The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20

regard 10 Iylludll = pray CT StuSc. -A'cNN
papers discussed that and with just as
much earnestness as the religious p1Hers,
and there not Il man in ChrtStcndon
who did not ask himself the question: rs
there ANYTHING in prayer, May the ttea4
mighty tact, what a glorious fact, the sccu-
lar printing press and the pulpit Of thu
church of Jesus Christ harnessed III the
Then look at the international series @.
sunday school lessons DO you hrow
that every Sabbath between 3 and . ciock,
there are five million children study
ing the, same lesson, lesson prepared by
the leading minds of the corntry, ana print
ed in the papers, and then these .,i1lects
are discussed and given over to he fcacn. rs.
who give them over to the children: so
tha chiia, oncemand within our memory
me chlldfen nibble here and there at a
story in the Bible. now they ire taken
tnrou s,, from Genesis to Revelation, and
stalled for Christianity. My soul is fuI of
t,2i1 feel as if | could shout
0 W shout mtA!leluia, the Lord God omnp
r. men n,l you notice more significant fact,
iactt % nave talked with people on the sab.
inhiio tl%t tney are getting dissatisfied with
PniioS3Phy and science as a matter Of CO M
III! III. Iney say it does not amount ~ ;5v-
b h,,ms " ,re You have a dead child n The
ana ana me door of the future seemed o1.nino'
. nns, ohiy 6omfort they could find was N tie.
all over tthH o Ia, are having demoastr1leo
t, oFtI tlc land that science and uhiloco
pr Ply cannot solace the trouble ana 1~cee,
T II. me world; and they want some orhor re-
nSIuh and they are taking Christianity IL,
oliiE sympathetic religion that nI,nr 90 ~. VIZ
tif -. t nn WnrId. You just take yori scinn-
~, ny conSolatl"n into that room where q
your splendid doctrine Of the sr VIZ i''se
i; iie III nttest Tell her that child died because
chiIdren no? Tha worth IL as much as the other
iIibest' Go to that dying man and + tiif
Use Your ritrh up Gonrage for the future
iit tTc den MN ne ought to be confident in
now owe s aed ITO to Pc" and the everlasting
tr, ,liu the eternal What-s-it" INST
IIry your transcendentalisn1 and vour MI nbil
4tp}3opfy. and your science on him, GO 70
s!eoloe Ti.a3"nd SOW and tell her it was a
should be taken aMay from her Oin I1et
IN course Of the worlds history the rnoga-
then 't Won mao an TO pass out Of existence and
tin H1tu 90 on IN your scientific cons0la-
. ION un!l YOU get to the sublime fact th9t
NAV hn years from now ourselves
shelf, petrifed specimens of an evtipnt la ia
man man race And after YOU have cot ali
dnn?uSh with your consolation, if the moor
t9iIh from this church the plainest Chris
, ian we nave. and with one-half hour of
4L1Ntr ana reading of Scripture promises
me tears will be wiped away and the hnuSe
from floor to cupola will be flooded with
mere IS where | see the triumph of Chris
t,anty Peonle are dissatisfied with every
1 INNS, C else They want Cod They want
Talk about the exact sciences-there is
0lllI t 90 one exact, exact science. 1t is not mathe-
imp1rfectionS. The French metric svstpn,
mas many lmpertectiOnS. The only exact
science is Christanity-the only thing nm
. ueI Whlch you can appropriately write:
"Quod erat demonstrandum. You tell me
th at Two and two make four. / do not dis
two make four as that the Lord God AL
mighty made this world and for man, the
SINNER, he sent His only begotten Son to die
put on the witness stand to testify in
behalf of Christianity the church on earth
ana al the church in heaven. Not fifty,
church on earth and all the redeemed in
You tell me James A. Garfield was in
augurated president of the tinted States
on the 4th of March, 1881. How do l know
IT. YOU tell me there were 10000 persons
who distinctly heard his inaugural address,
| deny both. | deny that he was Inaugural
Tea: deny that his inaugural address was
delivered. You ask why? | did not see it;
l did not hear it. But you say that there
were 20,000 persons who did see and hear
him. | say cannot take it anyhow did
not, see and hear him.; Whose testimony
Will you take? You Will not take my tcs-
timony. You say, You know nothing about
Neyou We're not there; let us have the tes-
my of the 10000 persons VINO stood be
~ he capitol and heard that ma5nihcent
.&r common sense dictates Now, here
rare some men who say they have never
seen Christ crowned in the heart and they
do not believe it is ever done. There is q
group of men who say they have never
heard the voice of Christ-they have never
lieve ii 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 1t in
storm and darkness; we have heard it
again and again. Whose testimony will
you take? These men, who say they have
seen the coronation, or Will you take the
thousands and millions OF Christians who
ifIr Of hat hpI
eyes and heard with their own ears?
Yonder is an aged Christian after fifty
years experience of the power of goodness
in his soul. Ask this man whether. when
he buried his dead, the religion of Jesus
Christ was not a consolation; ASK hum IL
through the long years OF his piigrlmage
the Lord ever fOrsook him: Ask him when
he looks forward TO the future II he has
world cannot take away. Put his testi-
mony of what he has seen and what he has
felt opposite to the testimony of man
who says he has not seen anything on the
subject felt anything on the subject.
viii YOU take the testimony of people who
have not seen, or people who have seen
You say mOrphld puts one TO sleep You
say in time of sickness 1t is very useful.
TO sleep, it never alIeviates pain, You ask
me why l say that. | have never tried 1t.
| never took it. / deny that morphla 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 telt
the soothing effects of a physicians pre-
Scribing morphine. Whose testimony Will
YOU take? Those who took the medicine,
or my testimony, | 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: Il
don't believe in it; there is no power in it..
Here are other people who say, We have
found out its power and know its sooth-
ing influence; it has cured us Whose tes-
timony will you take in regard to this
healing medicine?
| 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 thou
sands of witnesses. [ believe you are ready
TO take their testimony. y Dung man, do
not be ashamed to be friend of the Ri
BILE Do not put your thumb i'll 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 IL 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 nature gave them COM
fort for their trouble? They have lancats
to cut and iuggernautS to crush, but
comfort. All! my friends, YOU had better
stop your skepticism. Suppose you are put
in this crisis. o father, Your child is dy-
ing? What are you going to say to her.
Colonel Ethan Allen was Il famous intidel
in his day. His wife was a very conse-
Grated woman. The mother instructed the
daughter in the truths OF Christianity. The