Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-13

in this Gospel to give caImness ana tri-
umph in the last exigencyp The response
+ comes from all sides, from young and old
and middle aged, 1--WE are Witnessed"
You see, my friends, have not put be-
I fore you an abstraction or a chimera, OF
| anything like guess work. | present you
afiidavits of the best men AMI women, liv-
lug and dead, Two witnesses n court will
establish a fact. Here are hot two wit
nesses, but millions Of witnesses on earth
and in heaven testifying that there is
power in this religion to convert the soul,
to give comfort in trouble and to afford
composure In the last hour.
If ten man should come to you when you
are sick with appalling sickness and say
they had the same sickness and took GER
tain medicine and it cured them, you would
probably take it. Now, suppose ten other
men should come up and say, 1--WE don't
believe that there is anything in that medi-
cine" "Well," say, "have you tried itP"
mo, never tried it, but don't believe
there is anything in it," OF course you
discredlt their testimony. The skeptic may
come and say, "There is no power in your
religion" Have you ever tried itT mo,
no." "Then avaunt'' Let me take the
testimony of the millions of souls that have
been converted to God and comforted in
trial and solaced in the last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry, eve are
Witnesses
LOOK FOR THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Professor Henry, of Washington, discov-
cred new star, and the tidings sped by
submarine telegraph, and all the observa-
tories OF Europe were watching for that
new star Oh, hearer, looking out through
the darkness of thy soul, canst thou see a
bright light beaming on theeP "WhereW
you say; ''whereP How can find itP
Look along by the line of the Cross Of the
Son of God. Do you not see it trembling
with all tenderness and beaming with all
hope 1t is the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Deathstruck ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly IA star arose
1t was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearers, get your eye on it. 1t is
easier for you now to become Christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
heaven. When Nine. Sontag began her
musical career she was Kissed off the stage
at Vienna by the friends of her rival, Anne
liza Steininger, who had already begun to
decline through her dissipation. Years
PceoSSA cLIi hAN OhO hdJ VALlC. EOhbdkt III
her glory, was riding through the streets
of Berlin, when she saw little child lead
ing blind woman, and she said: Come
here, my little child, come here Who is
that you are leading by the hand2" And
the little child replied: THAT'S my moth
er; that's Amelia Steninger. She used to
be n great singer, but she lost her voice,
and she cried so much about It that she
lost her eyesight." "Give my love to her."
said Nine SOntag, land tell her an old &C
quaintance will call on her this afternoon"
The next week in Berlin vast assem-
blage gathered at a benefit for that poor
blind woman, and it was said that Sontag
sang that night as she had never sung be-
fore. And she took a skilled oculist who
in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor
blind woman. Until the day of Amelia
Steininger's death Madam Sontag took
care of her and her daughter after her.
That was what the queen of song did for
her enemy. But oh, hear more thrilling
story still. Blind immortal, poor and
lost; thou who, when the world and Christ
were rivals for thy heart didst hiss thy
Lord away-Christ comes now to give thee
sight, to give thee u home, to give thee
heaven. With more than Sontag's gen
erosity, he comes now to meet your need.
With more than a Sontag's music, he
comes to plead for thy deiverance.