Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-04-11

Where are the asylnms and merciful in
situations founded by infdelity and sup
ported by inidelity. pronounced against
God and the Bible, and yet doing work for
the alienation of sufferings Infdelity is 50
very loud in its braggadocio it must have
some to mention. Certainly. if you come to
speak OF educational institutions it is not
ale, it is not Harvard, it is not Princeton.
It IS not Middletown, it is not Cambridge or
Oxford, 1t Is not any institution from which
diploma would not be disgrace Do you
point to the German universities as excep-
tionsg have to tell you that all the German
universities to-day are under positive
Christian influences except the University
OF Heidelburg, where the ruffianly students
cut and maui and mangle and murder each
other as matter Of pride instead of infamy.
Doyou mention Girard College, Philadelphia,
as an exception, that college established BY
the will Of Mr.. Girard which forbade re-
hgious instruction and the entrance of
clergyn1en within its gates Ny reply is
that lived for seven years near that college
and | knew many of its professors to be
Christian instructors and no better Christian
Influences are to be found many college than
in Girard College.
There stands Christianity There stands
inffdelity. Compare what they have done.
Compare their resources. There is Chris
tianity, prayer on her lip; beneiictiou 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 asvlums
for the oppressed the blind. the sick tha
lame, the imbecile; the mother of missions
for the bringing back of the outcast; the
mother of thousands of reformatory institu-
tons for the saving of the lost: the mother
of innumerable Sabbath-school, bringing.
millions of children under a drill to prepare
them for responsibility and usefulness, to
say nothing of the great future. That is
Christianity.
Here is inidelity; no prayer on her lips, no
bene fiction on her brow, both hands clenched
what for? 10 fight Christianity That is
the entire business. TIE complete mission
of infidelity to fight Christianity. Where
ara her schools, her colleges, her asylums of
msrcys Let me throw you down whole
ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all
of it with the names of her beneticent in-.
situations, the colleges and the asylums, the
institutions of mercy and learning, founded
by infdelity and supported alone by infdel9
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, and yet in favor of making the
world better. "Oh," you say, sc ream Of
paper is too much for the names of those in
situations Well then, throw you quire
of paper. Fill it all up now. l will wait
until you get all the names down. "Oh, y
you say, that is too much" Well, then, I
will just hand you sheet of letter paper.
just fill up the four sides while we are talk
ing of this matter with the names of the
merciful institutions and the educational in
situations founded by infidelity and supported
all along by infideiity pronounced against
God and the Christian 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" Perhaps had bet
ter tear out one leaf from my mem orandum
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names OF such institutions. "0h," 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 50 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
institution founded by infidelity, supported
entirely by infidelity, pronounced against
God and the Christian religion, yet toll
ing to make the world better. Not one!
| Not onel
Is mtidelity so poor, so starveling, so
| mean, 80 useless? Get out you miserable
! pauper of the universe Crawl into some
/ rathole of everlasting nothingness. Infidelity
| standing to-day amid the suffering, grooming,
| dying nation, and vet doing absolutely
| nothing save trying to impede those who are
toiling until they fall exhausted 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 nobii-
| ity in it as in the smallest bead of that sister
! of charity ,sho last night went ID the dark
! alley of the town, put jar of Jelly for an
| invalid appetite on broken stand, and then
knelt on the bare floor praying the mercy Of
Christ upon the dying soul.
| 1nfidelity scrapes no lint for the WOUNDED,
| hal no he I'M por1-Ny n n III
I pillow for the SICK, rcuses no comfort for tbs
| bereft, gids nc grave for the dead. While
I Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our
| risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned
| Bible-blessed be His glorious name forever!
/ our Christ stands this hour pointing to the
hospital, or to the asylum, saying: II was
sick and We gave me a couch, was lame and
ye gave me a crutch, ] was blind and ye
| physicianed my eyesight, | was orphaned
/ and We mothered my soul, | was lost on the
mountains and We brought me home mas
much as ye did it to one of tue least of these
| ye did it TO me-"
But thank God that this plague of inf
deity will be stayed Many of those who
hear me now by the Hoy Ghost upon their
hearts will cease to be scoffers and will be-
! come disciples and the day will arrive when
ell nations will accept the Scriptures. The
book is going to keep right on until the fires
of tle last day are 6indied. Some of them
will begin on one side and some on the other
/ side of the old book They will not find a
bundle of loose manuscripts 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 single
chapter or a single verse out OF place. That
viii be the first time we can afford to do
/ without the Billie.