Third—If you lay hold upon it by faith you have it.
Fourth—If you have it, and will obey it in your every day life, you will enjoy it.
Fifth—If you don't enjoy it, it is because you don't obey it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S EPITAPH AS THE EXPONENT OF HIS FAITH.
[Copy, from the Virginia Missionary of August 12th, 1880.]
A correspondent of the Inter-Ocean not long since sent the following comment upon Ingersoll's claim that Benjamin Franklin was an infidel:
"As Col. Ingersoll appears to be trying to appropriate our old and esteemed friend, Benjamin Franklin, as a recruit for his infidel doctrine, let me call his attention, through your widely circulated journal, to the following epitaph, written by himself for himself:
"'The body of
Benjamin Franklin,
Printer,
Lies here food for worms,
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out and stripped
Of its lettering and gilding;
But it will
(As he believed)
Appear again, in a
New and more beautiful
Edition, corrected and
Amended by
The Author.'"