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For a small nation exclaims tlicr Chicago News, "Chili can have more fights and keep Iheni going longer than any couutry -living.! Mayor Matthews, of Doston. says that in fifty year the majority of the people of New England will be of Irish and French descent. The total wealth of the United States is computed at 70,450,000,000 or more than $1000 per person. . In ten years the national wealth has increased 18,000,000,000, or 42 per cent. The total wealth of England is 50,000, 000,000, the average per inhabitant being 1545. France luxs a total wealth of 30,000,000,000. Four members of the new Senate, and only four, were born beyond the limits of the United States. Senator McMillan of .'Michigan, was bom in Hamilton, Ontario, and Senator Gal linger of New Hampshire first saw the light of day at Cornwell, in the same province of Canada. Senator Jones of Nevada was born in Here fordshire, England, and Senator of Florida was born in London. Pasco Now that Hancroft has gone it is the opinion of Edward W. Bok, of tl c New York Commercial Advertiser, that Francis Parkman becomes the greatest American historical writer, and the announcement that the sixth part of Mr. Tarkmaii's great historical series is nearly ready, possesses a degree of unusual interest. This part will cover the period from 1700 to 1748, and the historian has collected a great mais of unpublished material for it. Humboldt, Kan., Is a musical town and posesses a young women's mili tary band that would bo u credit to a large city. The members are all wo men except Prof. Hagce, the director, and the oldest is only 20 years of age. It is said they have attained a great deal of proficiency, and play remark ably well in time. It is not often that women play the drum and tuba. But women play those pieces in this band. They arc prettily uni formed, wear ing helmets and blue dresses trimmed with gold. Statistics prepared by a London physician show that in the Tcabody buildings in that city the death rate is lower than for London generally. On the other hand, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever were more fatal In the building than else w hero over London a fact ac counted for by the ifacilitics for per sonal contact. No matter how excel lent may be the sanitary arrangements indwellings, isolation, concludes the New York World, can alone be relied upon to check the spread of , contagious diseases. ? According to figures furnished by the United States Internal Hcveiiue. Bureau, the amount of beer produced' in the United States during tlu year 1800 was enough to furnish every man, woman and child with about half a barrel each. The total amount in barrels was 20,32,530, or 3,117, 2lG more than during the previous year. New York lead. with the largest pro-, duction, viz., 8,010,074 barrels, witli Pennsylvania second, 3,010,557 bar rels, and Illinois third, 2,504, 8U7 bar rels. ThCriargest increase in any one State was in Missouri, which produced 882,833 barrels more than in 1880. Pennsylvania exceeded her previous record bv 482,005 barrels. The "Wilna Catechism," an ofiicial text-book iu llussian schools, contains this passage: "Question What do wc owe the Czar? Answer Divine reverence, obedience, taxes, military service, long suffering, perfect payment of love, prayer; and unlimited obedience in everv lespect, and the most careful execution, without ques tion or examination, of all his com mands Question By whose ex amples are these teachings enforced? Answer Bv the example of Jesus Christ, who lived and died as subject of the Roman emperor, and submitted respectfully to the ukase that con demned him to death. We have also Apostles, who lore patiently the examples of the if- loved the magistrates, imprisonment according to the Em peror's will, and did not rebel like evildoers and traitors. Wc mast fol low their example and endure all ei'eucc." BEY. DR. TaLME. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's San day Sermon. Subject HThr Plf lafl-fMHT." Text: "Let Cod be true, but every man a tiat. Romans iii.. 4. That Is if God says one thins and the whole human race ays the opposite, Paul would accept the Divine veracity. But there are many in our time who have dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infidel tty is not only a plague, but it is the mother of plagues It seems from what we hear on all sides that the Christian religion is a huge blun der; that the Mosaic account of the creation is an absurdity large enough to throw aJl nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam and Eve never existed; that the ancient food and Noah's ark were impossibilities; that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stultification; that the Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a hum bug, a sham, a lie; that the martyrs who died for its truth were miserable dupes; that the j church of Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic, said, "The Bible is a noble book." he was dropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker declared in Music hall, Boston, "Never a boy or girl in all Christendom but was profited by that great book," he was be coming very weak minded; that it is some thing to bring a blush to the cheek of every patriot that John Adams, the father of American independence, declared, "The Bible is the best book in all the world;" and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a sniveling coward when he said. "That boo.V, sir, is the rock on which our re public