The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-16

you say, mot quite so much as that"
Well, then, count them on the fingers
of one hand oh" you say 1--WE
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 intidelity, sup
ported entirely by infidelity, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion,
yet toiling to make the world better
Not onel Not onel
Is intidelity so poor, so starveling, so
mean, so useless9 Get out, you miser-
able pauper of the universal Crawl
into some rathole of everlasting moth.
ingness. Infdelity standing today amid
the suffering, groaning, 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 the
merciful work, that intidelity 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 broken stand, and
then knelt on the bare floor, praying
the mercy Of Christ upon the dying
soul.
THE PLAGUE WILL BE sTAIp
Tnf1delity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes no bread for the hun
CRY, shakes up no pillow for the sick,
rouses no comfort for the 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, 81 was sick and ye
gave me couch, l was lame and We
gave me crutch, l was blind and ye
physicianed my eyesight, was orphan
ed and We mothered my soul, I was lost
on the mountain and we brought me
home; inasmuch as we did it to one of
the least of these, ye did it to me.
But l thank God that this plague of
infdelity 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 destroyed
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 face9 What will be the use
of his photograph when we have met
him in glory2 What will be the use Of
the Book of Revelation, standing as
you will with your foot on the CLASSY
sea, and your hand on the ringing harp
and your forehead chapleted with eter
nal coronation, amid the amethystine
and twelve gated glories of heaven
The emerald dashing its green against
the beryl, and the beryl dashing its blue
against the sapphire, and the sapphire
throwing its light on the jacinth, ant
the jacinth dashing its fire against thu
chrysoprassus, and you and | standing
in the glories of ten thousand sunsets