Connecticut western news., 1898-07-14

in an oblivious nowhere or glorious somewhere. And infidelity holds the upper end of the rope for the suicide and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains out and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If in- fidelity could carry the day and per suade the majority of people in this country that it does not make any diff ference how you go out of this world you will land safely, the Potomac would be so full of corpses the boats would be impeded in their progress, and the crack of the suicides pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble of street car.
 1 have sometimes heard it discussed whether the great dramatist was a Christian or not He was Christian. In his last will and testament he con- mends his soul to God through the sac- rifice of Jesus Christ. l know that he considered appreciation of future ex- istence the mightiest hindrance to self destruction:
 For who would bear the whips and scorns of
 time,
 The oppressor's wrong. the proud mans con tumely,
 The bangs of despised love, the laws delay The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes When he himself might his quietus make With bare bodkinf Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death The undiscovered country from whose bourne No traveller returns-puzzles the willP Would God that the coroners would be brave in rendering the right verdict and, when in a case of responsibility they say, While this man was de- mented he took his life, i'll the other case say, Having read intidel books and attended infdel lectures, which ob- liberated from this mans mind all ap- preciation of future retribution, he com lnitted self slaughter.
 Get Tn Good Company.
 Have nothing to do with an infidelity so cruel, so debasing. Come out of that bad company into the company of those who believe the Bible Benjamin Frank lin wrote, "Of this Jesus of Nazareth l have to say that the system of morals he left and the religion 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 to- gether is the Bible. Benjamin Rush.
 the leading physiologist and auatomist of his day, the great medical 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? 1.-The sublimest philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the gospel David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every sci enlist the world over bows his head David Brewster saying, "Oh, this re- Iigion has been great light to me, very great light, all my daysp' Presi- dent Thiers, the great French statesman, acknowledging that he prayed when he said, "l invoke the Lord God, in whom I am glad to believew David Living stone, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage yet conquered by this re- ligion, so when they find him dead they find him on his knees
 Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the supreme court of tie United States, ap- pointed 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 Bi- ble. ]" The witness replies: "There came time in my life when l doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and resolv- ed as lawyer and judge would try the book as l W ould try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was long and serious and profound study, and, using the same principles of evidence ill this religious matter as l always do ill secular mat ters, 1 have come to the decision that the Bible is supernatural book, that it has come from God and that the only safety for the human race is to follow it's teachings" Judge, that will do. Go back again to your pillow of dust on the banks of the Ohio" Next put upon the witness stand a president of the United States-John Quincy Adams. President Adams, what have you to say about tLe Bible and Christianity" The president replies: ''I have for Hlany years made it practice to read through the Bible once year. My custom is to read four or five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time and seems to me the most suitable man. ner of beginning the day. In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history
 or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. Chancellor Kent, what do you think of the Bible?" Answer, "No other book ever addressed itself so au- thoritatively and so pathetically to the judgment and moral sense of mankind.
 Edmund Burke, what do you think of the Bible?'' Answer, "I have read the Bible morning, noon and night and have ever since been the happier and the better man for such reading" Young men of America, come out of the circle of infdels-mostly made up
 of cranks and imbeciles-into the con-
 pany of intellectual giants and turn , your back on an infdelity which de-
 stroys body and soul.
 What Infdelity Has Done.
 An, infdelity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God, an gels and men stand up, thou monster,
 thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scared with uncleanness, thy
 breath foul with the corruption of the
 agesl Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzz
 gard of the nations, leper of the centu-
 riesl Stand up, thou monster, infidelity l
 Part man, part panther, part reptile,
 part dragon, stand up and take thy sen
 tence Thy hands red with the blood in
 which thou hast washed, thy feet crim-
 son with the human gore through
 which thou hast waded, stand up and
 take thy sentencel Down with thee to
 the pit and sup on the sobs and groans
 of those thou hast destroyed, and let thy
 music be the everlasting miserere of