Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-04-07

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ask you to mention the names of the
merciful and the educational institu-
tions which in6delity founded and is
supporting, and has supported all the
way through-institutio pronounced
against God and the Christian religion,
and vet pronounced in behalf of suffer
ing humanity. What are the names of
them7 Certainly not the United States
Christian commission or the sanitary
commission, for Christian George II.
Stuart was the president of the one
and Christian Henry w. Bellows was
the president of the other. Where are
the asylums and mercifuI institutions
founded by infdelity and supported by
infdelty, pronounced against God and
the Bible, and yet doing work for
the alleviation of suffering3 Infidel
ity is so very loud in its bragga
docio it must have some to men
ton. Certainly, if you come to speak
of educational institutions, it is not
Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Prince
IOl, IL Is llOI hluNllCbOWll, 10 llOU CSNllA
bridge or Oxford, it is not any institu-
ton from which a diploma would not
be a disgrace. Do you point to the
German universities as exceptionsl
have to tell you that all the German
universities today are under positive
Christian influences, except the univer-
sity of Heidelberg, where the ruffianly
students cut and maui and mangle and
murder each other as matter of pride
instead of infamy. Do you mention
Girard college, Philadelphia, as an ex-
ception-that college established by
the will of Mr.. Girard, which forbade
religious instruction and the entrance
of clergymen within its gates9 My re-
ply is that lived for seven years near
that college and knew many of its pro
fessors to be Christian instructors, and
no better Christian influences are to be
found in any college than in Girard
college.
INFIDELTrY A KNOw-NOTHING AND A
DO-NOTHING.
There stands Christianity. There
stands infidelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare their resources.
There is Christianity, a prayer on her
lip, benediction on her brow; both
hands full of help for all who want
help; the mother of thousands of col
leges; the mother of thousands of asy-
lums 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 thou
sands of reformatory institutions for
the saving of the lost; the mother
of innumerable Sabbath schools bring
ing millions of children under drill to
prepare them for responsibility and
usefulness, to say nothing of the great
future That is Christianity.
Here is infidelity; no prayer on her
lips, no benediction on her brow, both
hands clenched-what for2 To fight
Christianity. That is the entire bust |
ness The complete mission of infidel- |
ity to fight Christianity. Where are
her schools, her colleges, her asylums
of mercy2 Let me throw you down q
whole ream of foolscap paper that you
may fill all of it with the names of her
beneficent Institutions the colleges and |
the asylums, the institutions of mercy
and of learning founded by infidelity
and supported alone by infldelity, pro
nounced 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. We'll, then, | throw
you a quire of paper Fill it up now.
| will wait until you get all the names
down. "Oh," you say, that is too
much" Well, then, l will just hand
you 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 educa-
tional institutions founded by infidelity
and supported all along by infidelity,
pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet in favor of humanity.
"Oh," you say, that is too much
room; we don't want whole sheet of
paper to write down the names" Per
haps | had better tear out one leaf
from my memorandum book, and ask
you fill up both sides of it with the
names of such institutions. "Oh," you
say, that would be too much room
| wouldn't want so much room as
that Well, then, suppose you count
them ON your ten fingers. ooh"
you say, mot quite so much as that"
Well, then, count them on the fingers
of one hand. "Oh," you say, I'VE
don't want quite so much room as
that" Suppose then, you halt and
count on one finger the name of anv in. |
stitution founded by infidelity, sup
ported entirely by infdelity, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion.
yet toiling to make the world better.
Not opel Not one!
Is infdelity sopoor, so starveling. so
mean, so uselessl Get out, you miser-
able pauper of the universel Crawl
into some rathole of everlasting moth
ngneSs. lnidelity standing to-day amid
the suffering, groaning, dying nations
and yet doing absolutely nothing, save
trying to impede those who are toiling
until they fall exhausted into theiI
graves in trying to make the world bet
ter Gather up all the work, all the
merciful work, that inhdelity has ever
done, add it all together, and there Is
not so much nobility in il as i'm the