The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-22

have utterly exhausted thcir ammunitiar 4.
the battle against the church and nc.I.1
the Scriptures. while the sword OF the I.o,s
Almighty is ms keen as II ever was. Wa
just getting our troops into line. Thev s sr
coming up In companies, and In reginsr.e'
and In brigades, and you will hear a an,
after awhile that will make the earth orssu
and the heavens ring with "Alleluia " ~
will be this. Forward the whole llnew
And then I find another most encoura,,..
thought in the fact that the secular prin,,ass
press and pulpit seem harnessed In the ss.s
team for the proclamation OF tho gosna,
Every Wall street banker tomorrow In "
York. every State street banker to-nor,os
In Boston. every Third street banker to.mo'
row In Philadelphia. every banker IA n.
United States, and every merchant will ~
In his pocket a treatise on Christanl,v
call to repentance, ten. twenty or thlr.
passages OF Scripture In the reports o, ~
sion preached throughout these cities ,,1
throughout the land to-day. II will I've Al =
Chicago. so In New Orleans. so in Chorls
ton, so in Boston, 50 In Philadelphia. a
everywhere.
1 know the tract societies are doia,,
grand aud glorious work, but tell youths,
Is no power on earth TO day equal 20 IA,
fact that the American printing press is,al.
ing up the sermons which are preached Ia
few hundred or n few thousand people a.,
On Nl'nlfsN uleEUlnE uDl llNnuil tNfuiu- In
the morning and evening papers, scitters,
that truth TO the millions. What q thons, |
II Is What an encouragement for eys-,
Christian man
Desides that, have you noticed that du-,,
the past fow years every one OF the dortrss
OF the Bible came under discussion h
the secular press Do you not rcmembs
few years ago, when every paper In u. !
United States had an editorial on the SUI
ject. "Is There Such Thing as Future pap. !
ishment2" IL was the strangest thing thp |
there should be n discussion In tho stcrl,,
papers on that subject, but every paper IA
the United States and In Chrlstendom dS
cussed. "Is There Such "A Thing rs Retrlg
tom know there were small wits wb,v
made sport OF the discussion. but there wa
not an Intelligent man on enrth who, AS II.
result OF that discussion, did not ask himssl
the qlestion. "What is going 10 be my ete,
nal destiny2" So II was In regard to Tynlll,
prayer gauge.
About twelve ynars ago, you rememb@
the secular papers discussed that. anl viii Il
Just as much earnestness as the relgiou|
papers, and there .-;as not man In Chrises
dom who did not ask himself the questios |
lis there anything in prayer? May ID
creature impress the CreatorY" Oh, what
mighty fact. what n glorious fact-the secs
lar printing press and the pulpit OF u
church OF Jesus Christ harnessed in the san
team!
Then look ut the international series Il
| Sunday-school lessons. Do you know th
| every Sabbath, between 9 ard b o'clock, thea
are 5000, 900 children studying the same Is
soma lesson prepared by tho leading nlini
o! the country and printed In the papers
! and then these subjects arc discussed 40
/ given over TO the teachers, who give the |
overto the chldren2 No. whereas. once, 40
within our memory. the children nibbleI
| here and there Mt n story In the Bible. NOD
! they are taken through from Genesis TO N
velation. and we shall havD 100000 chiI
dren iorestalled for Christianity. Ny soul
| full OF exultation. feel as " L could shOt
L viii shout. "Alleluia, the Lord God on
| nipotent reigneth ~
Then you notice a more significant TACT,
you have talked with people on the sublec|
thes they are getting dissatisfied wI
philosophy and science as matter
comfort. They say IL does not amount \
| anything when you have u dead child in 4
house They will tell you, when they wed
sick and the door OF the future seemi
opening. the only comfort they could fl
was in the Gospel. People are havl
demonstrated all over the land that scien
and philosophy cannot solace the troubl
and woes of the world, and they want so 4
other religion, and they are taking Chrl
tianity, the only sympathetic religion tai
ever came into the world. ~
',th me mer ~ thI
..e 10 or ss,.- ,-...Ist "a sede, ataN
| and they DO not believe tis ever done. TN1
is group OF men who say they have nev'
heard the voice OF Christ they have ney'
| heard the voice OF God. They do not BELIEF
IL ever transplred or was ever heari-thi
anything like it ever occurred. l point
20. 900, 900 or l,000.0 900 people who sal
| Christ was crowned in our hearts aheI
| tions we have seen Him and felt HMM u
souls, and we have heard His voice we had
| heard Ii in storm aud darkness /; we haJ1
heard 1t again and again" Whose testimoh|
will you take? These men who say thd
have not heard the voice, have not seen N
| coronation, or will you take the thousand
| and millions of Christians who testify
what they saw with their own eyes and head
| with their own ears!
Yonder Is an aged Christian after m
! years experience of the power OF GodlineI
| IN his soul Ask this man whether, when
buried his dead. the religion OF Jesus ChrI
was not consolation. Ask him II thro u
the long years Of his pilgrimage the Loi
ever forsooS him. Ask him If, when he looi
forward to the future, II he has not II pei
and "A Joy, and consolation the world ~
not take away. Put this testimony OF VIII
| he has seen and what he has felt opposite
tho testimony OF man who says lie Eas m
seen anything on the subject or ielt anyth'1l
on the subject. VIII you take the testimo1
OF people who have not seen or people WI
| have seen?
You say morphia puts ono to sleep. VI
say In time oil sickness IL Is very useful.
deny IT, Morphia never puts anybody
sleep; II never alleyiates pair. You al
me why l say that. l have newt
tried IL. / never took 1t. den
that morphia is any soothing to "
nerves or any quiet In time OF sickness.
deny that morphia ever put ANYBODY
sleep, but here are twenty persons who 81
they have all felt the soothing effects OF
physicians prescribing morphine. Who
testimony will you take2 Those who tod
the medicine or my testimony, never ha'
ing taken the medicine? Here u tho Gosp
OF Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all troubl
the mightiest medicine that ever came dow
to earth. Here Is u man who says
don't believe in II. There is no power IN IL
Here are other people who says "Wo ha'
found out its power and know its soothiI
influence. Ii has cured US" Whose tesI
mony will you take in regard to this healiL
medicine.
| feel that have convinced every man
this house that II Is utter folly TO take q
testimony ofthose who have never tried Il
Gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart al
life. We have tens OF thousands OF vi
n ~ A. N l.