Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-20

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But who declines to be lawyer because
there are so many incompetent lawyersP
Yet there are tens of thousands of people
who decline being religious because there
are so many unworthy Christians. Now,
say it is illogical. Poor lawyers are moth
ing against Jurisprudence, poor physicians
are nothing against medicine poor farmers
are nothing against agriculture, and mean,
contemplate professors of religion are moth
ing against our glorious Christianity.
THE WILD FANCIEs OF sKEPTICIsM.
Sometimes you have been riding along
on a summer night by swamp, and you
have seen lights that kindled over decayed
vegetation-lights which are called jack-o'-
lantern or will-o'-the-wisp. These lights are
merely poisonous miasmata. My friends,
on your way to heaven you will want bet
ter light than the will-o'-the-wisps which
dance on the rotten character of dead Chris
tians. Exudations from poisonous trees in
our neighbours garden will make very
poor balm for our wounds.
Sickness will come, and we will be pushed
out toward the Red sea which divides this
world from the next, and not the inconsist-
ency Of Christians, but the rod of faith
will wave back the waters as commander
wheels his host. The judgment will come,
with it's thundershod solemnities, attended
by bursting mountains and the deep laugh
of earthquakes, and suns will fly before the
feet of God like SHARKS from the anvil. and
ten thousand burning worlds shall blazelik
banners in the track of God omnipotent
Oh, then we will not stop and say, There
was mean Christian: there was a cowardly
Christian; there was a lying Christian;
there was an impure Christian" In that
day, as now, "If thou be wise, thou shalt
be wise for thyself. but if thou soonest
tbou alone shall bear itn
WHY, nv brother, the inconsistency of
Christians. so far from being an argument
to keen Won away from God ought to be an
argument to drive YOU to him. The best
place for skillful doctor is in a neighbor-
hood where thew are all moor doctors: the
best place for an enterprising merchant to
omen his store ia in n nlsce where the bar
gain makers do not understand their busi-
ness. and the best place for Won who want
to become the illustrious and complete
Christian. the best Mace for Won ia to come
RIGHT down smonp rs who are so incompe-
tent and en- inconsistent sometimes
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