rests;" and that Daniel Webster ab dicated the throne of his intellectual power j and resigned his logic, and from being the great expounder of the constitution and the great lawyer of his age turned into an idiot when he said, "My heart assures and reas sures me that the gospel of Jeeas Christ must be a divine reality. From the time that at my mother's feet or on my father's knee I first learned to lisp verses from the sacred writings they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and if there is any thing in my 6tyle or thought to be commend ed the credit is due to my kind parents la in stilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures;" and that William H. Seward, the diplomatist of the century, only showed his puerility when he declared, "The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influences of the Bible;" and that it is wisest for us to take that book from the throng in the affections of uncounted multitudes and put it under our feet, to be trampled upon by hatred and hissing contempt; and that your old father was hoodwinked and cajoled and cheated and befooled when ho leaned on this as a 6taff after his hair grew gray, and his hands were tremulous, and bis steps shortened as he came up to the verge of the grave; and that your mother sat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of he better country, and of the ending of all her aches and painf, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with the children she had buried with infinite heart ache, so tLat she could read no more until she took off her spectacles and wiped from them the heavy mist of many tt Jfcrs. Alas ! that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion and had it under their pillow when they lay a-dying in the back room, and asked that some words from the vile page might ba'cut upon the tomtstone under the shadow of the old country meeting house where they sleep to-day waiting tor a resurrection that will never come. This book, having deceived them, and hav ing deceived the mighty intellects ol tho fast, must not do auowea to deceive our arger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous intellects. And so out with the book fum the court room, where it is used in the solemn ization of testimony. Out with it from un der the foundation of church and asylum. Out with it from the domestic circle, (rather together all the Bibles the children's Bibles, the family Bibles, those newly bound, and those with lid nearly worn out and pages al most obliteratad by the fingers long ago turned to dust bring them all together, and let us make a bonfire of them, and by it warm our cold criticism, and after that turn under with the plowshare of public indig nation the polluted ashes of that loathsome, adulterous, obsocne, cruel and deathful book which is so antagonistic to man's liberty, and and woman's honor, and the world's happiness. Now that is the substance of what infidel ity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied by great jocosity, and there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than about the Bible. iiiKeiun;no man was ever ount witn a keener appreciation of it. There is health in laughter instead of harm physical health, mental health, moral health, spiritual health provided you laugh at the right thing. The morning is jocund. The Indian with its own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha, or Laughing Water. You have not keps your eyes open cr your ears alert if you have not seen the sea smile, or heard the forests clap their hands, or the orchards in blossom week aglee with redolence. But there is a laughter which has the rebound of despair. It is not healthy to giggle about God or chuckle alout eternity or smirk about the things of the immortal soul. You know what caused the accident years t0 on the Hudson River Railroad. It was an intoxicated man ho for a joke pulled the string of the air brake and stopped the train at the most dangercus point of the journey. But the lightning train, not knowing there was any impediment in the way, came down, crushing out of the mangled victims the im mortal souls that went speediug instantly to God and judgment. It was only a joke." He thought it would be suc'.i fun to stop the train He stopped it. And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, and the long train of the churches, and the long train of Christrian influences, while coming down upon us are death, judg ment and eternity, coming a thousand miles a minute, coming with more force than all the avalanches that ever slipped from the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whis tled or shrieked or thundered across the con tinent. Now in this jocularity of infidel thinkers 1 cannot join, ami I propose to give you some reasons why I cannot be an infidel, and so I will try to help out of this present condition any who may have been struck with the a vfnl plague of skepticism. First, I cannot be an infidel because infi delity has no good substitute for the conso lation it proposes to take away. You know there are millions of people who get their chief consolation from this book. What would you think of a crusade , of this sort Suppose a man should resolve that he would organize a conspiracy to destroy all the medicines from all the apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The work is done. The medicines are taken, and tber are thrcnu into the river, or the lake, or the sea. It! A patient wakes up at midnight In a par oxysm of distress, and wants an