Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15
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which banner to enlist is a serious question,
too, the most serious of any to be decided
in this world, because its issues effect not
life only but eternity. cit is your life"
Christianity is recognized everywhere as
the enemy of all that is evil. It opposes
not only active sin, but wicked thoughts
and vain imaginings. 1t condemns the
least deviation from the right, and pre-
sents but one standard of conduct. 'sBe We
therefore perfect even as your Father,
which is in Heaven is perfect" Infdelity
opposes nothing. It has no censure for
sin in any form, 1t advises its adherents
as matter of policy, to practice morality.
1t says. "Be moral, young man, for it will
gain you the respect of the world, and
business circles" 1t teaches no hatred of
vice however repulsive, the only plea it
urges for a moral life is that it pays better
than a vicious one. Christianity teaches
man to reverence himself. eye are the
temples of God. and your body is the tenn
pie of the Holy Ghost" and as such must
be pure and holy. By carrying this belief
into daily life man will not defile his
body by sensuality, or his mind by evil
thoughts. eff as the thoughts are so will
the acts be- what fountain head must
this belief be for the issuing forth of every
laudable and noble enterprise.
Inidelity inspires no mind with high
thoughts. 1t offers to mankind perfect
freedom of thought, the license to unbridled
thoughts. and as sequence to lawless lives.
Free thinking is the precursor of free
living and, as a general rule, skepticism
and infdelity go hand in hand with
soured or tainted manhood, with sullied
lives. Let young man think his own
thoughts, give loose rein to his magma
ton and the natural result will be unbelief
in God and truth. Benjamin Constant,
gifted with powers to do grand work,
failed utterly, because he had no faith in
virtue, no belief in Heaven. Like a shin
without rudder he drifted out of life ex-
claiming, II am dust and ashes,' and leav-
ing as his opinion that ''there was moth
ing in honor and dignity Infdelity offers
nothing to mankind, it presents no incen-
tive to self-denial and heroic action. It
removes from the consideration of m EN-.
God and the judgment, immortality to be
won. salvation to be secured through
Christ the Savior. It leaves only this life.
empty stale, fiat and unproftable,'' if it
has no relation to another existence; if it
be not the vestibule of ''eternity.' 1t takes
out of the world all hope and all courage
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mainly but the outcome of the evolution
of natural forces, and death. the shutting
OFF of electricity and man falls like dead
leaf to the ground never to rise again,what
is the use of living? How could
one bear with equanimity the Is of
life, the injustice and wrong, if there was
never to be any righting, any judgment,
any assessment Of damages?
Christianity offers everything, "having
prom Use of the life that now is and of that
which is to come" Iturges its followers
to aim at perfection in everything. Per-
lection in labor, however humble, perfec-
ton in study, in culture, because the
knowledge and discipline so acquired are a
dowry for the world to come. eff mans
work abide he shall receive reward It
| inspires its followers with courage to bear
calamity and to battle with wrong.
Napoleon was said to surround his army
like an invisible presence. When in some
scene of festivity his eye would assume
the far away look seen in his portraits, his
officers would say, che is with his battal-
| IONS" and his soldiers know that in thought
he was with them. Who can tell how many
| acts of valor were prompted by this belief !?
So the Christian has secret consciousness
| of the presence of his God. Everywhere
he goes there does his hand lead him. Why
| should believer in God fear? "The an
gels of the Lord encamp about them that
fear him." To be convinced that the eter-
nal God is mans friend is to feel pre-
pared for every trial and labor of life.
Christianity offers Immortality, the Gun
speakable gift of God, bought by his
Son, and brought to light in the gospel.
1t is this wonderful gift that shows the
perfection of Gods love, and gives to the
true believer "peace that passeth all un-
derstanding."
Poverty is not such bitter thing to one
who anticipates an eternity of plentious-
ness. Sickness can be borne with patience
when one thinks of the time when sthere
shall be no pain" Death with its gloom
and agony can not long Cypress soul
that believes in reunion where "there
shall be no DEATH" over the grave. Inf
deity writes only silence and oblivion.
while Christianity points to risen Savior
as ''the first fruits of them that sleep"
1nfdelity presents the doctrines of the
Epicureans: "Let us eat and drink for to-
morrow we may die" Christianity says:
"Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which SO easily beset us; and let us run
with patience the race that is set before
US, looking unto Jesus, the author and fin
Usher of our faith
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