Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-07-17
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JULY II, 1891,
comes from al sides, from young and old

comes from all sides, from young and old
and middle aged, ''We are Witnessed
You see. my friends, have not put be
fore you an abstraction OF a chimera, OF
anything like guess work. I present you
affldavits Of the best men and women, liV-
ing and dead. Two witnesses in court win
establish a fact. Here are not 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 Inst hour.
II ten Ihen 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, Eve 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
discEedit their testimony The skeptic may
come aud say, "There is no power in your
religion" Have you ever tried its' ''N0,
no." "Then avauntm 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, 1--WE are
witnessesw
LOOK Fo8 THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Professor Henry, of Washington, discov-
cred a new star, and the tidings sped by
submarine telegraph. and all the observa-
tories OF Europe were Watching for that
new star. Oh. heazer, looking out through
the darkness Of thy soul, canst thou see a
bright Hight beaning on theeS "Wherei"
you say: ''wherel How can / find it,
Look along by the line Of she Gross 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 70 stem.
When suddenly a star arose
It was the Star Of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearers, get your eye on it. It 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 Missed off the stage
at Vienna by the friends Of her rival, Anne
liza Steininger, who had already begun to
deSline through her dissipation. Years
passed on, and one day Nine. Sontag, in
her glory, was riding through the streets
OF Berlin, when she saw a little child lead
ingNa blind woman, and she said: Come
here. my little child. come here. Who is
that you arc leading by the handr" And
the little child replied; That's my moth
or; that's Amelia Steininger. She used to
be 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 Mime. Sontag, land tell her an old &C
quaintance will call on her this afternoon"
The next week in Berlin a 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 sain tried to give eyesight to the poor
blind woman. Until the day Of Amelia
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 a more thrilling
story still. Blind, immortal, poor and
lost; thou who, when the world and Christ
we're rivals for thy heart didst hiss thy
Ford away-Christ comes now to give thee
sight, to give thee home, to give thee
heaven. With more than a Sontag's gen
,rosity, he comes now to meet your need.
With more than a Sontag's music, he
zones to plead for thy deliyerance.