Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-03-09
that no threw up his belief in tho good.

that no threw up his belief In the good
ness Of God
Others have gone into skepticism
from anatural persistence in asking the
reason why. They have been fearfully
stabbed Of tho interrogation point. There
are so many things they cannot get ex.
planned They cannot understand tho
! Trinity or how God can be- sovereign
and yet man FREQ agent. Neither can
l. They say, 81 don't understand why
good God should have let sin come
into the world. " Neither do ]. You
say, why was that child started in life
with such disadvantages. while others
have all physical and mental equip.
ment:" cannot tell They go out Of
church on Easter morning and say.
That doctrine Of the resurrection con
founded me So il IL 20 mo mystery
beyond unravolment | understand all
the processes by which men get into tho
dark | know them all. have travelled
with burning feet that blistered way
The first word which most children
learn to utter is, Papa. or Mamma,
but think tho first word ever uttered
was, Why" | know what il is to
have n hundred midnights pour their
darkness into one hour. Such men are
not 10 DO sooifed hut helped. Turn your
back upon drowning man when you
have the rope with which 10 pull him
ashore. and let that woman in the third
story Of house perish in the flames
when you have ladder with which to
help her ont and help her down. rather
than turn your back scoflingly on -
skcptic whose soul is in more peril than
the bodies Of those other endangered
ones possibly can be. oh, skepticism is
dark land There are men in this
house who would give thousand worlds
If they possessed them TO get back to tho
placid faith of their fathers and moth.
orS. and 1t is our place TO help them,
and we may help them. never through
their heads, but always through their
hearts These skeptics, when brought
TO Jesus. will be nightly effective, far
more SO than those who never examined
the evidences Of Christianity
Thomas Chalmers was once a skcptic.
Robert Hall skeptic Robert Newton
skeptic. Christmas Evans skeptic.
But when once with strong hand they
took hold of the chariot Of the gospel
they rolled it on with what momentum
II | address such men and women 10.
lay, throw out no SCOT. | implead
iherI by the memory OF the good old
dayf, when nc their mothers knee they
said. Now lay me down TO sleep, "
and by those days and nights Of scarlet
fever in which she watched you, giving
you the medicine at just the right time
and turning your pillow when it was
/ hot, and with hands that many years
ago turned TO dust soothcd away your
pain, and with voice that you will
never hear again, unless you join her III
the better country, told you 90 never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch, where sho
looked 80 pale and talked so slowly.
catching her breath between the words.
and you felt an awful loneliness com
ing over your soul-by all that | beg
You to come back and take the same re.
ligion. II was good enough for her. IL
is good enough for you. Nay. have "a
better plea than that. plead hy all the
wounds and tears and blood and groans
and agonics and death throos Of the SON
of God. who approaches you this mo-
ment with torn brow, and laceratcd
hand. and whipped back. and saying,
Come unto me, all 20 who are weary
and heavy laden. and | will give you
rest