The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-14

|ty of Heidelberg, were the fufianly
students cut and maa and mnngle and
murder each other as a matter Of pride
instead of infamy. Do YOU mention
Girard college, philadelphia, as IAN <
ception, that college established bv the
will of Mr.. Girard, which forbade relio-
ious instruction and the entrance ofcler-
rgymen within It's gates? MY reply is
that / lived for seven years near that
college and knew many OF its professors
to DO Christian instructors, and no bet
ter Christian influences are to be found
in any college than in Gifard college.
There stands Christianity. There
stands infidelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare their resources.
There is Chrintianity. q PRAYER on her
lip; a benediction onher brow; both hauds
full of help; the mother of thousands of
colleges; the mother ofthousands of asy-
lums for the oppressed, the blind, the
sick, the lame, the imbec lie; the mother
OF missions for the bringing back of the
outcast; this mother of thousands of re-
fornatory institutions for the saving of
She the mother ofinnumerable Sab
both schools bringing millions of children
under q drill to prepare them for res
portability and usefulness, to 8 ay moth
ing OF the great future. That is Chris
tienty.
Here is infide,ity; no prayer on her
lips, no benediction ON her brow; both
hands clenched-what for? To FIGHT
Christianity. That is the entire business.
The complete mission of infidelity is to
light Christianity. Where are her schools,
her colleges, her asylums of mercy?
Let me throw you down q whole
ream OF foolscap paper that you may I'll
all OF it with The Dames of her benefcent
institutions, the colleges and the asy-
lums, the institutions of mercy and of
learning, founded by infidelity, and sup
ported alone by i%ntiedlity, pronounced
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 1t ali up now. L
will wait until you get all the names
down. "Oh," you say, that is too
much" Well, then, L will just hand
you a 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 educational institu-
tons founded by Infidelity and supported
all along by Infidelity, pronounced
gainst God and the Christian religion,
yet in favor OF humanity.
"Oh," you say, "that is too much
room; we don't want a whole sheet of
paper to write down the Names" Per-
haps L had better tear out one leaf from
my memorandum book, and ask you to
fill up both sides of it with the names of
such institutions "Oh," you say, ''that
would be too much room; I wouldn't
want so much DON 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 hand. ,sOh,"
you say, "we don't want quite so much
room as that" Suppose, then, you
halt and count on one finger the n anne
of any institution founded by inGdelity,
supported entirely be in6delity, pro-
nounced against God and the Christian
religion, yet toiling to make the world
better. Not'one! Not one!
Is infdelity sc poor, 80 s~tarveling, so
mean, 80 unless? Get out, you misera-
BILE pauper of the universe! Crawl INTO
some rat hole of everlasting nothingness.
Infidelity standing to-day amid the suf-
fering, grooming, dying nations, and vet
doing absolutely nothing save trying to
impede those who are toiling until thew
fall exhausted into their grave in irving
to make the world better. Gather up
all the work, all the mercifnl work, that
infidelily has ever done, add it all to-
gethcr, and there is not so much mobility
in it as in the smallest bead of that sis
Ter of charity who last night went up
the dark alley of the town put a lar of
jelly for a n invalid appetite on a broken
stand, and then knelt on the bare floor,
praying the mercy of Christ upon the
dying soul.
%Iniidelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes NJ 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
loned Bible-blessed 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
me a COUCH was lame and We gave me
a crutch, l was blind and We physician
ed my eyesight, 1 was orphaned and We
mothered my soul, / was lost on the
mountain and ye brought me home;
inasmuch as ye did it to one of the
least of these. we did it to me-"
But 1 thank God that this plague of
inlidelity will be stayed. Many of those
who hear me now by the Holy Ghost
upon their hearts will cease to be SCOT
fers 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 a bundle Of loose manuscripts
easily consumed like finder thrown
into the fire. When the fires Of the
last dsy are kindled some will
burn on this side, from Genesis toward
Revelation. and others will burn on this
side, from Revelation towards Genesis,
and in all their way they will not find a
single chapter or single verse out 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
Genesis, descriptive of how. the world
was made, when the world Is destroyedp
What will be the use Of the prophecies
when they are all fulflledp What will
be the use of the evangelistic or Pau
line description Of Jesus Christ when
we see him face to facep What will be
the use ofhis photograph when we have
met him in glory? What will be the
use of the Book of Revelation, stand
ing as you will with your foot on the
CLASSY sea, and your hand on the ring.
ing harD, n yOur forehead chs pleted