Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-25

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1.-The other thought is that there is a
God.
"There has never been found any con-
siderable set of people in the world who
have denied the existence of q God.
Many may differ in the choice of their
God, but man is a craving for some
kind of God to cling to.
"You all have doubtlessly read that
book by DR.. John Brown of Edinburg,
called Rab and His Friend, the story of
dog, where is described the cottager's
wife, in whose bosom cancer had been
gradually eating towards her hearts
blood, and she lay surrounded by her
weeping friends and her husband,
broken with his grief. Suddenly, when
they thought all was over, she started
up, and grasping shawl pressed it to
her bosom, and, singing lullaby,
her baby, who died long ago. sobbed
the old cottager, and with sigh she
sank upon the pillow, dead. The an
guish of pain in her bosom had caused
her to yearn for her baby who had left
her, and she sought anything with
which to give herself comfort.
Now that is humanity, there is some
thing at mans heart that yearns for
God, and however sordid, debased and
downcast the race may be, it still has
that pain at the heart, and while God
may be as dead to it as was the poor
cottager's baby to her, man will lay
hold on something to answer the pur-
pose.
GA nation without God has never
been found, and you can never find a
heather who says there is no God.
''In civilized countries you will some
times find man who says there is no
God, and that we are creatures of
chance. He has no hope, and for his
future takes a starless midnight.
"This man has small following; the
people of the world never had anything
to do with him, or had any use for him,
still he exists and complains that he
cannot get hearing.
He reminds me of scene once wit
messed in Egypt. Among the mummy
| pits of Thebes is one broken open years
ago by the Arabs. No traveller ever en-
ters this pit, because for some unac-
countable cause the myriadsof bats from
| the dark recesses of the tombs took up
their abode in this place.
sour guide went few feet into the
mouth of the cavern and discharged an
old gun, then hastened back to US.
Immediately was heard the mighty rush
| of wings, and from the place poured
myriads upon myriads of birds of dark
ness. Round and round they circled,
| blinded by the sun, until they flew
again to their dark abode. Numbers in
the blind rush were crowded from the
| small entrance, and were helplessly
dashed against the high granite walls,
falling to the ground broken, torn, fut-
tering until the eye sickened of the re-
voting sight and turned away.
$50 with the man who takes his
abode in that starless midnight, when
the awakening summons of the day of
Judgment shall startle him. He will
come flying out into the bright sunlight
of Gods glory, and blinded by it will
dash himself against His wall and fall
back with his bruised, bleeding, man
gled eoul, dropping from rock to rock of
perdition to be mockingly received by a
thousand fiends to be consigned to ever
lasting darkness.
"But let us follow the thought OF the
average man. He goes out abroad and
asks who can tell him the most concern
ing God.
"He first encounters the man who says
God is a great creator but He has no
particular interest in man any more
than in another part of His creations.
'Next there is the disciple of evolu-
tion, who tells him that God is great
unfolder.
"Then comes the pantheist saying
L have better theory than that. God
is in everything. He is in all of these
things and they are His, but cannot
tell you how to reach Him.
"The deist says: God does exist
and the best can do for you is to show
what nature says of Him.
Nov the poor man turned away from
all of these theories and asks in the
hunger of his soul who will be the wit
ness to tell him what he seeks.
"What constitutes the qualifications
of witness?
"First, that he should be near enough
to see: second, that he should be able
to understand what he sees and third,
heshould have the honesty to relate what
he has comprehended.
"Nature's laws are only Gods SER
wants, and the testimony servant can
give is not like that of son. A son
knows more of his father than anyone
else, and in Jesus Christ we have son
who knows more of his father than any
preacher or witness ever does, and he
tells us of his father.
"How shall we address him? The
scientist says, kneel and say, my cre-
ator. The evolutionIst says, kneel and
say, my unfolder.' The pantheist tells
us to kneel and say, my all-compre
hending divine mighty one.'
"But at last one comes with nobleness
on His brow and crowned with thorns,
and in Him you see the perfect witness.
You ask, How shall speak?' and He
bends over you and says, My Father
''If this is true, several things follow.
"First, we will always be sure of
Gods love.
"Second, by that we will always be
protected, for we have that assurance
because He is our Father"
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