Milford chronicle., 1891-04-10

on her brow; both hands full of help for
all who want help; the mother Of thou
sands of colleges; the mother Of thousands
of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the
sick, the lame, the imheeile; the mother OF
missions for the bringing back Of the out
cast; the mother of thousands Of reforma-
tory institutions for the saving Of the lost;
the mother communicable Sabbath schools
bringing millions Of children under drill
to prepare them for respeetability and use
( fulness, to say nothing of the great future.
That is Christianity.
Here is iniidelity; no prayer on her lips.
no benediction on her brow, both hands
elenched-what forY To fight Christian
ity. That is the entire business. The COM
plete mission Of infidelity to fight Chris
tianity. Where are her schools, her col
leges, her asylums Of mercy? Let me
throw you down whole ream of foolscap
paper that you may fill all Of it with the
names Of her benefcent Institutions. the
colleges, and the asylums, the institutions
of mercy and of learning, founded by in
/ fidelity and supported alone by infdelity,
4 pronounced against God and the Christian
/ religion, aud yet in favor Of making the
I world better. "Oh," you say, "a ream of
paper is too much for the names of those
4 institutions" Well, then, throw you
quire Of paper Fill it all up now. will
wait until you get all the names down.
ooh, - you say. "that is too much.n Well,
then, will just hand you sheet Of letter
payer just fill up the four sides while we
are balking Of this matter with the names
Of the merciful institutions and the eduea-
tiOnal institutions founded by infldelity
and supported all along by infdelity, pro
nounced against God and the Christian !
religion, yet in favor of humanity
WHERE ARE YOUR FRUITS, AGNOsTICs?
"Oh,D you say, that is too much room. /
We don't want whole sheet of paper to /
write down the names" Perhaps 1 had
better tear out one leaf from my nnemOran-
dunn book and ask you fill up both sides /
Of it with the names Of such institu-
lions. CON- you say, chat would be /
too much room. wouldn't want so
much room as that" Well, then, sup I
pose you count them on your ten fin
fiers. "Oh,p you say, 'tnot quite so much
as that" Well, chen, count them On the !
fingers Of one hand. sob, you say, 1--WE
don't want quite so much room as that. "
Suppose, then, you halt and count on one
finger the name Of any institution founded +
by infdelity, supported entirely by infidel-
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet toiling to make the world
better. Not onel Not onel
Is infidelity so poor, so starveling, so
mean, so. uselesse Get out, you miserable
pauper of the universal Crawl into some
rathole of everlasting nothingness. In
fidelity standing today amid the suffering,
grOaning, dying nations, and yet doing alb
solutely nothing save trying to impede
those who are tOiling until they fall ex-
hausted into their graves in trying to make
~ 4 fH..ar Ill Al.
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 small
est bead of that sister Of charity who last
night went up the dark alley Of the town,
put a Jar of jelly for an invalid appetite on
a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare
floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the
dying soul.
Infdelity scrapes no lint for the wound
ed, balzes no bread for the hungry, shakes
up no pillow for the sick, rouses no com
fort for the bereft, gilds no grave for the
dead. While Christ, our Christ, our
Christ, our risen Christ, the
Christ Of this old fashioned Bible-blessed
be his glorious name foreverl our Christ
stands this hour pointing to the hospital, ;
or to the asylum, saying; Il was sick and
ye gave me a couch, / was lame and ye
gave me a crutch, was blind and We ply
sicianed my eyesight, was orphaned and
ye mothered my soul, I was lost on the
mountains and We brought me home; mas I
asmuch as We did it to one of the least Of
these, ye did it to me-"
But thank God that this plague of in
fidelity will be stayed. Many Of those who a
hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their
hearts will cease to be scOffers and will be- S.
some disciples, and the day will arrive q
when all nations will accept the Scriptures.
The book is going to keep right on. until
he fires of the last day are kindled. Some
II them will begin on one side and some on O.
he other side of the old book They will Il
lot find a bundle of loose manuscripts cas- II
ly consumed like finder thrown into the 4
Ire. When the fires OF the last day are y
,indied, some will burn on this side, from g
senesis toward Revelation, and others will nj
urn on this side, from Revelation toward D;
ienesis, and in all their way they will not 2,
md single chapter or single verse out 7
{ place. That will be the first time we
an afford to do without the Bible. 9
What will be the use Of the book Of Cen I'll
BIS, descriptive OF how the world was it.
made, when the world Is destroyed What al
will be the use Of theprophecies when they er
re all fulflledf What will be the use Of
he eYangelistic or Pauline description Of .
resus Christ when we see him face to facei
What win be the use of his photograph he
Vhen we have met him in glory2 What an
viii be the use Of the book Of Revelation, pr
landing as you viii with your foot on the h
.lassy sea, and your hand on the ringing =
ARP, and your forehead chapleted with Sd
ternal coronation, amid the amethystine tel
nd twelve gated glories Of heaven2 The by
merald dashing its green against the CO
eryl, and the beryl dashing its blue against mi
he sapphire, and the sapphire throwing ~
Is light ION the jacihth, and the jacinth
ashing its fire against the chTysoprasus, 70
nd you and j standing in the glories Of is
en- thousand sunsets. rel