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eole "toeey, ' Rev. Dr. Damage
reached rt most claque:it a.na (diameter-
istically vigorous sermon in refetetion of
that ofterenewea assertion of the enemies
of religiou tit Chriatiauity is retrograd.
nig mid the Bible losing its hold upon, the
henna and consciences of men, The subs
ince of the dithourse as annonueed was;
From Couqueet to Conquest, the text being
taken from Amos 9, la, "Behold the days
coins), saith the Lord, that the ploughman
shall overtake the reaper."
Picture of a tropical clime with a seeSon
eo protperous that the harvest reaches ()leer
over to the planting time, and the swarthy
1 huebandrnan winging the siokle in the
thick grain almost feels the breath of the
horses on his shoulders, the homes hitched
to the plough preparing for a new crop.
"Behold the days come, seiththe Lord, that
the ploughmau shall overtake the reaper,"
When is that? That is now? That is this
day when hardly have you done reapieg
one harvest before the ploughman is getting
ready for another,
I know that many deolare that Christ-
ianity has collapsed, that the Bible is an
an obsolete book, that the Christian Church
is on the retreat. I wiU here and now show
that the opposite of that is true,
An Arab guide was leading a French
infidel across a desert, and ever and anon
the Arab grade woeld get down in the sand
and pray to the Lord, It disgusted the
French infidelmnd after a while its the Arab
getup from one of his. prayers the infidel
said : "How do you know there is an
God?" and the Arab said: "'How do
know that a man and a camel passed our
tent laat night? I know it by the footprints
in the amide And you want to know how
I know whether there is any God. Look at
that sunset. Is that the footstep of a man ?"
And by the same process you and I have
came to understand that this Book is the
footstep of a God. t
Bub now let us see whether the able is a
last year's almenec. Let us see whether
the ehurch of God is in a Bull Run retreat,
muskeM, canteens and haversacks strewing
all the way. The great Enghsh historian,
Sharon Turner, a Man of great learning and
of great acceracy, nota clergyman but an
attorney, as well as historian, gives this
overwhelming statistic in regard. to Chris-
• tianity and in regard to the number of
Christians in the different centuries. Lx the
first century 500,000 Christians; in the sec-
ond century, 2,000,003 Christians; in the
ahird century, 5,000,000 Christians ; in
the fourth century, 10,000,030 Christians ;
In the fifth century, 15,000,000 Chris -
Maus ; in the sixth century, 20,000,000
Christian ; in the seventh century, 24s-
000,000 Christians ; in the eighth cen-
tury, 30,030,000 Christians ;in the ninth
century, 40,000,000 Christians ; •in the
tenth century, 50,000,000 Christians S in
the eleventh century, 70,000,000 Chris-
tians ; in the twelfth century, 80,0e0,00 0
Christians ; in the thirteenth century, 75,-
000,000 Christiana; in the fourteenth
century, 80,000,000 Christians; in the
fifteenth century, 100,000,000 Christians' .
in the sixteenth. century, 125,000,000
Christians; in the seventeenth century,
155,000,000 Christians; in the eighteenth
century, 200,000,000 Christains-a &mad.
enee, as you will observe in only one
century, and more than made up in the
following centuries, while it is the usual
coniputation that there will be, when the
record of the nineteenth century is made
up, at least 200,000,000 Christians. Poor
Christianity. What a pity it has no friends.
How lonesome it must be. Who will take
it out of the poor house? Poor Christianity.
Three bundred millions in one century. In
a few weeks of the year 1881, 2,440,000
copies of the New Testament distri-
buted. Why, the earth is like an old
castle with twenty gates and a park
of artillery ready to thunder down every
gate. Lay aside all Christendom and see
how heathendom is being surrounded and
honey -combed and attached by this all -
conquering GospeL At the beginning of
this century there were only 150 mission-
aries; now there are 25,0e0 missionaries
and native helpers and evangelists. At
the beginning of this century there were
only 50.000 heathenconverts ; now there are
1,750,000 converts from heathendem. There
is not a seacoast on the planet but the
battery of the Gospel is placed and ready
to march on'north-south, east, Fest. You
all know that the chief work of pm army is
to plant the batteriere It may take many
days to plane the batteries, had they may
do all their work in ten minutes. These
batteries are being planted all along the
sea -coasts and in all nations. It may take
a good while to plant them, and they may
do all there work in one day. They will.
