Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-07-12

an encouragement to every Christian
man!
Then you have noticed a more sig
nifcant fact if you have talked with
people on the subject, that they are
getting Disguised with worldly philos-
ophy as matter of comfort. They
say it does not amount to anything
when you have dead child in the
house. They tell 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-
that science and philosophy cannot
solace the troubles and woes of the
world, and they want some other re-
igion, and they are taking Christian
ity, the only sympathetic religion
that ever came into the world. You
just take a scientific consolation into
that room where a mother has lost
her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the Survival of
the fittest." Tell her that child died
the other children. That is your
survival of the fittest." Just try
your transcendentaism, your philoso-
y
soul, and tell her it was a geological
necessity that her companion should
be taken away from her, just as in
the course of the worlds history the
megatherium and the ichthyosaurus
had to pass out of existence, and then
you go on in your scientific cons OLA
ton until you get to the sublime fact
that 100000 years from now we
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on the geologic shelf, petrified speci-
mems of an extinct human race. And
after you have got all through with
your consolation, if the poor aff1ict-
ed soul is not crazed by it, we will
the plainest 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 floor to cupola will be
flooded with the calmness of an In
| dian summer sunset. There is where
I see the triumph of Christianity.
People are dissatisfied with every
thing else. They want God. They
want Jesus Christ.
The fact is that infidelity and ag-
Mysticism are founded on igno-
rance geological, ignorance chemical,
| ignorance. astronomical, ignorance
geographical. We have heard what
the enemies of Christianity have had
to testify. Now put before you the
testimony of the church on earth and
the church in Heaven. Not fifty, not
a thousand, not million, but all OF
| the church on earth and all of the
redeemed in Heaven. VIII you take
| the evidence of those who have wit
messed as we'll as felt the power OF
religion, or will you prefer the tes-
timony of those who begin by declar-
| ing that they have never witnessed
or felt it's power? You tell me that
on certain 4th of March, 20 years
ago, president of the United States
was inaugurated. How do I know it
You tell me there were 10000 per
sons who distinctly heard his inaugu.
raj address. I deny both. I deny
that he was inaugurated. deny that
his inaugural address was delivered
You ask why? I did not see it.
did not hear it. But you say there
were 10000 people who did see and
hear him. Is not the testimony OF
the 10000 who were present worth
more than the testimony of one who
was absent? Now, there are some
men who say they have never seer
Christ crowned in the heart, and they
do not believe it is ever done. There
is group of men who say they have
never heard the voice of Christ, tina
they have never heard the voice o.
God. They do not believe that any
thing like it ever occurred. I poin
to twenty, hundred thousand or {
million people who say: "Christ wa!
crowned in our hearts affections, VIZ
have seen Him and felt Him in oul
soul, and we have heard His voice; W.
have heard it in the storm and dark
ness; we have heard it again ant
| again. Whose testimony will yot
take? These men who say they have
not heard the voice of Christ, have
not seen the coronation, or will yo'
believe the thousands and tens O.
thousands of Christians who testif.
of what they saw with their own eye:
and heard with their own ears?
Young man, do not be ashamed t,
be friend of the Bible. Do not pu
your thumb in your vest, as young
men sometimes do, and swagge
about talking of the glorious light o
nature and of there being no nee'
of the Bible. They have the light o
nature in India and China and in al
the dark places of the earth. Di'
YOU ever hear that the light o
nature gave them comfort for thei
trouble? They have lancets to Gu
and juggernauts to crush, but no com
fort. All, my friends, you had bette
stop your skepticism. Suppose yo1
are put in a crisis like that of Col
Ethan Allen. I saw the account an
at one time mentioned it in an ad
dress. A descendant of Ethan Allen
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