Telegram-herald., 1891-07-13

- read tee proIutees, aud pfonaiss IN TIE
pres -sles u kiga heayen chat yon wsa tell
tne trutn. The wa0le truth aud neiiaag
bat re truth With what yea have seea
With pour own eyes sad shat s0Q have
heard with yoar oeu ears. - there power
ia t5is Gosgsi 10 give ealmness and &.
enph in the lsst exigsncy' The response
comes frcsa a. sides, from yoaas AID old
ani mldslie aged. We are ~itaesses.
losl see. my friends. ! aase not pat Ia
fore yoa "a abstraction Or a chiaers. or
anything like guess work / present you
a1llAyits of the beat men and womea. liv-
ing aad eles.d Two witnesses Ia court will
establish fact. Hers are not two wit
nessss. .gt millions % witnesses on earth
sHd ia heaven tcstifying that there Is
power in this religion 20 convert the soul.
% give comfort ia trouble and 10 afford
conposure In the last hour.
II ten men should come 20 you when yoa
are sick with appalling sickness and say
they had the same sickness and took Ger
tain medicine aud 10 cured them, you would
probably tax. il. Now, suppose ten Other
men should come up aud say. I'VE don't
believe thar there is anything In that msdi-
clue" We'll. any. have you tried itf'
'No. never tried il. but don't believe
there Is anything in IT," OF course yo1
dlscrefiit their testimony. The skeptie may
come aud say. '',fhere is no power In your
religion" 'iiavc you ever tried itt'' mo,
no." Then avaautl' Let mo take the
testimony Of the millions OF souls that have
been converted 10 God and comforted in
trial aud solaced in the last hour. We Will
take their testimony as they cry. I'VE are
witnessesi'
Professor Henry, of Washington, diseov-
cred new star. and the ti1ings sped by
submarine telegraph. and all the observe
| tories of Europe were watching for that
new star Oh, hsarcr. looking ont through
the darkness OF thy soul. eanst thou see IA
bright light beaming on theei "Wheres'
you say; ''wheres How can l find it,
Look along by the line of the Cross of tbs
! Son of God. Do you not see il trsmbl Z
with ell tenderness and beaming with all
hope 1t is the Star OF Bethlehem.
Deep horror thea my VII ais froze.
Deaths;ruca ceased tho tide 10 stem,
| When suddenly = star arose
1t was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearers, get your eye on II. II Is
easier for you now to become Christians
| than it is to stay away from Christ and
lodNcu. w uSu -dtuc coutuS pcSuu Lex
musical career she was Missed OF the stage
at Vienna by the friends of her rival, Anne
liza Steininger. who had already begun "a
decline through her dissipation. Years
! passed on. end ono day Nine. Sontag. in
her glory, was riding through the streets
OF Berlin, whom she saw a little child lead
/ ing a blind woman. and she said Come
| here, my little child. come here. Who IS
! that you arc leading by the handf" And
the little child replied: That's my moth.
er: that's Amelia Steninger. She used to
be great singer, but she lost her voice
and she cried so much about it that she
| lost her eycsiSht." give my love to her. "
said Nine. Sontag. "and tell her an old nc
quaintance will call on her this afternoon. y
| The next week in Berlin a vast assem-
blage gathered at q benefit for that poor
blind woman. and it was said that Sontas
sang that night as she had never sung be
! fore And she took skilled oculst, who
In vain tried 20 give cyesight to the poor
blind woman. Until the day OF Amelia
Steininger's death Madam Sontag took
| care of her and her daughter after her
That was what the queen Of song did foI
her enemy. But oh, hear a more thrilling
story still. Blind, immortal, poor and
lost; thou who, when the world and Christ
were rivals for thy heart didst hiss thy
Lord away-Christ comes now to give thee
sight, to gi-e thee home, to give thee
heaven. With more than a Sontags gen
erosity. he comes now TO meet your need
With more than Sontag's music, b.
comes to plead for thy deliverance.