Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-16

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Christian religion, which has done so
! much for you and so much for the world
that il will take all eternity to celebrate
10. aud yet, when it was attacked, you
did not so much as say:
IDRFEB. IoBJEcT.
am sorry to hear you say that. There
is another side TO this" You Christian
people ought 10 such times as these. to
| 20 armed, not with earthly weapons
/ but with the sword Of the Spirit. You
ought 10 have four or five questions
with which you could coniound any
man who attacks Christianity. A man
\ ninety years old was telling me a few
\ DAYS ago how he put to fight a scofer.
| Nv aged friend said TO the skeptic:
/ "Dld YOU ever read the history OF Jo-
/ seph I'm the Blble?" yes" said the
man, lit is fine story, and as interest
/ ing a story as / ever read" 'Well,
now" said my old friend, suppose that
| account OF Joseph stopped half way?"
"Oh," said the man, "then it would not
be entertaining. "Well, now" said
nv friend, "we have in this world
only half Of everything, and do
you not think that when we hear the
/ last half, things may be consistent, and
that then we may find that God was
right?' Oh, frienkS, better load up
with a few interrogation points. You
cannot afford to be silent when God and
the Bible and the things OF eternity are
assailed. 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 the Christ, who for you went through
| the agOnies OF assassination on the
rocky bluff back o. Jerusalem, you
dared not face a sickly joke. Better
load up with a few questions so that
next time you will be ready. Say TO
the scofIer
MY DEAR SIR,
will you tell me what makes the differ
ence between the condition 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
Won come across a lovelier character
than Jesus Christ? Will you please TO
name the triumphant deatn-DedS of in
fdels and atheists? How do you ac-
count for the fact that, among the out
and out believers in Christianity were
such persons as Benjamin Franklin,
John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Bablng-
ton Macaulay. William Penn, Walter
Scott, Charles Kingsley, Horace Bush
nell, James A. Garlirld, Robert Z. Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, Admiral Foote, Ad-
miral Farragut, Ulysses s. Grant, John
Milton, William Shakespeare, Chief
Justice Marshall. John Adams,
Daniel Webster, George Washing
ton? How do yOn account Tor
their fOudneSs for the Christian
religion? Among the innumerable col
leges and universities Of the earth, will
you name me three, started by inidelS
and now supported by inhdels? Down
In your heart are you really happy In
the position you occupy antagonlStlc TO
the Christian religion? When do you
have the most rapturOus views or the
next world?" Go at him with 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 engagement and must go. You Will
nut him in a sweat that will beat a Tur-
kish bath. You will put him on rout
compared with which our troops at Bull
Run made no time at all. Arm yourself,
not With arguments but interrogation
points, and promise you victory. Shall
such a man as you, such woman as
YOU surrender 70 one of the meaneSt
spirits that ever smoked up from the pit
the dumb devil.
SPOKEN OF IN THE TENT.
During the cotton famine in Ian
cashire, England, when the suffering
was something terrific, as the first
wagon-load of cotton rolled in, the
starving people unlocked the horses
aud drew the load themselves, singing,
until all lancashire joined in with tri
umphant voices, their cheeks SODping
with tAars: Praise God from whom
all blessings flow" When Commodore
Perry, with his warship, the Mississippi,
lay of the coast Of Japan, he lombard
ed the shores with "Old Hundred,
played by the marine band. Glorious
"Old Hundred" composed by William
Franc, of Germany, 10 war prison, at
ten o'clock At night, the poor fellows,
lar from home and wounded and sick and
dying, one prisoner started the "Old
Hundred DOxolOgy," and then a score
of voices JONES, then all the pris
OnerS on all the floors took up the ac-
claim until the building from foundation
70 top-StOne, fairly Quaked with the me-
lOdiOuS aScription. A British man.of-
war, lying off foreign coast, heard a
voice singing that dOXology,and guessed
Alright, that there was an EnglishAan
In captivity TO the Mohammedans; and
In the small boats the sailors rowed to
shore and burst into guard house and
set the captive free. l don't know what
tune the trumpets OF resurrection shall
play, but il may be the dOxology which
is now sounding across ChriStendom.
How much more hearty we would be in
our songs, and how easily we could drive
back the dumb devil from all our wOr-
shipping aSsemblages, if we could real
izo that nearly all our hymns have
stirring history. That glorious hymn
''sTAND UP FOR sESUs"
was suggested by the last words Of
Dudley Tying, who was dying from hav-
ing his right arm torn of by a thresh-
ing machine. The hymn "What
Friend we have in JeS US" heard through
a telephone, converted an obdurate
soul. shall we Gather at the River?"
was hymn first sung in our Brooklyn
Prospect Park, at the ehildren's May
anniversary, aud then started to eneircle
the world. Where is my Wandering
Boy Tonight" is song that has saved
hundreds OF diSsipated young men.