The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-30

chants endow universities, and in them
Christian professors instruct the chill.
dren Of Christian communities. The
warmest and most enthusiastic friends
OF Christ are the bravest and most
enthusiastic friends Of science. The
Church rejoices as much over every
discovery as the world rejoices. Good
men have found that there is no war
between science and religion. That
which at first has seemed to be the
weapon Of the infidel has turned out to
be the weapon OF the Christian.
Scientific discussions may be divided
into those which are concluded, depend
ing for decision upon future investiga-
tion. Those which have invariably
rendered their verdict for Christianity,
and we have faith to believe that
thosewhich are still in prosecutian
come TO as favorable conclusion. The
great systems of error are falling be-
fore these discoveries, which have only
demonstrated the truth Of the Bible,
and so reinforced Christianity Moham-
mechanism, and paganism In their ten
thousand forms have been proved false,
and by great natural laws shown to be
impositions. Buried cities have been
exhumed, and the truth Of God found
written on their cofln-lids. Bartlett,
Robinson and Layard have been not
more the apostles Of science than the
apostles Of religion. The dumb lips Of
the pyramids have opened to preach the
Gospel. Expeditions have been fitted
out for Palestine, and explorers have
come back to say that they have found
among mountains, and among ruins, and
on the shore of waters, living and un-
dying evidence Of our glorious Christi
anity.
Men who have gone to Palestine in
fidels have come back Christians. They
who were blind and deaf TO the truth at
home have seemed to sec Christ again
preaching upon olivet, and have beheld
f. vivid imagination the Son Of God
again walking the hills about Jerusa-
lem. Caviglia once rejected the truth,
but afterward said: 81 came to Egypt,
and the Scriptures and the pyramids
converted me-" When was in Beyrout,
Syria, last December, our beloved Amer
lean missionary, Rev. DIR. Jessup, told
me Of his friend who met skeptic at
Joppa, the seaport OF ofJerusalem, and the
unbeliever said to his friend: ~ am
going into the Holy Land to show up the
folly OF the Christian religion. am
going to visit all the so-called sacred
places andwrite them up and show them
thatthe New Testament is an imposition
upon the worlds credulity." Months af-
ter, DR.. Jessup's friend met the skeptic
at Beyrout, after he had completed his
journey through the Holy Land. swell,
howis it9" said the aforesaid gentleman
TO the skeptic. The answer was: 81
have seen 1t all and tell you the Bible
is truel Yes, it is all true" The man
who went TO destroy came back to de-
fend. After what myself saw during
my recent absence, conclude that any
one who can go through the Holy Land
and remain an unbeliever is either . bad
man or an imbecile. God employed men
to write the Bible, but He took many OF
the same truths which they recorded,
and with His own almighty hand He
gouged them into the rocks and drove
them down into dismal depths, and, as
documents are put In the cornerstone OF
temple, so In the very foundation OF
the earth He folded up and placed the
records OF heavenly truth. The earth's
corner stone was laid, like that OF other
sacred ediaces, In the name OF the
Father, and OF the Son, and OF the Holy
Ghost The Author OF Revelation, stand
Ing among the great strata, looked upon
Moses and said: let US record Tor fu-
ture ages the worlds history; you write
1t there on papyrus; will write 1t here
on the boulders." lEgftyy L!t
Again, nature offers an invaluable
contribution to Christianity by tho Illus
tration she makes OF divine truth. The
inspired writer's seized upon the advant
ages offered BY tho natural world. I ees
and rivers and clouds and rocks broke
into holy and enthusiastic ntterances.
Would Christ set forth the strength OF
faith, He points 10 the sycamore. whose
roots spread out and strike down, and
clinch themselves amid great depths OF
earth, and BE said that faith was strong
enough 70 tear that up by the roots. '
AtHawarden, England, Mr.. Gladstone,
while showing me his trees during .
prolonged walk through LIS magnificent
park, pointed out a sycamore, and with
wave Of the hand said: I'm your
visit TO the Holy Laud did you see any
sycamore more impressive than that2"
I confessed that had not. Its branches