Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-29

stimulating glass. aud it is known
that lie does So, his railroad becomes
Il canal through which a stream of
liquor flows from end to end. A
thorough temperance man at tho
head OF railroad corporation is a
great purilcr."s The railroad may
become the Cough of temperance
powers in America. Burdcttc's
Religions Brakeman" uses the rail,
road to set of the vices and virtues
of sccts. All temperance lecturers
Use it to show the evils of intcmpcr-
ancc in their most tragic light.
Tobacco rcformcrs are Just as power
full with its illustrative talent.
Says one: "To build and equip a
railroad from New York to San
Francisco costs anavcragc of $4,000
per mile. The tobacco bill of the
people of the United States for one
year would build such road and
thoroughly equip it with all the
necessary rolling-stock. and leave a
surplus Of 5000, Gs5-ncarly enough
to complete ship-canal across the
lsthmus Of Panama" Let us have
less tobacco used, and more railroads.
Many religionsts are fearful of
the iconoclastic power of the
doctrine of evolution as applied to
religion.
Its natural To believe railroad
connections are intentional and
designed by Il designer. Is it not
just as easy To see that "lucky" con-
ncctions of great and good things in
this life are designed of the designer
of all things: DR.. Taylor in his
Life of David" again uses the rail
road as an illustration of divine
truth. God marks out his purposes
through the agency of men who are
acting according to their own free
choice. Even more. as we read
history. or look back upon our own
experience. we see distinctly marked
these two things, the plan of Cod
and the liberty of man. We cannot
get rid OF either. nor can we see how
they can be perfectly harmonizcd.
yet there they are, constantly run
ming parallel to each other, and
forming, so to say, the two lines of
rail on which the chariot of human
progress rolls along
God has planned what man was to
do from before the foundation of the
world, and yet man is free to do
whatsoever his heart delights in.
These two fundamental doctrines
of christianity do not clash. but lie
pcaccably side by side. making the
sure highway for the advance move
mcnt of all things from the animal
to the angel.
DIR. Pelantct, taking the locomotive
for his symbal, teaches this needed
lesson: elf one tyrant should COM
mand a man to move a
railroad train, lie might
push with his hands forever
and be utterly unable to move it a
hairs breath. But if he turns the
lever that lets out the steam, he can
move it with perfect case. Much of
the work the Lord gives his people to
do is as hard as to remove mountains:
but faith is the lever that applies
the power of God: and the mcakcst
saint, strong in faith and using Gods
power can do mighty works, beyond
the power of even angels strength"
Christianity makes every thing of
faith. and yet like light it seems
impossible to grasp it. Now coming
to Us rs the lever of the locomotive
we know what ii is, and why faith is
said to be able to remove even
mountains.
Bccchcr once spoke under this
railroad figure: "Going to heaven in
S''AA NiiS' -, INV SUNS Hll Journey
in cars. One sect of church people
think that theirs is the right church.,
because they go in palace cars.
Others think theirs right because
they go in sleeping cars: others think
theirs right because they go in plain
:E1rs. Now. it makes a great deal of
difference which you ride in. so far as
your comfort is concerned: but it
makes no difference in respect to
your getting to the end of your
journey Then why not cease to
antagonize each other? We are on
the same train, all bound for heaven:
If one sect gets there. all sects will
get there, as all sections of a train
get there together at the
determined destination. Let me
urge you to get on the car of the
religious train most cQnscnial to
your beliefs and associations, but get
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