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Show TDK ATHEISM Or TO DW. Scicntlficathei!-m ii 'ead; practical practic-al allitl'ui Is all ve.Sciatitlcatbeleio uas bail; practical atli iam U worse. Uad it is for man to r ect the imlis-utablo imlis-utablo uvliiencc of tie being and lrouaIity of a God. Bad It Is for una to find in Uie Uod that ruler thu seaMitis aud th jhi-avena no guiding band for hia. Hutu or It U far man to bcliu'a' there Is a GoJ, and live as if Uief e were no Cltnl. The man wbclives as if God were not, trlien lie leiees there is a GoJ, is (unlyales worthy type of a man than lie wU) failluK to believe, be-lieve, lives in accorcuice ititli the moral verities. Jlany men and men of this age are atliLlsLi witho-t knowing It. They live as if thea were no God. Many of the Influences of (he time promote practical abclsm. The absorptions ab-sorptions of the tine tend to aflect this lamentable malt. Merchants are abeorbed hi .their bu?lntts. Women are absortrd In their homes. Men work ai if Uils life were nil. Women live and Kruggle as If a few ytars measured al existence. Some . scholars labor ai if there would be - no opportunity hjauy other world of Uie omniscicit God, ouLsMo of ! tliisworlil, for L'a'ttuJyof divine , plany. Many of -hr American pco , pie are in as muciM.inger of being practical atlid.-t; aa the French : ixople of a ItundtsJ ears ago were in danger of being theoretical alheitt. f TfteuiiUiodsfir the removal cf practical athel?j are within the reach of all. Tlufflrst means is the recognition of tin Intellectual evl-denevsof evl-denevsof the beag of a God and of hUsuix-riutcudligcare. ThLa evidence evi-dence abounds; modern investigations investiga-tions have not disproved Paley'a positions. Men naturally believe in the exigence of God. It Is much harder not to be(i.ve than to believe. To these c!Jex-3, so abundant, men should dlrct their attention. If men would lit think, they could tiiAucalhel-tHf Mtn ahould ict be so absorbed by thilr work thahey have no time t think. Sofle men break the fourth commaidmtut every day in tile week. TJicy Iabjr no hard throughout th-ix days, Uiat they ire too tlml t( Vorsliipon Sunday. Stall ovcrwox they should stop, rhey know tley should put an end to it. They at selling their bodies for this life, aid their souls for all life. The renoval of the strain of Intense appliistion would tend to remove practCilaUielsjii, If merchants mer-chants were lee commercial they would be mo spiritual. l'racllcal tatbebm, moreover, would die ink generation, by the formation of right spiritual habits in youUi. 'Jbe law of habit has application ap-plication to -plnlual growth. The law holds trte in the duty of daily devotion, at In the duly of mercantile mercan-tile service. Such habits, begun in the first yetrs and growing with the growth, WQild anchor the soul to lirm and nf ercnt faith, rractIcaIIatboim woulJ cease, farther, byfixlug minds and hearts of men mtre cccurely on the life of Christ. Ciriit wai the Son of God, anil also tli son of man. Aa the true Son of GoJ, he howi us the glory tf the Father full of grace and trulli.l As the son of man, he gives us tie power to becomesons of God. Ilels the aqiwer to. Intellectual Intellect-ual skcpfclsm; the inspiration in moral indUVrence; the ideil of all achleventnt; the motive power iu all servii. lie is the way, Uie truth ant jthe life of man unto Uod. Not a .very few may read Uieee Etragrapi9, who would shudder at lug caled atheist. They would aTlrm Utlr belief in a, personal God. Bit posAIy they will, Uiruugh reflection, re-flection, (discover that thty are Oi-uw asathelsfe; theyaro living at If this ifesent lire nereallof Jlfe, aud as if there were no personal power bjyonil tho present sphere of existent. Such rnu-t confess that the nanii of atheist is as Well-flttrd as It Is isaJ cpiUiet for their state. Hut still a state of life may be changed, and one may enter Into truthful obedience and live to a loving God. The Adi ance. |