Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-23


two and two make four do not dis
pute it,. but us not so plain that two
and two make -FOUR as that the Lord God
Almighty made this world and for
man, the sinner, he sent his only be-
gotten Son to die.
put on the witness stand to testify
in behalf of Christianity the Church on
earth and all the Church in heaven
Not fifty, not thousand not mil
lion, but all of the Church on earth
and all the redeemed in heaven.
You tell me James A. Garfield was
inaugErated President of the United
States on the 4th of March, 1881. How
do know it! You tell me there wero
twenty thousand persons who distinct
ly heard his inaugural address. i
deny both. l deny that he was in
augurated l deny that his inaugural
address was delivered. You ask why?
did not see it, did not hear it. But
you say there were twenty thousand
persons who did sec and hear him.
l say l cannot take it anyhow;
l did not see and hear him.
Whose testimony will you take? You
will not take my testimony. You say,
You know nothing about it, you were
not there; let us have the testimony Of
the twenty thousand persons who
stood before the capitol and heard
that magnificent inaugural" Why
of course that is rs your com
nonsense dictates. Now, here are
some men who say they have never
seen Christ crowned in the heart, and
they do not believe it is ever done.
There is group of men who say they
have never heard the voice of Christ,
they have never heard the voice of
God. They do not believe it ever
transpired, or was ever hcard-that
anything like it ever occurred. ! point
to twenty, hundred thousand or
million PEOPLE who say, Christ was
crowned in our hearts affections, we
have seen him and felt him in our soul,
and we have heard his voice; we have
heard it in storm and darkness we
have heard it again and again. Whose
testimony Will you take? These men,
who say they have not heard the voice
of Christ, have not seen the coronation;
y
millions of Christians who testify of
what they saw with their own eyes
and heard with their own ears?
Yonder IS an aged Christian after
fifty years experience of the power of
goodness in his soul Ask this man
whether, when he buried his dead, the
religion of Jesus Christ was not a con-
ISOLATION. Ask him if through the long
years of his pilgrimage the Lord ever
forsook him. Ask him when he locks
forward to the future, if he has not a
peace and a JOY and a consolation the
world can not take away. Put his testi-
mony of what he has seen and what
he has felt opposite to the testimony
of a man who says he has not seen
anything on the subject or felt any
thing on the subject. Will you take
the testimony of people who have not
seen, or people who have seen?
You say morphia puts one TO sleep
You say in time of sickness it is very
useful | deny it. Morphia never
puts anybody to sleep, it never allie
viates pain. You ask me why / say
that / have never tried it, l never
took IT | deny that norphia Us any
soothing TO the nerves, or any quiet in
times OF sickness l deny that NOR
phia ever put anybody to sleep; but
here are twenty persons who
say they have all felt the sooth-
ing effects of a physicians pre-
scribing morphine Whose testimony
viii you take? Those who took the
medicine, or my testimony. l never
having taken the medicine? Here is
the gospel of Jesus Christ an anodyne
for all trouble, the mightiest medicine
that ever came down to earth Here
is a man who says: II don't believe in
it; there is no power in it." Here are
other people who say, I'VE have found
out its power and know its soothing i'm
1uence; it has cured US" Whose tes-
timony will you take in regard to this
healing medicine?
feel that have convinced every
man in this house that it is utter folly
TO take the testimony OF those who
have never tried the gospel of Jesus
Christ in their own heart and life. We
have tens of thousands of witnesses i
DelleVe you are Tcduy 10 Cohe tnCiT
testimony. Young man, do not be
ashamed to be friend of the Bible
DO not put your thumb in your vest as
young men sometimes dc, and swagger
about, talking of the glorious light of
the nineteenth century, and of their
being no need of Bible. They have
the light of nature in India and China
and in all the dark places on earth
Did you ever hear that the light of ma
ture gave them comfort for their
trouble? They have lancets to cut and
juggernauts to crush, but no comfort
All! my friends, you had better stop
your skcpticism. Suppose you are put
in this crisis o father Your child IL
dying. What are You going TO say to
her?
Colonel Ethan Allen was famous
infidcl in his day. His wife was very
consccrated woman. The mother in
structed the daughter in the truths of