The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-05-03

D' '"'c slchll Joke. Bette
loac up with a few questions. so tba
next time you will be ready. Say TO tn
scoifer; MY dear sir. will YOU tell m,
what makes the difference between n,
eonoliion Of woman in China and in tn,
United States? What 90 you think O
the sermon on the mount? How d,
you like the golden rule laid down IN
lhe scriptures? Are you in favor Of the
Zen commandments? In your large
ana extensive reading have you come
across a loveier character than Jesus
Ohrist? VIII you please to name the
triumphant deathbeds of infidels and
alheists? How DO You account for the
TACT that among the out and out be-
He'ers IN Christianity were such per
sons as Benjamin Franklin. John Rus
hIn' Thomas Carlyle Babington. Mac
auIay. William Penn. Walter Scott
Charles Kingsley. Horace Bushnell
James \. Garfield. Robert +. Lee. Stone
wall Jackson. Admiral Foote. Admiral
farragut. Ulysses 5. Grant. John Mil
lon' William Shakespeare. Chief JUS.
nee Marshall, John Adams. Daniel Web
sier. George Washington? How do Won
account for their fondness for the
Christian religion? Among the in.
Vulnerable colleges and universities
OF the earth will you name me three
started by infdels and now supported
10y iniidels? Down in your heart are
You really happy in the position YOU
occupy antagonistic to the Christian
religion? When Go you have the most
rapturous views OF the next world2"
TO az him with a few such questions.
and he will get so red in the face as 10
suggest apoplexy, and he will look at
his watch and say he has an engage
meni and must 60. You will put him in
sweat that will beat a Turkish bath.
! ou will put him on a rout compared
with which our troops al Bull Run |
made no time at all. Arm Yourself. not |
with arguments but interrogation |
points. and promiseyou victory. Shall
such man as you, shall such a woman
as you. surrender to one Of the mean
est spirits that ever smoked up from
the epit-the dumb devil spoken of in the
text?
But then there are occasions when
this particular spirit that Christ exor-
cised when He said: 81 charge thee
to come out of him" takes people by
The Wholesale. In the most responsive
religious audience have you noticed
bow many people never sing at all?
] hey have a book. and they have a
.oice, and they know how to read.
They know many of the tunes. and vet
ire silent while the great raptures OF
music pass by. Among those who sing
lot one ont Of hundred sings loud
nough 10 hear his own voice. They
ium IT,. They give a sort Of religious
runt. They make the lips 90, but it is
laudible. With voice strong enough
stop street car one block away all
hey can afford in the praise of God is
bout half a whisper. With enough
opranos. enough altos. enough bassos .
D make a small heaven between the b
our walls they let the opportunity 90 q
y unimproved The volume Of voice {
hat ascends from the largest audience D
nat ever assembled ought TO be multi n
lied two thousandfold. But the min. a
ter rises and gives out the hymn. the u
'gan begins. the choir or precentor n
ads the audience are standing SO O.
at the lungs may have full expan. W
on and a mighty harmony is about to u
cend when the evil spirit spoken OF u
my teXt-the dumb devil-spreads u
s two wings. one over the lips Of one p
NJ the audience and the other wing I'
er the lips Of the other half Of the an
lfience, and the voices roll back into ="
e. throats from which they started. ~
d only here and there ANYTHING is u'
ard. and nine-tenths of the holy ei
wer is destroyed. and the dumb devil Jul
be flies away. says: 81 could not
ep Isaac Watts from writing that ri
mn. and could not keep Lowell Ma on
D from composing the tune to which ha
is set, but ! smote into silence or half he
ence the lips from which II would ha
We spread abroad TO bless neighbor- in
DDS and cities and then mount the on
de open heavens" Give the long Of
ter doXology the full support Of en-
and those four lines on
nd take the whole earth for God. so
That hymn, "Oh. For a Thousand th
ngues to Sing. was suggested to TO
aries Wesley by Peter Boiler who. wi
er his conversion, said: 81 had yo
ter keep silent about IT," NO" wa
d Wesley. "if you had 10000 Of
gues, you had better use them for ill
-ist." And then that angel of Tho
penned the words: vii
Oh for a thousand tongues to sing pr
My dear Redeemer's praise. tn
The glories Of my God and King. ma
The triumphs Of His grace! .ro
Jesus. the name that calms our fears. the
That bids our sOrrOws cease. IL:
'Tis music in the sinners ears;
'Tis life and health and peace. the
lille much of the modern music 60,
religious doggerel a consecrated ,..o
sense, a sacred imbeciity, l would on.
10 see some great musician Of 49,.
time lift the baton and marshal 'n-
theirs Judgment Hymn" "Yar- ..t.
Ith." Dundee" Ariel" Battle 49,,
ct" "Uxbridge," "Pleyers Hymn" I"o w
rwell." Antioch" "Mount Pis- .n5
=" and Coronation" with few N.s
ments of mighty tunes made in s;o,
own time, and storm Asia, AZ A..
and America for the kingdom Of 80 .
But the first thing TO do is TO "a
q ont the dnfnh devil of the fexf .--N