Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-05
Sunday Morning Talk
CHRISTIANITY Vs INFIDELITY

We have God. loving, kind and tend- CT. He loves us, hears our prayers, di- rects our steps and wills our good. Atheism would picture a vast world clod of clay. and chaos, whirling in space, with a lot of parasites on it, without any design.
 s Christianity says the crimes of the world are sins against God, that the man who kills and steals and ruins the in- nocent and expresses the poor and runs red-handed riot over the earth for selfish advantage, is a sinner; that the poor, oppressed, honest man is, after all, the equal of any, if right in his life and living. The atheist says that what we call sin is as natural as any appetite we possess or that possesses us that we simply act naturally when we do wrong We are responsible to- no one, and none has right to threaten us with judg- ment so that we are just turned loose to. prey upon the weak, might being right that, if one man can, he may, and that is all there is to 1t; turning us loose in world surrounded by demons incar- nate. against whom no one can protest as they simply do what is natural in them to do.
 Christianity -offers to. the right nviDs g world a sure h. aven of joy when life is
 
 may be-, heaven will mora than make l amends How the thought of hes len comes to the weary with a solace ,, md l comfort that never for all trials and per | plexities! How the poor, with their pri- 1 vations endure the all of human woes | with a resolution often a wonder to the worldling! How the conscious child of God works unreWarded and dies like a | Wesley CT Edwards, penniiess! How the v--sw, 01. | a life in heather darkness; mid disease and death, leaning on the hope set be | fore them of at least resting their weary forms in the heaven of eternal bliss; But atheism says all there Is before you is a hole in the ground Eat and drink and | be merry if you can, for this Is all life 1 and death ends all The atheist goes to my dear old father and your loving mother. saying. as they draw near, "There l is no hope for ought beyond the grave. J Suffer the best you can. If poor, endure to the inevitable grave that ends all 1 alike for" the bad and the good.
 If today we could see all the happInes, the comforts, the hope the repose, the pur ity generated and fostered By the faitf of the Son of God. if we could see how many brayeiy fight life's battle against the greatest odds, how many endure pa l'tiently the hardshil 5. if we could see how many are fitted for heaven and led ,thith CT by the Hand extended to help and lead I believe many would give their hearts tc God and go on their way rejoicing ir their nv found Lord. All this is true whether or not you will see 1t. How
 many have died for Christ! HoW manl infdeis have in death recanted and pro fessed faith in the Son of God And And never one-no not one-on a death, bed has ever given up Christianity for sir or .inftdelity. I say. take from me al the world calls good and great, but leave lme Christianity Heap upon me all the l world calls evil and hard, but don bring to my door or heart goddess unbe 1 lief. want Christianity to, help me hght 1ife's battle while live to combat deatf when die, to guide me to heaven wheI this world 1g 10 more