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 EperoR SAN FkANCsscAus Yer A- VI sf tAe sstA tnnlnnk, seQeesa1ng tAo Uanuecsipe ef - sesmea ef f0cAoA9 <xh, 6 repn to Ce1ulai lneorsn1ls assicle ia tAe Sss ESss<ixas of OcsoAes 3d. ..3s 0e- tpss nc rssEsa Q " Aavs = nans- szipG lcaA. ksuessr, inAicaas tAs ina q saeseA. psss.ssa a.d have = es- jsction b h pnhlication in the columns q your bdgAt and ssioyahls journal. lt sAouid he said. q the c1tse1 sAat the dis- eourss vas nes i.ssnded e . fall and exhaustive repay so the posisioas taksn h Colonel lneersolIs paper. Reccgnix. ing the imposahiliU cf dsscussing satis. factosiiy, b the tine usnaliy allotted so. an svening discoause the sevualx points in his paper. an thas aimed to do vas to msss ifs general coaclusioas, 10 vis Thaa christianity is inimical to human welfare, and consequently i0 ciaims may be igAstally ignosed. h sesnsd to ne thaa the simpassa and most effective way of doing this vas to call the public asssn- ion to vhat christianity has actually done toe the well-being of our race. There is 10 more satislActosy vay of answesing stout assestioas abtus poverty c( soil and of fruis thAa .so point men so vines bending iow under the weight of purple and oounulhl ciaseetx h like mannes, when christianity is assailsd and coademned, n its real kuitfulnsss can be gotten taarly 6a6ose the syes of the peo- pie, there Is little danger sf their being carried away, either 6y spacious aIgu- menes or by violent assaults. My theme. therefore, was The Fruitfulness and Worth of Chr,ssianity as Related to Civ ilizasion.a h developing this subject, the following points were especially em- phasixed:
 Ose. Noa-chrissian civilis asion in the past have either dissntsgrased and per ished by tAeir owa corruption, like the Roman and Crecian, or, like the Chimes, have been arrested and become station aSy. (On this point see Prof Mains's Ancieas Lav,' whose authority no ooe will question.)
 zDe In the present it Is the christian: nations that are in the van of the worlds progress Outside ot countries illumined and quickened by christianity ve look in vain tor aisns and tokens of human sd- vancement. Non-chrtxtian civilizations everywhere arc unexpectant, uupsogres- sive, stagnant. Tae coaelusion reached vas. not that christianity creates eiviliaa- ton, but that if impAsts to It tnose moral and spiritual forces which arc indis pen sible to its purity. completeness and per petaIty.
 ZAree. The power and potency of ~k -. agency has been abundantly verified in these eighteen christian centuries. Re- ference was here made CD 10 the ancient pntons. who were wild men of the woods. wearing the skins of beasts, practlcing polygamy and offering human saey,hees to their gods. f,) to the ancient Scots, who were cannieals, delighting in the taste oi human desh; t3) to the ancient Saxons, who were accustomed to devote one tenth of their capsives taken in var as bloody thank offering to the deities they worsh,pped Co to the ancient GAuls. who were won't to hang the skulls of their dead enemies about the pecks of their horses, and to use them as drinkipg cups in their uproasious feasts ts)to the uplifting influence of christian,,y ob-
 
 ants of the South Sea Islands, and also upon the Hlndus and Mohammedans ,n India.
 Concerning these latter Sir Bartie FreTe, late governor of Bombay. says !: l speak simply as to matters ot ca pefienoe and observation, and not ol opinion just as Roman preiect might have reported to Trsjan or the Antonines :; and assure you that, whatever you may be told 10 the cootrasy, the teachings Of christianity among the 10000 Hindus and Moh amr sdans is efisc,ing changes, moral, social and politieAl, which tor extent and rapidity of effect are far mose extraordinary than anything you or your fathers have witnessed ia modern Eu. rope" Equally emphatic n the tsssi- mony of Ar. Lecky as to the in6ue-ce of christianity fos gsod upon the early inhabitants of Europe. In his second volume Of the Intellectual Development Of Europe he uses the following lan- guAge: Europe had made vast step during its age oi faith. It was occupied by wondering savages. SIX hundred years organized 1t into families. neighbofhoods, cities- These centuries found tt full of bondmen they lett tt without slave They eund II a scene of violence, rspine, lust they left t the abode of God fearing men.1
 -Four. Christianity sustzins a mos, vital relation to the great regnsni ideas and institutions of our American civilisa- ton. Who were the men who laid deep and strong the foundation of our counsrys wonderful prosperity, which is st once the admiration and envy of the world Ministers and members of christian church Where did they get their idea of the inalienabie rights of men1 Not from old-vosld sfaiesmen and philoso- phess, but from those csacies Of divies truth which every christian takes As "a lamp to his feet and Iigh, to his path. Who originated and pusiicb advocated those principles of civil and religious hbcrsy which ise ss the bsses q our American govesnnent Sir Janss Mac intosh tells us that in Englasd is vas the