Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14

ment. AT the time Jesus uttered
these words he WAS surrounded by
the sharp, cunning Pharisees, by the
shrewd calculating Saducees and the
lawyers of the day. They were
] probing and dissectiug, and looking
and looking AMI wondering and
questioning, and Jesus looked al
them and threw the gauntlet down
on the ground at their feet, right in
their faces. 1t is wonderful, but
strangely true that all the discove ers
in the worlds history have met with
opposers. They have met with
scoders, and perhaps large majority
OF them with contempt and scorn.
You know that when Galileo discov-
cred that this world rotated on its
axis, the stupid monks arraigned
him Immediately, and they tried
him rs heretic and as humbug.
They convicted him and made him
retract. But the wise old man as he
walked out whispered to himself,
And still the world moves When
Harvey discovered that the blood
circulates from the heart and back
again the world arraigned him as
propoundiug false theory and
argued against it. When Watt dis
covered that steam, a bland vapor,
had power almost omnipotent the
scientists of the day arraigned HIM
and called for the proof. When
Morse discovered that you might
chain electricity to "a wire and that
one man could sit thousand miles
from another and hold n conversa-
lion with him, The world arraigned
him and doubted his discovery. No
wonder then that when Jesus Christ
discovered balm in Gil d-a rem
edy for sin-this woild arraigued him
as an DpOstOr I'd oavic d him. /
don't see how the discovery that the
world rotates on its SKIS changes a
fellows p. Ogram much. l don't
see npw the fact that steam,
a bland vapor, is omnipotent,
could interfere with a mans
system of living. The fact that
the circulation of the blood is a Great
discovery does not make fellow
quit lying, or stealing, or anything
of that sort. And when it is demon.
strated that a man can sit down to-
night anywhere in America and hold
friendly conversation with a man
in London, that does not make bim
pray or quit his melnness. 1t is no
wonder that men oppose the science
of Christ crucified. All other sciences
have had their opposers. No man
to-day except the famous preacher
of Richmond, doubts the fact that
the earth turns on its axis. / believe
that he still sticks to it that "the sun
do move" No one today doubts
that steam is an almost omnipOtent
power. l have only to look on those
iron horses as they move over the
country with their giant power in
order to tell the world that steam is
power. The moment a physician
walks into my room and tells by the
accelerated movement of my pulse my
condition, l cannot doubt as to the
circulation of my blood. No one
can doubt the fact that we may sit in
this city Tonight and talk to friend
in Liverpool. Brolhlr, these grand
discoveries m with OppOser5 and
yet the world despse5 the best one
the blessed Christine greatest dis
coverer of the ages. Do you know
why that is? The greatest discovery
ever declared to man is the fact that
God can be just, and the justifier OF
the ungodly. The greatest fact in
the universe made known TO men is
that poor man may have his sins
forgiven, and may make his peace
with God, and die in faith and go
home to heaven. And yet while the
opposition which these other great
discoveries met, has died out, still to-
day, after the blood.washed throngs
of earth have been marching home 10
God for 1900 years; after our
precious mothers and pious fathers
have marched into heaven under
this gracious banner, and after all
that his blessed scheme of redemp.
ton has done for our race, there are
thousands and millions Of men who
deSpise Jesus Christ and reject him
as grand discoverer, with all the
power of their nature"
Here Mr.. Jones went into the op-
position that was placed in the paths
of the early discoveries, finally show
ing how they surmounted all obsta-
cles and made their names immortal.
Doubt, he said, is the great foe of
Christianity. If men would not
doubt they would all be religious.
Doubt is cheap way of advertising
your sins. The way to be religious
is to do what God tells you to do. II
man will do this he will know the
truth he will know of the doctrine.