Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-20

\ not be made. The Sunday schools of
| Illinois will defeat him. That ended
| all prospect of his nomination.
| The Christian religion is mightier
| today than it ever was. Do ycu think
that such scene could be enacted now
as was enacted in the DAYS of Robes
pierre, when shameless woman was
elevated to the dignity of a goddess
and carried in a golden chair to a ca
| thedral where incense was burned to
| her and people bowed down before her
as divine being, she taking the place
| of the Bible and God, while in the cor
ridor of that cathedral were enacted
such scenes of drunkenness and de-
bauchery as had never before been wit
messed? Do you think such thing
could possibly occur in Christendom
| today? No. The police of Washing
| ton, or of New York, or of Paris would
swoop upon it. know infidelity
makes a good deal of talk in our day..
One infidel can make great excitement,
but can tell you on what principle it
is. 1t is on the principle that if man
jumps overheard from an ocean liner
he makes more excitement than all the
| 500 who stay on board. But the fact
that he jumps overheard does not stop
the ship. Does that wreck the 500 pas
| sengers? 1t makes great excitement
| when a man jumps from the lecturing
platform or from the pulpit into inf
| deity, but does that keep the Bible or
the church from carrying millions of
passengers to the shores of eternal
| safety?
| Perfection of Christianity.
| What do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on the errors of
| astronomy. La Place declares that the
| moon was not put in the right place.
| He says if it had been put four times
| farther from the earth than it is now
there would be more harmony in the
universe, but Lionville comes up just
in time to prove that the moon was
put in the right place. How many col
( ors woven into the light? Seven, says
Isaac Newton. Three, says David
| Brewster. How high is the aurora boz
realis? Two and half miles, says
Lias. Ninety miles, say other scien-
lists. How far is the sun from the
earth? Seventy-six million miles, says
Lacalle- Eighty-two million miles,
says Humboldt Ninety million miles,
says Henderson. One hundred and four
1 million miles, says Mayer. Only a lit
tie difference of 2S,O00,OO0 miles, ALI
split up among themselves-not agree
| ing on anything.
| Here these infidel scientists have i'm
| paneled themselves as jury to decide
| this trial between Infidelity, the plain
| tiff, and Christianity, the defendant
and after being out for centuries they
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 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
Jesus Christ instead of falling back is
| on the advance. l am certain it is on
| the advance. 1 see the glittering of
| the swords; l hear the tramping of tho
| troops; l hear the laundering parks of
artillery. o God, 1 thank thee that I
have been permitted to see this day of
thy triumph, this day of the confusion
| of thine enemies, o Lord God take
Thy sword from thy thigh and ride
forth to the victory,
| Not Asha med of the Bible.
| Young man, do not be 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, my
| friends, you had better stop your skep-
| ticism. Suppose you are put in a crisis
| ike that of Colonel Ethan Allen. l
| saw the account and at one time men
| toned il in an address. A descendant
| of Ethan Allen, who is an infidel said
| it never occurred. Soon after 1 re-
| ceiyed 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 au-
| thentic and true The wife of Colonel
| Ethan Allen was very consecrated
woman. 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 1 take your instruc-
ton or shall I take mothers instruc-
ton? 1 am going to die now; must
have this matter decided That man,
who had been loud in his infidelity,
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