People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-05

The Sunday school was well attend
ed and being a novelty, in the tent,
was quite interesting. There was a
fair-Sized audience in the forenoon.
Rev. BOleS preached on "The Great
Spiritual Corporation"
The event of the day was the lect-
ure at 2:3O-"Jesus Christ Proven Di-
vine Without the Bible" The big
tent was well filed. There must
have been 1000 people present
He laid the Bible aside and took his
text from the great French infdel
author, Ernest Renon: LET us place
the person of Jesus upon the highest
summit of human grandeur" He re-
infOrced this by other passages from
the same author: "There is cOndens-
ed in Him Christ all that is good
and lofty" Free from all selfish.
ness" He enlarged on these admis-
siOns as he went along calling atteu-
ton here to the fact that selfShness
was at the bottom of all sin. He add
ed still other quotations from RenOn:
Christ had no wOrLly ambitiOn;'
think Of it, "Our hesitation, our
doubts, our fears never reached him"
All infdels cOncede the greatness of
Christ's character, none have been
able to attribute any imperfectiOn to
him. They likewise admit that such
man lived, and uniyer ally laud his
grandeur as a man. Fob IngersOll
said in his lecture that "Christ was a
grand, noble, good man: it was a
shame that Gov. PLATE allowed him
to be taken by mob and crucifed.
He lBOleS) then called attention to
the irresistible force of Christ's life
dead, yet why such power? He had
no association with the cultured; was
not heard Of till he reached the age of
thirty. He only spent three and one
half years in public life. Cicero, De-
mOSthenes and others had to grow to
reach their high pinnacle of fame, but
Christ's matchleSs oratory was COM
plete from the start. He was opposed
by all corrupt politicians, the Roman
powers, the heather powers, the
ScribeS and phariseeS and the priests
afraid of their jobs. Orators were
jealous of him because he seemed to
be master of language and master of
men. He was tried for blaSphemy
against God and for conspiracy
against the Roman government.
Notwithstanding all this tremendous
opposition he rose before it like a kite
before the wind, and moved the great
infdel, RenOn, to say, Whatever
may be the surprises of the future
none will be greater than Jesus
Christ
We have seen his triumphs then,
let US look at his triumphs now. OBJ
serve Roman Catholicism against a
divided Professionalism; christianity is
opposed by the organized forces of
saloons, breweries, diStillerieS, houses
OF shame, gambling dens, race tracks,
boards Of trade and bucket shops; our
corrupt system of politics isn't worthy
OF deceRt community of pole cats;
by corrupt literature and by a corrupt
press; the great metropolitan dailies
with the associated press are a menace
to this country; backed up by thirty
millions of capital they can and do
make black white and white black.
They have sold out to the liquor traf-
tic, to the Roman power and to Wall
and Lombard street. He pointed also
to the theaterS and to corrupt social
life, especially among the weather.
classes. All of these organized forces
are pitted against christianity. Add
to this a cOwardly pew, a cOwardly
pulpit anc a cOwardly and schemlng
press, with a few noble exceptions)
and how can you account for the dead
Christ's power and influence yet?
Notwithstanding this tremendouS Op-
position it has been growing constant
ly and Will finally prevail over all.
He then argued from a scientific
standpoint. A professor in science
would call specimen in which there
was both vegetable and mineral ingre-
dents, a "vegetable-mineral" speci-
men; one in which the vegetable and
animal were mixed a vegetable.
animal;;" one in which there was both
animal and man characteristics. an
"animal-man." And by the same
process of reasoning a man who had
so many characteristics of divinity,
who lowered so high above all other
human beings, whose person should
be placed upon the highest summit
of human grandeur" as expressed by
Ernest RenOn and all other authori-
tive infdelS, should be called a God
man."
The lecture made a profound i'm
preston, and the expression was CON-
mon among those conversing at the
the close, that it was no wonder the