Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-11

and the Pulpit.
BROOKLYN, Sept 1o.--This forenoon Rev.
4. D. witt falmags preached TO a
thronged audience In the Brooklyn Taber-
nanle. The keynote Of the service was one
OF Rladness. Many OF the audience had been
absent during the summer and had re-
turned for this service The pastor com
nented on passages OF Scripture depicting
the morning Of the worlds dellverance.
The subject OF the sermon was, The Bat
tie Ours" the text being ! Kings *, 81,
"And the children OF Israel pitched before
them like two little fiocks Of kids"
With eS kings drunk in ono tent this
chapter opens They were allies plotting
Tor the overthrow Of the Lords Israel You
know that II lion roar flock Of kids
will SILVER and huddle together. One lou
could conquer thousand kids The bat
lie opens There are great multituds Of
Byrinns under General Ben-hadAd, strong
ls lions The Isrnelites arc few and weak,
Ike two little hocks OF kids Who beati
The lion, OF course. Oh. no. the kids, for
Il all depends whether God IL on the side OF
The Hons or tho kids After the battle i00.-
BOO Syrlans lay dead on the field, and q, 900.
attempting to fiy. came along by a great
wall, which topplcd and crushed them to
death.
Which was tho stronger wenpon-grcat
GollAthis sword or little Dayid's slingf
David had Eve smooth stones from tho
brook. He only used ono In striking down
Goliath. lie had q surplus Of ammunition;
he had enough TO take down four more
giants II they had appeared in the way. 1t
oil depends upon whether God II on the
sido Of the shepherd boy or on the side OF
the giant
There have been many IN our day who
have vcntured the opinion that Christian.
lily Is falling back, and that in 80 years 1t
will be extinct. They found their opinion
on tho assumed fact that the Bible is not
~ much Of book as II used to be, aud
that portions OF II arc repulsiye 10 the peo-
pie. / reply by asking which one Of tho
publishing houses Of New York, philadel-
phia, Boston or Chicago is Publishing the
Bible today with the omission OF single
verse or chapteri Arc not our publishers
Intelligent meni And would they, con-
trary 10 their financial interests, continue
20 publish tho Bible without the omission
Of single chapter or u single verse II It
were becoming m unpopular book and the
people did not want ~
II Harpers or Appleton or Scribner or
IippinGtt should publish n Bible with the
omission OF one chapter, they would not
sell 10 copies in 10 years The fact that
Throughout Chri8tendom there are hun.
dredS ofprinting presses printing the word
of God without the omission OF n chapter
or veue proves that the Bible Is popular,
and tho fact that there are more being
printed In this decade than any other de-
eade proves that the Bible Is increasing in
popularity.
a POPULAR BOOK.
20 through the oourtrooms OF the coun-
try. Wherever find judges bench or u
clerks desk find the Bible BY what
other book would they take solemn oathi
What is very apt 10 DO among the brides
presentSi Tho Bible What is very apt to
bc put In the trunk OF the young man when
he starts for city lifei The Bible. Vol.
tnirp predicted that tho Bible during tho
nineteenth century would become an obso-
lrte book. Well, We are pretty nearly
through the nineteenth century, tho Bible
IL not obsolete got. There Is not much
prospect Of its becoming obsolete, but
hays 70 tell you that that rnom--the very
room 10 which Voltalre wrote that predic.
ti1n-totne tine ago was crowded from
floor to ceiling with Bibles Tor Switzcr.
land. Suppose tho congress OF the United
StlltoI should pass law that no Bibles
should be printed IN the United States.
II there np 9o.ooo,ooo grown men and
women In tho country. then there would be
b000O0OO people armed against Bucha law.
But suppose the congreSs OF the United
staiel should paaa law that Macaulay',
history VI Charles Roado's novels should
not bs read. Could you yet half us larR,
nn army or the fourth a. large an army
In other words, therc are, rs you know and
know, athousand men who would die foi
their Bibles where there are 10 men VIII,
would die for any other book. The fao
that there nrs now more Bibles being print
cd than ever before, that publishers find 4
financial interest forthem to continue u,
publication OF the Bible proves that till
book isstill tho most popular book on tn
planet
But" say those who are Rntagouistlc
christianity " falling back, from the fac
that tho church II not rs much respected n
81 used TO be and N not us influential"
reply to that with tho statlstie that one de
nomination tho Methodist church
cording to statistic given INC by one o
their bishops. dcdieates on an average
new church every day Of the year. Tire
hundred ind aixty.nye new churches In ON
determination In year. and over thou
aAnd new churches built every year In thi
country Does that look as though th
church were failing In It's power and wer
becoming vornout inEtitntionl Aroun
which institution Ia our communities gath
or the most arisut nfrectionsi--tho post
Office, the hotel, the courthouse, the cit
hail or the ohurchesi
Why, when our old Tabernacle was burr
ing there were hundreds Of men stAndin
In the strceta who mover went TO churcl
tears raining down their checks 1t Ia b,
cause the church Of God atnnds nearer th
rympathles OF the American people tina
any other institution. Men may csricatur
the church and call It collection OF hyp,
critics, but when their children arc swrr
on with the diphtheria for whom do the
sendf To the postmaster, to tho attorne
general. 70 the aldermen or To the pastor
OF the churchesp And II there DO not ROOF
for the obsequies In the private hous
what building do they soliciti The acat
smy Of music, the hotel, public hall, eour
housef No; the churches And II the
want music on tho sad occasion d
they select the "MarselllAisen hymn. ,
God Save the Queen" or our own gran
national airi No; they want the old hym
with which we sang their old Christia
mother 70 sleep. They want the sunds
school hymn that their little girl sang Il
last Sabbath afternoon abe was out befo
abe was seized with this awful sickness thi
hruke fut bofta heart aud tnnfharf. 400.