Nations are to be born in a day. But just
come bitekS to :Christendom and recognize
the fact that during the last ten years as
many people have connected themselves
with evangelistic churches as connected
tee mselves withItheSchurchesen theffirst fifty
years of this century.
So Christianity is falling back and. the
Bible' they say, is becoming an obsolete
book.I go into a court, and Wherever /
find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find
a:Bible. Upon what book could there be
uttered the solemnity of an oath? What
book is apt to be put in the trunk of the
young man as he leaves for city life? The
Bible. What shall I find in mile out of
every ten homes in Brooklyn: Tbh Bible.
In nine out of every ten homes in Christen-
dom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the pro-
phecy that the Bible in the nineteenth cen-
tury would become extinet. The century
is needy gone, and as there have been
more Bibles published in the latter part of
the century than in the former part of the
century, do you tbink the Bible Will 'become
extinct in the next six years. I have to
tell you that the room itt which Voltaire
wrote that prophecy, not long ago was
drowned from floor to coiling with Bibles
from Switzerland. Suppose the C/cmgrees
of the United States should pass a law that
there should be ne more Bibles printed in
America, and no more Biblerea& If
there are forty million grown people in
the thited States, there would be forty
million people in an army to put down such
is law and defend their right to read the
Bible. But suppose the Congress of the
United States ehould Make a hew against
the reading or the pablieation of any
other book hew many people would go
out in Truth a crumele ? Could yeti get
forty million people to go mit and risk their
harm in defence of Shakespeare's tragedies
or Gladstone's traets, or Meemulayse Itietory
of England? - Yoe know that them are a
thousand men who woeld die in defence of
thia book where there is not more than ono
man who would, client defence of any other
book, You try to insult rhy ocinimon-sense
A Little Daughter
Ot a Church of England minister
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• daughter of a Church of England minis-
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she had sufEered for two or three years,
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distress about the ease, and, at irm
recommendation, at last began to ad-
minister Ayer's Sarsaparilla, two bet.
ties of which effected a complete cure,
much to her relief and her fancies
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heevould testify in the strongest terms
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Ayer's Sarsaparilla
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PEARLS OF TRUTH.
The debt, habit is the twin brothei?. of
poverty.
Learning is the dictionary, bet sense the
grammar of science.
• Wedlock's like wine, not properlyjudgad
of till the gamed glossa,
Manners are not idle, bee the fault of
loyal nature and of noble min&
In besinerim throe theme are necessary,
knowledge, temper and Hues.
Pea,ce 10mob, a precious jewel that 1
intield give anything for it bid truth,
That satin is worthless thee will not
with pleasure Ventura alt fot ita
A letter shows the matt ibis ietitten to as
Well as the man it is written by.
Ile who would fres fleet /halloo pass his
dams attest live obscure and tever merit
se else,
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I -le Who learns and makes no use of his
'earning is a hetet of burden with a load of
books.
by telling me the Bible is fade out from
the world. It is the moot popular hook of
the centery, How do I know? 1 kixew it
juat as I knowin regard to other books,
liow many volumes of Mutt book are pub
-
lathed?. Well, you say, five thOnSand.
EON? Many copies of that, book •ere
publiehed ? A huridred thousand, Which
is the more ?opulent' Why of course the
•one that, has a hundred thousand eiroula-
time And if thia lesok has more ontsioa
abroad in world, if there are five times es
many Bibles abroad as aim other book,
does not that allow you that the most pep-
uler book on the planet to -day is the Word
of God?
"O," eve , people, "the Church is a
mile:time of hypocrites, and it is losing ite
power and it is fading out from the world."
I e it? A bishop of the Methodist Church told
nie that denomiaation averages two now
churches every day a the year. There are
at leaat fifteen Unfired new Christian
churches built in America, every' year,
Does thee look at though the Church were
fo,diug otitf as though it were a defunot in-
stitutionVhieti hatitinition stands newest
the hearts of the people of America to -day?
I do not ears in what village or in what
city, or what neighborhood you got Which
institution is it ? Is it the lecturing hall?
Is it the post offi ce ? Is it the hotel?
.4.h,yeu knew it is ot. You know that the
institution which stands neareet to the
hearee of the American people is the Chris-
timiCeurch. If you have ever seen a church
bairn down, you have seen thousand a of
people standing and looking at in -people
who never go into a church -the tears run-
ing down their cheeks. The whole story is
tolci.
