The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-13

the right place; til" -, ''au zen put |
four sir1es the di. nee 'rc'nr 'vorl@. |
the.~ ~Wild hav aen ior- @armony |
In - universe. " iceV.2c cones
ny, ji's' ~ time pru tpdt 'he Iiord
wa7 -s' and tne oon N tho light |
~, .ow =" ~. 81 y'1cert~ Into
HtF y rs sa,4 Newton. Three,
saw rid TER Nov airh is the
~ Dor - Nv erd . bnd miles
b. say - 5~e hundred and
81 I'VE snys Twiat,e. How
th .''., "c;'f hP Seventy
= lion .ail : e. iilc: eighty.
two million miles, -. Humboldt;
ninety million miles, sitys Henderson;
one hundred and four million miles,
says Mayer. Only little difference Of
twenty-eight million miles! These
men say we do not agree in religion.
Do they agree in scienceP Have they
come'u up with solid front to assault our
glorious Christianity?
Even mathematicians do not agree.
Taylor's Logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metric
system has wrong calculations. Talk
about exact sciences They are mex
act. : As far as with my little knowl-
edge have been able to explore, the
only exact science Is Christianity.
There is nothing under which you can
so appropriately write, "Quod erat
demonstrandum." "a
"Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict?" the court
or the clerk says to the jury, having
been out all night, on coming in. Have
you agreed on your verdict?' If they
say yes, the verdict is taken and re-
corded. II they say, mo, we have not
agreed" they are sent back to the jury
room. II one juryman should say, 81
think the man is guilty of murder"
and another juryman shou Id say, 81
think he guilty of manslaug hter," and
another juryman should say, 81 think
he is guilty of assault and battery with
intent to KILL" the judge would lose
his patience and say, 60 back to YOU
room now and make up verdict; agree
on something"
Well, my friends, there has been {
great trial going on for centuries an'
for ages, between Skepticism, tn
plaintiff, versus Christ ianity, the de
fendant. The scientists have been i'm
paneled and sworn on the jury. The,
have been gone for centuries, some O
of them, and they come back, and W
say: Gentlemen of the jury, have yo
agreed upon a verdict?" They say
mo, we have not agreed" Then W
say: "Go back for a few more cer
turtles, and then come in and see If yo
can render some verdict" Now, ther
, is not the meanest prisoner in tn
7 Tombs court who would be condemIs7
, by Jury that could not agree, and "
you expect us to renounce our glorio'
:. Christianity for such a miserable We
r dict as these men have rendered, the
S themselves not having been able
agree.
+ But my subject shall no longer
}, defensive; it must be aggressive.
y must show you that instead of Chri
: tianity falling back. it is on the marc
c and that the coming religion OF tl
e world is to be the religion of the Lo
: Jesus Christ ten thousand times int
/ sified. 1t is to take possession OF ever
!. thing-of all laws, all mariners,
o customs, all cities, all nations. 1t
going to be so mighty as compar
It with what IL has been, so much mo
d mighty that IL will seem almost like
n new religion.
a | adopt this theory because Chr
t. tianity has gone on straight abe
If notwithstanding all the bombardmcl
If and infidelity has not destroyed
s. church, or crippled min lister, or root
If out one verse OF the Riblc, and nt
q their ammunition seems to c prct
10 much exhausted. They cannot get ar
c. thing new against Christianity; nnd
Christianity has gone on under
IL bombardment of cen turtles and a
i'd continues TO advance, may we not GO
r clude that as the powder and shot
IN the other side seem TO be exhaust,
is Christianity is going on with mt
IL rapid stride.
C. / find an encourag ing fact in
III thought that the secular press in I
n day and the pulpit seem harnessed
err the same team for the proclamation
sy the gospel. Tomorrow there will
On be a banker on Wall street or 81
as street or Third street who will l
IT'S have in his pocket or on his Ia
ar treatises on Christianity, calls to
ty pentance and Scripture passag
Ise twenty or thirty of them, in the repo
ch of the Christian churches of this c
ro- and other cities. Why, that tn
nd would have been impossible II
ar, years ago. Now, on Monday morn
lp- and Monday evening, the secular pr
~ spreads abroad more religious tr-
than all the tract societies of the co
'ry try spread in the other six da
be Blessed be the tract societiesl We
mt them, and we hail these others. /
g. Il would have been impossible n
len years ago. Hundreds OF letters wo
eet haye come TO the secular newspa
lys Offices, saying: stop my paper;
ice have religion on Sunday; don't giv'
pit any through the week. Stop
ich paper" But / have been told I
n," many OF the secular papers have Il
hat largest circulation on Monday mt
'ho ing, and the whole population
as this country are becoming