Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-14
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CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
(Original.l
INFIDELITY.

Those Who reject the blOle are Called lnU-
dels. An in6del is one who does not believe !;
that is, one who does not believe in Jesus
Christ as the Saviour of sinners. There are
two kinds of infdels-theoretical and practi'
CAL The number of theoretical in6dels are
few, and are called in the 18th Psalm by no
envious name. Taking it for granted that
there are some men, who in theory do really
reject the Bible as false, and Jesus Christ
anything but what he claims to be, it is diff
cult to understand upon what these infdels
rely. If they are reasonable and immortal
beings-if they think and feel as other men
if they have: q soul, mind, a moral nature
as other men have, they must have some nu-
triment which will hush the clamorings Of
their natures for moral food. If the Bible is
false, what is true? If the moral code con-
tanned in the Bible is false, where can we find
moral code that is true? Who is its author ?
Whence can it be obtained3 If those who
reject the Bible as false know where book
of morals can be found which is totally
different from the Bible, and yet true, why
do they not say so? The fact is, if the Bible
does not contain the correct moral code, there
is no moral code in the world. Again, if it is
admitted that man is sinner, it will be ad-
mitted it would be good thing to save him.
If it is not admitted that man is sinner;
that is, a transgressor of law, it will be impos-
sible to account for the universal suffering Of
the human family. The evidences of the fact
that man is a sinner are so many and so con-
vincing, thatit would be, perhaps, an impossi-
bility to find an individual SO mentally imbe-
cile as to deny it. Taking it for granted that
man is sinner, and that it would be a good
thing to rescue him from the consequences Of
sin, it may be asked how or by what agency
or instrumentalty can he be saved? Plainly,
he must either save himself or be saved by
some one else. If he can save himself, he has
no need of Saviour. 1t would be about as
easy for an individual to save himself from
the ravages of sin, as it would be for him to
invent machine which would not only coun.
teract the laws of gravitation, but also act
independently of them. Such machine,
when put into operation, would make water
run up hill, fire freeze and ice burn into a
cinder. If man can save himself, why do
men permit themselves to die? Death is the
wages of sin, and all men, or at least infinitely
the greater part of the human race, dread to
die.
The fact is notorious that men fear to die,
and thegreater the in6del the greater the fear
of death. All the physicians in the world can
not prevent men from dying, much less restore
them to life when dead. 1t is of no use to
talk about our saving ourselves. If this is
our only hope, we may as we'll give up saliva
ton in hopeless despair. Whatever may be
our final doom, if we have to save ourselves,
we will never be saved. 1t follows that if we
are saved at all, we must be saved by anoth-
er. Now, if Jesus Christ is not Saviour,
then there either is no Saviour, or some other
being is. Whoever that being may be-,
it is clear that it cannot be member of the
human family; for if one man cannot save
himself, it is manifest that he cannot and
will not do for others what he can not do for
himself. 1t is also clear, that no mere crea-
ture can save sinner; for it is easier to make
a man, than to rescue ruined man from the
consequences of sin. Angels cannot save US.
They possess no creative powers, and salvation
is a kind of creation. 1t is difficult kind Of
creation. 1t is making new and holy CT ca
ture out of old and unholy matter. TO do
this, requires more than an angels power and
an angels skill. Now if Jesus Christ, the
son of God, is not our Saviour, so far as hu-
man knowledge can discover, we are without
Saviour. Our case is wretchedly hopeless.
In Jesus Christ we can find base upon
which to rest our hopes. Reject him, and we
send the soul without helm, rudder, anchor or
pilot, into the boundless ocean of doubt and
uncertainty. If Christianity has few COM
forts, in6delity has none at all.
Perhaps there are some men who are 80
reckless as to drive, if they could, every SEM
blance of Christianity from the world No
doubt there are men who, were it in their
power, would drag the sun from the heavens.
The accomplishment of the last would mantle
the world in physical darkness; and the &C.
complishment of the first, would shroud the
world in moral gloom, such as is in but one
place in the universe.
EMBLEMs OF CHR1sT.-Cast thine eyes
which way thou wilt, and thou shalt hardly