Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-03-09
Christianity's Triumphs Pictured
by DR.. Talmage.

muskets, 3baversaoks aud oanteens strewing>
oil the way" said Dr. Talmage yesterday
morning in the Brooklyn tabernacle. In tho
first oentury there were 100000 Christians
900 000 Christians, and the estimate for the
nineteenth century is 300.000,000 Christians.
Poor Christianityl What pity il hns no
| friendsl Who will tako IL out of tho poor-
housc2 In u fow weeks Of lust year there
wero q 100000 copies of tho New Testament
distributed. Duriug the last ten years moro
persons havo connected themselves With
Christian churches than in the first fifty
years of this century. Is the Bible becom
ing an obsolete book3 You find it in every
court room in every house. Voltairo pro.
dicted that tho Bible would be extinct in the
nineteenth century. The room in which ho
wrote that prediction was recently crowded
land. Tho Bible is to- day the most popular
Of books. There aro five times as many
copies Of tho Bible sold as of any other
book. The Methodist Church crccts new
house of worship every dny in tho year.
What Institution stands nearest to tho
hearts Of tho people? IL itthc post Office?
Is it tho hecY No, it is the Christian
church ns collection Of hypocrits bu, when
diph,hcria sweeps of your children you don't
90 to the post oi6cc for consolation. Yon
don't call on the attorney general CT tho
| postmaster or tho alderman, and you don't
| want the body taken to the hotel or tho
| heatre, and you don't want them TO sing the
'Marrcilaisc' o. God save tho Queen or our
| national anthem. You want tho minister
and tho church and .he Sunday school hymn
TINT your it,lo girl sang tho last time.
"l.ct a man proclaim himself IN enemy to
tho Bible and ho cannot get n majority OF
votes in any city, county or ward in America.
Mr.. Ingersoll years ago. riding in railroad
-, .loN .{yh,k h., nbrio, ;tv
donc2 There WIS on old Christian woman
who heard him and she replied: christianity
has done thing; it has prevented Mr.
Ingcrsoll from being Governor Of Illinois,
The Christian religion today is mghticr
than ever. Do you think such scene
could be enacted now us in tho days Of Robe
spicrre?
"Supposc one passenger out of ivc hun-
dred on m ocean steamer jumps board,
does that stop tho ship? Yet that one
passenger makes more excitement than the
five hundred who stuy on bDard Do you
believe these people nrc going TO be irigh
cncd by inlidel scientists, who hnvo fifty
different theories about the origin of life?
tell you that all denominations agree in two
| or three or four radical IDEAS of the Christian
religion. They are unanimous az to the
authenticity Of the Scriptures and the divinity
Of Christ.
''llpw is it with the iniilols? M two of
them think alike. 1t makes mo sick to sec
ono of those literary folks going along
with copy OF Darwins works under one
arm and under the other Il case Of transfxcd
grnsshoppcrs aud book on the organization
of pr, toplasm. just as soon as ono Of these
fellows begins to know the difference between
tho fcclcrs of wasp and the horns OF Il
beetle he begins to pntronise tho Almighty
But Agnsiz set his face against the theory Of
develo pmcnt. Tho scientists don't agree
,h. rhnn h,,
embryology They don't agree about the
graduation Of species. llorschel wrote n book
! on tho errors of astronomy. How many
colors ars there in light? One says seven
another says three How high is the aurora
| borcalis? One says two and half miles,
another says lGS miles. How far is the sun
from the earth? One says 100000 miles,
| ference Of 2S, 600 900 miles. If jury does
not agree, y"u send it back t. deliberate
! InGdcity has failed to agrec after dclibcrat-
ing 500 years. Let i. 60 back and deliberate
| 500 years more and agree something.
"Lnok at the international system Of Sab
bath school lessons. This afternoon there
will DC 000,O 900 people studying the same
| lesson. Science is no solacc for the troubles
of the world. You cannot solace that bc>
reavcl mother by telling her of the survival Of
the GucSt; by telling her that her child died
because it was not worth as much as other
children. You can't go to that dying man
| and keen up his courage bv telling him to
put confidence in the great To be- the ever.
| lasting Nay or the eternal What is it, Go
to The willow and tell her that it was
geological necessity that her husband should
| bc tnkcn away inst ns in the course Of time
the mcgaih ihcrcnm had to pass ont OF existence
| and that in the course Of fifty million years
| VIC ourselves may be scientific specimens of
m extinct human race"
[Spartn Owls Herald
AS an exhibition of the intrinsic worth Of ST.
jacobs Oil, we think the case referred TO, that
| of Mrs o. ". Hubbard. of this town, cured Of
| scntic rheumatism of long standing by the Oil,
| is certainly striking. and beyond all doubt,
conclusive rs to its efficacy The remedy has
| our Endorsement
| a Charleston special TO the New York Times,
March 9Th, says: "Col. John Cunningham has
| gone TO Laurens to announce himself publicly
TO morrow as an Independent candidate for
Congressman at large under the new apportion-
mcnt. lie states that the Independents arc
more thoroughly organized than outsiders sus-
| pcccd, and their pronuncnmcnto Of principles
! is now in tho hands Of the printers and will be
| given 10 the public in few days" w. W.
| Russell, a wealthy planter in Anderson County,
is mentioned rs another rising leader in the new
movement, and efforts, it is said, arc OH foot to
induce Congressman Aiken to become the Indc-
| pendent candidate for Governor.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, presented
q petition TO the Senate last week. signed by
twelve hundred citizens of the State, including
| the State officers in favor of hs hill In MID Tho