You may talk about the Church being
a collection of hypocrites, but when the
diphtheria sweeps your children off,
whom do you send for? The postmaster?
IThe attorney -general? The hotelkeeper ?
Alderman ? No; you send for a minister of
this Bible -religion, And if you have nob a
room in your house for the obsequies, what
building do you solicit? Do you say, "Give
ine the finest room in the hotel?" Do you
say, "Give inc that theatre ?" Do you say,
"Give me a place in :bleat public building,
where I can lay my dead for a little while
uutil we say a prayer over it?" No; you
say, "Give as the house of Go&" .And if
there is a song to be Etung at the obsequies,
what do you went? What does anybody
want? The Marseillaise hymn? God save
the Queen? Our own grand national air?
No. They want the •lay= with which
they- sang their old Christian mother into
her last sleep, or they want sung the Sala
bath School hymn which their little girl
Sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was oue
before she got that awful sickness which
broke your heart. I appeal to your com-
mon sense. You know the most endearing
institution on earth, the most popular in-
stitution on earth to -day, is the church of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
The infidels say: "Infidelity shows its
successes from the fact that it is everywhere
accepted, and it can say what it will."
4Vhy, my friends, fnfidelity is not half so
blatent in our'day as it was in the days of
our fathers. Do you know that in the days
of our fathers there were pronounced in-
fidels in public authority and, they could,
ant any. political, position? Let a man to-
day declare himself antagonistic to the
Christian religion, and what city wants him
for mayor, what State wants him for gov-
ernor, what nation wants him for president
or for king? Let a man openly proclaim
himself the enemy of our glorious Christiatu-
ity, and he cannot get a majority ot votes
in any State, in any city, in any country,
in any ward of America.
Do you think that -such a scene could be
enacted now as was enacted in the days of
Robespierre, when a shameless woman
was elevated as a goddess, and was carried
in a golden chair to a cathedral where in-
cense was burned to her and people bowed
down before her as a divine being, she
taking the place of the Bible and God
Almigbty, while in the corridor of that
cathedral were enacted such scenes of
drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity
as heves never been witnessed? Do you
believe such a ,thing could possibly occur
in Chrbstendom to -day? No, sir. The police,
whether in Paris or New York, would
swoop on it. I know infidelity makes a
good deal of talk in our day. It is on the
principle that if a man jump overboard from
a Canard steamer he makes more excite-
ment than all the five hundred people who
stay on the decks. BUS the fact thee he
juraps overboard -does that stop the ship?
Does that wreck the five hnndred passen-
gers? It makes great excitement when a
man jumps from the lecturing platform, or
from the pulpit, into infidelity ; but does
that keep the Bible and the Church from
carrying the millions Otpassertgers into the
skies? -
They say, these men, that science is over
coming religion in our day. They look
through spectacles of the infidel scientists,
and they say: "It is impossible that this
book can be true ; people are finding it out;
the Bible hat got to go oherboard ; science
is going to throw it overboard" Do you
believe that the Bible account of the origin
of life will be overthrown by infidel scien-
tists who have fifty different theories about
the origin of life? If they should come up
in solid phalanx, all agreeing on one senti-
ment and one theory, perhaps Christianity
might be damaged ; hitt there are not so
many differences of opinion inside the
Church as outside the Church. People used
to Bay, "There are so many different de,
nominations of Christians --that shows
there is nothing in religion." I have to
tell you that all denominations agree on
the two or three or four radieel doctrines
of the Christian religion. , They are
unanimous in regard to the divinity of
the ecriptures.. Howes it on the other side
All split up; you cannot find two of them
alike. Oh, it makes me sick to see these
literary fops going along with a copy of
Darwin under one arm and a case of trans.
