The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-27

armed, not with earthly weapons, but
with tho sword Of the Spirit. You
ought to have. four or FIVE questions
with which you could confound any
man who attacks Christianity.
o friends, better load up with a few
interrogation points. You cannot nf-
ford 90 be silent when God and the
Bible and the things of eternity are as
sailed. Your silence gives consent to
the bombardment of your fathers house.
You allow a slur TO be cast on your
mothers dying pillow. In behalf OF
Christ, who for you went through the
agonies of assassination .on the rocky
bluff back of Jerusalem, you dared not
face n sickly joke. Better load up
with n few questions so that next time
you will be ready. Say to the %scoffer,
my dear sir, will you tell me what
makes the difference between the con-
dition of woman in China and the
United States? What do you think Of
the sermon on the mount? How do you
like the golden rule laid down In the
Scriptures? Are you in favor of the
ten commandments? In your large and
extensive reading have you come across
" liz ttttCt III 0Cout ~
Will you please to name the triumphant
death-beds of infidels and atheists?
How do you account for the fact that
among the out and out believers in
Christianity were such persons as Ben
jamin Franklin, John Ruskin, Thomas
Carlyle. Darlington Macaulay, William
Penn, Walter Scott, Charles Kinslcy,
Horace Bushnell, james A. Garfield,
Robert Il. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
Admiral Foote, Admiral Farragut,
Ulysses s. Grant, John Milton, William
Shakespeare, Chief Justice Marshall,
John Adams, Daniel Webster, George
Washington? How do you account for
their fondncss for the Christian re-
ligion? Among the innumberable coll
leges and universities of the earth, will
you name me three, started by infidels
and supported by intidcls? Down in
your heart are you really happy in the
position you occupy n~ntagonistic TO the
Christian religion? When do you hare
the most rapturous views Of the next
world?" Go Mt him with u few such
questions and he will get so red In the
face as to suggest apoplexy, and he will
look at his watch and say he has an en-.
gagement and must go.
But then there are occasions when
this particular spirit hat Christ exor-
cised when he suid: 81 charge thee to
come out Of him." takes people by the
wholesale. In the most responsive re-
ligious audience have you noticed how
many people never sing at all? They
have a book and they have a voice aud
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many tunes, and yet are silent while
tho great raptures of music pass by.
Among those who sing not one ont Of a
hundred sings loud enough to hear his
own voice. They hum it. They give a
sort Of religious grunt. They make the
lips 60 but 1t is inaudible. With a voice
strong enough to stop n street car n
block away, all they a afford in the
praise Of God is about half a whisper.
During the cotton famine in Lanca-
shire, England, when the suffering was
something terrific, rs the first wagon
load Of cotton rolled in, the starving
people unlocked the horses and drew
the load themselves, singing, until all
Lancashire joined in with triumphant
voices, their cheeks sopping with tears:
praise God from whom all blessings
fiow." When Com. Perry, with his wal
ship, the Mississippi, lay off the coast
of Japan, he bombarded the shores with
"Old Hundred" played by the marine
band. Glorious "Old Hundred" COM
posed by William Franc, Of Germany.
IN q war prison, at ten o'clock at night,
the poor fellows far from home and
wounded and sick and dying, one pris-
oner started the "Old Hundred Doxol-
ogy" and then a score of voices joined,
then all the prisoners on all the floors
took up the acclaim until the building,
from foundation to topstone, fairly
quaked with the melodious ascription.
A British man Of war, living off u for.
cign coast, heard O voice sing
ing that doXology and immedi-
ately guessed, and guessd Alright,
that there was an E~nglishman in cap
tivity to the Mohammedans; and in the
small boats the sailors rowed to shore
and burst into n guard-housc md set
the captive free. l don't know what
tune the trumpets Of resurrection shall
play, but it may be the doxology which
is now sounding across C~hristendom.
How much more hearty we would be in
our songs, and how easy we could drive
back the dumb devil from all our
worshiping asscmblages, IL we could re-
alize that nearly all our hymns have a
stirring history. That glorious hymn,
"Stand Up for Jesus was suggested
by the last words Of Dudley Tyeng, who
was dying from having his right arm
torn OFT by a threshing machine. That
hymn, "NNhat a Friend We Have in
Jesus" heard through a telephone con.
verified an obdurate soul. 1--WE Shall
, Gather ut the River?" was q hymn first
sung at our Brooklyn Prospect park,
at the childrcn's May university
and then started to encircle the
world. ''Wherc is My Wondering
) Boy Tonight" is a song that has saved
hundreds of dissipated young men,
. Tom, the drummer boy in the army,
. was found crying, and an Office asked
I him what was the matter! ''O! III
; said, ~ had II dream last night. Ny
sister died ten years ago, and my moth
err never was herself again, and she dice