The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-11

come in to render their verdict. Gen
tlemen Of the jury, have you agreed on
a verdict? No, no. Then go back for
another 500 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There is not a
poor miserable wretch in the city pris-
on tomorrow that could be condemned
by a jury that did not agree on the
verdict, and yet you expect us to give
up our glorious Christianity to please
these men who cannot agree on any
thing. All, my friends, the church of
on the advance. am certain it is on
the advance. l see the glittering of
the swords; I heal the tramping of tho
troops; | hear the laundering parks of
artillery. o God, l thank thee that |
nave been permitted to see this day OF
thy triumph. this day of the confusion
Oh thine enemies! o Lord God, take
thy sword from thy thigh and ride
forth to the victory,
Secular and Religious Press.
And then l find another most en-
c%ouraging thought in the fact that the
secular printing press and the pulpit
seem harnessed in the same team for
the proclamation of the gospel. Every
banker in this capital tomorrow, every
Wall street banker tomorrow in New
York, every State street banker to-
morrow in Boston, every Third street
banker tomorrow in Philadelphia, ev5
cry banker In the United States and
every merchant will have in his peck
ct a treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or
81 passages of Scripture in the reports
or sermons preached throughout the
land today. 1t will be so in Chicago,
SO in New Orleans. SO in Charleston, so
in Boston, SO in Philadelphia, so in
Cincinnati, so everywhere l know the
tract societies are doing a grand and
glorious work. but l tell you there is
no power on earth today equal to the
TACT that the American printing press
is taking up the sermons which arc
preached to a few hundred or a few
thousand people, and on Mondoy morn
ing and Monday evening scattering
that truth to the millions. What an
encouragement to every Christian
man.
Then you have noticed a more sig
nificant fact if you have talked with
people On the subject, that thew are
getting disguised with worldly philos-
ophy as a matter of comfort. They
say 1t does not amount to anything
When you ave a dead child in the
house. They tell you when they were
sick and the door of the future SEEM
| ef nnanino thu Dr1, a~-za- ~
could find was the gospel. People are
having demonstrated all over the land
That science and philosophy cannot So
lace the troubles and woes of the
world, and they want some other re.
llg1on, and they are taking Christian
lty, 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 fit
test" Tell her that child died because
it was not worth as much as the other
children. That is your Survival Of
the fittest."
Not Ashamed of tho Bible.
ouAS hAoa w lOC D6 ashamed To
be a friend of the Bible. Do not put
your thumb in your vest, as young
men sometimes 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 China 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
lancets to cut and juggernauts to
crush, but no comfort. All, nv
friends, you had better stop your skep-
ticism. Suppose you are put in a crisis
like that of Colonel Ethan Allen.
saw the account and at one time men
toned it in an address. A descendant
of Ethan Allen, who is an inidel, said
it never occurred. Soon after | re-
ceived a letter from a professor in one
of our colleges, who is also a descend
ant of Ethan Allen and is a Christian.
He wrote me that the incident is ac-
curate; that my statement was auj
thentic and true. The wife of Colonel
Ethan Allen was a very consecrated
oma The mother instructed the
daughter in the truths of Christianity.
The daughter sickened and was about
to die, and she said to her father:
Father, shall l take your ~instruc-
ton or shall I take mothers instruc-
ton? am going to die now; l must
have this matter decided" That man.
who had been loud in his infdelity,
said to his dying daughter, MY dear.
you had better take your mothers re-
ligion." My advice is the same to
you, o young man! You knew how
religion comforted her. You know
what she said to you when she was
dying. You had better take your
mothers religion.
Beaeen by Soap and Water.
At one of their joint discussions,
which +oo!x p1ooa in Ear%,,o1,, ,o-,