Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-20

under one arm and case Of transixed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the
other arm, talking about the
Survival Of the Fittesf,
and Huxley's protoplasm and the nebular
hypothesis. The fact is that some natural
lists, Just as soon as they begin to find out
the difference between the feelers of
a wasp and the horns OF beetle,
begin to patronize the Almighty.
These men do not agree about any
thing. They do not agree on embryology,
do not agree on the gradation of the species.
all split up among themselves mot
agreeing on anything, they come and say
that the churches of Jesus Christ are divid-
ed on the great doctrines. All united they
are in Jesus Christ and in the divinity of
the Scriptures while they come up and
propose to render their verdict and no two
of them agree on that verdict. Here these
Infdel scientists have empannelled them
selves as jury to decide this trial between
Infidelity the plaintiff and Christianity the
defendant, and after being out for CEN
turies they come in to render their verdict.
Gentlemen OF the jury; have you agreed on
miserable wretch in the Tombs Court that
could be condemned by jury that did not
agree on the verdict, and yet you expect
US to give up our glorious Christianity TO
please these men who cannot agree on
anything. Oh, my friends. the church of
Jesus Christ instead of falling back is
On The Advance.
see the glittering of swords. hear the
tramping of the troops, | hear the thunder
ing Of parks of artillery. Oh, my God and
Savior thank thee that have been per.
mitted to see this day-thiS day of thy
triumph. this day of the confusion of thine
enemies. o. Lord God. take thy sword
from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic
tory! / am nightly encouraged because
find among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for CEN
turies. infidelity has not destroyed one
church, or crippled one minister, or up.
rooted one verse OF one chapter Of the
bible, Ii that has been thai. magnificent
record for the centuries that are past, what
may We expect for the future? The church
all the time getting the victory and their
shot and shell all gone. Ihaye been exam
lining their ammunition lately. | have
looked all through their cartridge boxes.
They have not in the last twenty years
advanced one new idea They have utterly
exhausted their ammunition in the battle
against the church and against the Scrip
lures, while the sword OF the sI,ord Al
mighty is as keen as it ever was. We are
Just getting our troops in line. They are
coming up III companies and in regiments
and in battalions, and you will near shout
that will make the earth quake and the
heavens ring with halleluiah. II will he
this
Forward. the Whole Line.
And then find another most cncouras-
ing thought in the fact that the secular
printing press and the pulpit seem har-
messed in the same team for the proclama
tion OF the Gospel. Every Wall street
banker tomorrow in New York, every
State street banker tomorrow in Boston,
every Third street banker tomorrow in
Philadelphia, every banker in the United
States, every merChan' will have in his
pocket treatise on Christianity call to
repentance. ten, twenty or thirty passages
of Scripture i'll the reports OF sermons
preached throughout these cities and
throughout this land to-day. 1t will be 50
in Chicago so in New Orleans, SO in
Charleston, so in BOstou. 81 in Philalel-
phia, So everywhere. know the tract So
Cieties are doing grand and glorious work.
but | will tell you there is no power on
earth to-day equal to the fact that the press
is taking up the sermons which are preach
ed TO a few hundred or few thousand peO-
pie on Sunday morning and Sunday even
ing in the morning and devcning papers scat
terl0B lDdl ITull 10 TIE IllliIlOnS. W nat Il
thought ii is, What an encouragement for
every Christian man. Besides that have
YOU not noticed that during the past few
years every one oil the doctrines OF the BIZ
bic came under discussion in the secular
press DO you remember a few years ago
i think not more than six or seven years
when every paper in the United States
had an editorial on the subject: 'Is there
such thing us future puniShmcnt| 1t
was the strangest thing that there should
be discussion in the secular papers on
that subject. | know there were small wits
who made sport OF the discussion, but there
was not an Intelligent man on earth whoas
the result of that discussion did not ask
himself the question: What is going to
be my eternal destiny So it was in re-
gard to Tyndalls prayer gauge. Some seven
or nine years ago you remember the seCu-
lar papers discussed that and with just rs
much earneStness as the religious papers,
and there was not man in Christendom
who did not ask himself the question: is
there anything in prayer: May the crea-
ture impress the creator?n Oh. what a
mighty fact, what a glorious fact
the secular press and the
pulpit OF the church OF Christ harness
ed in the same train. Then look at the
International series of
bstSSohN
Do you know that this afternoon between
3 and ) o'clock there will be five millions of
children studying the same lesson, 50 that
whereas once the children nibbled here and
there a story from the Bible now they are
taken through from Genesis to Revelation
and we shall have five millions OF children
forstalled for Christianity. My soul is
full of of eXaltation. | feel as if could
shout. | will shout: "Hallelujah, the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth"
And then you notice more significant
fact You have noticed il you have talked
with people on that subject that they are
. getting dissatisfied with philosophy and
science As a matter OF comfort. They say
it does not amount to anything when you
have dead child in the house. They tell
YOU when they were sick and the door OF
the future seemed opening. the only COM
fort they could find was in the Gospel.
People are having demonstrated all over
the land that science and philosophy can
not solace the troubles and woes of the
world, and they want some other religion,
and they are taking Christianity.
the only sympathetic religion that ever
came into the world. You just take your
scientific consultations into that room
where a mother has lost her child. Try in
that case your splendid doctrine OF
her that child died because it
was not worth as much as the other child
rem. That is your survival OF the tittest.
Go to that dying man and tell him to
pluck up courage for the future. Use your
transcendental phraseology upon him.
Tell him he ought to be confident 81 the
great TO be-" and the everlasting now
and the eternal what is it." Just try
your transcentalism and your philosophy
and your science on him. 60 to that wild
owed soul and tell her it was a geological
necessity that her companion should be
taken away from her just as in the course
of the worlds history the megatherium
had to pass out OF existence, and then go
on in your scientific consolation until you
get 10 the sublime fact that
Fifty Millions of Years
from now We ourselves may be scientific
specimens on a geological shelf, petrified
specimens of an extinct human race. and
after you have got all through with your
consolation. if the poor afflicted soul is not
crazed by it, l will send forth from this
church the plainesi Christian we have and