The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-20
it is not Cambridge or oxfori-it is not

it is not Cambridge or Oxfofd-it is not
any institution from which dIploma
would not be Q disgrace. Do you point
to the German universities as excep.
tons? I have to tell you that all the
German universities to day are under
positive Christian influences, except the
University OF Heidelberg, where the
ruff1anly students cut and maui and
| mangle and murder each other as mat.
ter of pride instead OF infamy. The
/ duello is the chief characteristic of that
| institution.
There stands Christianity. There
stands lnfidelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare their resources
There is Christianity, a prayer on her
| lip; benediction on her brow; both
hands full of help for all who want help;
the mother of thousands of colleges; the
mother of thousands of asylums for the
oppressed, the blind, the sick, the lame,
the imbecile; the mother OF missions fer
the bringing back of the outcast; the
mother of thouIands of reformatory in
situations for the saving OF the lost; the
mother of innumerable Sabbath schools
bringing millions of children under
drill to prepare them for responsibility
and usefulness. to say nothing OF the
great future. This is Christianity.
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lips, no benediction on her brow, both
hands clenched-what for? To fight
Christianity. That is the entire busi-
ness. The complete mission OF intidell-
ty to fight Christianity. Where are her
schools, her colleges, her asylums OF
| mercy. Let me thrown you down a
whole ream OF toolscsp paper that you
may fill all of II with the names OF her
| beneflcent institutions of mercy and OF
learning, founded by infidelity, and sup
| ported alone by infidelity, pronounced
| against God and the Christian religion
and yet in favor of making the world
better. "Oh," you say, "a ream OF paper
Is too much for the names OF those lnstitu-
| TONS" Well, then, throw you quire
| of paper. Fill it all up now. l will
wait until you get all the names down.
"Oh," you say, "that it is too much"
Well, then, l will just hand you sheet
of letter paper. Just fill up the four
| sides while we are talking of this mat
ter, with the names OF the merclful in
situations and the educational institu
| lions founded by inf1delity and support
ed all along by infidelitY, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion,
yet in fsver of humanity. "Oh," you
say, shat is too much room; we don't
| want q whole sheet of paper TO write
| down the names" Perhaps l had
| better tear out one leaf
| from my hymn book, and
ask you to I'LL up both sides of II with
| the names of such institutions. "Oh,"
you say, "that would be too much room (;
YOU wouldn't want so much room as
that" Well, then suppose you count
them oh your ten fingers. "Oh," you
tay. "not quite so much as that" Well,
then, count them on the fingers OF one
4 hand GGnh ~ w don't U1nf
quite so much room as that Suppose,
then, you halt and count on one finger
the name of any institution founded by
infidelity, supported entirely by intidel-
| ity, pronounced against God and the
| Christian religion, yet toiiing to make
the world better. Not one. Not one.
| Is inf1delity so poor, so starYeling, so
mean, so useless? Get out, you misera-
BILE psuper of the universe! Crawl into
some rat hole of everlasting nothing
ness. Infidelity is standing to-day amid
the suffering, groaning, dying nations
and yet doing absolutely nothing save
| trying to impede those who are tOiling
until they fall exhausted into their
| graves IN trying to make the world bet
ter. Gather up all the work, all the
merciful work, that infidelity has ever
done, add it all together and there is not
so much nobility in it as In the smallest
bead OF that sister of charity who last
night went up the dark alleys of the
town, put jar of jelly for an invalid ap,
petite on broken stand, and then knelt
on the bare floor. praying the mercy OF
Christ upon the dying soul.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, breaks no bread for the hun
cry, shakes up no pillow for the sick
rouses no comfort for the bereit, gid:
no grave for the dead. While Christ
our Christ, our wounded Christ, oul
risen Christ, the Christ of this old-fash
Toned bible-blessed be His glorious
name foreveri-our Christ stands this
morning pointing to the hospital or &c
the asylum, saying: 81 was sick and yt
gave Ne couch, l was lame and ye gave
Me q crutch, / was blind and we physi
cianed Ny eyesight, l was orphaned and
ye mothered My soul, was lost on tn:
mountains and We brought Me home in
asmuch as ye did it to one of the Least
of these, We did 1t to Ne"