fixed grasshoppers and butterfilee under the
other arm, telling about the "survival of
the fittest," and Huziey's protoplasm, and
the nebular hypetheeis. The faot is, that
some naturalists just as soon as they find
out the difference between the feelers of a
wasp and the home of a beetle, begin to
patronage the Ahnighty ; while Agassiw
glorious Age,spie, who never made any pre-
tension to beinga, Christian, puts both his
feet on the doctrine of evolution, and says:
"1 zee thet ineny of the naturalists of one
day are adepting fuel which do not bear
°Nervation, ot have not pemed. under ob-
servation," These men werringa,gainst
elieh othere-Darwin tverring against Las
=robe. Wallace warring egainstame,even
Hamad de/lemming Forge:ma-they do
not agree about anything. They do not
agree about embryology, do not agree on
the gradation of the species.. What de
they agree on? Herschel writes a, whole
chapter on the errors of astronomy. La,
?lase declares that the 1110611 Was not tont
iri the righe place. He seem thee if it had
been pat foite times further from the earth
than it is toe there would be more harmony
in the traverse; but Lionville tomes up
jest, in time to prove that the moon WAS
put irieem right plane. IloW Many colors
are woven into the light? &Veils says
baste Newton; three, says David Browner,
How high is the Aaron, Borealis? Two
fA'arndh: thall anfle, hesays
QU,See vle:tnyd r,sed.i
and sixtpeight miles, says Twing, Haw
Million miles', says Lacelle, Eiglity-two
million miles, save Hemboldie Ninety.
million miles, says Henderson. Oise hundred
end four million miles, says Mayer, Only a
little differenoe sI twerdy.eightmillion miles
All aplit among themselves -not agreeing
on anything. 'rimy come and say that
the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on
the greet doetrines. All united they aro,
inera'eteuea;whiie
ursChrist,in the divinity of ,the
stv
they mime up and proe
Pee's to renier their verdict, no two of them
agree on that verdiet. "Gentlemen of the
pry, have you agreed on a verdict ?" aides
the court or the clerk of the jury as they
come in efter having spent the whole eight
in tielibereahm, If the jury say, "Yes,
we have agreed," thci verdict is recorded ;
bun suppose one of the jurymen says I
think the man is guilty of murder'"and
another says, I think he was guilty of
manslaughter in the seoond degree," and
another man says, "1 think he was guilty
of assualt aud battery with intend to,kill,"
the judge would say, "Go back to your
room and bring in a verdiot ; agree on
aoinething ; that is no verdict."
Here these infidel scientists have empan-
eled themselves as a jury to decide this
trial between Infidelity, the plaintiff, and
Christianity, the defendant, and after being
Mit for centuries they nome to render their
verdict. Gentlemen of the juiy, have You
agreed on a verdiet? No, no. Then go
back for another five hundred years and
deliberates and agree on something. There
isnotto-morrow
ot ap-mrmiserale wretch in the Tombs
ou
that could be condemned
by a jury then did not agree en the verdict,
and yet you expect us to give up our
glorious Christianity to please these men
who cannot agree on anything.
Ah, my friends, the Church of .Tesus
Christ, instead of falling back, is on the
advance. Tam certain it is on the advance.
0, Lord God, take Thy sword from Thy
thigh and ride forth to the victory.
Tarn mightily encouraged because I find
among other things that while this Chris.
tianity has been bombarded for centuries,
infidelity has not destroyed one church, or
crippled one minister, or uprooted one verse
of one chapter of all the Bible. The church
all the time getting the victory, and the
shot and shell of its enemies nearly ex-
hausted, I have been examining their
ammunition lately; I have looked all
through their oartridge-boxes. They have
not in the last twenty years advanced one
new idea. They have utterly exhausted
their ammunition in the battle against the
Church and against the Scriptures, while
the sword of the • Lord Almighty is
as keen as it ever was. We are
just getting our troops into lines : they
are coming up in companies, and in
• regiments, and in brigades, and you will
hear it shout after a while that will make
the earbh quake, and the heavens ring with
Alleluia. It will be this: "Forward the
whole lines." '
And then I find another most encourag-
ing thought in the fact that the secular
printing press and pulpit seem harnessed
in the same teain for the proclamation of
the Gosphl. Every Wall street banker to-
morrow in New York, every State street
banker to -morrow in Boston, every Third
street banker toanorrow in Philadelphia,
every banker in the United States, and
every merchant will have in his pocket a
treatise on Christianity, a call to repent-
ance, ten, twenty or thirty passages of
Scripture in the reports of sermons preach-
ed throughout the land to -day. Is will be
so in Chicago'so in New, Orleans, so in
ts
Charleston, sin Boston, so in Philadelphia
so everywhere. 1 know the tract societies
are doing a grand and glorious work, but I
tell you there is no power on earth to -day
equal to the fact that the American printing
press is taking up the sermons which are
preached to a few hundred or a few thous-
and people, and on Monday morning and
Monday evening, in the morning and even-
ing papers, scattering the truth to the mil-
lions. What a thought it is. What an
encouragement for every Christian man.
