Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-09-28

DO not agree about emoryoloSy- " uae
do they agree about?
Herschel wrote a whole chapter on
what he calls the Errors in Astronomy.
La Place says the moon was not put IN
the right place; that if it had been put
four times the distance from our world,
there would have been more harmony
in the universe. But Lionville comes
up just in time to prove that the LORD
was wise and set the moon in the right
place. How many colors woven into
the light? Seven, says Newton. Three,
says David Brewster. How high IS the
aurora borealis? Two and half miles
high, SAYS LAS One hundred and
sixty-five miles, says Twining. How
far is the sun from the earth? Seventy
six million miles. says Latille; eighty
two million miles, says Humboldt;
ninety million miles, says Henderson;
one hundred and four million miles,
says Mayer. Only a little difference OF
twenty-eight million miles. These
men say we do not agree in religion.
Do they agree in science? Have they
come up with solid front to assault our
glorious Christianity?
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.
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
saw yes, the verdict is taken and re-
corded. If they say, mo we have not
agreed" they are sent back TO the jury
room. If one juryman should say, u
think the man is guilty of murder,
and another juryman should say. u
think he guilty of manslaug liter" and
another juryman should say, Il 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 Slxepticism, the
, plaintiff, versus Christ ianity, the de
PENDANT. The scientists have been inn
paneled and sworn on the jury. They
, have been gone for centuries, some OF
of them. and they come back. and we
/ saw: Gentlemen of the jury. have you
, agreed upon verdict?n They say
,No, we have not agreed" Then we
! say: go back for a few more cen
turtles, and then come in and see If you
: can render some verdict Now, ther,
is not the meanest prisoner in thu
: Tombs court who would be condemned
3 by jury that could not agree and ye
, Won expect us to renounce our glorious
Christianity for such miserable yer
, dict as these men have rendered, they
: themselves not having been able L
agree.
But my subject shall no longer b'
defensive; it must be aggressive.
I, must show YOU that instead of Chris
tianity falling back. it is on the march
/. and that the coming religion of th'
world is to be the religion of the LORI
Jesus Christ ten thousand times inten
sified 1t is to take possession OF every
! thing-of all laws, all manners, al
: customs. all cities all nations. 1t
going to be so mighty as compared
= with what it has been, so much NOR
4 mighty that it will seem almost like
n new religion.
: adopt this theory because Chris
tianity has gone on straight ahea'
e Notwithstanding all the bombardment
& and infidelity has not destroyed
church. or crippled minister, or roote'
= ont one verse of the Bible, and nov
: their ammunition seems to be prett
: much exhausted. They cannot get any
thing new against Christianity; and
Christianity has gone on under tn
II bombardment of centuries and still
4 | continues to advance. may we not cor
:. clude that as the powder and shot
;, the other side seem to be exhausted
i Christianity is going on with NOR
i rapid stride.
.. / find an encouraging fact in tn
II thought that the secular press in thi
!, day and the pulpit seem harnessed i
: the same team for the proclamation q
- the gospel. Tomorrow there VIII nc
. be a banker on Wall street or Stat
street or Third street who will nc
! have in his pocket or on his tabl
treatises on Christianity, calls to RI
pentance and Scripture passages
y twenty or thirty of them, in the report
II of the Christian churches of this cit
= and other cities. Why, that thin
I'D bava haen imnossible a fel
> years ago. Now, on Monday mornin
~ and Monday evening, the secular pres
Z spreads abroad more religious trut
than all the tract societies of the cour
- try spread in the other six day
8, blessed be the tract societies, We ha
~ them. and we hail these Others. sa
II would have been impossible a fe'
~ wears ago. Hundreds of letters woul
a, have come to the secular newspaps
.asoas saxinp. ssStop my naper; W