The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-21

nfty, not 1000, not 100000, but all or
the church on earth and all the redeemed
in heaven.
You tell me James A Garfield was
inauguarted president OF the United
States on the 4th day of March, 1881.
How do I know il? You tell me there
were 10000 persons who distinctly heard
his inaugural address. / deny both.
deny that he was inauguarted. | deny
that his inaugural address was delivered.
You ask why. l did not see il. j did
not hear IL. But YOU say that there
were 10000 persons who did see and hear
him. 1 say l cannot take it anyhow; l
dld not see and hear him. Whose teS-
timony 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
10000 persons who stood before the CAPT
tol and heard that magnificent inau-
gural.' Why. of course that is as your
common sense dictates.
Now, here are some men who say
they have never seen Christ crowned I'm
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 IL ever occurred. l point TO
20 100000 or 100000 people who say:
Christ was crowned in our hearts af-
Him in our soul. and we have heard
His voice. We have heard il in storm
and darkness. We have heard IL 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. or will YOU take the
thousands and 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 god
illness 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 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 1 deny it. Morphia never puts
anybody 10 sleep. 1t never alleviates
pain. You ask me why ] say that. |
have never tried it. l never took it.
deny that morphia is any soothing to the
nerves or any quiet in times of sickness.
| deny that mOrphia ever put anybody
TO sleep But here are twenty persons
who say they have all felt the soothing
| effects of a physicians prescribing NOR
phine. Whose testimony will you take
| those who took the medicine or my tes-
timony, / never having taken the medi-
cine? Here is the gospel of Jesus Christ
an anodyne for all trouble the might
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| earth. Here is man who says: 81
don't believe in it. There is no power in
IL s. Here are other people who say:
We have found out its power and know
its soothing influence. 1t has cured us"
Whose testimony will you take in re-
gard 10 this healing medicine?
L 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 I'm
their own heart and life. We have tens
or thousands of witnesses. / 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, young men some
times do, and sWagger about talking of
the glorious light of the nineteenth cen
| tury and of there being no need of a
bible. They have the light of nature
in India and China and in all the dark
the 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 better
stop your skepticism. Suppose you are
put in this crisis: Oh, father, your child
Is dying! What are you going TO say to
her?
Col. Ethan Allen was a famous ind-
| del in his day. His wife was a very
| consecrated woman. The mother in
structed the daughter In the truths of
Christianity. The daughter sickened and
was about to die, and she said to her
| father: Father, shall / take your in
structiOn, or shall | take mothers in
structiOn? | am going to die now.
must have this matter decided That
man, who had been loud in his infidelity,
said to his dying daughter My dear,
you had better take your mothers re-
| ligion." My advice is the same to you,
O young man-you had better take your
mothers religion. You know how it COM
| forted her You know what she said to
you when she was dying. You had bet
ter take your mothers religion.