The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11

VI.
fidelity has not vet destroyed church
or crippled a minister. or rooted out one
verse of the Bible and now their ammu-
milton seems 20 be pretty much exhaust
ed. They cannot get anything new
against Christianity and If Christianity
. has gone on under the Dombardment of
centuries and still continues TO advance,
may we not conclude that as the powder
and shot of the other side seem 10 be eX-
/ hausted Christianity is going on with
/ more rapid strides
find. an encourap1nr fact in the thought
/ that the secular press in this day and the
pulpit seem haTntssed in the same team
/ for the proclamation of the gospel. To-
morrow there win not be banker on
/ Wan street, or State street, or Third
/ street. who will not have in his pocket or
I on his table trCatises on Christianity,
/ calls to repentance and scripture passages.
/ twenty or thirty OF them, IN the reports
OF the CHRISTIAN churcnes OF thls Guy ana
oIher cllles' why IhaI Ihlng "ouIu nave
/ been impossible few years ago. Now,
/ on Monday morning and Monday eyen<g,
/ the secular press spreads abroad more re-
/ liglOus truth than all the tract societies
[ OF the country spread in the other SIX
/ GAYS. BLESSED ne the JraGI socle.ies. we
/ nan tLeLl' anu we nan IHe9e vOAci 3
/ say IL would nave Deeh liLpossIole d IeE
D
| have come TO the secular newspaper OF
! fees, saying stop nv paper; we have
religion on Sunday; don't give US any
/ through the week Stop my paper. But
! l nave been told that many
| of the secular papers have
! their largest circulation on Monday
/ morning, and the whole population OF THIS
/ country are becoming sermon readers.
| Besides that, have you not nouced that
]
! Amos every week nave reIglouS DISCUS
sion IN Ihen,
/ Go back few years, when there was
/ not decent paper IN the United states
! that had not discussion on the doctrine
/ Of eternal punishment. Small wits made
/ merry Know out Ghere was hoI an IN
UeIilgenJ man IN the ChlUed states IhdS dS
IesuII Oh tudt cohyt9N etsS III IeE9I 1870 70
! eternal punishment ulu not ask hIinseI
/ the question, what is TO be my eternal
! destiny and some years ago, When
| Tyndau offered his prayer gauge, there
was not secular paper in the United
| States that did not discuss the question:
| Does God ever answer prayer May
/ the creature impress the Creator;' Are
not all these facts encouraging to every
| Christian and every philanthrOpist2 Be
| sides that. the rising generation are be-
! ing saturated with GOSPEL truth as no
series of Sunday school lessons. For
mellv the children were expected only to
nibbie at the little scripture stories, but
now they are taken from Genesis to Rev
| Citations the strongest minds of the eoun-
/ try explaining the lessons to the teachers,
and the teachers explaining them TO the
| classes; and we are going TO have in this
country five million youth forestalled for
/ Christianity. Hear It'll Hear il
| YOU have talked on these great themes
| that they are finding ont that while
! science is grand in secular directions
worldly philosophy grand in secular
directions, they cannot give any comfort
/ to a soul in trouble.
Talking with men on steamboats, and in
rail-cars. / find they are coming back to
the comfort of the Gospel They say:
! Somehow human science don't comfort
me when have any trouble and | must
try something else and they are irving
/ the GOspal Take yOur scientific consola-
ton to that mother who has lust lost her
child Apnlv the doctrine Of the "Suryi-
| val of the kIttest." tell her that her child
died because its life was not worth as
much as The life of one that lived. Try
thar if Won dare co tn that DIVING man
with your trapscendental phraseology,
and tell him he ought to have confidence
in the great "to be, - and the everlasting
"now." and the eternal what is it," and
go on with your consolation and see if he
| is COmfOrted
Co to that woman who has lost her
husband and ten hcr If was . e,eolopicaI
NECESSITY, tha+ that man nassed ont of ey-
ietonre INST as tho megatherium risan-
neared in order In make room for a
biCbe,, stt'Ie Of creation and on IN Win
Iour consolation and toI1 nor that there
Is a nossibilitv mat ton million Years
from nov we ourselves may he peolou-
irai snerimens an the geoIoairal shelf
nctrifrd snnrimens Of Inc extinct human
raceI And aftor Won have pot ali
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vIlouEa WIN Soui oUi9oI"C.ou' II Cn'
Pooi IllICCNH ooui - nv 80 ~ ~
from nv church, and with one-half hour
of prayer and the reading of Scripture
promises. the tears will be STAYED and
the consolation and joy in all that house
will be like the calmness of an Indian sum
mer sunset. There will be a glory flooding
the house from floor to cupola. on
people are finding out themselves and
they all have troubles-the find that
philosophy and science DO not help them
when there is dead babe in the house.
They are coming back to our glorious old.
fashioned sympathetic religion.
oh vonng mani ID not ha asbomed r.
no fonnd on the side Of the Rihle no
| NOT ioip those ,-oun,r mon who i, tl,is do,