, 1789, he was unanimously elected President of the
United States; at the expiration of his first term he was unanimously
re-elected, and at the end of this term he absolutely refused a
re-nomination. January 17,
1759, he married Mrs. Martha (Dandridge) Custis,
a widow.
The
Presidents who have come after George Washington have been as follows: Year
Name
Where From
Term of Office 1797
John Adams
Massachusetts
14 years 1801
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
8 years 1809
James Madison
Virginia
8 years 1817
James Monroe
Virginia
8 years 1825
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
14 years 1829
Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
8 years 1837
Martin Van Buren
New York
4 years 1841
William Henry Harrison
Ohio
1 month
*Died in office April 4, 1841, when Vice-President Tyler succeeded
him. 1841
John Tyler
Virginia
3 years, 11months 1845
James Knox Polk
Tennessee
4 years 1849
Zachary Taylor
Louisiana,
1 year,4 mo,5 days
*Died in office July 9, 1850, when Vice-President Fillmore
succeeded him. 1850
Millard Fillmore
New York
2years,7 mo,26 days 1853
Franklin Pierce
New Hampshire
4 years 1857
James Buchanan
Pennsylvania
4 years 1861
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
4 years,1 mo,0 days
*Assassinated April 14, I865, when Vice-President Johnson succeeded
him April 15, 1865. 1865
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
3 years,10 mo,0 days 1869
Ulysses S. Grant
Illinois
8 years 1877
Rutherford B. Haves
Ohio
4 years 1881
James A Garfield
Ohio
6 months, 15 days
*Assassinated, and died September 19, 1881, when Vice-President
Arthur succeeded him. 1881
Chester A, Arthur
New York
3 years,5 mo,15 days 1885
Grover Cleveland
New York
4 years 1889
Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
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