The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-15

that lived for seven years near that COL
lege and knew many of its professors to
be Christian instructors, and no better
Christian influences are to be found in
any college than Girard college.
There stands Christianity. There stands
infidelity. Compare what they have done.
Compare their resources. There is Chris
tianity, a prayer on her lip, benediction
on her brow both hands full OF help for
all who want help the mother of thou
sands OF colleges; the mother of thousands
OF asylums for the oppressed. the blind,
the sick, the lame, the imbecile; the
mother OF missions for the bringing back
OF the outcast; the mother of thousands of
reformatory institutions for the saving of
the lost; tie mother of inuumerable Sab
bath-schOos, bringing millions of children
under drill to prepare.them for respecta-
bility and usefulness, to say nothing of
he great future. That is Christianity.
Here is ilfidelity; no prayer on her lips,
no benedistion OF her brow, both hands
clinched-what for? ToI fight Chris
tianity. That is the entire business. The
complete mission of intidelity is TO fight
Christianity Where are her schools, her
colleges, her asylums of mercy? Let me
cap paper hat you may iii all of it with
the names of her benefceut institutions,
the cOllegesand asylums, the institutions
OF mercy AMI OF learning, founded by in
fidelity, andsupported alone by in6delitv,
pronounced lgainst God and the Christian
religion and yet in favor of making the
world better. oh" you say, " a ream of
paper is too mich for the names of those
institutions" Well then, l throw YOU a
quire of paper, 81 it all up now. | will
wait till you ct all the names down.
"Oh," you say, "hat is too much" Well,
then, L will just hind you a sheet OF letter
paper. Just fill NJ the four sides while
we are talking OF this matter with the
names of the merciul institutions and the
educational institutions founded by ind-
deity and supportd all along by inf
deity. pronounced against God and the
Christian religion, yet in favor of
humanity.
"Oh," you say, "bat is too much room !;
we don't want a whle sheet of paper to
write down the Names" Perhaps l had
better tear out one laf from my memor-
andum book, and as. you to till up both
sides of it with the nmes of such institu-
tions. "Oh," you sa', that would be too
much room; l wouHn't want 80 much
room as that" Wei, then, suppose you
count them on your ten fingers. "Oh, "
you say. mot quite 90 much as that"
| Well, then, count thm on the fingers of
one hand. ooh" you say, 'we don't
want quite so much Dom as that" Sup
pose, then, you halt and count on one
| finger the name q any institution
founded by infdelity supported entirely
| by infidelity, pronounced against God and
al oil 70, 1oe a
the world better. No onei Not one
| Is infdelity so poT, so starveling, so
mean, so useless? Ge out, you miserable
pauper of the uuivers,i Crawl into some
rat hole of everlasting nothingness. Infi-
deity standing to-dayamid the suffering,
groaning, dying nations, and yet doing
absolutely nothing, save trying to impede
those who are toiing Until they fall ex-
| hausted into their graves in trying to
make the world better. Gather up ali the
work, ali the merciful work that inddelity
has ever done, add it all together, and
there is not so murh nobility in it as in
/ the smallest head of that sister OF charity
who last nigh; went up the dark alley OF
the town, put jar of jelly for an invalid
| appetite on broken stand, and knelt on
the floor praying the mercy OF God upon
| the dying sou.
Infdelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded. brakes no bread for the hungry
| shakes up nopiilow for the sick, rouses
no comfort fo- the bereft, gilds no grave
for the dead. While Christ, our Christ
our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the
| Christ of this old-fashioned bible-blessed
be his glorious name forever-our Christ
stands this hour pointing to the hospital
or to the asvlvm, saving: 81 was sick and
you gave me couch was lame and yC
| gave me a crutch; | was blind and yt
| physicianed ny eyesight; l was orphaned
and We mOtheled my soul; was lost or
the mountains and We brought me home
( inasmuch as We did it to one of the leas
of these. We did it to me-"
But thank God that this plague OF in
| fidelity will be stayed. Many of those
who hear me now by the Holy Ghost
upon their hearts will cease to be scofferi
and will become disciples, and the day will
arrive when all nations will accept the
scriptures. The book is going to keeE
right on until the fires of the last day ar,
| kindled. Some OF them will begin on one
side and some on the o her side OF the ole
book They will not find a bundle OF loose
| manuscripts easily consumed like tinde
thrown into the fire. When the fires OF thl
last day are kindled, some will burn or
| this side. from Genesis toward Revelation
and others will burn on this side, iron
Revelation toward Genesis, and in all thei
way they will not find single cbaptel
or single verse out of place. Tha
will be the first time we car
afford to do without the bible. Wha
will be the use of the book of Genesis
descriptive of how the world was made
when the world is destroyed? What viii
be the use of the prophecies when the,
are all fulfilled? What will be the use o
What viii be the use OF his photograph
will be the use OF the book OF Revelation
standing. as you will. with your loot OIL