The Newtown bee., 1897-08-13

Jerusalem he hurried them away to pris.
 on. The business of decapitation going
 too slow in that city for his hot blood.
 he heard of a new nest of Christians in
 Damascus. He started for Damascus.
 but he never got there. You say you
 know the Bible story better than I, and
 you tell me that Paul did get there? Ex- cuse me, somebody got to Damascus, but
 it was an entirely different man from the 1 one who set out. He set out 'sexceedins mad" against Christ and all who bore,His name; he gQt there the slave of Christ.
 willing to be counted as the dung and otfscouriDg of the earth,
 IF ONLY CHRIsT's GLORY BE SERVED.
 This lawyers testimony, then, is worth
 hearing, who made so complete face.
 about, as, with no suspicion of doubt
 about 1t, he cries, "I know whom have
 believed and am persuaded that He is l able to keep that which I have commit
 ted unto Him against that day."
 There is class of people called agnos- tics to-day who seem to have gained much popular favor. As far as 1 can un- derstand it, there is but one tenet in their creed. It is this, 'I don't know" Of course we don't know, the world is filled with uncertainty. I see young man start out in life with buoyant hopes. Heis resolved to succeed. He will curb his pas sions, he will be temperate in his desires, he will be economical with his wages 1; he will do anything in his power, he will pay any price for success. But a few years go by, his hopes 8 re wrecked, his character is ruined. He has failed. We don't know. We have agents at advan. l tageous points, we have past obserVa- tlons and records to go by, we have means of telling the velocity of the wind, we can know something of the effects of lunar changes and of the tides; but "Old Probabilities' is the nearest we ev- CT come to telling anything about what the weather is to be, and by the misses ! made of late, we are almost tempted to say that the probability is no probability at all. We don't know. I never see a little one taking it's first steps, guided and shielded by it's mothers lands, but I wonder whether those feet will lead into the many pitfalls and snares that lie open before us. We don't know.
 We don't know great many things but some things we do know, and about these there can be no gainsaying. We know Christianity exists in the world to- day. We know that the fountain started up among the hills in Judea has broaden ed into a great river that is sweeping over the earth and breaking down all barriers that impede it's way. We know that Christianity is the best thing man has ever had. We know that Christiani- ty is the dominant factor in the worlds progress and redemption to-day, and that it is the only hope for mankind. "Talk about questions of the day." said Mir Gladstone, recently, ''there is but one question, and that is the gospel. It can and will correct everything needing cor rection. All men at the head of great movements are Christian men. During the many years I was in the cabinet | was brought into association with 60 master-minds, and all but five of them were Christians. My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind in- to contact with divine revelation" It does not take great thing to prove 8 great fact. A single acorn necessitates | a tree, and tree neeessitates the ground, | and the productive ground neeessitates | 4 sun, and the sun necessitates the solar | system. An acorn Is evidence of the so- lar system, and the solar system necessi- tates being wise enough and self-suffi- cient enough to make it; and that being l only can be God. So every hospital in this land for the alleviation of pain, every society that ministers to the poor, every ship-load of cora that now goes to starv- ing India, every dollar that goes to rav- aged Armenia, calls for explanation, de-