Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-04-16

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Furthermore, rather than invite resist
this plague of infdelity because it has
wrought no positive good for the world
and is always a hindrance. ask you to
mention the names of the merciful and the
educational institutions which infidelity
founded and is supporting, and has sup
ported all the way Experimentation
pronounced against Gcd and the Christian
religion, and yet pronounced in behalf of
suffering humanity. What are the names
of themi Certainly not the United States
Christian commission, or the sanitary COM
mission, for Christian George II. Stuart
was the president of the one, and Christian
Henry w. Bellows was the president of the
other.
COMPARE THE HOSPITALS AND COLLEGES.
Where are the asylums and merciful in
stitutions founded by infldelity and sup
ported by infidelity, pronounced against
God and the Bible, and yet doing work for
the alienation of suTeringl Infidelity is SO
very loud in its braggadocio it must have
some to mention. Certainly, if you come
to speak of educational institutions it is
not Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Prince
ton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cam
bridge or Oxford, it is not any institution
from which diploma would not be dis
grace. Do you point to the German uni
versities as exceptions? have to tell you
that all the German universities to-day are
under positive Christian influences, except
the University of Heidelberg, where the
ruffianly students cut and maui and man.
gle and murder each other as a matter of
pride instead of infamy. Do you mention
Girard college, Philadelphia, as an excep-
ton, that college established by the will of
Mr.. Girard which forbade religious in
struction and the entrance of clergymen
within its gates. My reply is that l lived
for seven years near that college and knew
many of it's professors to be Christian in
structors, and no better Christian infu-
ences are to be found in any college than
in 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; a 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 out
cast; the mother of thousands of reforma-
tory institutions for the saving of the lost;
the mother of innumerable Sabbath schools
bringing millions of children under drill
to prepare them for responsibility and use
fulness, 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 for? To fight Christian
ity. That is the entire business The COM
plete mission of infidelity to fight Chris
tianity. Where are her schools, her col
leges, her asylums of mercy? Let me
throw you down whole ream of foolscap
paper that you may fill all of it with the
names of her benefcent institutions, the
colleges, and the asylums, the institutions
of mercy and of learning, founded by in
fidelity and supported alone by infidelity,
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, l throw you a
quire of paper. Fill it all up now will
wait until you get all the names down.
"Oh," you say, "that is too much" Well,
then, will just hand you sheet of letter
payer. 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 infdelity, pro-
nounced against God and the Christian
religion, yet in favor of humanity.
WHERE ARE YOUR FRUITS, AGNosTICs?
"Oh," you say, "that is too much room.
We don't want whole sheet of paper to
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better tear out one leaf from my memoran-
dunn book and ask you fill up both sides
of it with the names of such institu-
tions. "Oh," you say, that would be
too much room. l wouldn't want Sc
much room as that" Well, then, sup.
pose you count them on your ten fin
fiers. "Oh," you say, mot quite so much
as that" Well, then, count them on the
fingers of one hand. "Oh," you say, eve
don't want quite so much room as that. u
Suppose, then, you halt and count on one
finger the name of any institution founded
by infdelity, supported entirely by infidel.
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet toiling to make the world
better. Not onel Not onel
Is inidelity so poor, SO starveling, sc
mean, so uselessS Get out, you miserable
pauper of the universal Crawl into some
rathole of everlasting nothingness. In
fidelity standing today amid the suffering
groaning, dying nations, and yet doing alb
solutely nothing save trying to impede
those who are toiling until they fall ex
hausted into their graves in trying to make
the world better. Gather up all the work
all the merciful work, that infidelity has
ever done, add it all together, and there is
not so much nobility in it as in the small
est bead of that sister of charity who last
night went up the dark alley of the town
put jar of jelly for an invalid appetite or
a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare
floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the
dying soul.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wound
ed, bakes no bread for the hungry, shake es
up no pillow for the sick, rouses no com
fort for the bereft, gilds no grave for the
dead. While Christ, our Christ, oul
wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the
Christ of this old fashioned Bible-blessed
be his glorious name foreverl our Christ
stands this hour pointing to the hospital
or to the asylum, saying: II was sick and
ye gave me couch, was lame and ye
gave me crutch, Twas blind and ye ply
sicianed my eyesight, was orphaned and
ye mothered my soul, was lost on the
, mountains and ye brought me home; mas
asmuch as ye did it to one of the least Of
these, ye did it to me-"
, But thank God that this plagus.of in
fidelity will be stayed. Many of those who
hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon theil
; hearts will cease to be scoffers and will be
come disciples, and the day will arrive