anodjne. "Ob," tars the nurse, "the anodynes are all destroyed; we have no drops to give you, but instead of that I'll read you . a book on the absurdities of morphine and the absur dities of all remedies." But the man contin ues to writhe in pain, and the nurse says: T!i continue to read you some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties of anodynes, the in decencies of anodynes, tne absurdities of anodynes. For jour groan I'll give you a laugh." Here in the hospital is a patient having a gangrened limb amputated. He says: "Ob, for ether 1 Oh, for chloroform ! The doc tor says: "Why, they are all destroyed; we don't have any more chloroform or ether, but I have got something a great deal bet ler. J ll read you a rmphlet arainst Jmes Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloro form as an anaesthetic, and against Drs. Ac new and Hamilton and Hosack and ilott and Harvey and Abernethy." But." says the man, "f must have some anaesthetics." "No," says the doctor. they are all de stroyed, but we have got something a exeat Fun about medicines. Lie down, all ye pa tients ra Bellevue Hospital, and Stop your groaning, all ye broken hearted of all the cities, and quit your crying; we have the catholicon at lafci. Here is a dose of wit, here is a strengthen ing plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up' and take a spoonful of it after each meal, and if that does not cure you here is a solu tion of blasphemy in which you may bathe. ! and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton of death with a reoartee! Make the King of Terrors cackle! For all the agonies -of all the ages a joke! Millions of people' willing with uplifted hands toward heaven to affirm that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is ' full of consolation for them, and yet infidel-" ity proposes to take it away, giving nothing, absolutely nothing, except fun'. Is there any greater height or depth or length or breadth or Immensity of meanness in all God's uni verse? Infidelity is a relijrion of "Don't know." Is there a God? Don't know! Is the soul immortal? Don't know! If we should meet, each other in the futura world will we recog nize each other? Don't know! A religion of "don't know" for the religion of "I know," "I know in whom I have believed." "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Infi delity proposes to substitute a religion of awful negatives for our religion of glorious positives, showing right before us a world of. reunion and ecstacy end high companionship and glorious worship aud stupendous vic tory, the mightiest joy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor awaiting all those who on wing of Christian faith will soar toward it. Have you heard ofrthe conspiracy to put out all the lighthouses on the coat? Do you know that on a certain niehtof next month.' Eddystone lighthouse, Bell Rock liehthouse. Sherry vore lighthouse, Montauk lighthouse,' Hatteras lighthouse. New London light house, arnegat lighthouse, and the 640 lighthouses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished? "Oh," you say, "what will become of the sMds on that, night What will be the fate of the one million sailors following the sea? What wilt be the doom of the millions of passengers?! Who will arise to put down such a conspir acy f Every man, woman and child in America and the world. But that is only a fable. That is what infidelit- is trying to' do put out all the lighthouses on the coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the "Nar rows" of death with no light, no comfort, no, peace all that coast covered with the black-: ness of darkness. Instead of the great light house, a glowworm of wit, a firefly of jocos ity. Which do you like the better, O voy ager for eternity, the firefly or the light house? What a mission infidelity has started on! The extinguishment of lighthouses, the bYeaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal of all ; the pilots, the turning of the inscription m your child's grave into a fareo and a lie. Walter Scott's "Old Mortality," chisel in hand, went through the land to cut out into plainer letters the half obliterated inscrip tions on the tombstones, and it was a beau tiful mission; but infidelity spends its tima with hammer and chisel tryine to cut out ' from the tombstones of your dead all the story of resurrection and heaven. It is the iconoclast of every village graveyard and of every city cemetery and ofWestminster Ab- ! bey. Instead of Christian consolation for the dying, a freezing sneer. Instead of prayer & grimace. Instead of Paul's triumphant defiance of death, a going out you know not where, to stop you know not when, to do you know not what. That is in fidelity. Furthermore: I cannot be n infidel, be cause of the ;alse charges infidelity is all the time making against the Bible. Perhaps the slander that has made the most impression and that some Christians have not been in telligent enough to deny is that the Bible favors polygamy. Does the God of the Bible uphold polygamy, or did He? How many wives did God make for Adam? He made one wife. Does not your common sense tell you when G xi started the marriage institu tion He started it as He wanted it to con tinue? If God bad favored polygamy He could have created for Adam five wives or ten wives or twenty wives just as easily as He made one. At ths very first of the Bible God shows Himself in favor of monogamy and antago nistic to polygamy. Genesis ii., 24, "There fore shall a man