Besides that, have younoticed that dur-
ing the past few days every one of the
doctrines of the Bible came under discussion
in the secular press -when every paper in
the United States had an editorial on the
subject: "Is there such a thing as future
punishment?" It was the strangest thing
that there should be a diseussion in the
secular pa.pera on that subject, but every
paper in the United States and in Christen -
dons discussed: " Is there such a thing as
retribution ?" I know there were small
wits who made sport of the discussion, but
there was not an intelligent man oa earth
who, as the result of that discussion, did
not ask himself the question: "What is
going to be my eternal destiny?" So it was
in regard to Tyndallenprayergau e. About
twelve year ago you remember bhe secular
papers discussed that, and With jast at4
much earnestnese as the religious papers,
and there was not a man in Christendom
who did not ask himself the question, "Is
there anything in prayer? May the creat -
are impress the Creator." Oh, what a mighty
fact, what a glorious fact, the secular print-
ing press and the pulpit of the Church of
Jesus Christ harnessed in the same team.
Then look at the Internntional Series of
Sunday School lessons. Do you know that
every Sabbath between three and five
o'clock there are five million ohildren
studying the same lesson, aeIesson prepared
bythe leading minds of the country and
printed in the paphrs, and these subjeots
are discussed and given over to the teachers,
who give them over to the children ; so
that whereas one -and within our memory
-the children nibbled here and there at it
story in the Bible, now they ere taken
ehroitgh from Genesis to Reveletion, and
we shall have five million children forestall.
Ad for Christianity. My eoul is full of
exultation. I feel as if I could ahout.-I
will shout, "Alleluia, the Lord God ons.
nipoteat reignetb."
Then you noticed it more signifieseit fact,
if you have talked with people on the subject:
that they are getting dissatisfied with phil-
osophy and science as a matter of comfort.
They say it does not animum to anything
when you Nem a deed child in the house.
They toll you, when they were sick and
the door of the future seemed opening, the
only comfort they could flnd vvar in the
Gospel. People are having demonstrated
all over the land that Reim:ice end philo-
sephy alma olace the trouble mid woes of
the world, and they want thine other re-
ligion, and they ere Miring Christianity,
the only Syrapathetid religion that ever
came into the world. Yen just take your
scientifio consolation tete that room where
e mother hail lost her ehild, Try in thee
caire yottr 'splendid doctrine of the "sot.
rival of the fittest," Tell her then child
died beceeee it Was net Worth, as ninth as
the other children. • That is your serve.
val of the fittest." Go to, that dying man
and tell him to pluck up eourage for the
future. Use your transcendental phrase -
°logy upon him. Tell him be ought te
be cenfident la "the great to be,"
end the "everlesting now," and the
"eternal whet is it," Just you try tanns,
ceridentellem and your philoeophy end
your esteems on him', Go to that widowed
oil, and tell her it Was a geolegioal neoese
sity that her husband ahould be taken away
from her just as in the course of the world's
history the megatherium had th vase out of
existenoe ; and then you go in your thien-
eiec consolation until you get to the sub-
litue fad that fifty million years front now
we ourselves' may he scientido specimens nn
a geological shelf, petrided specimene of an
extinct human rams, And after yon have
Met all through with your ooneolation, if
the poor AM ieted fioni is not erased by it,
I will Send forth from this cherish the
plainest Christian we have, and with one
half hour of prayer and reading of Seripture
promisee, the tears will be wiped away, and
the house from floor to the cupola will be
floored with the calmness of an Inlian
SUrnmer sunset. There is where I see the
triunaph Of Christianity. People are dis-
staeisfied with everything else. They want
God, They want Jesus Christ.
Talk about the exec° sciences, there is
only one exact science. It is not mathe-
matics. Taylor's logarithms have many
imperfectione. The French metric system
has many. imperfeetions, The oply exact
science us airiatianity--the only thing
under which you can appropriately write,
" Quod. erat demonstrendum," You tell me
that two and two make four. I do not dis-
pute it, but it is not so plain that two and
two make foier as that the Lord Clod Al-
mighty made this world, and for man, the
&bluer, Ho sent His only begotten Son to
die.
I put on the witness stand to testify in
behalf of Christianity the Church on earth
and all the Church in heaven. Not fifty,
not a thousand, nos a million, but all of
the Church on earth and all the redeeme d
in heaven.
