Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-02-23

sailed. Your silence gives consent TO
the bombardment of your Fathers
house. lon allow a slur TO be cast on
your mothers dying pillow In behalf
ofthe Christ. who for you went through
the sgonies of assassination on the
rocky bluff back of Jerusalem. you
dared not face sickly joke. Better
load up with a few questions. SO thNt |
next time you viii be ready. Say to tie !
scoffer: my dear sir. will you tell me |
what makes the difference between the |
condition Of woman in China and in the |
United States? What co YOU think OF |
the sermon on the mount2 How do
you Ike the golden rule laid down in
the Scriptures2 Are you in favor Of the
Ten Commandments? In your large
ard extensive reading have you come
across a lovelier character than Jesus
CHRISTI viii you please 10 name the
triumphan; 6eathbeds Of inii6eis and
stheists2 How do you account for the
fact that among the out and out be-
: levers in Christianity were such per
sons as Ben iamin Franklin. John Rus
I kin. Thomas Carlyle. Darlington. Mac
aulay. William Penn. Walter Scott.
Charles Kingsley. Horace Bushnell.
! James 4. Garfield. Robert r. Lee. Stone
/ wall Jackson. Admiral Foote. Admiral
| Farragut. Ulysses s. Grant. John Mil
! ton. William Shakespeare. Chief Jus
tice Marshall. John Adams Daniel Web
, ster. George Washington? How Go you
l account for their fon6ress for the
! CHRISTIAN religion? Among the in
Vulnerable colleges and universities
OF the earth will you name me three
started by infi6els ard now supported
by infdels? Down in your hear; are
you really happy in the position you
occupy antaConistic 20 the Christian
religion? When co you have the most
rapturous views OF the next world ?"
/ Go an him with 4 few such questions.
and he viii Get so red IN the face rs 20
suggest apoplexy. and he viii look at
his watch and say he has an engage
nort and must 90. You will put him in
a sweat that Will beat Turkish bath.
You will put him on a rout compared
with which our troops az Bull Run
n ade no time Al all. Arm yourself. not
with arguments. but Interrogation
points. and promise You victory. Shall
such a man a. YOU. shall such 4 woman
ss you. surrender 70 one 81 the mean
est spirits that ever smoked up from
ths pit-the dumb devil spoken o. in the
text2
But ther there are occasions when
this particular spirit that Carist exor-
ciset when He said: Il charge thee
TO come out Of him" takes people by
the Wholesale. In the most sespon sive
religious audience have You noticed
how many people never sing at an
They have book. and they have =
voice. and they know how TO read
They know many OF the tunes. and yet
are silent while the great Taptures oil
1usic pass by. Among those who sins
not one out OF a hundred sings iouS
!. enough 20 hear his own voice. The,
bum IL. They give = sort OF religion
! gruut. They make the lips go. but il 4
\ nsudibie. With voice strong enough
! 20 stop street car one block away al
,, rhey can afford In the praise OF God
q ibout half a whisper. With enougi
: sopranos. enough altos. enough basso
=. 70 make small heaven between IL
Q four walls they let the opportunity e
Z bS unimproved. The volume Of Voic
u that ascencs from the largest audienc
z ,hat ever assembled ought 90 be mult
e piled TWO thousan6fold. But tie mir
ster rises and gives ont the hymn. N
- organ begins the choir or pTocento
e ea6s. the audience are standing s
hat the lungs may have full eNpal
= sion. and mighty harmony is about
IS ascend when the evil spirit spoken {
y "a nv textile dumb 6evil-spreat
az ais two wings. one over the lips @ OF
re aa,f the audience and the ether wiz
or ,ver the lips of the other half Of II
IL au6icuce. and the voices roll back in'
OF ne throats from which ;hey starte
IN I'D only here and there anything
e heard. and nine-tenths OF the no
IN power is destroyed, and the dumb dev
OF Is he flies away. says: IT could n
keep Isaac Watts from writing III
he lynn. and I could not keep Lowell NJ
II son from composing the tune TO whi
q, = is set. but smote into silence or hs
IS silence the lips from which II wou
ct ,ave spread abroad 10 bless neighbc
II hoods and cities and then mount Z
re- xide open heavens" Give the lo
II meter Goxology the full support
be ch-istendom. and those four lir
re- aouio take the whole earth for God.
,ut That hymn. ''Oh. For a 1housa
DC Tongues 10 Sing. was suggested
no Charles Wesley by Peter BOILER. NJ
er- sitter his conversion, said: 81 h
No. setter keep silent about it." ~
OF said Wesley, IF Won had TO-
on tongues. you had better use them
mo Christ" And then that angel
gu. hymnology penned the words:
Oh. for thousand tongues TO sing
ahn Ny dear Redcener's praise.
or The g.cries Of my God ard King.
f-Hra rrrIFa ~