l-ave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife." Not his wives, but his wife. How many wives did God spare for Noah in the ark? Two and two the birds; two and two the cattle; two and two the Uous; two and two the human race. If the God of the Bible had favored a multiplicity of wives He would have spared a piuraiuy oi wives. uen uou nrst launched the human race He gave Adam one wife. At the second launching of the human race He snares for Noah one wife, for Ham one wife, for Shem one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that look as though .trod favored rolygamy? In Leviticus xviiu, IS, God thunders .Ilii prohibition of more than rne wife. God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as He permits to-day's murder an 1 theft and arson and all kids of crime. He permits these things, as you well know, but He doss not sanction them. Who would dare tosay He sanctions them? Because the Pre-ideuts : of the United States have permitted poly gamy in Utah, you are not, therefore, to con clude that they patronized it, that they ap proved it, when, on the contrary, th?y de nounced it. AU of God's ancient Israel knew that the God of the Bible was against polygamy, for in the four hundred and thirty years of their, stay ia Egypt there is only one cae of polygamy recorded only one. All the mighty luen of the Bible stood aloof from polygamy except thoso who, falling into the crime, were chastiz?d within an inch of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But you siy' 'Didn'tDavid and Solomon favor pologamyV Yes; and-' did they not get well punished for li? Read the lives of those two men and von will come to the conclusion that all the" at tributes of God's nature were against their behavior. David suSTered for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam and in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in the bereave ments of Ziklag. The Bedouins after him, sickness after. him, Absalom after hLn, AhitSaopel after him. Adonljah after Mm. tb Edomitea after him, the 8yriaas after him, the Uoabitea after him, death after him, the lord God Almighty after him. The poorest peasant in au tne empire ramr- ried to the plainest Jewess was happier man the Kin? In his marital misbehavior, now did Solomon get along with poirgaray? Read his warnings In Pro verbs; read hiselft disgust in Ecclesiastes. He throws tip hi out. "Vanity o vanities, all is vanity." His seren hundred wives nearly pestered the life out of him. Solomon got well paid for bis crimes well paid. . I repeat that all the mighty men of the Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were pounded and flailed and cut to pieces for their insult to holy marriage. If the Bible is the friend of polygamy why Is it that in all the lands where the Bible pre dominates polygamy is forbidden, and in the lands where there is no Bible it is favored. Polygamy all over China, all over India, all over Africa, all over Persia, all over heath aa dom, save as the missionaries have done their work, while polygamy does not exist In England and the United State, except in de fiance of law. The Bible abroad. God .hon ored monogamy. The Bible not abroad, Uott abhorred polygamy. Another false charge which infldsdty has made against the Bible is tht it is antago nistic to woman, that it enjoins her degrada tion and belittles her mission. Under this imprtss;on many women have been over come ot this piazue of infidelity. Is the BiMe the enemy of woman? Come Into the l.icfure eailery, the Louvre the Luxembourg cf the Bible, and see which nlctures are the more honored. Here is Eve. a perfnrt woman; as perfect a weman as c.-mld be made by a perfect God. Here is Deivrah. with her womanlv arm hurling a hot into battle. Here is Miriam, leading the Isrertl itish orchestra on the banks of tho Red Re i. Here is motherlv Hannah, with her own lovinz hand replenUhinc the wardrobe of her son Saiunek th pronhet. Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot of tb mountain until the four hundred wrathful men, at the sight of her beauty anil crowisn halt, halt a hurrican? 8topoed at the s"?ht of a water lily, a dew drop dashing back N" agara. Here "is Ruth putting to shame all modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her countrv, and faces wild b?asts and exile, and deat'. that 6he may be with Naomi, her husbnnd. mother. Ruth, the quen of the harvt field. Ruth, the grandmother of David. Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The. story of her virtues and her life sacrifice is rne mort beautttul pastoral ever written. Here is Vashti defying the bacchanal of a. thousand drunken lords, and Esther will-! ing to throw her life away that she rr.av' deliver her people. And here is Dorcas, tha sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philan thropic needle, and the woman with rwrfume in a box made from the hdls of AUba.tron, , pouring the holy chrism on the head of Ciirit. the aroma lingerin? all down the corridor of the centuries. Hefe is Lydia. the raerchsn tess of Tyrian purpla immortalized for hr Christian behavior. Here is the widow wit i two mite?, more famous than the Pea body and the Lenoxes of all the ages, while here' comes in 6low of gait and with careful atten dants and with especial honor and high favor, leaning on the arm of inspiration, ono who' is the joy and pride of any homesorar dr fortunate as to have' one. an old Christ is.ii grardmother. Grandmother Lois. Who has more worshipers to-day than any- Wing that ever lived on earth except Jesus Cbrin? Mary. For