Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-07-13

ting that truth to the millions. What
an encouragement 10 every Christiar
man!
Then you have noticed . more Str
nifieant fact IL you have talked with
people on the subject. that they are
getting Disguised with worldly phiios
ophy as q matter OF comfort They
say IL does not amount TO anything
when you have n dead child i'm the
house They tell you when they were
sick and the door of the future seemed
opening the only comfort they could
find was the Gospel. People are hav
ing demonstrated all over the land
that science and philosophy cannot
solace the troubles and woes Of the
world. and they want some other re-
ligion. and they are taking Christian
ity. the only sympathetic reliEior
that ever came into the world. lor
tust take a scientific consolation into
that room where mother has lost
her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the survival Of
the fittest." Tell her that child died
because IL was not worth as much "a
the other chiIcren. That is your
survival of the fittest.'' Just try
your transcendentslism. your Philoso-
ply, your science, on that widowed
soul, and tell her IL was n geological
necessity that her companion should
be taken away from her. just as in
the course of the worlds history the
megatherium and the ichthyoSsurus
had TO pass out Of existence, and theB
you go on IN your scientific consola
ton until yon yet TO the sublime fact
that 50.ooO.ooo years from now we
ourselves may be scientific specimens
on the geologic shelf. petrihed speci.
mems OF an extinct human race. And
after you havo got all through with
your consolation, il the poor afiict
ed soul is not crazed by IL, we will
send forth from any OF oar churches
the plainest Christian we have, ano
with one-half hour of prayer 0nc
reading of Scripture promises the
tears will be wiped away, aud the
house from hoor 10 cupOlR will be
1 flooded with the calmness OF an In
1 dian summer sunset. There is where
see the triumph 81 Christianity
People are dissatisfied with every
thing else. They want God. They
want Jesus Christ.
1 The fact IL that infldelity and az.
Mysticism are founded on igno.
rance geological. ignorance chemical
ignorance Astronomical. Ignorance
geographical We have heard what
the enemies OF Christianity have hao
10 testify. Now l put before you the
testimony Of the church on earth and
the church in Heaven. Not fifty, not
q thousand, not a million. but all Of
the church on earth and all OF the
redeemed in Heaven. viii you take
the evidence Of those who have Wit.
messed as we'll rs felt the power Of
religion. or viii you prefer the ties
timony OF those who begin by deolar.
ing that they have never witnessed
! or felt its power? You tell me that
on a certain 4th Of March. 20 yeara
{ ago, a president Of tho United State,
i WAS inaugurated. How do know IL
+ You tell me there were 10000 per
sons who distinctly heard his inaugu
E raj address. ] deny both. 1 den,
5 that he was inaugurated. I deny tina
q his inaugural address was delivered
j, You ask why2 l did not see IL.
Z did not hear a.. But you say Their
{ were 10000 people who did see an
p hear him. Is not the testimony O
. the 10000 who were present wort
n more than the testimony Of one VIII
IS was abssnt2 Now. there are som
e meR who say they have never see
b. Christ crowned in the heart. aud the
Il do not believe il is ever done. Their
.c Is "A group of men who say they hay
le never heard the voice OF Christ. tina
they heve never heard the voice {
n God. They do not believe that an,
- thing like Ii ever occurred. 1 poiI
A., .N.aptv n hundred Thousand or
re million people who say: Christ wa
= crowned IN our hearts affections, n
is have seen Him and felt Hin in on
il soul. and we have heard His voice: v
% have heard il in the storm and dar
n ness; we have heard ID again al
Is again" Whose testimony will u
hi take? These men who say they ha
,p not heard the voice of Christ, Ia
20 not seen the coronation, OF will "
~ believe the thousands and tens
te thousands Of Christians who teSti
a. OF what they saw with their own ey
or and heard with their own ears2
IN Young man. do not be ashamed
us be a friend of the Bible. Do not y
IA your thumb IN your vest. AS you
nv men sometimes do, and swagg
OF about talking of the glorious light
nature and OF there being no ne
ae of the Bible. They have the light
lie nature ina India and China and In
ed the dark places OF the earth.
ae- you ever hear that the light
ne nature gave them comfort for IN
of trouble? They have ianeets to
,at and jugQerhAuts TO crush, but no CO
Tor fort. An. my friends. you had bet
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