The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-09

things in which they gloried and prided
themselves most have been demon
strated to be erroneous and false
Where are the men of wealth OF those
times? Gone, ages sinces their vast
estates scattered to the winds and
themselves forgotten
But where is the name of Jesus OF
Nazareth? 1t has been interviewer with
the history of the civilized world for
eighteen hundred years. Every 1nhdel
that now writes a letter in some form
or other puts down 1900 Every note
of hand, bond, deed, mortgage, bank
cheek, summons, no matter by whom
written, believer or unbelieVer, bears
the year of our Lord either in full or
in some abbreviated form. Why were
those letters of Mr.. HoWe'S dated
March u. 1900? He might say because
1t is the custom. But where did the
custom originate? It began when the
civilized world acknowledged the power
of Jesus. If any man thinks that the
power of our Lord Jesus Christ is
nothing, let him inquire for the origin
of the observance of the Lords Day or
the first day of the week. What states
man, philosopher, or great man Of the
world originated the observance of the
first day of the week? No great man
did it. It originated with Jesus of
Nazareth. Has He any power on earth
now? Lift up your eyes and look at
the stupendouS business operations of
the civilized world. See the busy null
titudes in the department of agricul-
ture, mechanics, arts, commerce and
trade as the week closes. Then open
your eyes on the Lords Day morning
and see the general suspensioni Where
is the power that suspends all this
Whose wonderful hand stays and sus-
ponds all this. Whose wonderful hand
stays and suspends all those busy null
titudeS? Where did all this originate?
Why does not Mr.. Howe publish the
Atchison Globe on Sunday? He may
say again that it is custom, but where
did the custom originate? You trace
back and find the origin of it in the
resurrection of our Lord from the dead.
Before that event nothing of the kind
described had ever existed on the first
day of the week. There had been such
a thing as the observance of the sab
bath or seventh day, but no observance
of the first day. as a sacred day, since
the beginning of time.
amid all the unbelief, the hardness
| of heart, and terrible impenitence of
! these times, the name of Jesus finds
| its way into all records, the legal doc
uments, the documents of state, and
| the entire literature of the civilized
| world. Even in the most degraded
| forms of an apoState church and peo-
pie the name of Jesus fills everything.
| Where, too, are the names Of the
apostles? Their names have gone
! wherever the name of Jesus is known.
/ Where is the gospel of Christ? Writ
/ ten, printed. and circulated in the
scriptures throughout the world. After
| the Jews have hated, despiSed, and
Indignantly fought the religion of
| Christ, the apostles, and the Lord him
self for eighteen hundred years; after
the pagan world has fought it as long
| and powerful and learned infidels have
put forth their most determined efforts
to crush it; in one word, after it has
stood the criticism and opposition OF
all the combined influences that could
| be brought against it for eighteen hun
| dred years, it is received and believed
by more people than at any other pc
riod since it became a power among
men. What is grandly in it's favor i;
that the most powerful, enlightened anC
elevated people in tie world are the
people who receive the word of God
The most pure, benevolent and gooC
people in the world are those who prac
tice the Bible most c1OSelV''