The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-07-25
.norning and Monday evening scatter

nitcant fac, ii you have talked with
people Oh the subject, that they are
getting disGusted with worldly pniios-
ophy as Il matter OF comfort. They
say il does nos amount to anything
when you have a Gcat. child III the
house. They lell you when they were
sick and the door of the future seemed
opening the only comfort they could
find was the Gospel. People are hav-
ing demonstrated all over the land
that science and philosophy cannot
solace the troubles and woes of the
world, and they want some other re-
hgion. and they are taking Christian
lty, the only sympathetic religion
that ever came into the world. You
just take a scientific consolation into
that room where n mother has lost
her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the Survival Of
the tittest." Tell her that child died
because II was not worth as much as
the other chiiGren. That is your
survival Of the fttest." Just try
your trausccndentaliSm. your philoso-
\
soul. and tell her it Was geological
necessity that her companion should
be taken away from her, Just as in
the course of the worlds history the
mega the-ium and thy iohthyosaurus
had to pass out of existence, and then
you so on in your scientific cons ola
tion until you get to the sublime fact
that 5O.0o0,0o0 years from now we
ourselves may be scientific specimens
on tho geologic shelf, petrifed speci-
mems of an extinct human race. And
after you have got all through with
your consolation, if the poor affiict-
/ ed soul Is not crazcd by il, we will
send forth from any of our churches 8
the phinest Christian we have, and
with one-half hour Of prayer and
reading of Scripture promises the
tears will be wiped away. and the
house from foor to cupoIa will be
flooded with the calmness OF an In
dian summer sunset. There Is where
see tho triumph of Christianity.
People arc dissatisfied with every
thing lse. They want God. They
want Jcsus Christ.
Tho fact 10 that infidelity and ag.
nosticisn are founded en- igno-
rance geological, ignorance chemical,
ignorance astron00icaL ignorance
geographical. We have heard what
tho enemies Of Christianity have had
to tAstAy. Now put before you the
testfnDay Of the church on earth snc
tho church In Heaven. Net fft1, not
. thousand, NOT . million, but all Of
the chu1FA on earth and all Of the
redeemed in Heaven. Will you take
~ evidence OF those who have wit
messed - we'll ~ fslt the power Of
religion. or will you prefer the tes-
timoNy Of those who begin by declsr.
ing that they have never witnsssed
or fek Ne power? You tell me That
ON . certain eth OF March, 20 years
ago. . president Of the United States
WAS mnaeurs&ed. How do know It :?
You tell ne there wers $1,000 per.
soAs who distinctly heard his intexu.
raj address. I deny both. l deny
that he was inaugurated. I deny that
his Inaugural address was delivered.
You ask why? did not see It. J
did rot hear 1t. But you say there
were 10000 people who did SEQ and
hear him. Is not the testimony of
the 10000 who were present worth
moro than tho testimony Of one who
was absenb? Now, there are some
men who say they have never seen
Christ crowned in the heart, and they
do not believe it is ever done. There
is q group Of men who say they have
never heard tho voice Of Christ, that
they have never heard tho voice OF
God They do not believe that any.
ching hks IL ever occurred. / point
to twenty, . hundred Thousand or .
million people who say: Christ was
crowned In our hearts Affections. va
have seen Him and felt Him IN our
souA, and vs hs~e heard His veice; ~
have heard It in the storm and dark
moss, We have heard il again and
again" Whose testimony viii you
takef These men who say they have
not heard the voice Of Christ. have
not seen the coronation, or will you
believe tho thousands and tens Of
thousands of Christians who testify
Of what they saw with thetr swn eyes
and heard with their ow> ea.s?
Young man, do nQt be ashamed to
be q friend of tho Bible. Do not put
your thumb IN your vest ~ young
men sometimes do. and swagger
about talking Of the glorious hight Of
nature and Of there being No need
of the Bible. They have the light Of
nature in India and China and In all
the dark places Of the earth. Did
you ever hear that the light Of
nature gave them comfort for their
trouble? They have lAncets to cut
and juggernauts to crush. but No com.
fort. All. my friends, you had better
stop your skepticism. Suppose yeu
are put in crisis like that Of Col.
Ethan Allen. ! saw the account and
at one time mentioned it in an ad-
dress. A descendant of EthaA Allen,
who is an infidel, said it never oc-
CURED. Soon after received o let