Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — Voltaire's Boast. [ARTICLE]

Voltaire's Boast.

By Prof. James Orr, D.D. There is a reported saying of Voltaire, that "It took twelve men to found Christianity, but he would show the world that onp man could over- * throw it" Another saying of Voltaire hag reference to Newton’s discovery of the law of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered the law, was a humble Christian man. But Voltaire was eonfldant that Christianity would have been overthrown by the new discovery, and would not survive a century- The state of facts today is e singular commentary on the boasts. Voltaire’s volumes—some ninety-four of them —stand on the shelf, and the dust which covers them j Is seldom disturbed, save for some literary or historical purpose. Christianity, on the other hand, survives and extends. We speak advisedly, In full View of the developments of unbelief in our midst, when we affirm that the Church of Christ today baa more members, is spreading Itself more widely in the world, is circulating more Bibles, is doing more good, is cherishing more earnestly in its heart the dream of universal empire, than at any previous period of its history.—Homiletic Review. To be' lovely almost all too time requires much prayer and the right kind of living. The beet of as are only sinner* saved by grace and apt at,thorn to step a little arid# from the paths la which we ought to work and *hi"b How careful then ought we to be. Tbe only argument that I need that there is an Evil Spirit going about is an examination of myself. Suppose you try tbe same test? —George R. Scott. r - Men ; as* aJway* 5 wanting to da. some great thing. Let them ove£ come themselves, for that la the great-