The Baptist headlight., 1893-10-01

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 wonld have been more
harmony in the universe. But Lion
vile 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 light? Seven, says
Newton. Three, says David Brewster.
How high is the aurora bOrealis? Two
and half miles high, says Lias. One
hundred and sixty-tive miles, says Twi-
mig. How far is the sun from the earth?
Seventy-siX million miles, says La
caille: 82,000,000 miles. says Humboldt;
$4,000. 900 miles. says Henderson,: 104,-
difference of 2S,000.000 miles. These
men say we do not agree in religion.
Do they agree in science? Have they
come up with solid front to assault our
glorious Christianity?
Encouraging Thoughts.
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, 10000 times intensified.
1t is to take possession of everything
of all laws, all manners. all customs,
all cities, all nations. 1t is going to be
SO mighty as compared with what it
has been-sO much more mighty-that
it will seem almost like a new religion.
[ adopt this theory because Christi
anity has gone on straight ahead not
withstanding all the bOmbardment,
and infdelity has not destroyed
church OF crippled minister or rooted
out one verse of the Bible, and now
their ammunition seems to be pretty
much exhausted. They cannot get
anything new against Christianity,
and if Christianity has gone
on under the bonn mbardment of
centuries and still continues to ad-
vance may we not conclude that, as
the powder and shot of the other side
seem to be exhausted, Christianity is
going on with more rapid stride?
[ 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 banker on Wall street or State
street or Third street who will not
have in his pocket or on his table
treatises on Christianity, calls to re-
pentance and Scripture passages,
twenty or thirty of them, N the reports
of the Christian churches of this city
and other cities. Why, that thing
would have been impossible a few years
ago. Now, on Monday morning and
Monday evening, the secular press
H., nh iCri0 l,
than all the tract societies of the cOun-
Blessed be the tract societies! We
hail them, and we hail these others.
| say it would have been impossible
few years ago. Hundreds OF letters
would have come to the secular news
paper Offices: 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 newspapers have
their largest circulation on Monday
morning, and the whole population of
this country are becoming sermon
readers. Besides that, have you not
noticed that papers prOclaiming them
selves secular almost every week have
religious discussion in them?
Go back few years when there was
not decent paper in the United States
that had rot discussion on the doc
trine of eternal punishment. Small
wits made merry, | know, but there
was not an intelligent man in the
United States that as a result of con-
troversy in regard to eternal punish
ment did not ask himself the question,
"What is to be my eternel destiny"
And so some years ago, when Tyndall
offered his prayer gauge, there was
not secular paperin the United States
that did not discuss the question::
"DOes God ever answer prayer? May
the creature impress the CREATOR"
Are not these facts encouraging to
every Christian and every philanthropy
ist? Besides that the rising genera
tion are being saturated with Gospel
truth as no other generation by this
international series of Sunday-school
lessons. Formerly the children were
expected only to nibble at the little in
fantile Scripture stories, but now they
are taken from Genesis to Revelation,
the strongest minds of the country eX-
planning the lessons 10 the teachers,
and the teachers explaining them to
the classes. and we are going to have
in this country 100000 youth fore
stalled for Christianity. Hear it.
Hear il
Besides that, you must have noticed,
if you have talked on these great
themes, that they are finding out that
while science is grand in secular di-
rections, worldly philosophy grand in
secular directions, they cannot give
any comfort to a soul in trouble.
Go TO that woman who has lost her
husband and tell her it was geological
nece ssity that that.man passed out of
existence just as the megatnerium dis
appears in order to make room for
higher style of creation, and goOn with
vnnr consolation and tel her that there