Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-20

faults in them The French metrE
system has wrong calculations Talk
about exact sciences, They are mex.
act. As FAR as with my little knowl-
edge l have been able to explore, the
only exact science is Christianity.
There is nothing under which you cau
appropriately write. Quad erat dem
onstradum"
Gentlemen OF the jury have you
agreed upon your veruict7' the court
or the clerl, says TO the jury, having
been out all night. on coming in.
Have you agreed on your verdict?'
II they say YES, the verdict is taken
and recorded. II they say, "No, We
have not agreed" they are sent back ia
the jury-room. II one juryman should
say. II think the man is guilty of muir
der" and another juryman should say.
Il think hc is guilty OF manslaughter,"
and another juryman should say, Il
think he is guilty of assault and bat
terry with intent to kill" the judge
would lose his patience and say. go
back to your room now, and make up
verdict; agree on something"
Well, my friends. there has been a
great trial going on for centuries and
for ages between sl5epticism, the plain
tiff, 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: Gentle,
men OF the jury, have you agreed upon
a verdict" They say: No, we have
not agreed" Then we say: $50 bach
for few more centuries, and then come
in and see If you can agree. see If you
can render some verdict" Now, there
is Lot the meanest prisoner in the
fombs court who would tie condemned
by jury that could not agree. And
yet you expect ms 20 renounce our glori-
Gus Christianity for such 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 20 be the religion of the Lord
Jesus Christ ten thousand times inten-
sihed. II is TO take possession of every.
thing-of all laws, all manners all Gus
toms, all cities all nations. II Is go,
ing to be so mighty as compared with
what IL has been, so much more mighty,
that IL Will seem almost like a new re
ligion.
adopt this theory because Christian
ity has gone on straight ahead not
withstanding all the bombardment;
and intidelity has not destroyed a
church or crippled minister, or rooted
out one verse of the Bible, and now
their ammunition seems to be pretty
much exhausted. They can not get
anything new against Christianity, and
II Christianity has gone on under the
oombardment OF centuries and still con.
tinues to advance, may we not conclude
that, as the powder and shot of the
other side seem to be exhausted. Chris.
tianity is going on with more rapid
stride?
find ar encouraging fact in the
thought that the secular press in this
day and the pulpit seem hrncssed 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 win not
have in his pocket or on his table
treatises on Christianity, calls to re.
pentance and Scripture passages.
twenty or thirty of them in the re-
ports OF the Christian churches of this
city and other cities WY. 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 coun-
try spread in the other six DAYS.
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
newspaper Offices, saying: "Stop nv
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 circulations on Monday
morning and the whole population OF
this country are becoming sermon read
ers Besides that have you not noticed
that papers proclaiming themselves sec
ular almost every week have religious
discussions in them?
Go back a few years. when there was
not decent paper in the United States
that had not discussion on the dec.
trine Of eternal punishment Small
wits made merry. / know. but there
was not an intelligent man in the
United states that as result. of that
controversy In regard TO eternal pun
ishment did not ask himself the cues.
ton, What is 90 be my eternal des.
tinyf' And so some years ago, when
Iyndall offered his prayer Ruage, there
was not secular paper in the United
states that did not discuss the cues.
tion, Does God ever answer praver2
May the creature impress the Crestor?r
Are not all these facts encouraging TO
every Christian and every philanthro.
piat3 Besides that, the rising genera.
tion are being saturated with GOSPEL
truth ns no other generation, by this
international series % fundav-school
lessons
Formerly the childrou were expected
only to nibblc az tho gtle infantue
Scripture stories but low they are
taken from Genesis % favclation the
strongest minds Of THE ccr lutrv cvpiaiu.
ing the lessons to ODD, hers. ana tina
tcuchors explaining tnrr. io The classes.
nnd "c Orc roin to bow, in this coun.
try 5000. I11 youth forest. lied for Chris.
tIauity Hear ir Hear o..
I'os.lcs that fou must have noticed
10 you hlvc talked ON these great
themes tnat they are finding out chat
r..