Democratic messenger., 1893-09-16

CITY i-A.tht s'itiF
preston, but they do not agree. Oar
win charges upon Lamarck. Wallace
upon Cope Hcrschcl even charged up
on Ferguson. They do not agree about
the gradation Of the species; they do not
agree about cmbryology. What do they
agree about:
Herschel wrote whole chapter on
what he calls Errors In Astronomy"
La Place says that 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 har-
mony in the universe But Lionville
comes up just in time to prove that the
Lord was wise and put 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 Lias. One hundred and
sixty-five miles, says Twinig? How far
is the sun from the earth? Sevcnty-six
million miles. SAYS Lacaille; S2,000,000
miles, says Humboldt; 80, ,O00, 600 miles.
says Henderson; 10l .O00, 900 miles, says
Mayer. Only little difference of 2s,-
O00, 600 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 Christian
ity?
Even mathematicians do not agree.
Taylors logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metric
system has wrong calculations. Talk
4 al, Tba,-
AS far as with my little knowledge |
have been able 10 explore, the only ex-
act science is Christianity. There is
nothing under which you can so apprO-
priately write. "Quod crat demonstran-
dunn"
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 recorded
If they say. NO. we have not agreed"
they are sent back to the jury room. If
one luryman should say, Il think the
man is guilty of murder" and another
juryman should say, u think he is guilty
of nanSlaGghtcr. and another luryman
should say. Il think lie 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 mp Il verdict. Agree on some
thing"
Well, my friends, there has been a
great trial soin; on for centuries and for
ages between Skepticism, the plaintiff,
versus Christianity, the defendant The
scientists have been impaneled and
sworn on the jury. They have been gone
for centuries. some of them, and they
come back. and we say. "Gentlencn of
the jury. have You agreed upon ver-
Dict" They say, No, we have not
agreed" Then we say, "Go back for n
few more centuries and then come in
and sec 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 a jury that
could not agree, ana yet YOU expect us
TO renouncc our glorious Christianity
for such miserable verdict as these
men have rendered, they themselves not
having been able TO agree.
y AENh iflhiAiSiMFNl
But my subject shall no longer be de-
fensive; it must bc aggressive. must
show YOU tha; instead of Christianity
falling back it is on the march, and
that the com.ng religion of the worlds TO
be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ
10000 times intensified. 1t is TO take
possession of evcrything--of all laws, all
manners, all customs. all cities all ma
tions. 1t is going TO be so mighty as
compared with what it has been, so
much more mighty that it will seem
almost like II new religion.
adopt this theory because Christian
ity has gone on straight ahead notwith-
standing all the bombardmen,, and in
fidelity has not destroyed a church, or
crippled minister. or rooted out one
verse of the Bible. and now their am
muni,ion seems to be pretty much ex-
haustcd They cannot get anything new
against Christianity, and if Christianity
has gone on under 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 cx-
hausted, Christianity is 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 same team for the proclamation of
the gospel. Tomorrow there will not be
IA 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, - 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 Il 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 a
few wears ago. Hundreds of letters
would have ccmc to the secular news
paper Offices. saving, stop MY paper;
We have religion on Sunday; don't give
us any through! the week. stop my
paper" But have lcon told that many
ui the secular papers Rave their largest
circulation ON Monday morning, AMI the
4 whole population Of this country are be-
coming sermon readers. Besides that,
have you not noticed III" papers pro-
claiming themselves :, cular almost every
week have Religions discussions i'll them:
Go back few years when there was
not decent paper ii ihr United States
that had not II discussion un tn" doctrine
Of eternal punishment Sma wits made
merry. know. but there WIS not an in
tclIigcnt man in the United States that
as a r,snlt ul that controversy III regard
TO eternal punishment dia rot ask him.
self the question, What J., to he my
eternal destiny And some years ago
when Tynda!l Offered HI, PRAYER gauge
| fhorn WAS not :: secular tgiter in the