Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-17

- s1Esst a tie NV 49, fsuuN-
rszn. OF IL was On spms occasion which
yoa remember without my descrihinx il
Some ons got ths largh en- Tie Hlhss
and eaxicztured the pesfesnion az re-
hgina - hypocrisy, or naAs . pm eat
Of something tAat Christ aid. The
laugh started and you Joined in. and not
ous word Of psosszs did yoa urssr. What
kept you silent, Modestys No. In
capacity TO answer? No. Lack OF Oh
portuairys No. II wa blow ON both
your hps By tbs wing a ths dumb devil.
Ii sonse one should malign your father
on mother or wife or husband or child
you would nuAh up quick. and either
with Al dignant word or doubled no
Est make RESPONDS. An yet here u Cur
Christian religion. which he's dns 50
mach for yoa and % nnch fps he World
that it viii take all eternity 70 celebrate
It. and yet when il was attached You
did not so much - sny: al DIR, OBJ
lect, an ssry TO hear ycu say that.
Thrs u anothr ssAs 70 this-
You Christian people ought IN such
times As thess to go armed, not with
s.rthly weapons. bat with The sword Of
the Spint. You ought 10 hawU four or
i've qusst5ons with which you could
conf0und any man who attacks Chris
tisnity. A man ninety years old was
telling me fsw days ago how hs pat to
Fight . scofKer. Ny aged frisaa said TO
the skeptle, did You ever rcd the his
tory Of Joseph IN the Bibie? .Yes,"
said the man: lit u me story, and -
interesting . story a. ever read !"
well. now" said my old friend, .ssup-
pose that account Of joseph stopped half
wsyT "Oh.s said the man. 'ssheu it
would not be entsrtsining." well,
now" said my friend. I'VE have in this
world only half Of everything. and do
you not think that when We hear tho
last half things may be consistent, and
that then we may find that God was
right
LOAD Up WITH NTx1RooA11nN PoxrA
Oh, friends, better load up with fsw
interTogstion pointa You cannot a4srd
to be silent when God and the Bible
and tho things Of eternity ere assaulted.
Your silence gives consent to tho bonn
bardmeat Of your fathers hooss. You
allow slur to b cast on your mothsr's
dying pillow. In behalf Of the Christ,
who for you went through thu aeonics
of assassination on the rocky hlun hack
of Jerusalem, you dared not face . Gick-
~ joke. Better load up with few aues-
tons SO that next time you win beready.
Say 70 the SCOOTER: my dear sir, viii
you tell mo what makes the difference
between tho condition Of woman IN
Chica and TIE United States? WHIST do
you think Of tho sermon on tho mount?
How do yuu Like the golden rule laid
down in the Scriptures? Are you in
favor Of the ten commandments2 IN
your large end extensive reading hnvs
You come across . lovelier character
than Jesus Christ, Win yoa please TO
name the triumphant deathbeds Of IN
fidels and atheists? How do you account
for tho fact that among tho out and
ont believes in Christianity wore such
persons Is Beujsmin Franklin, John
Ruxkin, Thomas Carlyle, Bahingtoa
Macaulay, Willisn Pcnn, Waller Scott,
Charles Kings}ey, Horace Bushneu,
James A. Gar6aad. Robert & Lee. Stone
wall jackson, Admiral Foote, Admiral
Fsrragut, Ulysses s. Grant. John Mil
ton, William Shakespeare, Chief Justice
Marshall. John Adams, Daniel Wehster,
George Washington? how do you &C
count for their fondnees for the Christian
religion? Among the inncmerahle col
leges and universities Of tho Garth will
you nsms me three started by infidsls
and new supported by infidelss Down
in your heart arc you really happy in
the position you occupy sntagonistic to
tho Christian religion? When do you
have the most rapturous views OF tho
naxt world?
Go at him with . few such questions
and he win get 80 red IN tho face - t.
suggest apoplsxy, and he viii look IT
his watch and say he has an engagement
and must 60. You viii put him in .
sweat that win beat . Turkish bath.
You viii put him on rout compared
with which our troops ct Bull Bun made
no time at al. Arm yourself, not with
arguments but interrogation points, and
I promise you victory. Shall such q
man as you, ahau such . woman - you
surrender to one Of the meanest spirits
that ever smoked up from tho pit-ths
dumb devil spoken of in the taxt2
But then there are occasioos when
this particular spirit thst Christ sxsr-
c:sed when be said. II charge thss "a
come out Of him." takes people By ths
Wholesale. In the most responsive reli-
gious audience have you noticed how
many people never ing ct am They
have . book, and they have avoics. and
they know bow to rcd. They know
many Of tho tunes, and yet are silent
while the great raptures OF music pan
by. Among thoss who sing not one out
Of hundred sings loud enough 10 hear
his own voice. They hum it. They give
. sort Of religious gru.t. They make
the bps 60, but II u inaudibas. With Z
voice ssroag ssough 10 stop . strsst eaz
ono block away, al they can AFFORD in
the praise of God u about hAlf . whb-
pr. With enough soprsnOs. sa0agh
altos, enough bsssos 70 make . small
heavsa between tho fosr walls. they 1t
the opportunity 20 By uniDproved.
The voiumeof voice that sscends ffon
the largest andisncs that ever assembled
ought 10 be naltiplied about two thou
sand fold. But the minister rises and
gives out the hynn; ths organ begins;
the choir OF prsceutor Leads; the sud-
sncs are sanding % that the lungs may
have full expansion, and mighty bar