Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-24

and printed in the papers-and then these
subjects are discussed and given over to
the teachers, who give them over to the
children2 So, whereas, once, and within
our memory, the children nibbled here
and there at story in the Bible, now
they are taken through from Genesis to
Revelation, and we shall have 5000, 900
children forestalled for Christianity. My
soul is full of exultation. 1 feel as if l
could shout will shout, "Alleluia, the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth!'
SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION.
Then you notice more significant
fact, if you have talked with people on
the subject, that they are getting dissat-
isfed with philosophy and science as a
matter of comfort. They say it does not
amount to anything when you have a
dead child III the house. They will tell
you, when they sick and the door of
the future seemed opening, the only COM
fort they could find was in the gospel.
People are having demonstrated all over
the land that science and philosophy can
not solace the trouble and woes of the
world, and they want some other reli-
gion, and they are taking Christianity,
the only sympathetic religion that ever
came into the world.
You just take your scientific consola-
ton into that room where mother has
lost her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the survival of the
fttest." Tell Ter that child died because
it was not worth as much as the other
children. That is your survival of the
fttest" Go to that dying man and tell
him to pluck up courage for the future.
Use your transcendental phraseology up
on him. Tell him he ought to be conf
dent in "the great to be-" and the lever
lasting now" and the eternal what is
it." Just try your transcendentalism
and your philosophy and your science on
him.
Go to that widowed soul and tell her
it was geological necessity that her
companion should be taken away from
her, just as in the course of the worlds
history the megatherium had to pass out
of existence, and then you go on in your
scientific consolation until you get to the
sublime fact that 100000 years from
now we ourselves may be scientific spec
linens on a geological shelf, petrifed
specimens of an extinct human race.
And after you have got all through
with your consolation, if the poor aff1ict-
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 In
dian summer sunset. 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. tits not math-
ematics. Taylor's logarithms have many
imperfections. The French metric sys-
tenn has many imperfections. The only
exact science is Christianity-theo only
thing under which you can appropriately
write, "Quoderat demonstrandum. You
tell me that two and two make four.
1 do not dispute it, but it is not SO plain
that two and two make four. as that tI.e ! !
-E0rur God aimig made this worLsss
and for man, the sinner, he sent his only
begotten Son to die.
I put on the witness stand to testify
in behalf of Christianity the church
on earth and all the church in heaven.
Not IN not o fbopco,d ,oo+ - ,.,:11:o..
but all of the church on earth and all
the redeemed in heaven.
QUESTION OF TESTIMONY.
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, 900
persons who distinctly heard his inau-
gural address. deny both. l deny that
he was inaugurated deny that his in
augural address was delivered. You
ask why. did not see it; did not hear !,
it. But you say that there We're 20, 900 !
persons who did see and hear him. say $
cannot take it anyhow. 1 did not see |
and hear him. Whose testimony will r
you take? You will not take my testi- Q
nony. You say: You know nothing f
about it; you were not there. Let us S
lave the testimony of the 10000 persons Z
who stood before the capitol and heard
hat magnificent inaugural" Why, of
course that is as your common sense die
ates.
Now, here are some men who say they
ave never seen Christ crowned in the q
cart, and they do not believe it is ever W
one. There is group of men who say d
hey have never heard the voice Of :,
|hrist; they have never heard the voice L.
f God. They do not believe it ever y
or was ever heard-that any ~
hing like it ever occurred. point to 90, CT
100000 or 100000 people who say, H
Christ was crowned in our hearts af- N
ections; we have seen him and felt him III
l our soul, and we have heard his voice; w
re have heard it in storm and darkness;
re have heard it again and again. ~
whose testimony will you take? These b6
len, who say they have not heard the hs
DICE of Christ, have not seen the corona lei
on, or will you take the thousands and til
illions of Christians who testify of al
hat they saw with their own eyes and hi
card with their own ears?
Yonder is an aged Christian after so is
ears experience of the power of godli- en III
.ss in his soul. Ask this man whether, q" aT
hen he buried his dead, the religion of ms
.sus Christ was not a consolation. Ask mr.
N if through the long years of his pill fol
image the Lord ever forsools him. Ask wi
m, when he looks forward to the fiji be,
re, ifhe has not peace, and joy, and wo
consolation the world cannot take the
way. Put his testimony of what he Gee
S seen and what he has felt opposite -
the testimony Of a man who says he ~; "
S not seen anything on the subject or w
& ANYTHING on the subject. Will Won ,ain