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ION earth are Atheists many,
In he'll there Is not any"
Seneca said, Tn the day time they
affirm their infidelity; in the night
time they doubt It"
When sick they cry unto God for
help
A wicked man Of this section who
swore q great deal when the weather
didn't suit, saying "A blank crooked
better" was going over his farm one
day and fell IN ditch with paralysis.
He called Justify upon God to forgive
him and was converted in the ditch.
Rochester turned to Christ in his
last illness.
voltaire, after leading thousands of
his disciples into the bog of inddelity.
became SO far enlightened as to build
a church at Fernay, France.
Another cried out with his last
words. 20 thou insulted Lord Cool
He'll itself would be a refuge II IT hide
me from thy frown-
The owlet. Atheism,
Sailing ON obscene wings across the
noon,
Drops his blue ringed Ids and shuts
them close,
And, hootdng at the glorious sum In
heaven,
Cries out, where is itr"
2. This Fools Conduct. It is cor
rupt, abominable, no good. AS the
mists rising from the foggy earth OBJ
scure the light of the sun. so the cor
rupt affections which ascend from the
depths of the soul darxen the under
standing.
God not In an their thoughts" and
so not in their life. II people believe
God is they will seek to come to him.
It is a practical denial of God to rob
him of his control Of our lives.
Whatever Is morally and religfously
wrong can not be intellectually right
There is practical atheism In every
drunkard, gambler, bum, and bawd.
II they believed God is they would not
ron in the abandon of sin. TN a ma
ton, II atheism continues to light its
dim torches at the funeral pyre Of Re-
vealed Religion, its lights soon die out
In smouldering fumes, and the nation
dies" says one of our great thinkers.
The word for fool in this text is
Nabal, "a faded flower" A poor. wit
less fellow who had lost. his right mo-
ton of God, of women, of truth.
Enmity to God is accompanied by
deep depravity of the mind There is
close connection between atheism
and corruption.
There is no great atheist nation.
There are no Atheist reformers, no
atheist philanthropists.
Atheism builds no asyiums, feeds no
hungry, dries no tears! PIutarch said:
There has never been a state Of
Atheists. You may travel over the
world, and you may find cities without
walls, without king. without saint;
without theatre or gymnasium, but
you will never find city without God,
without prayer, without oracle. with
out sacrifice. Sooner may city stand
without foundation than a state with
out belief in the Gods. This is the
bond of all society and the pillar of all
legislation"
Voltaire in his Will said, 81 repose
confidence in my creator. God. and in
no other being; for know no other,
nor believe In any other" This, after
he had led France to the very verge Of
perdition with the pretended atheism
of his writingsi
Because men had no God In all
their thoughts" God gave them up to
reprobate mind"
Take God and all his symbols out of
our civilization and it would crumble
like crab-shell.
Practical atheism is prayeriess
They call not on Jehovah!" 1t is
hopeless. It soothes no sorrows.
brfghtens no cloud
In temporal matters foresight and
prudence are esteemed great virtues,
but temporal mistakes may be recti-
fed, and are, after all. not OF so much
| Importance; but eternal negligence has
no redemption.
How gracious that God condescends
to seek the lost. restore their reason,
and bring them back
Christ is the Atheists only friend;
seeking to reconcile him to God
This is the will of God that you be-
lieve on Him whom he has sent"
Christ the power OF God and the
wisdom OF God" The only foolish. ir-
retrievable migtake men can make is
to say in their hearts-'.No God"
There is an atheism of head and
there is also an Atheism of life.
The following story in that most re-
markable book of Alexander H. Steph-
ens's prison reflections. lately pub
lished. pass on without committing
myself.
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