Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-24

and knew many or Its professors TO be
Christian instructors, and no better Christian
influences are to be found in any college than
In Girard College.
There stands Christianity. There stands
fnfidellty. Compare what they have done.
Compare their resources. Their is Chris
tianity, prayer Oh her lip: q bene;!' linn on
her brow; botn hands full of help TOR all who
want help: the mother OF thousands OF coll
legeS; the mother OF thousands CO asvluns
for the oppressed, the blind, the sick the
lame, the imbecile: the mother OF missions
for the bringing back OF the outcast: the
mother Of thousands Of reformatory institu-
tons for the saving OF the lost the mother
OF innumerable Sabbata-schools bringing
millions OF children ander a drill TO prepare
them for responsibility and usefulness, to
say nothing Of the great future. That Is
Christianity.
Here is infidelity: no prayer on her lips no
benediction on her brow, both hands cienched
what for' To fight Christianity. That is
the entire business. The complete mission
are her schools, her colleges, her asylums Of
mercy? Let me throw you down a whole
ream of foolscap paper that you may I'LL all
OF 1t with the names OF her beneticent in
stItutions the colleges and the asylumS the
institutions of mercy and learning, founded
by infdeiity and supported alone by int1del-
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris.
tan 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 in
situations" Well. then, I throw you quire
of paper. Fill it all up now. l will wait
until you geo all the names down. Oh"
you say, THAT Is too much" Well, then, I
will just hand you sheet of letter paper.
Just fill up the four sides while we are talk
ing of this matter with the names of the
merciful institutions and the educational in
stitutions founded by infidelity and supported
all along by infidelity, pronounced against
God and the Christian religion, yet in favor
of humanity.
oh" you say that is too much room.
We don't want whole sheet of paper to
write down the names" Perhaps had bet
ter tear out one leaf from my memorandum
book and ask you fill both sidas of it with the
names of such institutions. oh" you say,
that would be too much room. I wouldn't
want SO much room as that" Well, then,
suppose you count them on your ten fingers
Well, then count them on the fingers Of one
hand. "Oh," you say, 1--WE don't want quite
SO much room as that" Suppose, then, you
halt and count on one fingerthe name of any
institution founded by infidelity, supported
entirely by lnf1delity, pronounced against
God and the Christian religion, yet toll
ing to make the world better. Not onel
Not onel
Is 1nfidelity so poor, so starveling, so
mean, so useless Get out, you miserable
rathole of everlasting not 'ngness. Infidelity
standing to-day amid the fering, grooming,
dying nation, 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 better.
Gather up all the work. all the merciful
work, that infidelity has ever done, add it
all together, and there is not so much nobll-
ity in it as in the smallest bead Of that sister
OF charity who last night went up the dark
alley of the town, put jar OF jelly for an
invalid appetite 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,
bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no
pillow for the sick. rouseS no comfort for the
bereft, gilds nc grave for the dead. While
Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our
risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned
Bible-biessed be His glorious name forever!
our Christ stands this hour pointing to the
hospital, or to the asylum, saying: 81 was
sick and We gave me couch, | was lame and
We gave me a crutch, l was bling and ye
phvsicianed my eyesight, l was orphaned
and We mothered my soul, | was lost on the
mountains and ye brought me home: mas
much as ye did it to one OF the least OF these.
We did it to me-"
But thank God that this plague of init
deity will be stayed. Many of those who
hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their
hearts will cease to be ScOfferS and will be-
come disciples, and the day will arrive when
all nations will accept the Scriptures. The
book is going to keep right on until the fires
of the last day are kindled. Some of them
will begin on one side and some on the other
side of the old book. They will not find a
bundle of loose manuscripts easily consumed
like finder thrown into the fire. When the
fires OF the last day are kindled, some will
burn on this side. from Genesis toward
Revelation, and others will burn on this
side. from Revelation toward Genesis, and in
all their way they will not find a single
chapter or a single verse out Of place That
will be the first time we can afford to do
without the Bible.
What will be the use Of the book Of Gen
esis, descriptive of how this world was made,
when the world is destroyed? What will be-
the use Of the prophecies when they are all
fulfilled? What will be the use of the
evangelistic or Pauline description of Jesus
Christ when we see Him face to face? What
will be the use of His photograph when we
have met Him in glory: What will be the
use of the book of Revelation, standing as
you will with your foot on the CLASSY sea,
and your hand on the ringing harp. and your
forehead chapleted with eternal coronation,
amid the amethystine and twelve gated
glories of heaven? The emerald dashing its
green against the beryl, and the beryl dash
ing its blue against the sapphire, and the
sapphire throwing its light on the jacinth,
and the jacinth dashing its fire against the
chrysoprasus and you and standing in the
glories of ten thousand sunsets.