Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-04-11

have done. Compare their resources.
There is Christianity. a prayer on her
lip, bencdiction on her brow; both
hands full Of help for all who went
help; the mother of thousands OF COZ
leges; tho mother of thousands OF asy-
lurns for the oppressed, the blind, the
sick, the lame, the imbecile; the another
of missions for the bringing back OF
the outcast; the mother of thou
sands of reforlnatory institutions for
the saving of the lost; the mother
of innumerablo Sabbath schools bring
ing millions of children under a drill to
prepare them for responsibility and
usefulness. to say nothing of the great
future. That is Christianity.
Here is infllclity; no prayer on her
lips, no bene<Iction on her brow, both
hands clenchod-whas fbra To fight
Christianity. That is the esiss@ bust
pess Tho co1m1fete mission of iu8del-
ay to fight Christianity. Where are
her schools, her colleges. her asylums
OF mercy? Let ME throw you down q
whole realn of foolscap paper that you
NAV till\all of it with the names OF her
beneficent institutions the colleges and
the asylu,ns, the institutions of mercy
and of learning founded by infidelity
and supported alone by infldelity, pro
nounced against God nnd the Christian
religion and yet in favor OF making the
world better. oh" you say. "a ream
of paper is too much for the MINES OF
those Institutions Well, then, l throw
YOU quire of paper. Fill it up now.
will wait until you get oil the names
down. "Oh," you say, that is too
much" Well, then, I will just hand
you sheet Of letter paper. just fill
ND the four sides while we are talking
of this matter with the names Of the
merciful institutions and the educa-
tional institutions founded by infidelity
and supported oil along by infidelity,
pronounced against God and the Chris
tan religion, yet in favor of humanity.
ooh, you say, that is too much
room; we don't want whole sheet of
paper to write down the names" Per
haps | had better tear out one leaf
from my memorandum book, and ask
you fill up both sides Of it with the
names of such institutions "Oh, 7" you
say, that would be too much room;
l wouldn't want so much room as
that Well then, suppose you count
them on your ten fingers ''Oh, +"
you say, mot quite SO much rs that. +"
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 finger the name OF any in
stitution founded by infidelity, sup
ported entirely by infidclity, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion,
yet toiling to make the world better
Not onel Not onel
Is infidelity so poor, so starvellng, so
mean, so useless? Get out, you miser-
able pauper OF the universal Crawl
into some rathole OF everlasting moth
iilsness In6deiity standing today amid
the suffering, groaning. dying nations
and yet doing absolutely nothing, save
trying to impede those who ore toifing
until they fall exhausted into their
graves in trying to make the world bet
ter. Gather up all the work, ell the
,nerciful 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 alley.
of the town, put jar Of Jelly for an in
valid appetite ON broken stand, and
then knelt on the bare floor, praying
the mercy OF Christ upon the dying
soul.
TIE PLAGUE WILL BE STAID.
1nldelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes no bread for the hun
Fly. shakes up no pillow for the sick,
souses DO coeisteue Tor SIC besaft, gilds
10 grove. for the dead Whiie Gn.isS,
eni Christ, our wounded Chris6- our
risen Christ the Christ Of This OLD fash
toned Bible-blcssed be his glorious
name foreveri-orr Christ stands this
hour pointing to the hospital, or to the
asylum, saying, II was sick and ye
gave me couch, ] was lame and ye
gave me crutch, was blind and We
physicianed my eyesight, ] was orphan
ed and We inothercd my soul, / was lost
on the mountain and 20 brought me
home; inasn1uch as ye did il to ono OF
the least OF these, ye did it to me"
But thank God that this plague Of
infdelity will be staid. Many Of
those who hear me now by the Holy
Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be
scoffcrs and will become disciples, and
the day will arrive when ali 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 bundle of loose manu-
scripts easily consumed like finder
thrown into the fire. When the fires
of the last day are kindled some win
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 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
Genesis, descriptive of how the world
was made, when the world is destroyed
What will be the use of the prophecies
when they are all fulfllled3 What will
be the use of the evangelistic or Pauline
description of Jesus Christ when we see
T. L. J.