Milford chronicle., 1893-09-15

SEEM almost ike q new religion.
adopt this theory because Christianitl
has gone on straight ahead notwithstand
ing all the bombardment, and infidelitl
has not destroyed a church or crippled
minister or rooted out one verse of the Bi
bic, and now their ammunition seems TO bt
pretty much exhausted. They cannot gei
anything new against Christianity, and il
Christianity has gone on under the BON
bardment of centuries and still continues
to advance 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 strideP
l find an encouraging fact in the thought
that the secular press in this day and the
pulpit seem harnessed ia tae same team for
the proclamation of the asDel. Tomorrow
there will not be bans on Wall street or
State street or Third s;isct who will not
have in his pocket or ca l..s table treatises
on Christianity, calls ID repentance and
Scripture passages, - o. 20 of them, in the
reports Of the Christian churches of this
city and other cities. Why, that thing
would have been impossible few years
ago. Now, on Monday morning and Mon
day evening, the secular press spreads
abroad more religious truth than all the
tract societies of the country spread in the
other six days. Blessed be the tract socie-
tiesl We hail them, and we hail these
others.
/ say it would have been impossible a
few years ago. Hundreds Of letters would
have come tothe secular newspaper offices:
Stop my paper. We have religion on Sun
day. 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 pro-
claiming themselves secular almost every
week have religious discussion in them?
Go back a few years, when there was not
a decent paper in the United States that
had not a dIscussion on the doctrine Of
eternal punishment. Small wits made
merry, know, but there was not an intel
ligent man in the United States that as a
result of controversy in regard to eternal
punishment did not ask himself the ques-
tion, What is to be my eternal destinys"
And so some years ago, when Tyndall
offered his prayer gauge, there was not a
secular paper in the United States that did
not discuss the question: "Does God ever
answer prayers May the creature impress
the Creator?n
Are not all these facts encouraging to ev-
cry Christian and every philanthrOpistf Be
sides that, the rising generation are being
with gospel truth as no other
generation by this international series of
Sunday school lessons Formerly the chill
dren were expected only to nibble at the
little infantile Scripture stories, but now
they are taken from Genesis to Revelation,
faa
ing the lessons TO the teachers, and the
teachers explaining them to the classes,
aud we are going to have in this country
5,000,ooo youth forestalled for Christianity.
Hear itl Hear iti
Besides that, you must have noticed if I
you have talked on these great themes that /
hey are finding out that while science IS /
grand in secular directions, worldly phi /
osophy grand in secular directions, they /
lannot give auy comfort to a soul in trou- /
Die.
Talking with men on steamboats, and in I
all cars, find they are coming back to the 4
comfort of the gospel They say, Some
low human science doesn't comfort me
when have any trouble, and 1 must try
else" And they are trying the
gospel.
Take your scientific consolation to that
mother who has just lOs5 her child Apply
he doctrine of the Survival of the Fit
ST." tell her that her child died because
IS life was not worth as much as the iifeof
ne that lived. Try that, if you dare. Go
o that dying man with your transcendent-
/ phraseology and tell him he ought to
ave confidence in the great Ito be-" and
he everlasting now" and the eternal
what is itf" and go on with your consola-
ion and see if he is comforted.
Go to that woman who has lost her hus-
and and tell her it was a geological neces-
ity that that man passed out of existence
ust as the megatherium disappears in or
er to make room for higher style Of Gre
tiOn, and go ON with your consolation and
ell her that there is a possibility that TO-
DO, 900 years from now we ourselves may be
specimens on the geological
lelf, petrifed specimens of the extinct hui
IAN racel
And after you have got all through with
our consolation, if the poor afflicted soul
not utterly crazed will send out the
lainest Christian from my church, and
18th one half hour Of prayer and the read
x of Scripture promises the tears will be
aid, and the consolation and the joy in
lat house will be like the ealmness of an
ldian summer sunset There will be a
ory flooding the house from floor to cupo-
. Oh, people are finding out themselves
and they an have troubles-they find that
lilosophy and science do not help them
hen there Is dead babe in the house. :
hey are coming back to our glorious old
shiOned sympathetic religion.
EsiANUEL's BANNERS.
Oh, young man, do not be ashamed to be
und on the side Of the Bible. Do not join
ose young men who in this day put their
umbs in their vest and swagger about
e streets and the stores, talking about the /
orious nineteenth century, about its light ]
ing sufficient without any Bible, and
thout any Christ, and without any God.
ie time is cOming-we may not live to see
o}gg oR}gs BY bi Goods rPFisea If !. We e did ID
esods designed for fall and 7isles, the v
Ileghanytisses and Children Ains the !,
Itpies l@Es' ta9 aDS SaG the small marg biab 9aP
orus unto him who was and the Ahall y
evermore. Oh, come over to n.-...,,, Mi Il
come under the banners of Emanuel. q
Vernon was the son Of an English squire :,
9 was brought up in great elegance !,
lere was man working on the place Of 4,
g name Of Ralph. Vernon used to often n
TX with Ralph. After awhile Vernon 3
ant of to college and came back with u
s mind full of skepticism. He talked q
s skepticism to Ralph, the workman. ii
tier awhile Vernon went from home n
ain, was gone for years, came back, and
nong his first questions when getting
me was, "Where is Ralphp "Oh, said
e father, Ralph is in prison waiting for
q dau If avaoittieDr, . kl
Vernon hastened to see Ralph. Ralph, n
liking through the wicket Of the prison, IN
i'd: "Vernon, how good you are to come Ia
d see mel am glad to see you. hardly Of
pected you would come and see me. Idon't Ia
anne you, don't blame anybody, only "
sme myself; but, Vernon, want you to sr
omise me onethina. Will your Vernon Il
)lied, Il will" Il want you to promise re
never to talk skepticism In the presence I'll
anybody. You see it might do them y,