Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-15

lived. Try that If you dare. Go to
that dying man with your transcend
entail phraseology, and tell him he
ought to have confidence in the great
ito be-" and the everlasting "now,'
and the eternal ''what is it?" and go
on with your consolation and see if he
is comforted.
Go TO the woman who has lost her
husband, and tell her it was a geolog-
zeal necessity that that man passed out
OF existence, just as the megatherium
disappeared in order to make room for
higher style of creation, and go on
with your consolation and tell her that
there is a possibility that ten million
years from now we ourselves may be
geological specimens on the geological
shelf, petrifed specimens of the eX-
tinct 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 pl2inest
Christian from my church, and with
one-half hour of prayer and the read
ing of scripture promises the tears
will be stayed, and the consolation
and the Joy in that house will be like
the calmness of an Indian summer
sunset There will be a glory flood
ing the h use from floor to cupola.
Oh! people are finding out themselves
and they all have ubles-they
find that philosophy and science do
not help them when there is n dead
babe in the house. They are coming
back to our glorious old-fashioned
sympathetic religion
o, young man! do not be ashamed to
be found on the side of the bible. DO
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day put their thumbs in their vest, and
swagger about the streets and the
stores, talking about the glorious nine
teenth century, about its light being
sufficient without any bible, and with
out any Christ, and without any Col.
The time is coming-we may not live
to see it, but should not be surprised
if we did see it-when this whole coun-
try 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 Hallelujah
Chorus unto him who was, and is, and
shall be evermore. O, come over to
the majority>-cOme under the banners
of Emanuel.
Vernon was the son of an ,glish
squire. He was brought up in great
elegance. There was man working
on the place by the name of Ralph.
Vernon us d to often talk with Ralph.
After awhile Vernon when OFF TO col
lege. and came back with his mind
full of scepticism. He talked his
scepticism to Ralph the workman.
After awhile We non went from home
again. was gone for years, came back,
and among his first questions when
getting home was, Where is Ralph!'
"O." said the father, Ralph Is in
prison waiting for the day of eXecu-
ton" Vernon FASTENED 10 see Ralph.
Ralph, looking through the wicket OF
the prison, id, Vernon, how good
YOU are TO come and see me! ! am
glad to see YOU. | hardly expected
YOU ould come and see me. don't
blame you, don't blame anybody;
only b ame myself; but, Vernon, |
want YOU TO promise me one thing viii
you?" Vernon replied, II will Il
want you to promise me never to talk
scepticism in the presence of anybody.
You see il might do them harm. When
you used to say there was nothing in
the bible, and it didn't make any diff.
ference how we lived, we woul come
out happy at the last some how it had
! a bad influence upon me. and l went
from bad to worse until | am here,
and ! NUT die for my crimes" by
almost superhuman effort the sentence
was changed, and he was 20 be trans
ported to another country for life.
The ship going there was wrecked on
Van Dieman's Land. Among those
who persisted was Ralph, the victim of
Vernons scepticism. Vernon tells the
story to-day with tears and broken
heart: but il is too late! Oh! do not
talk scepticism, do not talk scepticism.
Let God lie rue, though every man be
found liar.