what purpose did Chrit perform His first miracle upon earth? To relieve the; embarrassment of a womanly housekener1 at the falling short of a lieveraze. Why did Christ break up the silence of the tomb, and tear off the shromi. and rip up tn rocks? It was to stop tha bereavement of the two Bethany sisters. For whose comfort was Christ most anxious in the hour of dyin excruciation? For a woman, an old woman, a wrinkle faced woman, a woman who in other days had held Him in her arm. II is first friend. His last friend, as it is very art to be. His mother. All the pathos of the aees compressed into oris utterance, "Behold thr mother." Does the Bible anta-oniu woman? If the Bible is so antagonistic to woman, how do you account for the difference in woman's condition in China and Central Africa, and her condition in Eniland nnd America? There 1 no difference except that which the Bible makes. In lands where there is no Bible she is hitched like a beast of bnr. den to the plows, she carries the hod. she sub mits to indescribable indignities. She must be kept in a private apartment, and if she come forth she must be carefully hooded an I religiously veiled as though it were a shr.me to be a woman. Do you not know that the very first thing the Bible does when it comes into a new country is to strike off the shacklm of woman's serfdom? O woman, where are your chains to-day ? Hold up both your arms and let us see your handcuffs. Ob, we re the handcuffs. They are bracelets of gold bestowed by husbandly or fatherlv or brotherly or sisterly or lovely affection. Un loosen the warm robe from your neck, O woman, and let us see the yoke of your bond age. Oh, I find the yoke a carcenetof silver, or a string ot carnelians, or a cluster of peerh, that must gall you very much. Hovr bad you must all have it. Since you put the Bib'e on your stand in ice suung room, nas tne iitble been to you. O woman, a curse or a blessing? Whv'is it that a woman when she is troubled will po to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why do you not go for comfort to some of tha great infidel loks. Spinoza "Ethics," or Hume's "Natural Historv of Religion," or Paine's "Age of Reason,' or anv one of the 230 volumes of Voltaire? No, the silly deluded woman persists in hanging almt our Bible verse, "Let not your heart t troubled," "Alt things work together for good,"' "Weeping mav endure for a night," I am the resurrection," "Peace, be still." Furthermore, rather than invite I reit this plague of infidelity because it has wrought no positive good for the world and is always a hindrance. I ask vou to mentis the name of the merciful and the education al institutions vhich infidelity founded and is supporting, and has supn.rted all the war throueh insritutions pronounced acainst God and the Christian reliaion, an ! yet pro nounced in behalf of suffering humanitv What are the names of them? Certainly not the United States Christian commission, or the sanitary commusion, for Christian George H. Stuart was the President of the one, and Christian He5ry W. Bellow was the President of the other. Where are the asylu-ns and merciful in- ; sxuuuons iounoel by Infidelity and sup J Ported by infidelity, pronounced ajainst 1 God and the Bible, and yet doing work for 1 the alleviation of sufferin?? Inf..llit i- very loud in its braggadocio it mut hsv some to mention. Certain! v, if vou come to speak of educational institution it is not ale, it is i not Harvard, it is not Priace-on, it is not Middletown. it is not Cambridge or Oxrord. it is not any institution rom which a diploma would not be a digrace. Do you point to the German univer&itiea a execu tions? I have to tell you that all the German universities to-day are under positive C?1fs.influeu" xpt the University of Heideiburg. where the ruSianly students cut and maul and manzl and murder each other as a matter of pride instead of la fan t wmiwauiraru college, lluladelnhia. as an exception that . i : . t . , as an exception, that -e MUUiiS.l v the will of Mr. Girard which forK,. ligicuj instruction re ani the entra&cj cf elergrrnen within its gates. My reply is that I lived for seven years near that eollere and I knew many cf its professors to be Christian Instructors, and no better Christian influences are to bt found la any college than in Girard College. There stands Christianity. There stands' Infidelity. Compare what they bav done Compare their resources. There is Chris" tianity, a prayer on her lip; a benediction on her brow; both hands fall of help for all who want help; the mother of thousands of col leges; the mother of thousands of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the sick, the lame, the imbecile; the mother of missions for the bringing back of tha outcast; the mother of thousands of ref oraialory institu tions for the saving of the lost; the mother of innumerable Sabbath-scbool i bringing millions of children under a drill to prepare thetu for respectability and nseulxi, to say nothing of the great future. That is Christianity. Here is Infidelity: no prayer on her lips, beneiiction on her brow, both hands clenched what for? To fight Christianity. That it the entire business- Tte complete mission, of infidelity to fight Christianity. Wher arj her schools, her college, her asylums of iu ? re j f Let sue throw you down a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill ail of it with the names of her beneficent in stitutions, the colleges and the asylums, the institutions of mercy and learning, founded by infidelity