Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-09-12

million iailss. siys Llc4ilies ss.ooo GO
niiias, ssys Humboldt so.oso 90 miiss.
says Henderson i0f go 90 tailcs. says
Mayer. oniy hflle hherenes II rs
90. GO nlles, Thsss rnen say We 10
not agree IN religion. DO they agrs'e ia
seieneef Have they eosne ep with solid
froat % assault eur glorious Christian
ityf
Even msthsmaticians DO not agrees.
Taylor's losarithnis ara found O. have
faults tn theta The Preach METRO
system has wrong calculations. Talk
about exact scisncesl They are inexaet.
As far ~ with nay little knowlsdse
have been able % expior.. tho only ex-
act sc!enoe = Christianity. There Is
nothing under which you can ~ appro-
priately write. sQpsod erss dsmonstran-
dun.
.-,ientiensn q the jury, have you
agreed upon your vcrdietf the court or
the clerk says 10 the jury. having been
oat al nishi. ON coming Ia. Have you
agreed GA yonr verdictT~ II they say
yes. ths verdict Is taken aud recorded.
lf they say. mo. We have not agreed"
they are sent hack 10 the jury room. II
one jaryman should say. II think the
man IL guilty of murder. and another
jurymsn should say. Il thank heis guilty
OF mansiAughte ami another juryman
should say. Il think he Is guilty Of as
saait and battery with intent % kill"
tho Judge would lose his patience and
say. .-tio back 70 your room now and
make up verdict Agree on some
thing"
Well, my friends. there has been .
great trial going on for centuries and for
ages between Skcpticism. the plaintiff,
scientists have been iinpaneled and
sworn on the jury. They have been gone
for centuries. some OF them, and they
come hack. and we say. "Gentlemen OF
the jury. have YOU agreed upon YER
diets" They say. mo. we have not
agreed" Then We say, ''Go back for n
few more centuries and then come in
aud see II you can agree. see IL you can
render some verdict" Now, there is not
the mesnest prisoner in the Tombs court
who would DO condemned by jury that
could not agree. and yet you expect Us
TO renounce our glorious Christianity
for such miserable verdict as these
men have rendered. they themselves not
having been able 20 agree.
WEAK COMMANDMENT.
But my subject shall no longer DO de-
fensivs; it must be aggressive. / must
show you that instead Of Christianity
falling back 10 Is on the march, and
that the coming religion of the worlds to
be the religion OF the Lord Jesus Christ
10000 times intensified. IL Is to take
possession Of everything-of AL laws, all
manners, all customs, all cities, all ma
tons. Il is going 10 be so mighty as
compared with what it has been. so
much more mighty that it viii seem
almost like a new religion.
adopt this theory because Christian
ity has gone on straight ahead notwith-
standing al the bombardment, and in
fidelity has not destroyed n church, or
crippled a. minister, or rooted out one
verse Of the Bible. and now their am
munition seems TO be pretty much ex-
hausted. They cannot get anything new
against Christianity, and If Christianity
has gone on under the bombardment OF
centuries and still continues 10 advance
may we not conclude that. Is the powder
and shot of the other side seem TO be ex-
hausted. Christianity is going on with
more rapid strides
/ find an encouraging fact in tho
thought that the secular press in this
day and the pulpit seem harnessed in
the same team for the proclamation Of
the gospel. Tomorrow there willnot be
q banker on Wall street or State street
or Third street who will not have In his
pocket OF on bis table treatises ON Chris
tianity. calls 10 repentance and Scripture
passages, 20 or 80 Of them, in the re-
ports OF the Christian churches Of this
city ami other cities. Why, that thing
would have been impossible few years
ago. Now on Monday morning and
Monday evening the secular press
spreads abroad more religious truth than
all the tract societies Of the country
spread in the other six days. Blessed
DO the tract societies! We hail them,
and we hail these others.
say 10 would have been impossible a
few years ago. Hundreds Of letters
would have come TO the secular news
paper Offices. saying. stop my paper;
we have religion on Sunday; don't give
US any through the week. Stop my
paper" But have been told that many
Of the secular papers have their largest
circulation ON Monday morning, and the
whole population Of this country are be-
coming sermon readers. Besides that,
have Won not noticed the papers pro-
claiming themselves secular almost every
week have religious discussions in themi
dc beck few years when there was
not decent paper ia the United States
that mad not discussion on the doctrine
Of eternal punishment Snail wits made
merry. know. but there was not an in
tsliigent man in toe United States that
a. result OF that controversy In regard
81 eternal punishment did not ssk him.
self the question. What IL 70 be my
eternal destinyY' And some years ago
when Tyndall offered his prayer gauge
there was rot secular paper In tho
United States that did not discuss tho
question:: Does God ever answer prayerf
May the creature impress the CREATOR
Are not all these facts encouraging %
every Christian and evrry phalsnthropistp
Besides that. the risng generation are
being saturated with gospel truth a. no
other generation by this International