The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16

out Of the universe; he 10 so liberal
that he would give up his own soul and
the souls of all his friendA Now, what
more could you ask In the way Of liber-
ality? The victim Of this skeptic has
probably just come from the country.
Through the intervention of friends he
has been placed,in q shop, On Saturday
the skeptic says TO him: ,.'Well, what
are you going TO do tomorrow" He
says: II am going to church." rs II
possible?" says the skeptic well, I
used TO do those things; I was brought
up suppose, IS you were, In relig-
ious family. and / believe all those
things, but got over 1t; the fact II,
since came to town have read
great deal, and have found that there
are great many things in the Bible
that are ridiculous Now, for instance.
all that about the serpent being cursed
to crawl in the garden Of Eden because
It had tempted our first parents; why,
you see how absurd it is; you can tell
from the very organization Of the serpent
that 1t had to crawl; 1t crawled before
II was cursed just as we'll as II crswled
afterwards; you can tell from its Or
ganization that 1t crawled. Then, all
that story about the whale swallowing
Jonah, or Jonah swallowing the whale,
whichswas it9 1t don't make any diff
ference, the thing is absurd; 1t Is ridic-
ulous to suppose that man could have
gone down through the jaws Of sea-
monster and yet kept his life; why, his
respiration would have been hindered;
he would have been digested, the gas
trio juice would have dissolved the
fbrine and agulaied albumen, and
Jonah would have been changed from
prophet into chyle. Then all that story
about the miraculous conception-why,
it is perfectly disgraceful. o! sir, l be-
lieve in the light of nature. This is the
nineteenth century. Progress, sir, prog.
ress. don't blame you, but after you
have been in town as long as have you
will think just as do"
Thousands Of young men are going
down under that process day by day,
and there is only here and there q
young man who can endure this artil.
lery Of scorn. They are giving up their
Bibles The light of nature! They
have the light Of nature in China; they
have it In Hindostan; they have it in
Ceylon. Flowers there, stars there,
waters there, winds there. but no civil.
ization, no homes, no happiness.
Lancets to cut and Juggernauts to fall
under, and hooks to swing on; but nc
happiness tell you, my young
brother. we have TO take religion OF
some kind. We have to choose between
four or five. Shall it be the Koran OF
the Mohammedan, or the Shaster Of the
Hindoo, or the Zendavesta OF the Per
sian, or the Confucius writings Of the
Chinese, or the Holy Scriptures? Take
what you will; God helping me, will
take the Bible. Light for all dark
ness, Rock for all foundation; balm
for all wounds A glory that lifts It's
pillars Of fire over the wilderness
march. Do not give up your Bibles. II
these peopla scof at you as though re
ligion and the Bible were ft only fol
weak minded people, you Just tell then
you are not ashamed to be in the com
pany of Burke the statesman, anC
Raphael the painter, and Thorwaldser
the sculptor, and Mozart the musician
and Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacor
the philosopher, and Harvey th,
physician, and John Milton tn,
poet Ask them what infidelity ha.
ever done TO lift the fourteen hundred
millions of the race out of barbarism
Ask them when infdelity ever insti
tuted sanitary commission; and, be
fore you leave their society once anC
forever, tell them that they have in
suited the memory Of your Christian
father, and spit ppon the death-bed o.
your mother, and with swine's snou
rooted up the grave Of your sister who
died believing in the Lord Jesus
Young man, hold on TO your Bible. Il
will tell you how to dress how 10 bar
gain, how TO work, how to act, how u
live, how TO die Glorious Bible
Whether on parchment or paper, II
| octave or duodecimo, on the centel
/ table of the drawing.room or In th,
counting-room of the banker. Glorioui
Biblel Light TO our feet and lamp TO oul
path. Hold on TO It
The second class Of insidious tempta
ton that comes upon our young men 1
led on by the dishonest employer
Every commercial establishment Is |
school In nine cases out OF ten, th,
principles Of the employer become tn
principles Of the employe. ask th'
older merchants TO bear me ont In thes,
statements II, when you were jus
starting in life, In commercial life, yo'
were told that honesty was not market
able, that though you might sell all th'
goods in the shop, you must not sci
your conscience-that while you wer,
70 exercise all industry and tact
you were not TO sell your con
science-if you were taught tha
gains gotten by sin were combusti
BILE, and at the moment OF Ignition woul'
be blown on by the breath Of God unit
all the splendid estate would vanish int.
white ashes scattered in the whirlwin,
then that instruction has been TO yo-
precaution and help ever since
There are hundreds Of commercial es
Establishments in our great cities whicl
are educating class of young men VIII
will be the honor Of the land, and ther
are other establishments which are edu
eating young men TO be moth
Ing but sharpera What chance /
there for a young man who wa
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