Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-13


say perhaps they might make some i'm
preston, but they do not agree. Dar-
win charges upon Lamarck, Wallace
upon Cope. Herschel even charged up
on Ferguson. They do not agree about
the graduation of the species; they do not
agree about embryology. What do they
agree aboutp
Herschel wrote a whole chapter on
what he calls Errors In Astronomy"
La Place says that the moon was not
put in the right place; that if it had been
put four times the distance from our
world there would have been more har-
mony in the universe. But Lionville
comes up just in time to prove that the
Lord was wise and put the moon in the
right place. How many colors woven
into the light2 Seven, says Newton.
Three, says David Brewster. How high
is the aurora borealisH Two and half
miles high, says Lias. One hundred and
sixty-f miles, says Twinigf How far
is the sun from the earth2 Seventy-six
million miles, says Lacaille; $4,000, 900
miles, says Humboldt; 10000, 900 miles,
says Henderson; 104 ,000, 900 miles, says
Mayer. Only little difference of 49,
600, 900 milesl These men say we do
not agree in religion. Do they agree in
sciencep Have they come up with solid
front to assault our glorious Christian
ity?
Even mathematicians do not agree.
Taylor's logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metric
system has wrong calculations. Talk
about exact sciencesi They are inexact.
AS far as with my little knowledge
have been able to explore, the only ex-
act science is Christianity. There is
nothing under which you can so appro-
priately write, "Quod erat demonstran-
dunn"
Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdictS" the court or
the clerk says to the jury, having been
out all night, on coming in. "Have You
agreed on your verdict" If they say
yes, the verdict is taken and recorded.
If they say, mo, we have not agreed"
they are sent back to the jury room. If
one juryman should say, II think the
man is guilty of murder" and another
juryman should say, II think he is guilty
of manslaughter, and another juryman
should say, II think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent to kill"
the Judge would lose his patience and
say, $50 back to your room now and
make up a verdict. Agree on some
thing"
Well, my friends, there has been
great trial going on for centuries and for
ages between Skepticism, the plaintiff,
versus Christianity, the defendant. The
scientists have been impaneled and
sworn on the jury. They have been gone
for centuries, some of them, and they
come back, and we say, "Gentlemen of
the jury, have you agreed upon ver-
dictY" They say, mo, we have not
agreed" Then we say, "Go back for
few more centuries and then come in
and see if You can agree, see if you can
render some verdict" Now, there is not
the meanest prisoner in the Tombs court
who would he condemned by jury that
could not agree, and yet you expect us
to renounce our glorious Christianity
for such a miserable verdict as these
men have rendered, they themselves not
having been able to agree.
A WEAK COMMANDMENT.
But my subject shall no longer be de-
fensive; it must be aggressive. must
show you that instead of Christianity
falling back it is ON the march, and
that the coming religion of the worlds to
be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ
10000 times intensified. 1t is to take
possession of everything-of all laws, all
manners, all customs, all cities, all na-
tions. 1t is going to be SO mighty as
compared with what it has been. 30
much more mighty that 1t will seem
almost like new religion.
l adopt this theory because Christian
ity has gone on straight ahead notwith-
standing all the bombardment, and in
fidelity has not destroyed church, or
crippled a minister, or rooted out one
verse of the Bible. and now their ATM
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 TO advance
may we not conclude that, as 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 the
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 will not be
a banker on Wall street or State street
or Third street who will not have In his
pocket or on his 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 and 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
be the tract societiesl We hail them.
and we hail these others.
say it would have been impossible a
few years ago. Hundreds Of letters
would have come TO the secular news
paper ofices, saying, Stop my paper;