here

THEY CALL ATHEISM POSITIVISM,

which is a good name. It signifies that a man is positive he knows more
about the future state than God! Upon his death-bed this Monsieur
Littre,--although he had been the means of sending thousands of other
souls before their Maker, rebellious and unredeemed--this same Monsieur
Littre dared not to meet God with his Positivism on his soul, and
embraced the offices of the Church with great relief. Men, before
entering upon a course which flings away the only hope a man has,

SHOULD LOOK WELL TO IT

that they know what they are doing. I wandered in the terror-stricken
streets of burned Chicago. The multitudes--nearly two hundred
thousand--were eating in gratitude; the mothers with babes were under
shelter. Was the unburned temple of the atheist open? Oh, no! He had
none. Who was cutting the meats and breaking the bread? The wives and
daughters of the parishes which had been spared from the hot flames. It
was a solemn lesson. I said: "I will not, Colonel Ingersoll, throw away
the hope I have." By their works shall ye know them! 'Tis as true upon
the field of blood as in the track of fire, but we must pass on. "When I
was young," said

THE GREAT NEWTON,

the ornament of his race, "I was sure of many things; there are only two
things of which I am sure now: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and
the other, that Jesus Christ is an all-sufficient savior." The closing
pages of Dr. Johnson's works are filled with simple little prayers to
his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. "I have lived long enough to know
what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in
happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion." This is the
language of La Place, the author of "La Mecanique Celeste," one of the
greatest books of the world. He spoke from real experience. He had seen
religion "abolished by law." He had seen the "worship of Reason"
established with the decapitation of seven thousand innocent citizens of
France. He had heard one of the apostles of Reason arise in the
Constituent Assembly and demand two hundred and ninety thousand corpses
instead of seven thousand. Then this man who had grasped the machinery
of the heavens, who had shown the absolute accuracy of Newton's great
discovery, wrote, in the same spirit of absolute knowledge: "I have
lived long enough to know what I did not once believe." Magnificent
testimony! Almost as valuable as the teachings of our own