The Globe-republican., 1894-03-23

| and s o'clock, there are 5000, 900 chill
dren studying the same lesson, lesson
prepared by the leading minds of the
| country, and printed in the papers, and
/ these subjects are discussed and given
over to the teachers, who give them
over to the children; so whereas once
and within our memory-the children
nibbled here and there at story in the
Bible, now they are taken from Genesis
! to Revelation, and we shall have 5,0OO..
900 children forestalled for Christian
! ity. NY soul is full of exultation. l
/ feel as if l could shout will shout:
''Alleluia. the Lord God omnipOtent
reigneth.'
Then you notice more significant
| fact. if you have talked with people on
the subject, that they are getting dis
satisfied with philosophy and science
as matter of comfort. They say it
does not amount to anything when you
have a dead child in the house. They
] tell you. when they were sick and the
| door of the future seemed acA.Sly, the
| only comfort they could fiLi ,.as in the
gospel People are having demon
strated all over the land that science
| and philosophy cannot solace the
trouble and woes of the world,
| and they want some other re.
| ligion, and they are taking Christian
| ity, the only sympathetic religion that
ever came into the world. You just
| take your scientific consolation into
| that room where a mother has lost her
| child. Try in that case your splendid
| doctrine of the survival of the tit
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
cendentalsm and your philosophy and
your science on him 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. 1t is not
| mathematics. Tavlor'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 thousand, not 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 know it. You tell me there were
go. 900 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? 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 30, 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 a group of men who say they have
/, a,,I Is
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 ii
again and again
Yonder is an aged Christian after
fifty years experience of the power OF
goiliness 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
peace, and 4 JOY and a consolation the
world cannot take away. Put his tes-
tim INV 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 /
VIII you take the testimony of people
who have not or people who have scent
l feel that l have convinced every i
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 l 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. az
young men sometimes do, and swagger
about. talking of the glorious light
of the nineteenth century. and
of there being no need of a Bible.