The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-04-16


Since you put the Bible on your stand
In the sitting room has the Bible been to
you, y woman, O curse or q blessingp
Why ls 1t that woman whom she ic
troubled will go to her worst enemy the
Bible? Why do You not go for comfort
to some OF the great inlidel books, Spi-
noza's Ethics, or Hume's Natural His
tory OF Religion, or Paine's Age Of Rea-
son, or Dcdro's Dramas, or any one Of
the two hundred and sixty volumes of
persists in hanging about the Bible
verses, ,"Let not your heart be troubled"
"An things work together for good"
"Weeping may endure for night" Il
am the resurrection" "Peacc, be still"
Furthermore: rather than invite re-
sist this plague of iulidelity because it
has wrought no positive good for the
world, and is always a hindrance. Iask
you to mention the names Of the mercl-
full and the edcatiOnal institutions
which infidelity founded and is support
ing, and has supported all the way
through; institutions pronounced against
God and the Christian religion, and yet
pronounced in behalf of suffering hu-
manity. What are the names of them?
Certainly not the United States Chris
tian commission; or the sanitary COM
mission; for Christian George II. Stuart
was the presid INT 0, the one, and Christ
ian Henry w. Bellows was the president
Of the other. Where arc the asylums
| and merciful institutions founded by in
fidelity andSupported by intidcliLy, pro.
| nounced against God and the Bible, and
yet doing work for the alienation of
suffering? Inlidclly 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
Princeton, it is not Middletown, it is not
Combrldgc or Oxford, it is not any in
stituttion from which diploma would
| not be disgrace. DO you point to the
German universities as exceptions? |
have TO tell you that all the German
universities to-day arc under positive
Christian influence, except the UDivcrsi-
( ty of Heidelberg, were the ruilianly
| students cut and maui and manglc and
! murder each other as q matter Of pride
| instead of infamy. DO YOU mention
Girard college, Philadelphia, as an ex-
cepton, that college established by the
will of Mr.. Girard, which forbade rclg-
ious instruction and the entrance ofcler-
gymcn within its gates: My reply is
that / lived for seven years near that
college and knew many Of its professors
to be Christian instructors, and no bet
ter Christian influences arc to be found
| in any college than i'll Girard college.
| There stands Christianity. There
stands inlidelity. Compare what they
, have done. Compare their resources.
There IS Chrintianity. PRAYER on her
| lip; bcncdctiOn on her brow; both hands
full Of help; the mother of thousands Of
colleges; the mother ofthousands Of asy-
| lums for the oppressed, the blind, the
sick, the lame. tho imbcc lie; the mother
of missions for the bringing back Of the
Outcast; tbs mother Of thousands of re-
formatory institutions for the saving of
the lost; the mother Of innumerable Sab
both schools bringing millions of children
under drill to prepare them for res
pcctability and usefulness, to say moth
ing of the great future. That is Chris
tianty.
lIere is in(idciity; no prayer on her
| lips, no bencdlction on her brow; both
hands clcnched--what for? TO fight
| Christianity. That is the entire business.
The complete mission Of inlidclity is to-
| fight Christianity. Where arc her schools,
| her colleges, her asYlums of mercy?
! Let me throw you down whole
ream Of toolscap paper that you may fill
! all Of it with The names of her bencficcnC
institutions, the colleges and the asy-
| lums, the institutions of mercy and of
learning, founded by infdelity, and sup
ported alone by iniiedlity, pronounced
| against God and the Christian religion
and yet in favor Of making tie world
better. "Oh," you say. "a rcam of
! ie f,o go 81
institutions" Well, then, l throw you
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 paper. Just fill up
the tour sides while we are talking Of this
matter, with the names of the merciful
institutions and the educational institu-
tons founded by Infidclity and supported
all along by Inlidelity, pronounced
gainst God aud the Christian religion,
yet in favor Of humanity.
"Oh," you say, that is too much
iroom; we don't want a whole sheet of
paper to write down the Names" Per-
haps l had better tear out one leaf from
tmy memorandum book, and ask you to
fill up both sides OF it with the names of
such institutions "Oh," you say, "that
would be too much room; 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 as that" Well, then, count
them on the fingers of one hand. "Oh,"
you say, "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 inGdclity.
supported entirely be infdelity, pro-
nounced against God and the Christian
religion, yet toiling to make the world
better. Not one! Not one!
Is inlidelity so poor, so starvcling, so
mean, so unless? Get out, you miscra-
bic paupor Of the universe! Crawl INTO
some rat hole Of everlasting nothingncss.
lnlidclty standing to-day amid The sur-
lerlnS, groanng. dying nations, and yet
doing absolutely nothing save trying to
impede those who are toiling until they
| fall exhausted into their graves i'm tryinr