Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-11

voice Of God. They do not believe that
anything like IL ever occurred. point to
twenty, a hundred thousand or a million
people who say. Christ was crowned in
our hearts affections, we have seen him
and felt Elm 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" Whose testimony will
you take? These men who say they have
not heard the voice Of Christ. have not
seen the coronat ton, or will you believe
the thousands and tens Of thousands Of
Christians who testify Of what they saw
with their own eyos and heard with their
own ears?
You say morphia puts one to sleep.
You soy in time Of sickness II Is very use
full. l deny II. Morphia never puts anybody
to sleep; 1t never alleviates pain. You
ask why I soy that. have never tried
IT. never took it. deny that morphia
is any soothing to the nerves or any quiet
in times Of sickness. / deny that NOR
phia ever put anybody to sleep. But here
are 20 persons who shy they have all felt
the soothing effects Of physicians pre-
scribing morphine. Whose testimony will
you take? Those who took the medicine
or my testimony, / never having taken
the medicine? Here is the gospel Of
Jesus Christian anodyne for all trouble,
the mightiest medicine on earth. Here is
a man who says: II don't believe in 1t.
There is no power in it," Here are other
people who say 1--WE have found out its
power and know its soothing influence; 1t
has cured u.s." Whose testimony will you
take in regard to this healing medicine?
Not Ashamed Of the bible.
Young man, do not be ashamed to be n
friend Of the Bible. Do not put your
thumb in your vest, as young men some
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 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 skepticism.
Suppose you are put in q crisis like that
of Colonel Ethan Allen. / saw the ac-
count and at one time mentioned it in an
address. A descendant Of Ethan Allen,
who is an infdel, said it never occurred.
Soon after l received a letter from a pro-
fessor in one Of our colleges. who is also
a descendant of Ethan Allen and is a
Christian. He wrote me that the incident
is accurate: that my statement was au-
thentic and true. The wife Of Colonel
Ethan Allen wns very censecratesl wo-
man. The mother instructed the daugh-
ter in the truths of Christianity. The
daughter sickened and was about to die,
and she said to her father: Father, shall
! take your instruction or shall | take
mothers instruction? l am going to die
now; | must have this matter decided"
That man, who had been loud in his in
fidelity, said to his dying daughter, "My
dear, you had better take your mothers
religion" My advice is the same 10 you,
O young man! You know how religion
comforted her. You know what she said
to you when she was dying. You had
better take your mothers religion.
copyright. 1901. Louis Klopsch. N W