The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-30
REAPERS.
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ing demonstrated all over the land that
science and philosophy cannot solve the
troubles and woes of the world, anu
they want some other religion, ana they
are taking Christianity, the only sym
Dathetic religion that ever came into the
world. You Just take your selenlhc
consultations into that room where
mother has lost her child. Try IN that
case yOur splendid doctrine of the sur
yiyai of the fittest. Tell her that child
died because it was not worth as much
as the other children. That Is your sur
FiVal of the fittest." 60 TO JhaG dying
man and tell him to pluck up courage
for the future. Use your transcendental
phraseOlOgy upon him. Tell him he
ought to he confident in the great ITO
be" and the everlasting now" and the
eternal what is it," Just try your
transeendentalism and your philosophy
and your science on him. 90 10 that
widowed soul and tell her 1t was geo.
logical necessity that her companion
should be taken away from her just as
in the course of the worlds history tne
megatherium had to pass out OF exist
ence, and then go on in your sclentlnc
consolation until you get to the suDllme
fact that fifty millions of years from
now we ourselves may be sclentlnc specl-
mems on a geological she'll, petTlneu
specimens of an extinct human race,
and after you have got all through, Mith
your consolation, if the poor, atdlcted
soul is not crazed by it | will send forth
from this church the plainest Christian
we have, and with One-half hour or
PRAYER and reading of the Scripture
promises, the tears will be wiped away
and the house from floor TO cupOla VIII
be flooded with the calmness or an
Indian summer sunset. There is Where
/ see the triumph of Christianity. PeO-
10 oro d;,sotiyfia1 VI II n nVpTVthinO else.
They want God. They want Jesus
Christ. Talk about the exact sciences.
There is only one exact science. lt Is
not mathematics, TaylOr's logarlthms
have many imperfectiOns. The French
metric system has many imperfectlons.
The only exact science Is Chrlstlanlty-
the only thing under which you can
appropriately write quOd eIaI uellloli1
strandum. You tell me that two and
two make four. l do not dispute 1t, but
it is not so plain that two and two make
fOur as that the Lord God Almighty
made this world, and for man, the SIN
ner He sent His only begOten Son to
die.
In this trial that has been going on
between Infidelity and Christianity we
have only called one witness, and that
was Robert G. IngeTsOll. be testified
in behalf of the plaintiff, Intidel1ty. We
have shown that his testimony was not
worthy of being received. We showed
that it was founded on Ignorance geo.
logical, ignorance chemical, Ignorance
astronomical, ignorance geographical,
and if he would misrepresent things IN
one case he would misrepresent things
in all cases. We put but one witness
on the stand. L put the others on the
stand this morning, and it will not take
me half a minute. put on all the
churches on earth and all the churches
in heaven. Not fifty, not a thousand,
not a million, but all the churches on
earth and all the redeemed in heaven.
Whose testimony is worth the mOstP
You tell me James A. Garfield was in
auguTated President of the United States
on the 4th Of March, 1881. How do L
know it? You tell me there were twenty
thousand persons who distinctly heard
his inaugural address. l deny both. l
deny that he was inaugurated. | deny
that his inaugural address was delivered.
You ask WhyP l did not see it; l did not
hear it. But you say that there were
twenty thousand persons who did see
and hear him. l say cannot take their
testimony anyhow. l dld not see ana
hear him. Whose testimony will you
take? You will not take my testimony.
You say: You know nothing about it;
you were not there; let us have the tes-
timOny of twenty thousand persons who
stood before the Capitol and heard that
magnificent inaugural" Why, of course,
that is as your common sense dictates.
Now here are some men who say they
never saw Christ crowned in the heart,
and they do not believe it is ever done.
There is a group of men who say they
have never heard the voice of Christ,
they have never heard the voice of God.
They do not believe it ever tranSpired or
was ever heard-that anything like 1t
ever occurred. point to twenty, hun
dred thousand, OF million people, who
say: "ChriSt was crowned in our hearts
affections; we have seen Him and felt
Him in our souls, and we have heard 1t
in storm and darkness; we have heard
it again and again." Whose testimony
will you takeP These men, the Inger-
soils of earth, who say they have not
heard the voice of Christ, have not seen
the coronation; or will you take the
thousands and tens of thousands of
Christians who testify of what they saw
with their own eyes and heard with
their own ears? Father PieTsOn, after
fifty years experience of the power of
gOdlessness in his soul. put his testi-
mOny against Robert g. IngersOlPs. Ask
this man whether, when he buried his
dead, the religion of Jesus Christ was
not consolation? Ask him if, through
the long years of his pilgrimage, the
Lord ever fOTsOOk hlmI Ask him, when
he looks forward to the future, if he has
not peace and a joy and a consolation
the world cannot take away? Put his
testimony of what he has seen and what
he has felt opposite to the testimony of
aman who says he has not seen anything
on the subject -confesses he has not
tried it. Win you take the testimony
of people who have not seen or who have
seenP You say morphia puts one to
sleep. You say in times Of sickness it is
very useful. / deny it. MOrphia never
put anybody to sleep. 1t never alleviat-
ed pain. You ask why say thatp I
have never tried it. / never took it.
deny that morphia ever put anybody ito
sleep; but here are twenty persons who
say they have all felt the soothing effects
Of q physician prescribing morphine
Whose testimony will you take? Here
isthe gospel of Jesus Christ, an anOdyne
for all trouble, the mightfest medicine
that ever came down on earth. Here is
man who says: II don't believe it,;
there is no power in it," Here are other
people who say: "We have found out its
power and know its soothing influence;
it Unsecured US" Whose testimony will
you take in regard to this healing medi-
Sirn2 1. faal that L have convinced aVaFv