The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-09-15

DO they agree in science2 Have they
come mp with solid front TO assault our
glorious Christianity?
Even mathema ticians do not agree.
Taylor's Logarithms are found 20 have
faults in them. The French metric
system has wrong calculations. Talk
about exact sciences. They arc mex.
act. AS far ms with my little knowl
edge have been able to explore, tho
only exact science Is Christianity.
There is nothing under which you car
appropriately write, Quad erat dem
onstradum."
Gentlemen Of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict9" the court
or the clerk says to the jury, having
been out all night, on coming in.
Have you agreed ON your verdict"
IL they say yes, the verdict Is taken
and recorded II they say, 'No, we
have not agreed" they are sent back TO
the jury-room. IL one juryman should
say, think the man Is guilty of muir.
der and another juryman should say,
II think he Is guilty of mansIaughter,"
and another juryman should say, II
think he Is guilty OF assault and bat
terry with. invent 10 HsSk,s.-ssseA 1922
would lose his patience and say, Go
back TO your room now, and make up
o verdict; agree on something"
Well, my friends, there has been O
great trial going on for centuries and
for ages between skepticism, the plain
tiff, versus Christianity, the defendant
The scientists have been impancled and
sworn on the jury. They have been
gone for centuries, some of them, and
they come back, and we say; Gentle
men of the jury, have you agreed upon
a verdict" They say: mo, we have
not agreed" Then we say: go back
for few more centuries and then come
in and see II you can agree, see IL you
can render some verdict Now, there
is hot the meanest prisoner in the
Tombs court who would be condemned
by jury that could not agree. And
yet you expect us to renounce our glori.
Gus Christianity for such n miserable
verdict as these men have rendered,
they themselves not having been able
TO agree.
But my subject shall no longer be
defensive; IT must be aggressive /
must show you that instead of Chris
tianity falling back, it is on the march
and that the coming religion of the
world is TO be the religion of the Lord
Jesus Christ ten thousand times inten-
sified II is TO take possession of every
thing-of all laws, all manners, all GUS
toms, all cities, all nations. 1t is 60
ing To be so mighty as compared with
what it has been, so much more mighty,
that it will seem almost like "a new re-
ligion.
/ adopt this theory because Christian
ity has gone on straight ahead not
and infdelity has not destroyed
church or crippled a minister, or rooted
out one verse of the Bible, and now
their ammunition seems to be pretty
much exhausteds They can not get
new against Christianity, and
IL Christianity has gone on under the
of eenturies and still con-
tinues to advapee, may we not conclude
that. us the Pcwder and shot of the
other side seam to be exhausted. Chris
tianity is going on with more rapid
| find an encouraging fact in the
thought that the secular press in this
lay and the pulpit seem harnessed in
The same team for the proclamation of
he Gospel Tomorrow there will not
DC banker on Wall street, or State
treet, or Third street, who will not
ave in his pocket or on his table
reatises on Christianity, calls to re-
enhance and Scripture passages,
wenty or thirty of them, in the re-
orts of the Christian churches of this
ity and other cities Whv,r that thing
'ould have been impossible few
ears ago Now, on Monday morning
nd Monday evening, the secular press
breads abroad more religious truth
ian all the tract societies of the coun-
y spread in the other six DAYS.
lessed be the tract societies! We hail
lem, and we hail these others.
say it would have been impossible
few years ago. Hundreds of lettera
ould have come TO the secular
ewspaper offices, saying: "Stop my
lper; we have religion on Sunday;
mt give us any through the week.
Up iiN paper bul nave Dcen IOli
at many of the secular papers have
eir largest circulations on Monday
orning, and the whole population of
is country are becoming sermon read
5. Besides that, have you not noticed
at papers proclaiming themselves sec
ar almost every week have religious
in them?
Go back few years, when there was
IT decent paper in the United States
at had not discussion on the doc.
inc of eternal punishment. Small
its made merry, know; but there
as not an intelligent man in the
nited States that, as a result of that
ntroversy in regard 10 eternal pun
lment, did not ask himself the ques.
IN, What is to be my eternal DIES.
n.y." And SO some years ago, when
'ndall offered his prayer guage, there
rs not secular paper in the United
ates' that did not discuss the ques.
IN, Does God ever answer prayer?
ay the creature impress the Creator?"
e not all these facts encouraging to
cry Christian and every philanthro-
st? Besides that, the rising genera.
On are being saturated with Gospel
nth as no other generation, by this
ternational series of Sunday-schoo!
ssons.
Formerly the children were expected
lily to nibble at the little infantile
rupture stories, but now they are
ken from Genesis To Revelation, the
rongest minds of the country explain.
2 the lessons to the teachers, and the
achers explaining them TO the classes;
ID we are going to have in this coun.
Y 5, 900, 900 youth forestalled for Chris.
unity. Hear il! Hear IT,
Besides that, You must have noticed,
you have talked on these great
emes that they are finding out that
iile science is grand in secular direc-
ms, worldly philosophy grand in sec.
ar directions, they can not give any
mfort To a soul in trouble
PROF BARNARD. Of the Lick observa
~ who has just returned to Califor
q after vacation in Europe, salI
lt one thing he learned abroad was
At American astronomers and inStru.
mt makers are fully able TO take
re of themselves. Some instruments
our manufacture are perhaps not Sc