Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-07
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PROVED BY MILLIONS OF WITNESSES.
You see, my friends, ! have not put be-
fore you today an abstraction, or chimera,
or anything like guess work. present
you affidavits of the best men and women,
living and dead. Two witnesses in court
will establish a fact Here are not two
witnesses, but thousands of witnesses-on
earth millions of witnesses, and in heaven
q great multitude of witnesses that no man
can number, testifying 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
sickness, and say they had the same sick
ness, and took a certain medicine and it
cured them, you would probably take it.
Now, suppose ten other men should
come up and say, I'VE don't believe there
is anything in that medicine" "Well,"
say, "have you ever tried itf" "No, l never
tried it, but l don't believe there is any
thing in it." OF course you discredit their
testimony. The skeptic may come and
say, sThere is no power in your religion"
''HaVe you ever tried it," "No, no. " ''Then,
avauntr' Let me take the testimony of
the millions of souls that have been con
verted to God, and comforted in trial and
solaced in the last hour. We will take
their testimony as they cry, eve are wit
nessesp'
Some time ago Professor Henry, Of
Washington, discovered a new star and
the tidings sped by submarine telegraph
and all the obseryatories of Europe were
watching for that new star. Oh, hearer,
looking out through the darkness of thy
soul today canst thou see bright star
beaming on theeS "Where9" you say;
''wkerep How can / find its" Look along
by the line of the cross of the Son of God
Do you not see it trembling with all ten
derness and beaming with all hopper 1t is
the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death struck, ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arose. u
1t was the Star Of Bethlehem.
Oh, nearer, get your eye on it. 1t is easier
now for you to become Christian than it
is to stay away from Christ and heaven.
1--WE ARE WITNESSES"
When Madame Sontag began her must
cal career she was Missed Off the stage Mt
Vienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia
Steininger, who had already begun to
decline through her dissipation. Years
pitSScu Out anu Out ttty Indudul6 OOnUitB, III
her glory, was riding through the streets
of Berlin, when she saw little child lead
ing blind woman, and she said, "Come
here, my little child, come here. Who il
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 Madame Sontag, "and tell her an old
acquaintance will call on her this after
noon"
The next week in Berlin vast assem-
blage gathered at benefit for that poor
woman, and it was said that Madame Son
tag sang that night rs she had never sung
before. And she took skilled oculist, who
tried in vain to give eyesight to the poor
blind woman. Until the day of Amelia
Steininger's death Madame 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 comes now to give thee sight,
to give thee home, to give thee heaven.
With more than Sontag's generosity he
comes to meet your need With more than
Sontag's music he comes to plead for thy
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