The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-13

the time OF Solomon there was not the
like in Jerusalem" Because, since his
! time, they had not observed the law.
They were loyal to follow their king in
every command, as quickly and gladly
they brought offerings until there were
"heaps." And, finally, they were a VIC
t~orious people. They me King Sen
nacherib and defeated him. The church
must meet the giant kings who defy
law, religion and God to-day, and a tru-
Iy, wholly saved church viii triumph.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Theme; christianity at the Parlia-
ment OF Religions 'or"Christ supreme and
sufficient" Text, Acts 4:l2. Neither is
there salvation in any other for there is
zone other name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved"
1t is related in the fifth chapter of the
first book of Samuel that when the
Philistines captured the ark of God
from the Israelites they placed it inthe
temple of their own god Dagon. The
next morning on visiting the temple Of
this heather deity the Phllistines found
that the image of Dagon had fallen fiat
upon the floor, PROSTATE before the ark
OF Jehovah. But the idol was set up in
his place again. The next morning he
had not only fallen again to the floor but
"the head of Dagon and both the palms
of his hands were cut off; only the
stump of Dagon was left to him."
Milton wrote a beautiful poem On the
birth of Christ in which he expresses
this same thought:
"Nor all the Gods besides,
Longer dare abide,
Not Typhon huge, ending in snaky Irvine:
our Babe, to show his Godhead trae,
Can In his swaddiing bands control the damned
Mathew Henry in commenting upon
the passage quoted from First Samuel
says very naively; "The gods of the
heather we're never looked upon as
averse TO partners" 1t is we'll known
that when Rome conquered the world
she brought all the idols OF the conqured
nations to the capital and there was a
real P~antheon-a Parliament of Relig-
ions, with christianity left out, ii. g. the
play OF Hamlet without Hamlet Speak
leg of this Or. D'Aubine says in his
history Of the reformation: "The gods
of every nation when transported to
Rome there lost their oracles as the
] nations them elves had lost their liberty.
Brought face to face in the capitol, they
had destroyed each other, and their di
vinity had vanished"
!. I wish it might be more generally
understood that there is and can be only
, one religion worthy the name. Glbbor
/ says, with characteristic satire, of the. so
called religions of the Roman world
} that they "were all considered by the
/ people as equally true; by the philoso
pher, as equally false; and by the magis
trate, as equally useful" And SO il
Rome there was religious concord" ane
peace. But mems consciences were
asleep. Rome was "a pool of stag
inament water"
What gives to the religion OF Christ
!, its deserved pre-eminence it's right to b.
, called the only religion worthy tht
name? Not to mention other features
we emphasize the atonement offered b,
. God in Christ for the sins of the world
Other SO called religions have good ele
ments in them but such faiths as Con
~fucianism, Buddhism, Mohammedism
! Parseism, have this fatal and capita
, lack-they offer no sufficient satisfaction
to the outraged justice of God or to TIN
i. burdened conscience OF a Not ever
Judaism does this. 1t points forward +
"the Lamb Of God which taketh ava,
the sin of the world" Only Jesus it i
> who says to the sinner burdned with tn
, weight of his guilt: Come unto me al
: ye that labor and are heavy-laden and
, will give you rest" Neither is there sal
walton in any other for there is non
: other name under Heaven given anon,
men whereby we must be saved"
Lily White buckwheat -four at tn
Madison Feed mill. ~
PETER MARoUART.