Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-29

eC0 tno Oiu iObhby boW ktuu tno Oiu sDsn
was to see you. You found that he was
still reading the book, and when he got
up and down TO pray the chair ereaked
under him. He has gone over the river.
Bee, here, did II mako him bad manf
Did 1t make your mother bad womanf
She read that book when you slept In the
trundle bed; sho was resdiDR that book
whom she taught you your nfst prayer;
when you came home to soc her you found
that she wiped her eyes pretty often, and
you said, "Mother must get you q pair
of spectacies," !" and later on you found
that she was wiping her spectacles pretty
often, and then yod went and got her q
great, big, coarse testament and psalms,
and how the old lcdy smiled when she
looked at II. She read 1t ten years more,
and she has gone over the river now.
Did II make her bad woman?
do you remember the day when your
mother died? Your father finished his
journey first, and that broke up the home
and the old lady came to live with you.
How the children loved grandmother.
Her face and presence In your house was .
benediction.
One morning she did not come down TO
brea kfast and the children said, "Where
is grandmother" and you replied, 81
think she has oversight this morning."
The children ran to the stairs and cried,
Grandmother come down to breakfast,
breakfast is ready" There was no re-
| sponse.l
You went up to the room. Her white
hair lay on the white pillow peaceful ex'
preston on her face. You thought she
was asleep, but no, she was gone; gone to
| join the loved ones on the other shore;
| gone to see the king In his beauty.
! Asleep; yes, asleep In Jesus; blessed sleep
| from which none ever wake to weep.
An earthly might here with her had
| proved to be an eternal morning; earthly
subtraction to you, to her was heavenly
addition.
On the table was the old family bible
where, between the old and the new tes-
lament, was kept the tear. stained family
record; where, between the stories OF
heavenly love, was the brief but express
/ sive record, born, married, died; the re-
cord OF the altar, the cradle and he tomb.
The book was open where she had been
reading the night before the latest news
| from heaven. See here, did that old book
which lpgersoll reviles, and says 1t Is not
| fit to be read In the family, make her q
bad woman?
Mr.. Ingersoll says that a religious life Is
| life Of gloom and melancholy. Oh what
a confounded lie that Is. OF all the cheer
| full, happy men that walk the face Of the
! earth, the man whose sins are forgiven,
4 and whose peace Is made with God, he Is
7 the cheerful, happy man or woman. DO
you want your husband converted? Away
with your vinegar face religion; go home
| and make the house ring with the songs Of
| salvation; show him that you have some.
| thing that he hasn't got. But someone
| says are christians never sad? Are they
| never In trouble like other men? Oh, yes,
| they are, Mr.. Ingersoll; but then "there
| is a balm In Gilead, and there Is great
| physician near" that you know not Of
| Mr.. Ingersoll is reported to have said,
Chow do you know there Is any such God
| as the God Of the bible? Did anybody
ever see himW No, Mr.. Ingersoll, we
never saw him. We might ask him il he
has ever seen his own brains-if he has, he
hasn't seen much. Astronomy tells US
| that the sun is ninety-f five millions OF
| miles from this earth, and II it were hol-
| low sphere 1t would contain thousand
worlds like ours; and man asks you and
| me IL we had ever seen God, and wouldn't
believe there was God because he hadn't
| seen him. Astronomy tell Us that there
are eighty millions OF solar systems float
| ing In space, and for aught l know they
all revolve around the throne of God.
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ put
the whole gospel into the parable when he
said, "The kingdom OF heaven Is like un-
| to merchantmen seeking goodly pearls,
| who when ne had found one pearl Of great
price went and sold all he had and bought
It." Have you got that pearl? Ifso, you
are rich and you are wise. II you have 1t
| not, you are poor and blind and naked
and foolish.
At Marshheld, In my district, lie buried
| the mortal remains OF Daniel Webster,
| the great expounder and defender Of the
| constitution. As he drew near the end he
asked to have the scriptures read. They
brought in this old book that Mr.. Inger.
soil reviles and read the psalm beginning,
"The Lord Is my shepherd" and ending,
"Though walk through the shadow of
death / will fear no Ill; thy rod and thy
| staff they comfort me-" THAT stan which
need now" said the dying statesman.
| II this man Of giant mind and masterly
intellect and overmastering genius needed
that stan amid the swellings OF Jordan,
what will such men as Mr.. Ingersoll and
you and do without It?
Whht SuostIuto uoeS "AE' iukoAooii ohSA
us for the bible, that he would annihilate
and destroy; what consolation does he
offer those that are In trouble or dire dis
| tressf Such persons turn to the old book
and read, "When thou pssseth through
the waters will be with thee, and the
floods they shall not overflow thee
What substitute does he offerf Why,
book recommending and justifying sui
eide. What consolation does he offer
those In troublef Why, get pistol and
blow your brains out, or take a dose OF
morphine, or turn on the gas and asphyx-
late yourself. How do you like the sub
stitute for this old book that has given
consolation to Gods people, that has COM
forted the living, suffering and dying In
ages that are past and will In ages to come.
The sale Of Ipgersoll's book In this