Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-09-22

der to make room for higher style of ere
alton. and go on with your consolation and
tell her that there Is a possibility that TO-
600. 900 years from now we ourselves may %
geological specimens on the geological shelf,
petrihed specimens OF the extinct human
race.
And after you have got all through with
your consolation, If the poor afflicted soul is
not utterly crazed, will send out the plain
est Christian from my church. and with one
half hour of prayer and the reading oil
Scripture promises the tears will be staid
and the consolation and JOY in that house
will be like the calmness of an Indian sum-
mer sunset. There will be O glory flooding
the house from floor to cupola. On, people
are finding out themseves-and they oil
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 feshloned sympa-
thetic religion.
Oh, young man, do not be ashamed to be
found on tho side of the Bible. Do not join
those young men who in this day put their
thumb in their vest and swagger about the
street and the stores talking about the gle
rious nineteenth century, about its light boz
ing sufficient without any Bible and without
any Christ and without any God. The time
is comng-we may not live to see 1t, but
when this whole country is to be one great
church, the forests the aisles, the Allegheny
and the Rocky Mountains the pillars the
chain of inland lakes the baptistries. and the
worship the halelujahs chorus 10 Him who
was and is and shall be evermore. Oh, come
over to the majority-.come under the ban.
ner Of Emanuel.
He was brought CD in great elegance. There
was man working on the place of the name
OF Ralph. Vernon used to often talk with
Ralph. After awhile Vernon went off to
college and came back with his mind full OF
skepticism. He talked his skepticism to
Ralph. the workman. After awhile Vernon
went from home again, was gone for years,
came back, and among his first questions
when getting home was, where Is Ralph?'
"Oh.' said the father "Ralph is In prison
waiting for the day Of execution.
Vernon fastened to see Ralph. Ralph,
looking through the wicket of the prison,
said 'Vernon, how good you are to come
and see me am glad 20 see you. hardly
expected you would come and see me.
don't blame you don't blame anybody
only blame myself but, Vernon want you
to promise me one thing. Will you?" Vernon
replied II will" 81 want you to promise
me never to talk skepticism in the presence
of anybody. You see 1t might do them Farm.
When you usedto say there was nothing in
the Bible, and it didn't make any difference
how we lived we would come out happy at
the last, somehow it had bad influence up
on me, and went from bad TO worse until L
am here, and I must die for my crimes.
By almost superhuman effort the sentence
was changed, and he was to be transported
to an >sher country for life. The ship going
there was wrecked on Van Diemen's Land.
Among those who persisted was Ralph, the
victim Of vernons skepticlsm. Vernon tells
the story to-day with tears and broken
heart, but it is too latel Oh, Go not talk
skepticism. Let God be true, though every
man he found liar.