Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-07-19

and dead. Two witnesses In court win
establish a fact. Here are not two wit
nesses, but thousands of witnesses-on
earth millions of witnesses. and in heaven
a great multitude of witnesses that no man
can number, testifting that there is power
in this religion to convert the soul. to give
comfort in trouble and to afford composure
in the last hour. If ten men should come to
you when you are sick with appalling sick
ness and say they had the same sickness.
and took a certain medicine and it cured
them, you would probably take it.
Now, suppose ten other men should come
up and say, We don't believe there is any
thing in that medicine" Well" I say,
rhave you ever tried it?" NO, I never tried
it, but don't believe there is anything in
it." OF course you discredit their testi-
nony. The skeptic may come and say.
There is no power in your religion" Have
Let me take the testimony of the millions of
souls that have been converted to God. and
comforted in trial, and solaced in the last
hour. We will take their testimony as they
cry, I'VE are WitneSses!
Some time ago Prof Henry of Washing
ton, discovered a new star, and the tidings
spread by submarine telegraph, and all the
observatories of Europe We're watching for
that new star. Oh, nearer, looking out
through the darkness of thy soul to-day,
canst thou see bright light beaming on
thee? "Where?" you say; where? How
can 1 find it?" Look along by the line of
the cross of the Son of God. Do you not see
it trembling with all tenderness and beam
ing with all hope? 1t is the Star Of Bethle-
hem.
Deep horror then my vita1s froze,
Death struck ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly star arose
It was the Star of bethlehem.
Oh. nearer, get your eye on it! It is
easier for you now to become a Christian
than it is to stay away from Christ and
Heaven.
When Nine. Sontag began her musical
career, she was Kissed off the stage at
Vienna by the friends of her rival. Amelia
Steininger, who had already begun to de-
cline through her dissipation. Years passed
on, and one day Nine. Sontag, in her glory,
when she saw a little child leading blind
woman, and she said Come here, my little
child, come here. Who is that you are
leading by the hand?" And the little child
replied: That's my mother; that's Amelia
Steininger. She used to be great singer,
but she lost her voice, and she cried SO
much about it that she lost her eyesight."
Give my love to her." said Nine. Sontag.
and tell her an old acquaintance will call
on her this afternoon"
blage gathered at a benefit for that poor
blind woman, and it was said that Mime.
Sonteg sang that night as she had never
sung before. And she took skilled oculist.
who in vain tried to give eyesight to the
poor blind woman. Until the day Of Amelia
Steininger's death Nine. Sontag took care
of her. and her daughter after her. That
was what the queen of song did for her
enemy. But oh, hear more thrilling story
still. Blind immortal. poor and lost. thou
who, when the world and Christ were rivals
FOR thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away
Christ now comes to give thee sight, to give
thee home, to give thee Heaven. With
more than Sontag's generosity He comes
now to meet your need. With more than a
Sontag's music He comes to plead for thy
deliverance.