The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-10

IN A&XMN3l claims, then re
80 ject it. and if it
=. Reslk4s4Xl proves its claims
by tests Of expe-
| rience, you of the scientific mind
should be honest enough to accept It,
| We are all in danger OF surprising
that what we have not experienced has
never been experienced. A man near
the equator would not believe mis-
sionary who told him that he lived
in a country where, in cold weather.
the water became hard enough to hold
up the weight of his elephant Such
Is the power OF experience to unfit
us to judge OF experiences with which
we are not familiar And yet the
facts OF Christian experience are so
evident that we have hope OF at
least gaining a hearing from those
whose experiences do not yet verify
| them
| we have made the scientific test
for we have been in the laboratory OF
experience, and what we have learned
by such experience 1t is very linscien,
tific to doubt. The Bible is full OF
answers to prayer, and the lives OF
Gods people are just as full as the
Bible. Our text book and our expert
ments agree. And for men to doubt
! the book and the experiments, who
know little of the former and abso!s
lutely nothing, as they confess, Of the
latter, marks their denials as unscien:
tific and unworthy of respect, Ii
they would know for themselves let
them come into the Christian labora-
tory OF experience by trusting God
and living for him. Those who really
do that never doubt that God an.
swers prayer.
Thousands whose Testimony We
would accept in court claim that BY
faith in Jesus Christ they have been
made to hate what they once loved
and to love what they once hated,
and that not by gradual process. but
suddenly. A man In Baltimore went
into the Reformed church to hear Mr..
Moody. He was at the time drunk
ard. Mr.. Moody held forth Jesus
Christ as the only Saviour from sin
and habit. The man believed, and
has told ME that from that day he
has had no thirst for strong drink.
His life has been continual conse.
Grafton to Christ who Vlelivered him.
A live Lazarus, who was once dead.
Is our test of the power Of Christ.
The men whose eyes have beef,
opened are Of age; ask them and they
VIII testify that once they were spir-
itually blind; faith in Christ gave
them new soul-stght, ana they have
experienced things of which they had
never dreamed.
Need we stop to prove that Christ
ianity makes the highest manhood
and womanhood known to the worldy
Just in proportion as men and ma
tons follow the precepts OF Christ
they are strong in character. When
an indian prince asked Queen Vie
toria the secret Of England's great
ness she handed him Bible. 1t is4
no accident that the nations who
honor the Bible are to-day foremost;
In the march Of civilization. Aleeend
says that Chiron, the centanr, who llad
charge of Achilles, fed him on the
marrow oil lions. Gods word is in
deed, the marrow OF lions to men of
nations who feed upon it, But foi
the individual Christ has done even
more than for the nation. He sat
isles the soul He gives peace nf.
heart. His cross is the cyclones cen.
ter where there is perfect rest He
has answered Jobs question: Can q
man be justified before God -.
Through Him we get rid Of our sins
HE has taught us to look up and wor.I
snip. The man who is content With
merely a moral life is to be pitled. !,
he sees flowers about his feet. but he
has never seen the stars: Christ
bids him look up into a heaven az
considerations.
Sin has not only separated us fron,
God, but from one another. Christ
binds us together again. Even the
revenge OF an Indians nature has,
been conquered by his love. He leads
us to help the helpless. Christianity
builds asylums and homes for the
frlendless. Paganism and infidelity
never did either. In building th.
Hoosac tunnel two gangs OF men
started to work at the same time ON
opposite sides OF the mountain. The
survey was so accurate and the work
SO well done that when they met the
sides OF their tunnels came within an
inch OF tallying. So mans need ia
exactly met by Gods provision in
Christ and the Bible.
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