Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-02-15

said my friend, I'VE nave IN TINS Woriu
emily half of everything. and do you not
think that when we hear the last half
things may be consistent and that then
We may find that God was rightly
Silence Gives Consent.
Oh, friends, better load up with few
Interrogation points! You cannot afford
TO be silent when God and the Bible and
the things of eternity are assailed. Your
silence gives consent to the lombard
ment of your Fathers house. You allow
a slur to be cast on your mothers dying
pillow. In behalf Of the Christ, who for
you went through the agOnies of assas-
sination on the rocky bluff back Of Jeru-
salem, you dared not face a sickly joke.
Better load up with a few questions, so
that next time you will be ready. Say
to the scoffer: My dear sir, will you
tell me what makes the difference be-
tween the condition of woman in China
and the United States? What do you
think Of the sermon on the mount? How
do you like the golden rule laid down in
the Scriptures? Are you in favor OF
the Ten Commandments? In your large
and extensive reading have you come
across a lovelier character than Jesus
AuElHls w III Ou pANAoN ~ nanny N--~
triumphant deathbeds of intdels and athe-
lists? How do you account for the fact
that among the out and out believers in
Christianity were such persons as Benja-
min Franklin, John Ruskin, Thomas
Carlyle, Darlington Macaulay, William
Penn, Walter Scott, Charles Kingsley.
Horace Bushnell. James A. Garfield.
Robert L. Lee. Stonewall jackson, Ad-
TTIrrgeay
S. Grant, John Milton, William Shake
speare, Chief Justice Marshall. John Ad
ans, Daniel Webster George Washing
ton? How do you account for their fond
ness for the Christian religion? Among
the innumerable colleges and universities
of the earth will you name me tire,
started by inhdels and now supported
by infdels? Down in your heart are
you really happy in the position you Oc-
cupy antagonistic to the Christian re-
ligion? When do you have the most
rapturOus views Of the next worldT' Go
at him with few such questions. and be
will get so red in the face as to suggest
apoplexy. and he will look ut his watch
and say he has an engagement and must
go. You will put him in a sweat that
will beat a Turkish bath. You will put
him ON a rout compared with which our
troops at Bull Run made no time at all
Arm yourself. not with arguments. but
Interrogation points. and ! promise you
victory. Shall such a man as you. shall
such a woman as you. surrender to one
of the meanest spirits that ever smoked
up from the pit-the dumb devil spoken
of in the textE
Duty TO Sing Gods Praise.
But then there are occasions when this
particular spirit that Christ exercised
when he said, Il charge thee to come out
of him" takes people by the wholesale
In the most responsive religious audi
ence have you noticed how many peOpl,
never sing at all? They have book, ant
they have voice, and they know how Il
read They know many of the tunes. anC
I yet are silent while the great mptures o
music pass by. Among those who SIM
not one out Of a hundred sings lout
enough to hear his own voice. They hun
it. They give a SORT of religious grunt
They make the lips so. but it is inaudible
With a voice strong enough to stop
street car one block away all they cal
afford in the praise of God is about hal
whisper. With enough sopranos, enOugl
altos enough bassOs to make a SINAI
heaven between the four walls they le
the opportunity go by unimproved. Tn
volume OF voice that ascends from tn
largest audience that ever ASSEMBLIES
ought to be multiplied two thousand fold
But the minister rises and gives out tn
hymn, the organ brginS, the choir or pre-
centOr leads. the audience are standing S
that the lungs r'av have fill rVnansior