Connecticut western news., 1891-04-08

stands intideIity. Compare what they have done. Compare their resources. There is Christianity. 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 for7 To fight Christianity. That is the entire busi- 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 a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with the names of her beneflcent institutions, tine colleges and the asylums, the institutions of mercy and of learning founded by infidelity and supported alone by infidelity, 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" Well, then, l throw you quire of paper. Fill it up now. will wait until you get all the names much" We'll, then, will just hand you sheet of letter paper. Just fin up the four sides while we are talking of this matter with the names of the lnerciful institutions and the educa- tional institutions founded by infidelity and supported all along by intidelity, 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 I 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. "Oh," you say. mot quite so much as that" We'll, 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 any in stitution founded by inf1delity, sup ported entirely by infidelity, pronounced against God and the Christian religion, yet toiling to make the world better. Not onel Not onel
 Is infidelity so poor, so starveling, so mean, so useless9 Get out, you miser- l able pauper of the universe Crawl into some rathole of everlasting noth- ingness. Infidelity standing today amid the suffering, grooming, dying nations and yet doing absolutely nothing, save trying to impede those who are toiling until they fall exhausted into their graves in trying to make the world bet ter. Gather up all the work, all tho mercifM work, that infidelity has ever done. add it all together and there is not so much nobility in it as in the smallest bead of that Sister of Charity who last night went up the dark alley of the town, put a jar of jelly for an in- valid appetite on a broken stand. and then knelt on the bare floor, praying the mercy of Christ upon the dying soul.
 THE PLAGUE WILL BK sTAID.
 Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hun gry, shakes up no pillow for the sick, rouses no comfort for ,he bereft. gilds no grave for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of this old fash toned Bible-blessed be his glorious name foreverl-our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital. or to the asylum, saying, 'I was sick and ye gave me couch, was lame and ye gave me crutch, was blind and ye physicianed my eyesight, I was orphan ed and ye mothered my soul, I was lost on the mountain and ye brought me home; inasnuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to me-"
 But thank God that this plague of infidelity will be staid. Many of those who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be scoffers 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 bundle of loose manu- scripts easily consumed like finder thrown into the fire. When the fires of the last day are kindled some will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revelation toward Genesis, and in all their way they will not find a single chapter or a 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 destroyedi What will be the use of the prophecies when they are all fulfilled9 What will be the use of the evangelistic or Pauline description of Jesus Christ when we see him face to face2 What will be the use 1 0f v>I, ,r,hox, ,,,o loS,o =, ~k