Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

stands in glorious triumph over
the opposition that's array
I against Him.
Then there are the French n
I terialists. There was old VoltaiQ
/ the encyclopaedia, DiderOt, arr
Rousseau. In Germany there was
Goethe, Schiller, Strauss, Bauer
and Hauser, and in England they
had Bolingbroke, Mil, Hume,
Hobbs. Tyndall. Darwin, Huxley
] and Spencer. In America there
was Paine. Parker and Bob Inger-
/ soIl-but they are all gone.
The late Josh Billings said that
| impudence, ingratitude, Ignorance
and vice and cowardice make up
/ the creed of the average inideL He
said: did you ever hear of men
renouncing Christianity on their
death-bed and embracing infdelity?
! MOI" He said: I'D rather be an
idiot than an infidel." He said: If
/ I'm an inhdel. l made myself one;
il I'm an idiot, somebody else is to
! blame"
! And so whenever I heard an iu-l
| fdel proclaiming his belief. I Won
der If he will send for his infta
brother to see him die No, TN
| chances are he will send for the
preacher around the corner to try
and help him get a glimpse OF God
before he dies.
Oh, | believe in the light Of ma
/ ture and progress and don't you
| know there are thousands COINS
down to hell under the process OF
reasoning like that? oh, they have
got the light of nature in China,
the light OF nature in Hindustan,
the light OF nature in Ceylon, the
/ light Of nature in India, they have
got mountains in India, flowers,
they have got stars and the sun.
They've got lances to cut, they've
got jerking up wheels TO crush
hoops to hang, filth to smear, eXcre-
ment TO daub on their bodies, but
they have no happiness. You've
got to choose between the teach
ings Of old ConfuciuB, the "isms
and "scisms" OF infdeiity or the
Holy Bible. You may take WHAT
ever you will will take the bible
! will take God. ! will take Christ,
/ will take salvation. l will take
heaven; light for my darkness.
balm for my wound. / will nail
my hopes on the cross OF Jesus
Christ, where he cried: 1T is nm
ished" nineteen hundred years ago.
Why Be a DOubter.
Why live a doubter? Why doubt
God and Jesus Christ with all the
blessings that God will bring TO
you if you will only do His will and
keep His commandments and serve
Him?
The great men OF the ages are
on the side OF the bible. A good
many inhdels talk as though the
great minds of the world were ar
rayed against the church and Jesus
Christ.
Well, a study OF the field, my
friends, strengthens your faith. The
greatest statesmen, the greatest as
tronomers, the greatest philosoph-
ers, the greatest inventors and
painters and poets and mu0icians,
they have all believed and lifted
up their hearts in prayer, Watts,
who invented the steam engine, was,
Christian. Robert Fulton, who
invented the stei mboat, was. a
Christian. Mccormick, who invent
ed the self binder, was a Christian
Robert Morse. who invented
telegraph, was a Christian, and
hrst message ever sent over
wire, from Baltimore 10 WASH
ton. was a quotation from the HOo4
of Deuteronomy-"W God hath
wrought" Thomas Whitney, who
invented the cotton gin, was
Christian. And Thomas Edison
saws there is enough evidence In
chemistry TO prove the existence or
God, TO say nothing about human
experience.
Yet some doubt God and God =
truth The greatest of modern
; statesmen believe in Jesus Christ.
George Washington, walking
through snow, my friends, mp to his
arm-pits in Valley Forge and when
the soldiers wrote their names In
blood upon the snow-white pages
Of a nations manuscript knelt In
prayer.
Abraham Lincoln was on his
knees all night in the White house
al washington with Bishop Simp-
son praying God to give victory 20
the armies in blue. overthrow slay-
cry and preserve the union, which.
God did
Burke, the statesman, was
Christian. Bacon, the philosopher
was a Christian. Raphael, the
painter, was a Christian. Angelo
the sculptor. was a Christian.
Harvey, the physician. who discoy-
cred the circulation Of blood was
a Christian. Milton. who wrote the
great epic poem. was a Christian.
blackstone, the famous Enaish
commentary, was a Christian. Gar
field. William Mckinley, John Hay,
Theodore Roosevelt, Bryan, VII
son. Hughes, Champ Clark, npst
of the United States senators, mpst
Of the representative membersIo t
the supreme court, believe in Gfd,
Christ and the bible. oh, what
fool you are - say that you doh
believe, and live in sin when COD
wants to save you!
Thet Lords famous painters
were Christians. Anglo, in his
Last Judgment" Raphael. in his
Madonna OF the Chair" de Vinci'
in his Last Supper" Murillo, 10
his Immaculate Conception" Reu-
ben, in his Descent from the
Cross" all dipped their brushes ~
the light Of heaven and painted Tor
eternity. They believed in God
the whole crowd Of them, OF al
ages. What a fool you are to line
up with a bunch that hasn't any
use for Jesus Christ or His truth