The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-16
ANAL CONQUERING.
Fact Is Christianity. Says Rev. DR..
J. L. Sooy.
HIS CLEAN. CUT DISCOURSE
AZ the Fourth Street Church was Heart
by a Large observation-disclosures
Evidence ofthc Truth OF tho Ciaim wa,
Submitted by the speAksr-Je,us Christ
was a Wonderful neing-signincanco OF
Christmas, Celebrated the World Over.

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Rev. ], L. sooy. pastor OF tho Fourth
Street NJ, Z. church, preached nm able
ind eloquent discourse last night TO n
congregation that filed every pew In tho
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witnesses OF Rus MnJeSty'
The reverend speaker emphasized the
thouyht that ChristInnItv "a mn ,r.co,.
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auetiiS i"e'' UNI uPprehchucu the TACT
also that lnitdelity must DO met by
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come out victorious In tho discussion.
Gods breathing .houvb.a mr., Twins
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: AaSo' HNciS"luh WIN hiNn 10 EchiI-
~, and so, too, Christianity Is n fact not
i u theory.
II Is coming to he proven more and
moro n fact that Jesus Christ was Il
wonderful being. Born IN obscure par
entaSe, Without cliQues or orEanlZa-
tons TO assist Him, with strong opposi-
ton and hatred unto death, His birth
day Is celebrated the world over, md
the marvellous alteration still existing
for the life He lead cannot be accounted
for with human reasons. He stands out
Z pre-cminent as the only man for whom
this reverence iE felt. Socrates was n
great man, but after oil he was but n
Greek, Cicero, the Roman, but Jesus
Christ is never spoken Of as the jew. In
all tho following years since His cruel
fiXion and In all the clineS Chrizt's
name thrills every pulse In every heart.
The sublimest miracle OF all history.
unaccourted for by any ground but that
Of incarnation. Is the power OF Jesus
) name. Theodore Parker, the Ereatsinf-
del has said tnat no man. no matter how
great could have impersonnted the
Nazarene. that the HE " Jesus was no
fabrication. The RaY. o. ". L. Froth-
fnghnm. the great New York leader Of
what was called the Free Thought
movement once said thirty years ago
that Christ Is \ myth. a few years ago
he said In long article In tho New York
Evening Post, that Christianity was
constantly going forward. while the
free thought movement was going back
ward. and that he would never take the
platform again Opponents Of Chris
tianity are constantly making cIInceY-
sions to orthodoxy. and me;nphrIcally
as II was Onc- said, the Gallleear car
penter Is still making cotiius, meaning
that opposition TO Christ Is gradually
( dying out
The fatherhpod OF God and the
brotherhood OF mar. those two blessings,
those two rays of SUNSHINE are becoming
more believed IN. The lowly are getting
more In touch with the high under the
bsnignant influence OF Christianity.
When General Custer had ~ read a
! burial service over some poo. unknown
soldier. he read the words from the
Book that were read over the unfortr-
L nate Charlotte OF France. All this level
Ing ~ humanity comes from the icveilnG
progress OF Christianity, But not only In
the world OF society. but in tho world ~
Z arts and letters. the same truth Is ap-
parent thas Christ and His teachings
are ever present. Raphael, the divine,
sat at tho feet Of Jesus when he painted
his masterpiece, the 'TrausfEurattpn +"
and Canova, the sculptor OF "sfadel!ne."
sat in the light OF Jesus as he Clipped
the marble for that great piece Of stntu-
ary. Likewise, Hugh Miller. the grea:
Scotch geoloGlst among the flora or the
Highlands. And in the capitol. ut
Washington, the greatest painting there.
was masterpiece offiSurcs, but lacking
religious expression. The figures In the
"Embarkatlon Of the Pilgrims were not
sublime enough, and Weir, the inHdel
!; artist had to study the Puritans 10 be-
come In sympathy with his work, and
as he drank in religious sentiment by