The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-18
WONDERFUL
TRUT HIS.
by Prof. Ambrose S. Ottey.

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he left God at one side of the trees,
and he got on the other. Adam and
Eve were SO comfortably fixed that
they lost sight of God. The garden
of the Lord concealed from them the
Lord of the garden. God did not
turn Adam out of paradise unit
Adam had turned God out. Vol
taire boosted that he was going tC
destroy the religion of the Bible and
that, sin less than one hundred years
Chris tianity will have been swept in
to destruction and passes into his
tory But he was swept into that
region himself some time before he
finished the job. The hundred years
have passed away Noltaire himself
has "passed into history and not
very respectable history either.
In com municatlOn with heaven
every man must be his own operator,
in making requests known to God
None need send their prayers to the
Virgin Mary, begging her to forward
them with word of interceSsion at
the bottom. There are no delays
and disappointments in connections
with the telegraph between earth
and heaven The great operator is
always at his post, is never too busy
to hear, ia never confused and Is al
ways ready to reply to every mes.
sage.
God never selects lazy, idle man,
when he is going to choose person
to do some noble work, He promotes
none but busy men. Shamagar was
p!ougling when the Philistines came
upon him. 1t speaks well for, him
that he had heart to plough at such
a time for the whole country was
thrown into great fear aud discour-
agemcnt. He left his plongh and
took the OK goad, q rod or shaft,
seven or eight feet long, and two
inches in diameter at the larger end,
which is fattened and fitted with an
iron scraper for the plough and the
smaller end was armed with a small
iron point to urge or the oxen, With
this OK goad he fought the PhiliStines
and slew six hundred Of them. He
knew so. well how to handle it that
at close range it was terrible neap-
on to come in contact with.
1T was not man, even, but lad
and he was possessed of but one devil,
who proved more than match for
the united faith and efforts Of nine
men. Nine men, too who claimed to
be the divinely credentialed heralds
Of the kingdom Of Christ. The devil
in one lad, defeating Christ in nine
men. "Why could not we?" They
SAID they had honestly tried; they no
doubt, had done such thing before,
they certainly did afterward. What
was the secret OF the failure then?
There is something mysterious about
it, The reason they could not cast
the devil out, was, because they did
not go the right way about it. 1t
was to be done by fasting and praying
Mark 8: 1920.
Thousands of protesting christians
arc not going order. The pendu-
llm of their profession is clogged
with the dus of worldliness or ch0k-
ed with the filth of forbidden pleas
urcs. If you question them closely
many of them will frankly admit
that they do not profess to have the
true time and many whodo profess to
have it are either deceiving or being
deceived. No Christian can run on
time if lett to himself for a single
hour. What then must be the cOndi-
ton of those who live loose to God,
in their thinking and activities, six
days out of seven. Onr churches are
over loaded with eight day Christians
who are religious only on Sunday and
seem to think they can drive through
six days without any special help
from God. Some clocks are so made
that they can run for weeks and keep
good time; but never knew a Chris
tian that could do 1t.
1t was now or never with Zacchcus
and he acted like man. With the
shadow of Gcthsemane already upon
his spirit, Jesus was passing through
Jericho for the last time, was never
there afterwards. What earnestnesS
and determination the occasion de-
manded. His purpose-"To see Je.
Sus who lie was Why so anxious
to 'see?' why not be content with
hearing! There were thousands who
had seen him and formed their opin-
ions as to ''who he was' and were
not backward in telling them. The
| Pharisccs said "Hc was a devil,
the scribes "a fanatic;" the priest,
"a blasphemer;' the rabbi, "a her e.
tic;' the poor, "a prophet the
many, "an impostor;' the few, "a
| God" But not so with Zaccheus, he
would not trust to hearsay; and so
like wise man he made up his mind
to see for himself. He was good
| Judge of human nature and could
form a pretty correct opinion of a
man by getting good square look at
| him.
There are men who are compelled
to "rum' and 'clImb" in order to be
able to do what others can do with
out lifting a foot. They boast about
men being equal in this country, but
are they? Men may be equal in the
sense of the Declaration of Indepen.
dcnce, that is, they are theoretically
equal before the law; they may have
an equal chance in life, if they can
| get it; but that is about all in which
they are equal,