Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-08

the troubles and woes Of the world, and
they want some other religion, and
they are taking Christianity, the only
sympathetic religion that ever came in
to the world You just take a scientif-
fc consolation into that room where a
mother has lost her child. Try in that
case your splendid doctrine of the "sur-
vival of the fittest." Tell her that
Child died because it was not worth as
much as the other children. That is
your survival of the fittest." Just try
your transcendentalism, your philoso-
ply, your science, on that widowed
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 mega
therium and the ichthyosaurus had to
pass out Of existence, and then you go
on in your scientific consolation until
you get to the sublime fact that 5O,0OO,-
900 years from now we ourselves may
be scientific specimens on the geologic
shelf, petrified specimens of an extinct
human race, and after you have got all
through with your consolation, if the
poor afflicted soul is not crazed by it,
churches 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 Indian
summer sunset. There is where l see
the triumph of Christianity. People
are dissatisfied with everything else.
They want God; they want Jesus
Christ.
The fact is that infidelity and agnOsti-
cism are founded on ignorance geolog-
ical, ignorance chemical, ignorance as
Economical, ignorance geographical. We
have heard what the enemies of Chris
tianity 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 a million, but
all of the chuNch on earth and all of the
redeemed in heaven. Will you take the
evidence of those who have witnessed
as we'll as felt the power of religion, or
will you prefer the testimony of those
who begin by declaring that they have
never witnessed or felt it's power? You
tell me that on a certain 4th of March,
20 years ago, a president of the United /
States was inaugurated. How do l /
know it? You tell Inc there were 90
900 persons who distinctly heard his
inaugural address. l deny both. l de- I
ny that he was inaugurated. l deny
that his inaugural address was deliv- !
cred You ask why? l did not see it. I
did not hear it. But you say that
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 f.
who say they have never seen Christ
crowned in the heart and they do not
believe it is ever done. There is q
group of men who say they have never
heard the voice of Christ, that they
have never heard the voice of God.
They do not believe that anything like
it ever occurred. l point to twenty,
hundred thousand or a million people
who say: Christ was crowned in our
hearts affections. We have seen him
and felt him in our soul, and We have
heard his voice. We have heard it in
the storm and darkness. We have
heard it again and again"
Paracen For All Trouble.
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