Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-15

miles, says Mayer. Only little diff
ference of tweRty-eight million miles!
These men say we do not agree in re-
ligion. Do they agree in science?
Have they come 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
ineXact. AS far as with my little
knowledge | have been able to explore,
the only exact science is Christianity.
There is nothing under which you
cln so appropriately write, "Quod erat
demoastrandum."
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.
"Elave you agreed on your verdict?"
If they say yes, the verdict is taken
and recorded. If they say, mo,
we have not agreed" they are sent
back TO the jury room. If one jury
man should say, 81 think the man is
guilty of murder" and another jury
man should say, Il think he is guilty
of manslaughter," and another jury
man should say, al think he is guilty
of assault and battery 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 Scepticism, the
plaintiff, versus Christianity, the
defendant. The scientists have been
impanelled and sworn on the jury.
They have been gone for centuries,
some of them, and they come back,
and we say, "Gentlemen of the jury,
have you agreed upon verdict"
They say. NO, we have not agreed. :"
| Then we say, "Go back for few more
centuries, and then come in and see if
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 jury
that could not agree, and vet You eX-
pet us to renoun our glorious Chris
tianity for such a misera BILE verdict as
these men have rem lered. they them
selves not having been able 70 agree.
But my subject shall no longer be
defensive; IL must be aggressive. 1
must show you that instead of Chris
tianity falling back, it is on the march,
and that the coming religion of the
world is to be the religion of the Lord
Jesus Christ ten thousand times inten-
siiied. 1t is To take possession of
everything - of all laws, a manners
all customs, all cities, all nations. IL
is going to be so mighty as compared
with what it has been, so much more
i,rb shot = Il n
new religion.
adopt this theory. becaui hris.
tianity has gone on straight ahead
notwithstanding all the bonn bard
ment; and infdelity has not destroyed
church, or crippled a minister, or
rooted out one verse of the bible, and
now their ammuniti n seems to be
pretty much exhausted. They cannot
get anything new against Christianity;
and if Christianity has gone on under
the bonn bardment of centuries aud
still continues TO advance, may we not
conclude that the powder and shot of
of the other side seem to be exhausted.
Christianity going on with more
rapid stride?
| find an encouraging fact in the
thought that the secular press in this
day and the pulpit seem harnessed in
the saTe team for the proclamation
of the gospel. Tomorrow there will
not be banker on Wall street, or
State street. or Third street. who will
not have in his pocket or on his table
treatises on christianity, calls TO re-
pentence and scripture passages,
twenty or thirty Of tnem, in the re-
ports of the Christian churches OF this
city and other cities. Why, that thing
would have been impossible a 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 soc cites!
We hail them and we hail these others,
] say it would have been impossi Dle a
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 l have been told that
many of the secular papers have
their largest circulation on Monday
morning, and the whole population of
this count y are becoming sermon read
ers. Besides that, have unot noticed
that papers proclaiming themselves
secular almost every week have relig-
ious discussion in them?
Go back a 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 intelligent man in the
United States that as result of that
controversy in regard to eternal pun
ishment did not ask himself the ques-
ton, "What is to be my eternal des s.
tiny" and so some years ago, when
Tyndall offered his prayer guage there
was not a secular paper in the United
states that did not discuss the ques-
ton: "Does God ever answer prayer?
May the creature impress the Creator?"
Are not all these facts encouraging to
every Christian and every philanthro-
pist? Besides that, the rising gener-
alton are 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
infantile scripture stories, but now
they are taken from Genesis TO Revel-
alton, the strongest minds of the coun-
try explaining the lessons to the teach
ers, and the teachers explaining them
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