Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14

All the deep thoughts, Unsuitable desires
and lofty hopes of the wisest and best of all
ages are but mere poetic decisions, useful
in their day as Cinderella or Jack and the
bean stalk to the child in the nursery, but
to be discarded when it reaches manhood
and plunges into the abstractness of science.
Prayer is folly in the face of natural law;
future life is sentiment; the beautiful
dream of the Imaginative Greek, that he
would battle In the glory of the Blessed
Isles, or of the warlike scandinavian,
that with his ancient fathers he
would revel in the courts of Valhalia,
were vanities of vanities. Nor will the pill
grims of to day ever walk hand in hand with
the shining ones of God in the land of Beu-
lab. These principle are proclaimed every
where by unprincipled men.
Your Ingersolls teach them with unblush-
ing effrontery from the platform to the
ignorant thousands who applaud his old
time platitude. His lectures are
published and sold by the thousands,
the young men and the young
women greedily devouring them,
and become reprobates of society, dlsobe-
dent to parents, contemners of authority,
scoffers, blasphemers, moral ulcers bre eding
corruption everywhere their cursed COM
infidels, socialists, communists find their way
to the book stores, magazines, reviews,
newspapers and novels come teeming from
the press full of suggestions calculated to
destroy the sense o God in the heart, and to
bring again the dreadful days when, by such
means, God was dethroned in France and
courtesan crowned in his stead
These are but some of the evils which asSail
the Church and which endanger society.
How can the Church grapple with them
successfully? We can take of the maya
zines and the reviews and the newspapers
and the professors and doctors and scientists
to some extent, but how can we destroy the
seed? How can the Church reach the mil
lions of the young in all the great cities and
towns of every country? How can we
reach the swarming thousands who never
attend service or hear sermon,
but grow up ignorant of God,
of moral law, of deceney. Enemies
of The Sunday school, o. the church, Of So
ciety, and labelled by all as the dangerous
classes. How shall we reach the multiplied
thousands of young men who are infu-
enced by an infdel press, who are led
astray by the ENGRAVING of infdel princi-
pies by infidel Dissertation of the Sabbath,
by the hollow pretensions of contemplate
LII puy slSdl SCiOlCcy W Otu CuuCd-
ton, by evil companions. This is the
problems What is the solution? The
Young Mems Christian Association! Here
is gigantic institution, organized in 1874,
in the name of Christ and now, in the short
space of thirty sht years, numbering
2, 500 associations, scattered over every
country in the world.
''They have been established in the Uni
ted States, the Provinces of Canada, Chill,
Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria,
Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Swift
erland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Russia, India,
Syrio, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Mad
agascar, and the Sandwich Islands"
You have held conferences in France,
Germany, England, Switzerland and Hol-
land, and to those conferences were sent
delegates from America, Great Britain,
France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy,
Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Australia,
Denmark and the far-off Cape of Good
Hope. In these United States alone: