Connecticut western news., 1894-03-22


 with your consolation, if the poor aflict- ed soul is not crazed by it, will send forth from this church the plainest Christian we have, and with one half hour of prayer and reading of Scripture promises the tears will be wiped away, and the house from floor to cupola will be flooded with the calmness of an h. dian summer sunset. There is where l 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. It is not math- ematics. Taylor's logarithms have many imperfections. The French metric sys- tenn has many imperfections. The only exact science is Christianity-the only thing under which you can appropriately write, "Quod erat demonstrandum. You tell me that two and two make four. I do not dispute it, but it is 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 begotten Son to die.
 I put on the witness stand to testify II on earth and all the church in heaven. Not 50, not thousand, not million, but all of the church on earth and all the redeemed in heaven.
 QUESTION OF TESTIMONY.
 YoIr tell me James A. Garfield was in- augurated presidentof of the United States on the 4th of March, 1884, How do I know it? You tell me tbere were 20, 900 persons who distinctly heard his inau- gural address. l deny both. I deny that he was inaugurated. deny that his in- augural address was delivered. You ask why. did not see 1t; did not hear it. But you say that there were 20, 900 persons who did see and heal him. say cannot take it anyhow. l did not see and hear him. Whose testimony will you take? You will not take my testi- mony. You say: You know nothing about it; you were not there. Let us have the testimony of the 10000 persons who stood before the capitol and heard that magnificent inaugural" Why, of course that is as your common sense dic- tates.
 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 a 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 any thing like it ever occurred. point to 20, 100000 or 100000 people who say, "Christ was crowned in our hearts af- fections; 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 corona tion. or will you take the thousands and what they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears2
 Wonder is an aged Christian after 50 years experience of the power of godli- ness in his soul. Ask this man whether, when he buried his dead, the religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through the long years of his pill grimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him, when he looks forward to the fu- ture, if he has not a peace, and @ joy, and a consolation the world cannot take away. Put his testimony 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 anything on the subject. Will you take the testimony of people who have not seen or people who have seen?
 BIT OF ADVICE.
 You say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time of sickness it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep; it never alleviates pain. You ask me why say that. I have never tried it; I never took it. I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or any quiet in times of sickness. deny that morphia ever put any body to sleep, but here are 20 persons who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a physicians prescribing morphine. Whose testimony will you take? Those who took the medicine or my testimony, I 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: "I don't believe in it. There is no power in it." Here are other people who say: We have found out it's power and know its soothing influence. It has cured us." Whose testimony will you take in regard to this healing medi- cine?
 feel that I 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 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 glori- ous 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 on earth. Did you ever hear that the light of na ture gave them comfort for their trou. ble? They have lancets to cut and jug. gernauts to crush, but TO comfort. Ah my AIicuucs yOu udu OcttcI stop your skepticism. Suppose you are put in this crisis: Oh, father, your child is dying What are you going to say to her?
 Colonel Ethan Allen was famous in. fidel in his day. His wife was a very consecrated woman. The mother in structed the daughter in the truths oi Christianity. The daughter sickened and was about to die, and she said to he, father: Father, shall take your in struction, or shall I take mothers in struction? I an going to die now. must have this matter decided" That man, who had been loud in his infidelity said to hls dying daughter, My dear you had better take your mothers re hgion." My advice is the same to you oh, young man, you had better talk, your mothers religion. You know how it comforted her. You know what sh, said to you when she was dying. Yor had hettar take vour motber,s relioion