The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-04-09


nounced 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 a quire of paper. Fill it up now.
will wait until you get all the names
down. oh" you say, that Is too
much" Well. then, / viii just hand
you sheet of letter paper. 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 infidelity
and supported all along by infidelity.
pronounced against God and the Chris
tan religion, yet in favor of humanity.
'.Oh," you say, that is too much
room; We don't want whole sheet of
paper TO write down the names" Per
haps / had better tear out one leaf
from my memorandum book, and ask
you fill up both sides of j. 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 hard. 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 in
stitution founded by infidelity, sup
ported entirely by infidelity, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion,
yet toiling to make the world better
Not one! Not onel
Is infidelity SO poor, SO starveling, SO
mean, SO useless? Get out, you 1niser-
able pauper OF the universe! Crawl
into some rathole OF everlasting moth
ingness. Infidelity standing today amid
the suffering, groaning, dying nations
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 bet
ter. Gather up alI the work, al! the
merciful work, that infdelity has ever
done, add it all together, and there is
not SO much nobility in it as in the
smallest bead of that Sister of Charity
who last night went up the dark alley
of the town, put a jar of jelly for al in
valid appetite on a broken stand, and
then knelt on the bare floor, praying
the mercy of Christ upon the dying
soul
THE PLAGUE WILL BE STAID.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes 40 bread for the hun
cry, shakes up no pillow for the sick,
rouses no comfort for the bereft, gilds
no grave for the dead. While Christ.
our Christ, our wounded Christ, our
risen Christ, the Christ of this old fash
Toned Bibie-blcssed be his glorious
name forever!-our Christ stands this
hour pointing to the hospital, or to the
asylum, saying, Il was sick and We
gave Inc Il couch, was lame and ye
gave me q crutch, [ was blind and We
physicianed my eyesight, l was orphan
ed and ye mothered my soul, | was lost
home; inasmuch as We did it to one of
the least of these, we did it to me-"
But thank God that this plague Of
inf1delity will be staid Many of
those who hear me now by the Holy
Ghost upon their hearts viii cease to be
scoffers and will become 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 the last day are kindled Some of
them will begin on one side and some
on the other side Of the old Book They
will not find bundle of loose manu-
scripts easily consumed like finder
| 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, and in all their way they will
| not find a single chapter or Il single
verse out of place. That will be the
| first time we can afford to do without
| the Bible.
| hdo VIII US TIE use OIL the BOOK OF
| Genesis, descriptive of how the world
| was made, when the world is DESTROYED?
What will be the use of the prophecies
| when they are all fulfilled2 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 eter-
nal coronation, amid the alnethystine
and twelve gated glories of heaven
The emerald das1ing its green against
the beryl, and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire, and the sapphire
throwing its light on the jacinth, and
the iacinth dashing it's fire against the
chrysoprassus, and you and l standing
in the glories of ten thousand sunsets.
| That Third Party.
| The constant presence of third per-
son at the freside and table is especially
| Disastrous in tho % rI;or 1-o,~- If vol