Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-16

says Henderson; l04, U00, 900 miles, says
Mayer. Only little difference of 29,-
100000 miles! These men say we do
not agree In religion. Do they agree in
science2 Have they come up with solid
front to assault our glorious Christian
ity?
Even mathematician do not agree.
Taylor's logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metric
system has wrong calculations Talk
about exact sciencesl They are inexact.
AS far as with my little knowledgeI
have been able to explore, the only ex-
act science is Christianity. There is
nothing under which you can so appro-
priately write. "Quod erat denonstran-
| dunn"
Gentlemen of the Jury, have you
agreed upon your verdicty' the court or
the clerk says TO the jury, having been
out all night, on coming in. "Have you
agreed on your verdictT If they say
yes, the verdict is taken and recorded.
II they say, mo, wo llaye not agreed"
they are sent back to the jury room. If
one juryman should say, II think the
man is guilty OF murder and another
juryman should say, II think he is guilty
of manslauyhter, and another juryman
j should say, ~ think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent to kill
the judge would lose his patience and
say, "Go back to your room now>and
make up q verdict. Agree on some
thing"
Well, my friends. there has been 8
great trial going on for centuries and for
ages between Skerticism, the plaintiff,
versus Christianity, the defendant. The
scientists have been impaneled and
sw orn on the jury. They have been gone
for centuries. some Of thom, and they
come back. and We say, Gentlemen of
the jury, have you agreed upon YER
dict" They say, mo. We have not
agreed" Then ne say, go back for a
few more centuries and then come in
and see il you can agree, see if you can
render some verdict" Now, there is not
the meanest prisoner in the Tombs court
who would be condemned by a jury that
could not agree, and yet yop expect us
to, renounce our glorious Christianity
for such miserable verdict as these
men have rendered, they themselves not
having been able to agree.
WEAK COMMANDMENT.
But my subject shall no longer be de-
fensiye; it.must be aggressive. must
show you that instead of Christianity
falling back it is on the march, and
that the coming religion Of the worlds 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, ell ma
lions. 1t is going to be so mighty as
compared with what it has been, SO
much more mighty that it will seem
almost like q new religion.
| Iadopt this theory because Christian
ity has gone on straight ahead notwith-
standing all the bolnbardment, and in
fidelity has not destroyed achuych, or
crippled minister, or rooted out one
verse Of the Bible. and now their am
munition seems to be pretty much ex-
hausted. They cannot get anything new.
against Christianity, and Christianity
.haszgone onsunder the bombardment OF
Centuries and still continues to advance
may we not conclude that, as the powder
and shot of the other side seem to be ex-
hausted, Christianity is going on with
more rapid stride3
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
a banker on Wall street or State street
or Third street who will not have in his
pocket or on his table treatises on Chris
! tianity, calls to repentance and Scripture
passages, 90 or 80 of them, IN the re-
ports 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
Monday 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 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, saying, 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 papers have their largest
circulation on Monday morning, and the
| whole population of this country are be-
fcoming sermon readers. Besides that,
have you not noticed the papers pro-
claiming themselves secular almost every
week have religious discussions in them2
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, but there was not an In
telligent man in the United States that
! as result OF that controversy in regard
to eternal punishment did not ask him.
self the question. What is to be my
eternal Destiny And some years ago
| when Tyndall offered his prayer gauge
there was not secular paper IN the
United States that did MT diS:us the
question. docs God ever atlawer prayer?
May the creature impress the Creator"
Are not all these facts encouraging to
every Christian and every phlanthropist?
Besides that, the rising generation ore
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 infantiie Scripture stories,
but now they are taken from Genesis to
Revelation, the strongest minds OF the
country explaining the lessons to the
teachers, and the teachers explaining
them to the classes, and We are going to