The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-15

Tor time and eternity-for them ~,
VIII fight and we now declare ever
tasting war against all the influence.
that assault them, and we ast all goot
men and philanthropists To wheel int
lihe' nnd all the armies OF Heaven q
bear down upon The foe, and we pray
Almighty God that with the thunder
bolts OF his wrath he vii! atrlkc down
and consume all these Influences tina,
are attempting To destroy the young
men for whom Christ died.
The first class Of temptations that as.
saults young man il led ON hy the
skeptic. lie will not admit that he Is
an infdcl or atheist oh. no! no il n
free Thinkers" he is one OF your lib.
crar men; he is free and easy In re.
ligion. Oh! how liberal he Is; he il So
liberal that he will give away the
throne OF justice; he Is So liberal" that
he would he willing to give God out of
the universe; he is so "libcral" that he
would givcup his own soul and the souls
OF all his friends Now, what more
could you ask to the way OF liberality?
The victim OF this skeptic has probably
just come from the country. Through
tho Intervention of friends he has been
placed in shop. On Saturday the
skcptic says 20 him. well, what are
you going To do tomorrow" lie
says: II am going 10 church. "
"ls IL possible?" says the skoptic
Well, used to do these things; was
brought up. | suppose, as you were, in
religious family, and | believed all
those things, but l got over IT, Tho
fact is, since came To town | have
read great deal, aud have found that
there arc great many things in the
Bible that are ridiculous Now, for in
stance, all that about the serpent being
cursed 10 crawl in the garden OF Eden
because it had tempted our first par
cntS Why, you see how absurd IL Is,
You can tell from the very organiza-
ton Of the serpent that II had TO crawl.
1t crawlcd before II was cursed
just AS we'll as IL crawled after.
wards. You can tell from its or
ganization that IL crawled. Then,
all that story about the whale swallow
ing Jonah, or Jonah swallowing the
whale; which was IL? 1t don't make
any difference, the thing is absurd. II
is ridiculous To suppose that man
could have gone down through the
Jaws of u sca.monster and yet kept his
life. Why. his respiration would have
ligcstcd The gastric juice would have
dissolved the fabrinc and coagulated
llbumen, and Jonah would have been
from prophet into chylc. Then
al that story about the miraculous
why, IL is perfectly dis
graceful. q, sir, | believe in the light
II nature This is the nineteenth cen
.ury. Progress, sir, progress | don't
blame you, but after you have boon in
own rs long rs have, you will think
lust rs | do"
Thousands OF young men are going
Town under that process day 10y day,
md there is only here and there
,oung man who can endure this artil.
cry OF scorn. They are giving up their
Bibles The light Of nature! They
rave the light Of nature in China; they
nave it in lIindostan; they have it in
'cylon. Flowers there. waters there.
Winds there; but no civili1a.
ion, no homes, no happiness.
.anccts TO cut, and juggernauts to fall
Inder. and hooks to swing on; but no
happiness. tell my young brother, we
nave take n religion of some kind.
We have 10 choose between four or
Ave Shall IL bc the Koran Of the Mo-
or the Shaster Of the Him
loo, or the Zendavcsta OF the Persian,
n the Confucius writings of the Chi
lcsc, or the Holy Scriptures? Take
What you will; God helping me, ! will
AXE tho Bible Light for all darkness;
'ocls for all foundation; balm for all
wounds. A glory that lifts its pillars
II fire over tho wilderness march. Do
not give up your Bible. II these pco-
pie scott At you as though religion and
he Bible were fit only for weak-mind'
ii people, you just tell them you are
,ot ashamed To- be i'm tho company of
burke. the statesman and Raphael, the
painter, and Thorwaldsen, the sculptor
md Mozart, the musician, and Black
stone, The lawyer, and Bacon, the phil
pSophcr. and Harvey, the physician,
and John Milton. the poet
Ask them what infdclity has ever
lone to lift the l4O, OOO 900 of the race
cut OF barbarism. Ask them when In
fidelity ever instituted sanitary com
mission and before you leave their so
,iety once and forever, tell them that
hey have insulted the memory of 'your
Christian father, and spit upon the
lcath.bcd OF your mother, and with
swine's snout rooted up the grave of
your sister who died believing in the
Lord Jesus.
Young man, hold on TO your bible. II
is tho best book you ever owned. IL