Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01

they saw would overthrow the teachings
! of that great philosopher. But the
Christian religion has no such apprehen-
sion now. Bring on your telescopes and
microscopes, and speotroscopes-and the
! more the better. The God of nature Is
the God of the Bible, and in all the uni
verse, and in all the eternities, He has
never once contradicted Himself
| Christian merchants endow universities
and In them Christian professors instruct
| the children of Christian communities
| The warmest and most enthusiast
! tic friends of Christ are the brayest 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 be-
! tween 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, and
those which are still in progress, depend
ing for decision upon future investiga-
tion.t Those which are concluded have
invariably rendered their verdict for
Christianity, and we have faith to be-
lieve that those which are still in prose-
cution will come to as favorable conclu-
sion. The great systems of error are
falling before these discoveries, which
have OILY demonstrated the truth of the
Bible, and so reinforced Christianity.
Mohammedanism and paganism in their
ten thousand forms have been proved
false, and by great natural laws shown
to be impositious. Buried cities have
been exhumed, and the truth of God
found written on their coffin-lids Bart
lett, Robinson, and Layard have been
not more than 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 ex-
plorers have come back to say that thew
have found among mountains, and
among ruins, and on the shore of waters
living and undying evidences of our gIor-
ious Christianity.
Men who have gone to Palestine inf
dels have come back Christians. They
who we're blind and deaf to the truth at
home have seemed to see Christ again
preaching upon Olivet, and have beheld
in vivid imagination the Son of God
again walking the hills about Jerusalem.
Caviglia once rejected the truth, but
afterwards said: al came to Egypt, and
verified me- When 1 was in Beyrout,
Syria, last December, our beloved
American missionary, Rev. DR.. Jessup,
told me of his friend who met a sceptio
at Joppa, the seaport of Jerusalem, and
the unbeliever said to his friend: 81 am
going into the Holy Land to show up the
folly of the Christian religion. 1 am
going TO visit all the so-caIled sacred
places and write them up, and show the
world that the New Testament is an i'm
position upon the worlds credullty.' -
Months after, DR.. Jessup's friend met
the sceptic at Beyrout, after he had
completed his journey through the Holy
Land.
'well, how is it9'' said the aforesaid
gentleman to the sceptic. The answer
was; 81 have seen it all, and 1 tell
true!'' T.
The man who went to destroy came
back to defend. After what 1 myself
saw during my recent absence, con-
Guided that anyone who can go through
the Holy Land and remsin an unbeliever
is either a bad man or : an imbe-
cile. 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 a 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 all other sa-
cred edifces, in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, aud of the Holy Ghost.
The Author of revelation, standing
among the great strata, looked upon
Moses and said, 'Let us record for flu
ture ages the world IS history; you write
it there on papyrus; 1 will write II here
on the boulders. ~
Again, nature offers an invaluable
contribution to Christianity by the Illus
tTation she makes of divine truth. The
inspired writers seized upon the advant-
ages offered by the natural world. Trees
and rivers and clouds and rocks broke
forth into holy and enthusiastic utter
ances. Would Christ set forth the
strength of faith, He points to the syca-
more, whose roots spread out and strike
down and clinch themselves amid great
depths of earth, and He said that faith
was strong enough to tear that up by the
roots.
At Hawardep, England, Mr.. Glad
StUnes Whlie showing me MS trees DUR
ing prolonged walk through his mag
niticent park, pointed out a sycamore
and, with wave of the hand, said,
elm your visit TO the Holy Land did
you see any sycamore more impressive
than thRtr'' I confessed that
bad not. Its branches were not mere
remarkable than it's roots. It was 70
such tree as that Jesus pointed when
He would
ILLUSTRATE THE POWER OF FAITH.
eye might say unto this sycamore tree:
Be thou plucked up by the roots and be
thou cast into the saa, and it would obey
you" One reason why Christ has fas-
cinated the world as no other teacher, is |
because instead of using severe argu- |
ment He was always telling how some
thing In the spiritual world was like unto |
something in the natural world. Oh |
these wonderful ''likes" of our Lordl |
Like grain of mustard seed. Like a |
treasure hid in field. Like a merchant |
seeking goodly pearls. Like unto net |
that was cast into the sea. Like unto q
householder,
Would Christ teach the precision with