The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-07-13


difference how you go out of this
world you will land safely, the Poto-
mac would be so full of corpses the
boats would be impeded in their prog
ress, and the crack of the suicides
pistol would be no more alarming than
the rumble of street car.
Would God that the coroners would
be brave in rendering the right ver-
dict, and when in q case of irrespon-
sibility they say: "While this man
was demented he took his life;" in the
other case say: Having read infidel
books and attended infidel lectures,
which obliterated from this mans
mind all appreciation of future retri-
button. he committed self-slaughter!"
Have nothing to do with an infdel-
ity so cruel, so debasing. Come out of
that bad company into the company of
those who believe the Bible. Benja-
min Franklin wrote: "Of this Jesus
of Nazareth I have to say that the
system of morals he left, and the re-
ligion he has given us are the best
things the world has ever seen or is
likely to see." Patrick Henry, the
electric champion of liberty, says:
"The book worth all other books put
together is the Bible" Benjamin
Rush, the leading psychologist and
anatomist of his day, the great medi-
cal scientist-what did he say? "The
only true and perfect religion is
Christianity?" Isaac Newton, the
leading philosopher of his time-what
did he say? "The sublimest philoso-
ply on earth is the philosophy of the
gospel" David Brewster, at the pro-
nunciation of whose name every SCI
enlist the world over bows his head;
David Brewster, saying: "Oh, this re-
ligion has been great light to me, a
very great light all my days" Presi-
dent Theirs, the great French states
man, acknowledging he prayed when
he said: II invoke the Lord God, in
whom I am glad to believe" David
Livingstone, able to conquer the lion,
able to conquer the panther, able to
conquer the savage, yet conquered by
this religion, so when they find him
dead they find him on his knees.
Salmon p. Chase, chief Justice of the
supreme court of the United States,
appointed by President Lincoln, will
take the witness stand. "Chief Justice
Chase, please to state what you have
to say about the book commonly called
the Bible" The witness replies:
'There came time in my life when
I doubted the divinity of the Scrip
lures, and resolved as lawyer and
judge would try the book as would
try anything in the court room, taking
evidence for and against. 1t was a
long and serious and profound study,
and using the same principles of evi-
dence in this religious matter as 1
always do in secular matters, 1 have
come to the decision that the Bible
is a supernatural book, that it has
come from God, that the only safety
for the human race is to follow its
teachings" Judge, that will do. Go
back into your pillow of dust on the
banks of the Ohio" Next 1 put upon
the witness stand president of the
United States-John Quincy Adams.
president Adams, what have you to
say about the Bible and Christianity ?"
The president replies: II have for
many years made it practice to read
through the Bible once year. My
custom is to read four or five chapters
every morning Immediately after ris-
ing from my bed. 1t employs about
an hour of my time and seems to me
the most suitable manner of begin
ming the day. In what light soever
we regard the Bible, whether with
reference to revelation, to history, or
to mortality, it is an invaluable and
inexhaustible mine of knowledge and
virtue"
Young men of America, come out of
the circle of infidels-mostly made up
of cranks and imbeciles-into the COM
pany of intellectual giants, and turn
your back on infidelity, which de-
stroys body and soul.
All! Infidelity, stand up and take
your sentence. In the presence of God,
angels, and men, stand up, thou mon
ster! Thy lip blasted with blasphemy,
thy cheek SCARED with uncleanness,
thy breath foul with the corruption
of the ages! Stand up, Satyr, filthy
goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of
the centuries! Stand up, thou mon.
ster, 1nfidelity! Part man, part pan
ther, part reptile, part dragon, stand
up and take thy sentence! Thy hands,
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed, thy feet crimson with the hui
man gore through which thou hast
waded, stand up and take thy SEN
tence! Down with thee to the pit and
sup on the sobs and groans of those
thou hast destroyed, and let thy mu-
sic be the everlasting misery of those
whom thou hast damned. 1 brand
the forehead of Infidelity with all the
crimes of self-immolation for the last
century on the part of those who had
their reason.
| My friends, if ever your life, through
its abrasions and its molestations,
should seem to be unbearable, and you
are tempted to quit it by your own
behest, do not consider yourself as
worse than others. Christ himself
was tempted to cast himself from the
roof of the temple, but as he resisted
so resist ye. Christ came to medicine
all wounds. In your trouble 1 pre-
scribe life instead of death. People
who have had it worse than you will
ever have it, have gone songfully on
their way. Remember that God keeps
the chronology of your life with as
much precision as he keeps the chro-
nology of nations, your grave as well
as your cradle.
There is sorrowless world, and it is
so radiant that the MONDAY sun is
only the lowest doorstep, and the au-
rora that lights up our northern
heavens, confounding astronomers as
to what it can be, is the waving of the
banners of the procession come to take
the conquerers home from church
militant to church triumphant, and
you and l have ten thousand reasons