The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-23

that room where a mother has lost Der
child. Try in that case your splendid
doctrine OF the survival of the hit
test" Tell her that child died because
it was not worth as much as the other
children. That is your survival of
the fittest." Go to that dying man and
tell him to pluck up courage for the fu-
ture. Use your transcendental phrase
ology upon him. Tell him he ought to
be confident in ''the great to be" and
the everlasting now" and the 'eter-
nal what-is-it." Just try your trans
cendentalism and your philosophy and
your science on him. There is where
see the triumph of Christianity. Peo-
pie are dissatisfied with everything
else. They want God. They want
Jesus Christ
Talk about the exact sciences, there
is only one exact science. 1t is not
mathematics Taylor's logarithms
have many imperfections The French
metric system has many imperfections-
The only exact science is Christianity.
put on the witness stand to testify
in behalf of Christianity the church on
earth and all the church in Heaven.
Not fifty. not a thousand, not a million,
but all of the church on earth and all
the redeemed in Heaven.
You tell me James A. Garfield was in
augurated president OF the United
States on the 4th of March, 1881. How
do l know it! You tell me there were
90, 600 persons who distinctly heard his
inaugural address l deny both. de-
ny that he was inaugurated. deny
that his inaugural address was deliv-
cred. You ask why? l did not see it;
| did not hear it. But you say that
there were 10000 person who did see
and hear him. l say l cannot take it
anyhow; | 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 20, 900 persons who
stood before the capitol and heard
that magnificent inaugural" Why,
of course, that is as your common
sense 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 heard-that anything like
it ever occurred point to twenty, a
hundred thousand or a 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"
Yonder is an aged Christian after
fifty years experience of the power of
godliness 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 h, looks
forward to the future, if he has not a
peace, and a joy and a consolation the
world cannot take away. Put his tes-
timony of what he has seen and what
he has felt opposite to the man who
says he has not seen anything on the
subject or felt anything on the subject.
Will you take the testimony of people
who have not 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 alleviates
hot
have never tried it, l never took it. l
deny that morphia is any soothing to
the nerves, or any quiet in times of
sickness. l deny that morphia ever
put anybody to sleep; but here are
twenty persons who say they have all
felt the soothing effects of physicians
prescribing morphine. Whose testi-
mony will you take? Those who took the
medicine, or my testimony, l never hav-
ing 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: Il 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 it's
soothing influence; it has cured u.s."
Whose testimony will you take in re-
gard to this healing medicine?
l 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 wit
nesses. believe you are ready to take
their testimony. Young man, do not
be ashamed to be a friend of the Bible.
Do not put your thumb in your vest. as
Young men sometimes do, and swagger
about, talking of the glorious light
of the nineteenth century, and
of there being no need of Bible.
They have the light of nature in India
and China and in all the dark places
light of nature gave them comfort for
their trouble? They have lancets to
cut and juggernauts to crush, but no
comfort All. my friends, you had bet
ter stop your skepticism. Suppose you
are put in this crisis. o father! your
child is dying. What are you going to
say to her?
Col. Ethan Allen was famous infidel
in his day. His wife was very con-
secrated woman. The mother in
structed the daughter in tine truths of
Christianity. The daughter sickened
and was about to die, and she said
to her father: Father, shall
take Your instruction? or shall
l take mothers instruction? 1 am
going to die now; / must have
this matter decided" That m n, who
had been loud in his infidelity. said to
his dying daughter: MY dear, you
had better take your mothers re-