The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-16

age church-yards and city cemeteries
and Westminster Abbeys. What mis-
sion? Instead of Christian consolation
| for the dying, freezing sneer! Instead
of prayer, a grimace Instead of PauPs
| triumphant defiance of death, a going
no one knows where, to stop no one
| knows when, to do no one knows what.
To show that infidelity has no resources
| to provide a substitute for anything
good, ak you to give me list of mer
| ciful and educational institutions es-
| tablished by intidelity? Not the Chris
tian Commission or Sanitary Commits
sion of our last war, for Christian George
H. Stewart was the President of the one
and Christian Dr. Bellows the President
of the other Give me the name of the
colleges built by infidelity? Not Yale,
not Harvard, not Princeton, not Cam
bridge or oxford, not any institution the
diploma of which would not be dis
grace. You point to German UniYeTsi-
ties? All the educational institutions
of Germany are under Christian intlu-
ence to-day save one, and that Heidel-
berg, where rutfian students cut and
maui and cripple and kill each other as
a matter of pride instead of infamy, the
duellO its chief characteristic, There
stands CHI istianity, and opposite stands
infidelity. Christianity, on her lip
prayer, on her brow benedictiOE, her
hands full of help for all the people, the
mother of thousands of colleges, thOus-
ands of asylums for blind and deaf and
dumb and disabled, mission schools for
the abandoned, hospitals for the sick,
refOrmatOries for the straying and Sab
bath schools training millions of child
rem for respectability and usefulness.
But there stands infidelity. What is she
doing? What is her mission? No
prayer ON her lip, no benedictiOn on her
brow. Both hands clenched. What fol?
To fight Christianity. Where are her
schools, and colleges and institutions of
mercy? l throw you a Team of fOOlscap
paper on which to put down the names
of such Institutions. What, is ream of
paper too much for the names? Then l
throw you quiTe of paper. Fill it up
with the names of the educational and
merciful institutions established by in
fidelity. What, is a quire of paper too
much? | throw you one sheet of letter
paper for the inscription of the names.
Too much yet? | tear out leaf from
the back part of this hymn-bOOk so you
can fill it up. What, is that too much
room? Then count such institutions on
your ten fingers. Is that too much? Take
the fingers of one hand. Is that too
much? Then try one finger. Halt at
that one finger and name an institution
useful and yet pronounced against God
and the Christian religion. Not Onel Is
infidelity as poor as that and as useless
as that? Get out, you miserable paupeT |
of the universe! Crawl into the lowest |
rat-hOle of eternal nOthingness. Inf |
deity standing in this world amid all
the suffering, grOaning, dying nations, |
yet doing absolutely nothing except to |
interfere with those who are willing |
till they fall exhausted into their graves |
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the intidels of all the ages together and |
all their works philanthTOphic. refOrma-
tory, educational and beneficent, and |
they would not be worth as much as one |
bead of that Sister of Charity who in that |
dark alley of the town has just sat down |
on the broken table jar of jelly for an |
invalid appetite. and is now kneeling on |
the bare floor praying for blessing on
the suffering soul. Infidelity scrapes no |
the hungry, shakes up no pillow for the
SICK kindles no light for the dying,
TOuses no consolation for the beTeaved,
gilds no grave for the dead. Mean! Mean!
Meanl While Christ, our Christ, our
wounded Christ, stands pointing to the
hospital and says: 81 was sick and ye
gave me couch, l was lame and ye gave
me cTutch, l was blind and ye dOctOred |
my eyes, was orphaned and ye mother
ed my soul, l was lost on the mountains |
and ye brought me home. Inasmuch as
ye did it to one of the least of these, my
brethren, ye did it to me-" Oh, what |
men and women the religion of the |
Bible makes. Fall into line ye Tegi-
ments of God; that we may review the
troops and cali the roll: John Howard,
David Brainerd, George Whitfield, Fred
erick Oberlin, Martin Luther, AdOniram
JudsOn, DR.. Turf, Henry Martin, William
WilbeTfOrce, Richard Golden, Bishop
Garfield, Washington, Victoria
the Queen, Hannah Moore, Charlotte
Mrs. SigOurney, Florence
Jenny Lind, Lucreia Mott
and ten thousand other men and women,
living and dead, who stand in the pres
ent and the past aflame with the tran
5picuOus glOries of the Christian re-
IigiOn.