Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-01-31

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sweptin. your voice is going 10 BE- heard IN
drawer, vou are going To be consecratei U
God you are going to live Il life OF useiI4
hess. ana YOU. deatnoed Is going To De saf
rounded BY Christian syalpathizers. anu de
yontQuen viii carry YOU to your burial when
~cnriwors i. done. and these words will he |
Z n!seled for your ep.taph Precious III the ,
sight of the Lor.! is the death Of His am
And all that history Is going TO begin 20
dav Other sneep have / which are not OF
this fold"
Again remark. the Heavenly Shepherd
il GOING - find many Of His sheep among
those who are now rejecters OF Christianity
I do not Eno~ how YOU cane TO reject chris
tIanity do not know whether 1t was
tnrougiI hearing Theodore Parker preach, or
'; hetDer il was reading Remains Life OF
.IeSls. or whether 1t was through some
.sertic IN the store or factory. Or 1t may be
-probablg +. TIE case-that. you were dis
rI.tel with religion and disguised with
Christianity because some man who pro
teesed t. be. d Christian defrauded you, and
he benz q member Of the church, and you
taking him q a representative Of the Chris
fiah .cii14on. you said, We'll, if that's re-
iiglon, | don't want any OF IT
! 10 not know how you came to reject
Christianity, but sou frankly tell me you do
reject It: you DO not think the Bible is the
word OF God, although there are many
'nines = ~ - - -. al.ho,yh ,.n,,
think He was Il very good man. You say,
If the Bible be ru.-the most OF the Bible
DE- III = hsteI = linn s1 ~
a.tt. p,t4. ! = ata5or. AMI there are
fft, Things that | believe you do not be-
'l1y. Nevertheless they tell me III regard To
YOU TIA. Eou are All tctoHntnoaatihs, you
are All obligieg person. II snodid come 10
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,r,a,'ds rame IA Won and wanted an accom-
mediation ami you coaiJ aec0si'aio ia'e 'nen''
no" siad you "oaia D..
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want 20" 70 oDil81 ilS. - = ,riu ~
lloii WI ,o9S you tF'oA1a7' 49, = IN no.
me great happiness. " ebaisc ~ "ll1
deny me. | WANT y5li as gu FAlei "
try the Christian I=ii&loai u y ooes 10
stand the test dlScd.i II, y ~
II
III you E4-ry SEX. ald YOU had beel
oivan IN oftba Doctor. mi 1 came to yo,
.nd ! tool !. ln.tIa 1T nadi.in. from, my
Sa,ka+ an1 .s,l Mr. !. ,n4dicina a.,
| ll,r,. will he'll, <nr. t mas cured fifty ueople.n
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tlnt.na :, -, ,.;1i ~. -. Won taka II
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NJ, ~ ~ ha,n, No, lanoi, sometimes
,vha, yo, an. ni1itlsra{je yLe,4. come s,,rges
III nnhann1u4SS over vonr eo,I that almost
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tbromrrh yyitn ,.nr.t Nov viii ro,, not trv
this soiace th,s faIrifnpa this .nodrne this
tfo.,Hl ,ondic5na1
..fb vn,, s.v ii h.ran,+ > faith in II ~
As a u,a1t.r af crotufue.Ist ZION let me in
;roduce Won to -. Lord Jesus Christ. the
tfr.nt Pnysician .NiN" Won saw II
haven't any faith IN Him Well, now, will
You not just Let him come and try His power
Oh yout SOUL Just let me introduce Him to
YOU. | 90 not ask YOU to take my word for
It. | 10 not ask YOU take the advice of cler-
gymen. Perhaps the ~clergylnen may be
pre- JUDGED perhaps We may be speaking
professionally; perhaps We may give you
wrong advice: perhaps we are morbid on
that subject: 50 | do not ask you TO take the
advice OF ciergymen. / ask you to take the
advice Of very respectable laymen, such as
W lliiam Shakespeare, the dramatlst; as
William Wilberforce the statesman: as Isaac
Newton, the astronomer; as Robert Boyle,
the philosopher, as Locke, the metaphysi
can: as Morse, the electrician.
These men never preached-they never
pretended to preach-but they come out, and
putting down, one his telescope. and another
tie electricians wire, and another the par
ilanentary s~croll-they come out, and they
commend Christ as a comfort to all the PEG
pie, a Christ that the world needs. Now |
10 not ask you to take the advice of clergy
men. Take the advice Of these laymen. Il
does not make any difference to me at thi:
%iEncture what you have said against the
llb!e, II does not make any difference to me
at this %juncture how you may have carica
tured religion. Take the advice of men who
are prominent in secular affairs, as these
men whqu | have mentioned and others who
inlmediacely occur to my mind. You see
10 not scott at skepticism. | never scofret
II skepticistn. Ihave been a natural skeptic
! do not know what the first word was tina
| uttered after entering the world, but
thlnkI must have been why,
There were times when | doubted the exist
ence OF God. when | doubted the divinity Of
Christ. when I doubted the immortality 81
the soul. when | doubted my own existence
when | doubted everything. | have beer
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