Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-10

Henderson. One hundred and four mil
lion miles, says Mayer Only little
difference of 2S.000,00O miles! All split
up among themselves-not agreeing ON
anything
Here these infdel SCIENTISTS have inn
paneled themselves as a jury TO decide
this trial between Intdelity. the plaintiff,
and Christianity, the defendant. and att
er being out for centuries they come in
to render their verdict. Gentlemen of
the jury have yon agreed on >riictt
No. no. Then 20 back for another 500
years and deliberate and agree on some
thing. There Is not poor miserable
wretch in The city prisol tomorrow that
could he condemned by jury that did
not agree Gu the verdict, and yet you eS-
pect us to give IN oar glorious Chris
tianity to please these men who cannot
agree on ANYTHING.
Ali. my friends, he church Of Jesus
Christ instead OF falling back is on the
ae rance. am nightly encouraged be-
cause | find, among other things, that
while this Christianity has been bonn
barded for centuries inhdelity has not de-
stroyed one church. or crippled one min
ister or uprooted one verse of one chap
ter of all the Bible II that has been
their magnificent record for the centuries
of the past. what may we expect for
the future! The church M the time
getting the victory, and their shot and
shell all gone.
Secular and Religious Press.
And then J lind another most encour-
aging thought in the fact that the secu-
lar printing press and the pulpit seem
harnessed in the same team for the proc
lamation of the gospel. Every banker in
this capital tomorrow, every Wall street
banker tomorrow in New York, every
State street banker tomorrow in Boston,
every Third street banker tomorrow in
Philadelphia. every banker in the United
States and every merchant will have in
his pocket treatise on Christianity. 10.
20 or so passengers of Scripture in the
reports of sermons preached throughout
the land to-day 1t win be so in Chi
cago, so in New Orleans. so in Charles
ton so in Boston. so in Philadelphia. so
in Cincinnati. so everywhere. | know
the tract societies are doing grand
and glorious work. but | tell you there
is no power on earth to-day equal to the
fact that the American printing press is
taking mp the sermons which are preach
ed to few hundred or few thousand
people, and on Monday morning and
Monday evening scattering that truth TO
the millions. What an encouragement 10
every Christian man,
Infidelity Founted on Ignorance.
Infidelity and agnosticism are founded
on ignorance geological, ignorance chem
zeal, ignorance astronomical, ignors nee
geographical. We have heard what the
enemies of Christianity have had TO tcs-
tify. Now | put before you the tcsti-
mony Of the church on earth and the
church in heaven. Not fifty. not a thou
sand, not million. but all of the CHI rch
on earth and all of the redeemed in
heaven. Will you take the evidence Of
those who have Witnessed as well as felt
the power Of religion. or will Won prefer
the testimony of those who begin by de-
claring that they have never Witnessed
or felt its r1werf Nou tell me that On a
certain 4th of March, 20 years age. a
president of the United States was in
augurated. How do know it? You tell
me there were 10000 persons who dis
tinctly heard his inaugural address |
deny both. l deny that he was inaugu-
rated | deny that his inaugural address
was delivered. You ask why? / did not
see it. 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
Al. -f,n
| say they have never seen Christ crowned
| in the heart. and they do not believe It is
| ever done. There is group of men %ho
| say they have never heard the yoic" of
| Christ. that they have never heard the
voice of God They do not believe that
anything like ii ever occurred. | poirt 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 hearl it
again and again. Whose testimony will
YOU take? These men who say they have
not heard the voice Of Christ, have not
seen the coronation, or will you believe
the thousands and tens Of thousands of
| Christians who testify of what they saw
| with their own eyes and heard with their
own ears:
Not Ashamed of the Bible.
Young man, do not be ashamed to I've a
| friend of the Bible. DO not put your
! thumb III your vest, as young men scme-
times do. and swagger about talking of
the glorious light of nature and Of there
being no need Of the Bible They have
the light of nature in India and Cllina
and in all the dark places Of the earth.
Did You ever hear that the light of nature
gave them comfort for their trouble
They have lanccts to cut and juggernguts
tn crush, bur no comfort All. my friends
you had better stop Your skepticism.
| Suppose you are put in Il crisis like that
i of Col. Ethan Allen. / saw the account
! and ut one time mentioned it in an adj
dress. \ descendant of Ethan Allen.
| who is an inidel. said it never occurred,
! Soon after | received letter from a pro
i fessor in ono of orr colleges, who is also
a descendant OF Ethan Allen and is n
| Christian He wrote me that the iaci-
dent is accurate: LAT my statement was
authentic ara true. The wife Of Col.
Ethan Allen was 4 very consecratci w0-
man. The mother instructed the dangh-
fer in tie truths OF Christianity. The
daughter sickened and WAS about to die,