and supported alone by infidei ity. pronounced against God and the Chris tian religion, and yet in favor ot making the world better. "Oh," you say, "a ream of paper is too much for tne nauies of those in stitutions Weil, then, I throw you a quire, of paper. Fill it all up now. 1 will wait until you get all the names down. "Oh," you say., that is too much." Well, then, I will just hand you a sheet of letter paper." Just fill up the four side while we are talk ing of this matter with the names of the merciful institutions and the cducatioual in stitutions founded bv infidelity and supported! all along by infidelity, pronounced against God ami the Christian religion, yet in favor of humanity. "Oh." you say "that is too much room. We don't want a whole shet of paper to write down the names." Perhaps 1 had bet ter tear out one leaf from my memorandum book and ask you fill both sides of it with the names of such institutions. "Oh," you say, "that would be too much room. I wouldn't want so much room as that," Well, then, suppose you court them on your ten fingers. "Oh," you say, "not quite jm much as that, Well, then, count them on the lingers of one hand. "Oh," you say. "we oon't want quite so much room as that." Suppose, then, you halt and count on one finger the name of any institution founded by infidelity, supported entirely by infidelity, pronounced .naint God and the Christian religion, yet toil ing to make the world better. Not one! Not one ! Is infidelity so poor, so starveling, so mean, so useless Get out. youmis?raUe pauper of the universe ! Crawl into some ra thole of everlasting noth ia rness. Infidelity standing to-day am id the suffering, groaning, dying nation, and yet doing absolutely nothing save trying to iraoede those who are toiling until they fall exhausted into their praves in trying to make the world better. Gather up all the work, all the merciful work, that infidelity has ever done, aid it all together, and there is not so much nobil ity in it as in the smallest tead of that sister ot charity who last night went no the dark alley ot toe town, put a jar of jelly fr aa invalid appetite on a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the dying soul. Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no pillow for the sick, rouses no comiort for ths tiereft, gilds nc grave for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned Bible blessed be His glorious name forever 1 our Christ stands this hour pointing ti the hospital, or to the asylum, saying: "I was sick and ye gave me a couch. I was lame and ye gave me a crutch. I was blind and ye physician ed my eyesight, I was orphaned and ye mothered my soul, I was lost on the mountains and ye brought me home; inas much as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to me." But I thank God 'that this plague ot infi delity will be stayed. Many of those who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be sooffers and will be come disciple, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Scriptures. The book is going to keep right on until the fires of toe last day are kindled. Some of them will begin on one side and some c-n the other side of the old book. They will not find a bundle of loose manuscript easily consumed like tinder thrown into the fire. When the fire of the last day are kindle J, some will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revelation toward Genesis, and in all their way they will not find a sinjle chapter or a single verse out of place. That will be the first time we can afford to ii- without the Biole. - What will be the use of thebokof Gptv eis, descriptive of hyw this world was scale, when the world is destroyed? What will be the use of the prophecies when they are all fulfilled? What will be the usa of the evangelistic or Pauline description of Jens Christ when we see Him face to fa?e? What will be the uee of His photrraph whn we have met Him in glory? What will bj the use of the took of Revelatirn. standing as you will with your foot on the glassy sea, and your hand on the ringing harp, ani your forehead cbapleted with eternal coronation, amid the amethystine and ttvelve gate! glories of heaven? The emerald dashing iu green against the b?ryk and the beryl dash ing its blue against the i;.; hire, and the sapphire throwing its light m the jacinth, and the jacinth dashln? its fire acaint the chrysoprasus, and you and I tau ling in tLt glories of t--n thousand uxuets. Struck by Lightning. 'Duric a l.civy storm bcr," said Dr. Albert Najs T., who is stopping at lst Septcm of Itaka, I. the LtnJeil. there was a vouu man in our town wt i was killed by Iihtnin and bis bJj was crude the subject of a scientific j.t mort tin to'dUcorcr how the electric bolt had done its fatal work. "ilis eyebrows and eyelashes tre burned oil, his ryebulU were dried up; All his left side was scorched and burned in spots down to the askK while the rij;ht side tf h'.s body an right lc were uninjured. ?ctious as these injuries were, sose of the'rn appeared miticiect t hc caused iustant death. Hut as soon the breast was ojeiiel the ra ise efdeh was apjarcnt. The lun; wtre frL'r.:- lully contiUd, and the h art wa r taously dilated and idled with ica3'u ted Llood. With all this d imajp to the man. hi clothing was very little injured. tl. onlv traces oflihtnin ur.n it bein:; small hole bored through the li.T. of tt ha: and a slight sinin of the shirt cd ."St, Louis Sfar-bojiugs.
Siler City Leader (Siler City, N.C.)
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