Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-07-12
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nhalanx, all agreeing on one senti.nGt.
and one theory, perhaps OArlstianisy
might be damaged, but there are not so
many differences of opinion lnsiue 'n'
church as outside the church. ,.ou
Oh, it makes me sick to see tnese sc I ner
airy tops going along with a COPY y, G".
win under one arm and case OF transnx xsa
~ mrm and butterflies under the
Ether arm. telling about the survival OF
the the fttestb and Huxley's protoplasm ana
the nebular hypothesis. The fact Is tna9
some naturalsts, lust as soon as they hha
ont the difference between the feelers OF
y WASH and the horns of beetle, begin
TO natronize the Almighty, while Agasslz'
! glorious Agassiz, who never mace any Pre-,
tension to being Christian, put p9tn ms
feet on the doctrine of evolution ana says:
III see that many of the naturansCs oi Jul
day are adopting facts which 90 nGt pe oh
observation or have not passeu , uriI oacb
seryation." These men warning WIN eaGh
otherwDarwin warning against LamaTch'
| Wallace warning against Cope; even Helt
scbel denouncing Ferguson. They DO not
agree about anything. ;soo,t
Then YOU have noticed a more slgnlncainC
fact if Won have talked with people on the
subiectSthat they are getting dissatisfied
/ with worldly philosophy as matter OF
comfort. They say it does not am9un5S 70
| ANYTHING when you have dead chilu ~
the house. They tell you when they we're
sick and the door of the future seemed
opening the only comfort they could nnu
was the gospel. People, are having DEM lem
| onstrated all over the land that science
and philosophy cannot solace the troubles
| and woes of the world, and they want
some other religion, and they are taking
| Christianity, the only sympathetic Tell-
zion that ever came into the world. You
lust 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 fttest." Tell her
that child died because it was not worth
as much as the other children. That Is
your transcendentalism, your philosophy,
your science, on that widowed soul, and
tell her it was a geological necessity that
her companion should be taken away from
her. lust as in the course of the world
history the megatherium and the ichthyo
saurus had to pass out OF existence, and
then you 60 on in your scientific consola'
ton until you get to the sublime fact that
$4,000 900 years from now we ourselves
may be scientific. specimens on the geo
logic shelf, petrifed specimens, OF an ex'
tinct human race, and after you have got
all through with your consolation, II the
poor afflicted soul is not crazed by 1t, we
viii send forth from any of our churches
The nia;nest 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 IN
Indian summer sunset. There Is where
see the triumph of Christianity, People
are dssatisfe ed with everything else. Ihey
want God: they. want Jesus CHRIST.
e - hot inf
eism are founded on ignorance geological
ignorance chemical, ignorance astronomi
cal. ignorance geographical. We have
heard what the enemies Of Christianity
| have had to testify. Now l put before
You the testimony of the church on earth
and the church in heaven. Not fifty, not
a thousand, not million, but all of the
church 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, declar
| ing that they have never witnessed or 1ell
| it's power? You tell me that on certain
4th of March, twenty years ago, Presi
dent of the United States was inaugu
| rated. How do l know it? You tell me
there were 10000 persons who distinctil!
| heard his inaugural address. l deny both
| deny that he was inaugurated.. =! deny
| that his inaugural address was delivered
| You ask why? / did not see it. 1 die
not hear it. But you say that there were
10000 people who did see and hear him.
Is not the testimony of the N0OO wn!
| were present worth more than the ttesti
mony of one who was absent? Now, there
are some men who say they have never
seen Christ crowned in the heart, ant
they do not believe it is ever done. There
is a group of men who say they have never
| heard the voice of Christ, that they have
never heard the voice of God. They d.
not believe that anything like it ever, oc
Cured. 1 point to twenty, hundred
thousand or million people who say
Christ was crowned in our hearts affec
tons. We have seen Him and felt Hin
in our soul, and we have heard His voice
We have heard it in the storm and dark
ness. We have heard it again and again.
You say morphia puts one to sleep
| You say in time OF sickness 1t IS very use
full. 1 deny it. Morphia never puts any
body to sleep 1t never alleviates pain
You ask why l say that. l have neve
tried it. l never took it. l deny tina
morphia is any soothing to the nerves o
any quiet in times of sickness. L den.
that morphia ever put anybody to sleep
But here are twenty persons who say the.
| have all felt the soothing effects of ply
| sican's prescribing morphine.
Young man, do not be ashamed to be
| friend of the Bible. Do not put you
| thumb in your vest, as young men some
times do, and swagger about, talking o
the glorious light OF nature and OF ther
being no need of the Bible. They hav
the light of nature in India and Chin
and in all the dark places of the earth
| Did YOU ever hear that the light of natur
gave them comfort for their troubles
They have lancets to cut and Juggernaut
to crush, but no comfort. All, my friends
you had better stop your skepticism; Sup
pose you are put in a crisis like that o
Colonel Ethan Allen. | saw the accoun,
| and at one tine mentioned it in an ad
dress. A descendant of Ethan Allen, VIII
is an in6del, said it never. occurred. sool
after l received letter from professo
in one of our colleges, who is also de
scendant of Ethan Allen and is a Chris
| tan. He wrote me that the incident
accurate; that my statement was authen
tic and true. The wife of Colonel Ethal
| Allen was very consecrated woman
The mother instructed the daughter in tn
truths of Christianity. The daughter sick
ened and was about to die, and she sal
to her father, Father, shall 1 take you
instruction, or shall I take mothers in
struction? I: am going to die now
man who had been loud in his iinfdelit
said to his dying daughter: my dear, 20
had better take your mothers religion.
MY advice is the same to you, o youn
man! You know how religion comforte
her; you know what she said to you whel
she was dying. You had better take you
mothers religion.