Milford chronicle., 1901-07-12

your philosophy, your science, on that
widowed soul. and tell her it was a geo
logical necessity that her companion
should be taken away from her. just as
in the course of the worlds history the
megatherium and the ichthyosaurus had
to pass out of existence, and then you go
on in your scientific consolation until you
get to the sublime fact that 100000
years from now we ourselves may be sci.
entifc specimens on the geologic shelf,
petriied specimens Of an extinct human |
race. And after you have got all through /
with your consolation, if the poor afflicted |
soul is not crazed by it, we will send |
forth from any of our churches the plain !
est 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 an Indian
summer sunset. There is where see the
triumph of Christianity. People are dis
satisfied with everything else. They
want God. They want Jesus Christ.
InhdeIlty Founded on Ignorance.
The fact is that infidelity and agnOsti-
cism are founded on ignorance geological,
ignorance chemical, ignorance astronom-
ical, ignorance geographical. We have
heard what the enemies of Christianity
have had to testify. Now 1 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 well as felt
the power of religion, or will you prefer
the testimony Of those who begin by de-
claring that they have never witnessed or
felt its power? You tell me that on a
certain 4th of March, 20 years ago, a
president OF the United States was In
augurated. How do l know it? You tell
me there were 10000 persons who dis
tinctly heard his inaugural address. /
deny both. I deny that he was inaugu-
rated. l deny that his inaugural address
was delivered. You ask why? l did not
see it. did not hear it. But you say
that there were 10000 people who did
see and hear him. Is not the testimony
of the 10000 who were present worth
more than the testimony of one who was
! absent? Now, there are some men who
say they have never seen Christ crowned
! in the heart, and they do not believe it Is
ever done. There is group of men who
say they have never heard the voice of
Christ. that they have never heard the
voice Of God. They do not believe that
anything like it 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 him in our soul, and we have
heard his voice; we have heard it in the
storm and darkness; we have heard il
again and again." Whose testimony will
you take? These men who say they have
not heard the voice Of Christ, have not
seen the coronation, or will you believe
the thousands and tens of thousands OF
Christians who testify Of what they saw
with their own eyes and heard with theil
own ears2
You say morphia puts one TO sleep
You say in time Of sickness it is very use
full. deny it. Morphia never puts anybody
to sleep; it never alleviates pain. YoJ
ask why l say that. l have never trieC
It; never took it. / deny that morphii
is any soothing to the nerves or any quie
in times Of sickness. / deny that NOR
phia ever put anybody to sleep. But her
are 20 persons who say they have all Eel
the soothing effects of a physicians pre-
scribing morphine. Whose testimony will
you take2 Those who took the medicin
or my testimony, l never having takel
the medicine? Here is the gospel 0
Jesus Christian anodyne for all trouble
the mightiest medicine on earth. Here i
a man who says: Il don't believe in il
There is no power in It," Here are othe
people who say, 1--WE have found out it
. power and know its soothing influence;