THOUGHTS FOR
UNSAVED PEOPLE
Cursing Is Praying Suppose some seemingly sanctified person should go around the streets ut tering audible prayers in the hearing of other people and mixing them up with his conversation. People would call him crazy and would look for an excuse for sending him to an asylum. The general opinion would be th a t he was daffy. And yet there are fellows by the dozen who in public and in private mix senseless oaths and causeless profanity with their conversation. Why should the man whose seeming devotion to Di vinity exceeds good sense and propri ety be graded as a lunatic while the numerous fellow who is given to cause less cussing is regarded as all right, only a little rough in his talk?—Doug lass (Kan.) Tribune. Sir Isaac Newton set out in life a clamorous infidel; but, on examination of the evidences of Christianity, he found reason to change his opinion. When Dr. Halley was talking infidelity before Sir Isaac Newton, he said, “Dr. Halley, I am always glad to hear you when you speak about astronomy or other parts of mathematics, because th a t is a subject you have studied and well understand: but you should not talk of Christianity; for you have not studied it. I have, and am certain you know nothing about the matter.” .^ 14 . Jag The Ignorance of the Wise
Is I t Iiife or Death? The Gospel message leaves no man exactly as it found him. The difference may be very imperceptible, but it will be very real. One more (almost invisible) dim over the eyeball; one more fold of insensibility round the heart and con science; or else some yielding to love, some finger put out to take the salvation, some lightening of the pressure of sick ness. The same sun blinds diseased eyes and gladdens sound ones. The same fire melts wax and hardens clay. “This Child is set for the rise and fall of many in Israel.” “To the one (He is) the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life.”—Alexander Mac- laren. ilfe I t Demonstrates. In an argument being carried on be tween Dr. Pentecost and an atheist, the latter declared th a t the reason he did not believe the Bible was because he did not know the Author. “Do you know the author of the multiplication table?” asked Dr. Pentecost. “No.” “Then I suppose, being a scientific man and a conscientious skeptic, you never use the multiplication table.” “Oh, yes,” was the reply, “th a t proves itself to be true by its works.” “Then may we not also know th a t the Bible is a work of abso lute authority, because its works in its own sphere prove itself true?” A Fool of a Man Spurgeon once remarked: “I have been told th a t every man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client, and I am inclined to think th a t when a man sets up to be his own Saviour and his own revelation, much the same thing occurs.”
None are in such need of change by religion as those who are so eager to change the Christian religion.
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