Show QUOTING U TING SCRIPTURE IN CONGRESS mr air daly daiy in congress recently bot act he the house ino a roar of laughter by quoting as from the bible the familiar lines and while the lamp holds out to burn born the vilest sinner may return 11 1 1 but mr daly was more nearly right than the laughing a g hing if ambirs imagined as we will show b by y a story ory when the old school presbyterian general As embly wre vre preparing a hymn book it was brought before the bouy boty boey for a option at its meeting in the work of the committee was vigorously critic sed secand and various amendments I 1 reposed and some adopted hymns modified or rejected at the will iv ill lii of a couple of hundred of bon eon bonz members one member assailed the hymn li beginning eg inning life S the time to t Q serve the lord he ire said it teaches the falia false doctrine that t 1 1 a t while abile the lamp of ite lite ife holds out to bur burn I 1 t the he vilest sinner may re return whereas we all il know 1 0 w it is not time for many sinners are abandoned n of god given over 0 ver to perdition p and sealed to 0 o destruction before they cease to breathe he moved to strike ont out these two line lines and also the first two ef the hext next verse makins one verse velare of two and avoid the heresy of teaching that every sinner is within the reach or of mercy aa as long iong ionas he be livet lives the assembly heard beard the criticism were convinced of its soundness egi and without any ado forthwith voted out the objectionable lines A few minutes afterwards tho the rev robert J breckenridge Brec kerrIdge DD PD iame came anto into the house and the writer of this thi who was not a mem rn ena era ber her mentioned to hlin the tile oft bli PI gular guiar step sten the abe assembly had taken vy V y they have gt stricken ricken out the words cf god him liim self seif said bald dr Breckenrid breckenridge Ze and immediately ris rih rising irig be called caled the att alt aaion n tion tiou of the llo ITO hoube house uie lie e to the fact that the hymn in question is is a beautiful paraphrase oil on the ibe ninth chapter of and be fhe likes are anther an ther formoe form of stating file he di ine declaration to him tuat tsat 13 to til all ali the living there is s hope hops rhe the che assembly As embly saw savy its is error and restored I 1 mr ir daly was therefore not far out ailt of ll 11 a way abels be he quoted from the t bedok and gave credit to the ibe bible N Y 04 observer erick |