Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-04-17

suppose you count them on your ten fingers.
"Oh," you say, mot quite 20 much as that"
J Well, then. count them on the fingers Of one
hand. 'Oh,n you say, I'VE don't want quite
80 much room as that" Suppose, then. you
halt and count on one finger the name Of any
institution founded by infidelity, supported
/ entirely by infidelity, pronounced against
God and the Christian religion, yet toll
/ ing to make the world better. Not onel
| Not onel
! Is infidelity so poor. 50 starveing, 20
/ mean, 50 useless. Get out you miserable
pauper OF the universe Crawl into some
rathole of everlasting nothingness. Inidelity
standing to-day amid the suffering, groaning,
dying nation, and yet doing absolutely
nothing save trying TO impede those who are
toiling until they fall exhausted into their
graves in trying to make the world better.
Gather up all the work. all the merciful
work, that infidelty has ever done, add it
all together. and there is not so much nobil-
ity 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
invalid appetite on broken stand, and then
knelt on the bare floor praying the mercy OF
Christ upon the dying soul
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded,
bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no
pillow for the sick, rouses no comfort for the
bereft, gilds nc grave for the dead. While
risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned
Bible-blessed be His glorious name foreveri
our Christ stands this hour pointing to the
hospital, or to the asylum, saying: II was
sick and ye gave me a couch, was lame and
ye gave me a crutch. | was blind and ye
physicianed my eyesigbt, | was orphaned
and We mothered my soul, | was lost on the
mountains and ye brought me home: inas-
much as ye did it TO one of the least OF these,
ye did it 10 me"
But thank God that this plague Of inf
deity will be stayed. Many Of those who
hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their
hearts will cease to be scoffers and will be-
come disciples, and the day will arrive when
all nations will accept the Scriptures The
book is going TO keep right on until the fires
OF tae last day are kindled. Some of them
will begin on one side and come on the other
side of the old book. They will not find
bundle Of loose manuscripts easily consumed
like tinder thrown into the fire. When the
fires of the last day are kindled, some will
burn on this side. from Genesis toward
Revelation. and others will burn on this
side, from Revelation toward GenesiS audin
all their way they will not find q single
chapter or single verse ont 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 Gen
esis, descriptive Of how this world was made,
when the world is destroyed? What will be
the use OF the prophecies when they are all
fulflledf What will be the use Of the
evangelistic or Pauline description Of Jesus
Christ when we see Him face TO face' What
will be the use of His photograph when we
have met Him in glory' What will be the
use OF the book Of Revelation. standing as
you will with your foot on the CLASSY sea,
and your hand ON the ringing harp. and your
forehead chapleted with eternal coronation,
amid the amethystine and twelve gated
glores Of heaven? The emerald dashing its
green against the beryl, aud the beryl dash
ing its blue against the sapphire, and the
sapphire throwing its light on the jacinth,
and the jacinth dashing its fire against the
chrysoprasus, aud you aud | standing in the
glories of ten thousand sunsets.