Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-29

tianity and 1nfdelity. Christianity, &C.
cepting the evidence of nature and revela-
ton as proof of an overriding Creator,
believing the promises of the Bible, rests
its future for time and eternity on the
! great Eternal Source of all things.
Infdelity believes in nothing, it sees no
marks of creative hand in creation, and
it di5eards divine revelation as a fable Or
! legend of passed and dead age, a book
of some literary pretensions bat no chart
for man IN his voyage across the ocean Of
| life towards an unknown shore. Infideiity
understands nothing, it knows only this
" We live, We die" and its followers grope
in darkness while living, and in dying
Z" draw aside dark impenetrable curtain,
and vanish into deeper darkness" Their
life IS Without God and without hope, and
| they die as dies the brute, to return to dust
with no hope of resurrection or of i'm
mortality. Men boastingly declare that
| they have no faith in God, no belief in His
Word, because they cannot understand his
ways. Yet they profess to believe in the
\ laws of nature of which the most profound
philosopher does not know the alphabet.
They 10 not understand why God did not
make it impossible for man to sin, or why
he chose to redeem them by the sacrifice of
his son. They cannot fathom the incarna-
| ton and resurrection of Christ, therefore
they pronounce them unworthy of belief.
That man should fail to understand the
ways of an Omnipotent God is a natural
sequence. AS far as mans duty to society,
to himself, and his God Is involved, divine
revelation is so plain and easily under
stood, that ga wayfaring man though
fool need not err therein
Mr.. Ingersoll in his eulogy of John Mills
said - he was not Christian. Into the
Eden of his hope there did not crawl and
coil the serpent of eternal pain That
serpent, eternal pain, was never created by
the Christians God. Eternal torment is
no more taught in the Bible, than mans
inherent Immortality. Death everywhere
through the Scriptures is pronounced the
penalty for sin, eternal life the reward of
repentance and faith. "The wages of sin
is death; the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord" Men,
who hold humanity to be the Supreme Be-
ing, and worship it as God, arrogate to
themselves tenderness, compassion, sym
patty and love in boundless measure, but
declare that the Christians God, is capable
of creating beings for eternal pain, that he
will condemn children to eternal torment.
Out upon such blasphemy. What can the
human mind know of the love and COM
passion of God? Its most exalted concep-
ton cannot attain to the thought of it.
Said Ingersoll she loved and was loved.
Wife and children pressed their kisses on
his lips" that is enough" If infdels find
such comfort and satisfaction in the love
of friends, children and companions, whose
friendship, if true, hangs on the brief hour
of life, what must be the Joy of Z" the Chris
| tan who has all this and God too" Who
| by the eye of faith sees. God his friend
and Redeemer, and hears Him saying " be
not dismayed, am thy God" "My loving
| kindness will not take from thee" 81
Where I am there ye shall be also"
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but
my word shall not pass away"
| Motley, the historian, says the true test
of any government is its effects upon the
governed. Is not the true test of any re-
ligion its results as shown in the lives of
its adherents? Infdels claim that Con
fucius taught as pure a morality as Christ;
that the zend Avesta, which Zoroaster re-
ceiYed from heaven, contains as much
| truth IS the Bible. What then has made
Christian nations superior to the Chinese
or tho Persian? Why are Christian
people the leaders in civilization, educa-
ton and humanity? Are not the truest,
purest, bravest nations those who trust in
God. The Chinese, with the moral teach
ing Of Confncius, given to them more
than five hundred years before Christ, re-
main heather still. The United Neither
| lands, emerged from barbarism to super
stition, then as the early light of the Ref
ormabion arose on the world, and such
men az Luther and Huss freed the Bible,
she received it and became the first free
Christian nation, first also in arts, in con-
| n10~SC, III ID uOb VIC duNdECo-
ment of the nineteenth century over the
sixteenth due to free Bible, where each
man can read for himself; and because the
tender love and compassion of God are
better understood? If humanity is the
Regeneration, why is not the regeneration as
universal as humanity? Why are the best
results attained where God is acknowl-
edgeds Why are the best citizens of any
community those who believe in God {?
Why are Christians better men and better
wonsn than infdels? Is it not because
they follow, although far off, the example
of their Master.
Aypocrites, and dishonest and unchaste
men may belong to the church, but are
their hypocrisy, dishonesty or impurity a
result of their faith, or the exhibition of
their humanity, that Superior Being which
Auguste Comte worshiped, and which will
redeem the worldf The religion of the
Bible has heen tried for ages, and nothing
better has been found to elevate and puri-
fy mankind. The human mind cannot
conceive of a code of morals purer truer