Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-04-09


not your heart be troubled" "All things
work together for good" weeping may
endure for night" 81 am the resur-
rection," peace, be still"
Furthermore, rather than invite l resist
this plague of infdelity because it has
wrought no positive good for the world
and is always hindrance. ask you TO
mention the names of the merciful and the
educational institutions which infidelity
founded and is supporting, and has sup
ported all the way MISREPRESENTATION
pronounced against God and the Christian
religion, and yet pronounced in behalf OF
suffering humanity. What are the names
of themg Certainly not the United States
Christian commission, or the sanitary COM
mission, for Christian George II. Stuart
was the president of the one, and Christian
Henry w. Bellows was the president of the
| other.
COMPARE THE HOSPITALS AND COLLEGES.
Where are the asylums and merciful in
stitutions founded by infidelity and sup
ported by infdelity, pronounced against
God and the Bible, and vet doing work for
the alienation of sufferingi Infidelity is so
very loud in its braggadocio it must have
some to mention. Certainly, if you come
to speak of educational institutions it is
not Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Prince
ton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cam
bridge or Oxford, it is not any institution
from which diploma would not be dis
| grace. Do you point to the German uni
versities as exceptionss have to tell you
| that all the German universities to-day are
under positive Christian influences, except
the University of Heidelberg, where the
ruffianly students cut and maui and man
| oil a mn lar aab fAfb ar. of
pride instead of nfamy. Do you mention
Girard college, Philadelphia, as an excep-
ton, that college established by the will of
Mr.. Girard which forbade religious in
struction and the entrance of clergymen
within its gates. My reply is that | lived
| for seven years near that college and knew
many of its professors TO be Christian in
structors and no better Christian infiu-
ences are to be found in any college than
in Girard college.
There stands Christianity. There stands
| inidelity. Compare what they have done
| Compare their resources. There is Chris
tianity, a prayer on her lip; a benediction
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 i'm beetle; 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 of innumeratle Sabbath schools
bringing millions Of children under drill
to prepare them for responsibility 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
| oil Gtrb kri9 inn
ity That is the entire business. The com
plete mission OF infdelity to fight Chris
tianity Where are her schools, her col
leges, her asylums Of mercy Let me
throw you down a whole ream of foolscap
paper that you may fill all Of it with the
names of her beneficent institutions. the
colleges, and the nsylums, the institutions
| of mercy and of learning founded by in
fidelity and supported alone by inhdelity.
| pronounced against God and the Christian
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
| institutions" Well, then, throw you
quire of paper Fill it all up now. will
wait until you get all the names down.
"Oh," You say. that is too much" Well,
then, | will Just hand you a sheet Of letter
payer. just fill up the four sides while we
are talking Of this matter with the names
Of the merciful institutions and the educa
tional institutions founded by infdelity
and supported all along by inGdelity, pro
nounced against God and the Christian
religion, yet in favor Of humanity.
WHERE ARE YOUR FRUITS, AGNosTIcsf
ooh" you say, "that is too much room.
We don't want whole sheet OF paper TO
write down the names" Perhaps ! had
better tear out one leaf from my memoran-
DUN book and ask you ill up both sides
of it with the names Of such institu-
tions. "Oh," you say, that would be
too much room. wouldn't want so
much room as that" Well, then, sup
pose you count them on your ten fin
fers. "Oh," you say. mot quite so much
as that" Wei, 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 institution founded
by infdelity, supported entirely By iniidel
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet toiling to MAKE the world
better Not onel Not onei
Is infilelity so poor, so starveling, so
mean, so useiesss Get out, you miserable
pauper Of the universal Crawl into some
rathcle of everlasting nothiagness. In
fidelity standing today amid the suffering
grooming, dying nations, and yet doing alb
solutely nothing save trying TO impede
those who are t0iling until they fall ex
hausted into their graves in trying 20 make |
the world better. Gather up all the work, |
all the merciful work, that inddelity has
ever done, add il all together, and there is
not so much nobility in it Is ia 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 knell on the bare |
floor praying the mercy Of Christ upon the |
dying soul.
Inndelity scrapes no lint for the wound |
ed. bakes 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 |
wounded Christ. our risen Christ, the /
Christ of this old fashioned Bible-blessed /
be his glorious name forever. our Christ /