The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-12-17

Too nssskn 10 - so fscrstltsuE1 nnIsss i
somebody else pays ias eapesassss Fos /
such young men we will uos FIGHT. We /
would no mere eosntezaa for flaesn thar,
sartary and Ethiopia wcali iigaat - % |
who ssonld have the great Sahara siss-
srt, but Tor those young usen who are
Lloyant and enthusiastic, those who
are determined 10 do sosneiklns for
time and for eternity-for them we
will fight, ard we now declare ever
lastin. war against all the influences
that assail them. and we axk all good
men and rhIlanthropiSts 10 wheel into
i line, and all the armies oi heaven to
bear down upon the foe, and We pray
Almighty God that with thu thunder
bolts of his wrath he win STRIFE down
and consume all these influences. that
are attempting 10 destroy the young
men for whom Christ died.
! THE CAN'T or ''LIBERALrTY."
The first class Of temptations that as
saults a young man Is lei on by tho
skeptic. lie will not admit that he Is
an intidel or atheist oh, no, lie Is
a free thinker" lie is one of your
"liberaln men He is free and easy In
religion. oh, how liberal he Is, lie Is
SO ''iiberl" that he will give away his
Bible. He Is so liberal that he win
give away the throne Of eternal justice.
lie Is so liberal that he would be
willing TO give God out of the universe.
He Is so ''libera" that he would give
up his own soul and the soul Of all his
friends Now what more conli you
ask in the way of liberalityG Tho vic
tim of this sieptic has probably just
come from the country. Through the
Intervention of friends he has been
placed in shop.
On Saturday the skeptic says TO him,
'Well, what are you going to do to-
morrow7" He says, II am going 10
church" as it possiblef says the
skeptic "WelI, / used to do those
things. was brought up, suppose,
as you were, in a religious family, and
/ believed all those things, but l got
over it. The fact is, since / came to
town have read great deal, and
have found that there are great many
things in the Bible that are ridiculous.
} Now, for instance, all that about the
serpent being cursed to crawl In the Gar
: den of Eden because it had tempted
Q our first parents; why, you see how alb
! surd it is; you can tell from the very or
ganization of the serpent that it had tc
= crawl; it crawled before it was cursed
g Just as well as it crawled afterward; yot
J can tell from its organization that i
y crawled. Then all that story about TIN
q whale swallowing Jonah, or Janah swal
q lowing the whale, which was it7 1t dom
a make any difference, the thing is absurd
Is it is ridiculous to suppose that a MAJ
could have gone down through The jaw
'r of n sea monster and yet kept his life
why, his respiration would have beer
n hindered; he would have been digested
ID the gastric Juice would have dissolve
P the fibrine and coagGlated albumen
n and Jonah would have been change
le from prophet into chyle. Then all tia
lg story about the miraculous conceptio
r why, it is perfectly disgraceful! Oh
l sir, / believe in the light of nature
l This is the Nineteeth century. Pro;
IN ress, sir; progress. don't blame yor
~ but after you have been in town q
long as / have you win think just as
do"
10 Thousands of young men are goin
Us down under that process day by da.
CT and there is only here and there
Is young man who can endure this arti
ne lery of scorn They are giving up the
u Bibles. The light of naturel Tie
ld have the light of nature in China; the
have it in Hindostan; they have 1t
II. Ceylon. Flowers there, stars ther
ys waters there, winds there; but no civ
VI lization, no homes, no happiness. La
40 Gets to cut. and iuggernauts to fall u
% der, and hooks to swing to; but I
he happiness. Itell you, my young brothe
ou we have to take religion of some kin
al We have to choose between four
nd five. Shall it be the Koran of the M
IL harnnedan, or the Shaster of the Hi
~ doc, or the Zendavesta of the Persia
or the Confucius writings Of the Ci
ht nese, or the Holy Scriptures" Tai
ed what you will; God helping me, / W
we take the Bible Light for all darknes
leh rock for all foundation; balm for {
1e wounds. 4 glory that lifts its pilla
% Of fire over the wilderness march.
ne Do net give up your Bibles. Ii the
people scofT at you as though reiigi'
JUS and the Bible were 10 only for wea
=, = minded people, you just tell them y
iis are not ashamed to be in the coDpa
oa of Burke the statesman, and Raphs
'he the painter, and Thorwaldsen t
Ut sculptor, and Mozart the musician, a
la.l Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacon I
!, 70 | philosopher, and Harvey the physicia
as- md John Milton the poet.
II" Ask them what infidelity has e'
iha done TO lift the fourteen hundred II
al lions Of the race out of barbaris
pc ask them when iniidelity ever instit
cd a sanitary commission; and, bef'
,aS you leave their society once and I
iiiS ever, tell them that they have insult
p he memory of your Christian fat
Ne and spit upon the deathbed OF "
ior mother, and with swine's snoat root
'ue, | ~ The grave Of your sister who d
@'ei believing In the Lord Jesus.
-, aiL sUFFIcIENcY OF THE scRIrTUR
;vo. Young man, hold on to your Bib
=. is the best book you ever owned
-, viii tell you how to dress, low TO
49, Yain, how to walk. how to act, how
Iss Eve, how to die. Glorious Bit
a., Whether on parchment or paper, La
=. tiaso or dnodecimo, on the center ia
If the drawing room or in the count
ia eoom of the banker. Glorious Eli
,a,,t Light to our feet and lamp to our pa
-, IuoId On to It'll
III, The second class of insidious tenn
- ions that com q upon our young \
Is led on by the dishonest enpio
the every commercial establishments