The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11

Science Has Not Affected The Growth
Of Gods KINGDOM.

Scientists as PROOF mat " ASOoA ID
Not the Natural Enemy Of Religion.
Brooklyn. Sept lO-This forenoon Rev.
7. De Witt TaImage preached to- thronE-
ed audieut In the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The keynote of the service was one Of
claduess. Many of the audience had
been absent during the summer and had
returned for this service. The pastor
commented on passages Of Scripture de
picting the morning of the worlds deliv-
erauce. The subject of the sermon was
The Battle Ours the text being /
Kings w q. And the children of Israel
pitched before them like two little hocks
OF kids '
With thirty-three kings drunk in one
tent, this chapter opens. IheN were al
lies plotting Tor the overthrow OF the
Lords Israel You know that if a lion
roar. flock of kids Will SILVER and hud-
die together. One hon could conquer
thousand kids. The battle opens. There
are a great multitude of Syrians under
Gen. Ben-hadad, strong as lions. The IS
raelites are few and weak, like two little
focks of kids who beatl The lions Of
course. On no; the Kids For
it all depends on whether God
is on the side of the lions or the
kids After the battle one hundred
thousand Syrians lay dead on the field,
and twenty-seven thousand attempting
TO fly came along by great wall, which
toppled and crushed them to death.
Which was the stronger weapOn-great
Goliaths sword or little David's sling
David had five smooth stones from the
brook He only used one in striking down
Goliath He had a surplus of ammuni-
ton; he had enough TO take down four
more giants if they had happened in the
way 1t all depends upon whether God Is
on the side of the shepherd boy or on the
side of the giant.
There have been many in our day who
have ventured the opinion that Christian
ity is falling back. and that in fifty years
it will be extinct They found their
opinion on the assumed fact that the
Bible is not as much of a book as it used
TO be, and that portions Of it are repul-
sive to the people reply by asking,
which one of the publishing houses of
New York, Philadelphia, Boston or
Chicago is publishing the Bible today
with the omission of a single verse or
chapterl Are not our publishers intelli-
gent menu And would they, contrary to
their financial interests, continue to pub
lish the Bible without the omission of a
single chapter or a single verse if it were
becoming an unpopular book, and the
people did not want it, If Harpers, or
Appleton, or Scribner, or Lippincott
should publish a Bible with the omission
of one chapter they would not sell ten
copies in ten years. The fact that
throughout ChristendOm there are hun
dreds of printing presses printing the
Word of God without the omission Of a
chapter or verse, proves that the Bible
IS popular; and the fact that there are
more being printed in this decade than
any other decade, proves that the Bible is
increasing in popularity
l go through the courtroom of the
bench, or clerks desk, l find the Bible
BY what other book would they take sol
emn oath} What is very apt TO be among
the brides presentsl The Bible What
is very apt 10 be put in the trunk of the
young man when he starts for city life
The Bible. NOltaire reports that the
Bible during the nineteenth century
would become an obsolete book Well
we are pretty nearly through the nine
teenth century; the Bible is not obsolete
yet; there is not much prospect of its be-
coming obsolete; but l have TO tell you
that that room-the very room in which
Noltaire wrote that prediction-some time
ago was crowded from floor to
ceiling with Bibles for Switzerland.
Suppose the congress of the United
States should pass law that no Bibles
should be printed in the United States
If there are 30,O0000O grown men and
women III the country then there would
be 30W0,O 600 people armed against such a
law. But suppose the congress of the
United States should pass "a law that
Ma aulay S History, or Charles Reade'S
novels should not be read-Cau YOU get
half as large an army, or the fourth as
large an army In other words there are,
as you know and know, 900 men who
would die for their Bibles, where there
are fifty men who would die for any other
book The fact that there are now more
knIr k..awn
that publishers ma 1T financial interest
for them to continue the publication Of
the Bibles, proves that this book is still
the most popular book on the planet.
But, say those who are antagonistic
christianity is falling back, from the
fact that the church is not as much re
spected as 1t used to be, and is not as in
tuential.n l reply to that with the sta
tlstlc that one denomination-the Metho-
Dist notwithstanding to a statistic
given me by one of their bishops, dedi-
Gates on an average a new church every
day Of the year, Three hundred and
slXty-hve new churches in one denomina-
ton in year, and over a thousand new
churches built every wear in this country
Does that look as though the church were
failing in its power, and were becoming a
worn-out institution, Around which in
Stltutlon IN our communities gather the
most ardent affections. The postoftice,
The hotel, the courthouse, the city hall,
or the churches Why when our old tab
ernacle was burning there were hundreds
OF men standing in the streets who
never went 10 church. tears raining down
their cheeks. 1t is because the church of
God stands nearer the sympathies of the
American people than any other institu-
ton! Men may caricature the church
and call it a collection ofrhypocrites but
when their children are swept off with
the diphtheria, for whom do they send ?
To the postmaster, TO the attorney-gen-
eral, 10 the aldermen or to the pastors of
the churches And if there be not room
for the obsequies in the private house,
what building do they solicit The Acad-
envy of Music, the hotel public hall,
court house, No; the churches And if
they want music on the sad occasion, do
they select the Marseillaise Hymn, or God
Save the Queen or our own grand
national air! No; they want the old hymn
with which we sang their old Chris
tian mother TO sleep; they want the Sun
day school hymn that their little girl sang
the last sabbath afternoon she was out
before She was seized with the awful
sickness that broke fathers heart and
mothers heart. Oh, you know as well
as do shall not dwell on it any longer
the church of God, instead OF being a
WORKOUT institution. stands nearer the
6NIQDat HES a. the TagrIp that aN-a,, a ia