You tell me James A. Garfield was in-
augurated President of the United States
on the fourth of March, 1881. How do I
know ib? You tell me there were twenty
thousand persona who distinctly heard his
inaugural address. I deny both, I deny
that he was inaugurated. I deny that his
inaugural address was delivered. You ask
why? I did not see it, I did not hear it.
But you say there were twenty thousand
persons who did see and hear him. I say
I cannot take it anyhow, I did nob see and
hear him. Whose testimony will you take?
Yon will not take my testimony. You say,
"You know nothing about it, you were not
there'let as have the testhuony of the
twenty thousand persons who stood before
the capital and heard that magnificent
inaugural." Why, of course, that is as
your common sense dictates. • Now,
here are some men who say
they have never seen Christ crown-
ed in the Iseart, and they do not believe it
is ever done. There is a group of men who
say they have never heard the voice of
Christ, they have never heard the voice of
God. They do not believe it ever trans-
pired, or was ever heard -that anything
like it ever occurred. I point to twenty, a
hundred thousand or a million people who
say: " Christ was crowned in our hearts'
affections ; we have seen Him and felt Him
in our soul, and we have 'heard His
voice; we have heard it in stdrxn a,nd dark -
nesse we have heard it again and again."
Whose testimony will you take? These
• men who say tbey have not heard the voice
of Christ, have not seea his coronation ; or
will you take the thousands and millions
of Christians who testify of what they saw
with their own eyes Mad heard with their
own ears?
Yonder is an aged Christian after fifty
years' experience of the power of god-
liness in his soul. Ask this man whether,
when he buried his dead, the religion of
Jesus Christ' was nob A consolation. .Ask
him if through the long years of hispilgrim-
age the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him
when he looks forward to the future, if he
has not a peace and a joy and a consolation
tho world cannot, take away. Put his testi-
mony of what he has seen and. what, he has
felt opposite to the testimony of a man who
says he has not seen anything on the sub-
ject or felt anything on the subject. Will
you take the testimony of people who have
nob seen, or people who have seen?
You say morphia puts one to sleep. You
say in time of sicknesa it is very useful. I
deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to
sleep, it never alleviates pain. You ask
me why I say that. I have never tried it,
I never took it. I deny that morphia is
any soothing to the nerves, or any quiet in
time of sickness. I deny that morphia
ever put anybody to sleep ; but here are
twenty persons who say they have all felt
the soothing effects of a physician's pres.
oribing morphine. Whose testimony
wiil you take? Thoae who took the medi-
cine, or my testimony, I never having taken
•the medicine. Here is the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, an anodyne for all trouble, the
mightiest medicine that ever came down to
earth. Here is a man who says : "I don't
believe in it ; there is no power in it."
Here are other people who say, "We have
found out its power and know its soothing
influence ; it has cured at." Whose testi-
mony will you take in regard to this heal-
ing medicine? •
I feel that 1 have convinced every man in
this house that ib is utter folly to take the
testimony of those who hive never tried
the Gosperof Jesus Christ in their own
hearb and life. We have tens of thousands
of witnesees. I believe you are ready to
take their testimony. Young man, do not
be ashamecl to be a friend of the Bible. Do
not pet your thumb in your vest, as ;young
men sometimes do, and awagger about,
talking of the glorious light of the nine-
teenth century, and of there being no need
of a Bible. '
A misery is uot to be measured from the
nature of the evils but from the teinper of
the sufferer.
We often hold firmer to the last crown
we have amassed than to the first which we
gained.
Ile who bridles the •fury of the billows
knows also to put a Stop to the secreb plane
of the Wieked.
Scandal breeds histred ; hatred begets
Il-
; division makes faction, and faction
bringa ruin.
The voiee of parents is the voice of gods,
for to their, children they are heaven's lieut-
enant
Two Oriental ruling Will 'visa Europe
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Shah will be in Berlin in July, much to the
regret of the Emperor, it, is said, andgo
titmice to London. The visit of the Persian
money& is an expensive luxury, as many
European ruleis have found to their ler
-
row. In St. Petersburg a few yeses p,go,
the apattments of the Winter Palate oec.
upied by the Shah could not, be aged for
monthts by the Imperial family. All tbe
coetly ferniture had to be sold. The Shah
travels With a large suite, and lives in
aceOrdeuee with the customs of his country.
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