Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-09-28

= ZION are Ocl4l- S4bA4d-SA WIN SC7l~-
truth as no other generation. by TINS
international series of Sunday-sehool
lessons. Formerly the Children were
! expected only to nibble at the little IN
/ fantile Scripture stories, but now they
are taken from Genesis to Revelation.
the strongest minds of the country ex-
planning the lessons to the teachers
and the teaching them to the classes;
and we are going to have in this coun-
try five million youth forestalled Tor
Christianity Hear i'll Hear it!
Besides that. you must have noticed
if YOU have talked on these great
themes, that they are finding out that,
while science is grand in secular di'
rections. worldly philosophy grand in
secular directions. they cannot give
any comfort to soul in trouble.
Talking with men on steamboats,
and in rail ears. find they are coming
back to the comfort of the gospel
They say; Somehow human science
don't comfort me when | have any
trouble, and l must try something
else;" and they are trying the gospel
Take your scientific consolation TO
that mother who has just lost her
child. Apply the doctrine of the Sur
vival of the Fittest;" tell her that her
child died because its life was not
worth as much as the life of one that
lived. Try that, if you dare. Go to
that dying man with your transcen-
dental phraseology and tell him he
ought to have confidence in the great
ito be-" and the everlas ting now,
and the eternal ''what is it?' and go
on with your consolation and see If he
is comforted.
Go to that woman who has lost her
husband. and tell her it was a geo
logical necessity that that man passed
out of existence, just as the mega
therium disappeared in order to make
room for a higher style of creation, and
90 on with your consolation and tell
her that there is possibility that ten
million years from now we ourselves
may be geological specimens on the
geological shelf, petrified specimens OF
the extinct human race, And after you
have got all through with your con-
ISOLATION. if the poor afflicted soul is not
: utterly crazed, ! will send out the
plainest Christian from my church, and
: with one-half hour of prayer and the
reading of Scripture promises, the
tears will be stayed and the consola-
ton. and the Joy in that house Will be
like the calmness of an Indian summer
sunset. There will be glory flooding
the house from floor to cupola Oh.
people are finding out themselves-and
they all have troubles-they find that
philosophy and science do not help
them when there is dead babe in the
: house. They are coming back to our
glorious old-fashioned sympathetic re-
ligion.
o, young man, do not be ashamed TO
! be found on the side of the Bible. DO
not join those young men who in this
; dav put their thumbs in their vest, and
swarger about the streets and the
y stores, talking about the glorious nine
teenth century about its light being
sufficient without any Bible, and with
: out any Christ and without any God.
The time is coming-we may not 1--we
TO see II, but should not be surprised
l. IL we did see it-when this whole coun'
: try is to be one great church, the
forests the aisles, the Allegheny and
Rocky noun tains the pillars the chain
I, of inland lakes the baptistries, and the
I worship the Hallelujah chorus unto
. Him who was, and is, and shall be ever
more. OH come over TO the majority
come under the banners of Emanuel
Vernon was the son of an English
squire. He was brought up in great
!, elegance. There was a man working
!. on the place by the name OF Ralph
Vernon used to often talk with Ralph
= After awhile Vernon went off to col
lepe. and came back with his mine
:, full of slxepticism. He talked his skep
: tieism to Ralph, the workman. Aftei
!. awhile Vernon went from home again
y was gone for years, came back, ane
~ among his first questions when getting
home was "Where is Ralph?' "OhP
: said the father, Ralph is in prison
! waiting for the day of execution.
- Vernon fastened to see Ralph. Ralph
looking through the wicket of thu
nrison. said: Vernon, how good yol
= are to come and see me. don't blam'
Won. and / don't blame anybody
- | only blame myself; but, Yer
!, non. | want you to promise m'
- one thing. viii your" Vernon
!, replied. 81 will" II want you to prom
- Use me never to talk skepticism in tn
a. presence of anybody. You see it nigh
: do them harm. When you used to sa,
= there was nothing in the Bible. and !
~ didn't make any difference how w
- lived, we would come out happy at tn
NJ last. somehow it had bad influence
To- upon me, and I went from bad to wors
e until am here. and must die for m.
N crimes" BY almost superhuman effor
n the sentence was changed, and he wa
: to be transported to another countr
n for life. The ship going there wa
~ wrecked on Van Dieman's Land. ANON
" those who persisted was Ralph, the vic
Ia tim of Vernon's skepticism. Vernol
Or tells the story to-day with tears and
W broken heart; but it is too late o, d.