Sharp County record., 1891-07-30
sSEs FOR CHRIST.
y Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
at High Bridge, KY
r the christian Religion DEM
hvIta witnesses Through
, Centuries of Its EH-
istence.


Centuries of Its Ex-
istence.
wing discourse was delivered
Dewitt Talmage at the
q XIV camp ground, based
ucsses. .--Acts ill.,, 10
amid the hills and groves OF
and before this great multi
n can number, most Of whom
before and never will see
is world, l choose a very
,eme. In the days OF George
|. the perfector of the loco,
gine, the scientists proved
V that a railroad train could
riven by steam power sue
Iithout peril; but the rushing
ms from Liverpool to Edln-
from Edinburgh to London,
all the nation witness OF the
.hieyement. Machinists and
proved conclusively that IA
Md never cross the Atlantic
no sooner had they success
d the impossibility of such
aking than the work was
he passengers on the Cunard,
man, and the National and
Star lines are witnesses.
t up a guffaw of wise laugh
Morse's proposition to make
ng Of Heaven his errand boy,
proved conclusively that the
/ never be done; but now all
f the wide world put in your
ry morning and night has
ations witnesses.
time Of Christ it was proved
ly that it was impossible for
Sc from the dead. 1t was
cally that when a man was
as dead, and the heart and
nd the lungs having ceased
their offices, the limbs would
,yond all power of friction or
they Showed it to be an abb
urdity that the dead Christ
r get mp alive, but no sooner
proved this than the dead
se, and the disciples beheld
1 His Voice, and talked with
hey took the witness stand to
to be true which wiseacres
/ to be impossible; the rec
experiment and of the testi-
the text: "Ilim hath God
n the dead, whereof we are
! me play the skeptic for a
There is no Cod says the
for I have never seen Him
hysical eycsight. Your Bible
I fcontradictions. There never
acle. Lazarus was not raised
lead, and the water was never
o wine. Your religion is an
ION the credulity of the ages, "
n aged man moving in that
hough he would like to re-
Iere are hundreds of people
|, a little flushed at these an
nts. and all through this
lere is a suppressed feeling
uld like to speak out in behalf
th of our glorious Christianity,
days of the text, crying out;
vitnesses!'
I is that if this world is ever
before God it will not be
lrgument, but through testi-
ou might cover the whole
b apologies for Christianity,
ed treatises in defense Of re-
u would not convert a soul.
on the harmony between
I'd religion are beautiful men.
inc, but have never saved a
lever will save a soul, Put q
he world and a man Of the
yainst each other and the man
orld will, in all probability,
iumph. There are a thousand
our religion that seem illog-
Q world, and always will seem
,apon in this conflict is faith,
faith, not metaphysics; faith,
faith, not scholastic
on. But then, in order to have
must have testimony, and if
red men, or one thousand men,
undrcd thousand men, or five
len get up and tell me that
Q felt the religion of Jesus
Joy, a comfort, a help, an in
] am bound MS q fair-minded
'cept their testimony. / want
% put before you three PROPOSE
, truth Of which ! think this
will attest with overwhelming
I. The first proposition is.
vitnesses that the religion of
able to convert a soul, The
Iay have had u hard time to
us, we may have fought
but we were vanquished.
conversion is only an i'm.
hing We know better. "Wc
sses" There never was so
change in our heart and
ny other subject as on this.
'ughcd ut the missionaries in
ar because they preached ten
1out one convert; but there
: thousands of converts In
Or to'day. People laughed
lson, the Baptist missionary,
. Kept on preaching in Bur.
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