Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-19

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I How many copies Of that book are pub
Hsbed? A hundred thousand. Which
+ is the more popular? Why Of course
the one that has hundred thousand
I circulation. And If this book
has more copies abroad 10
7 the world, II there are five times as
many Bibles abroad as any other book,
I does not that show you that the most
popular book on the planet to-day is the
Word Of G0d2"
sob, " say the aeople, 1.-THE church is
o collection of hyur0crites, and 10 Is
losing its power and it is fading out
from the world" Is &C.? A bishop Of
the Methodist Church told me that that
denomination averages two new
churches every day OF the year. There
are at least fifteen hundred new Christ
ian churches built in America every
year. Does THAI look as though the
church were fading ont, as though 10
were a deiuHct Institution? Which in
s-.tut.0n stands nearest the hearts or
the people OF America to-day? I do
not care ia what village or in what city,
or what neigh6orhood you 60. Which
institution is it2 us 10 the p0Stolice?
is 10 the hOteI2 Is TO the lecturing hall2
Alb, you know it is not. You know
the institution which stands nearest the
hearts OF the American people
Us THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
If you have ever seen a church burn
down you have seen thousands Of peO-
pie looking at it-peODle who never 90
into chCrch-ths tears raining down
their cheeks. The whole story is told.
They say that science is overcoming
religion in our day. They look through
the spectacles of the inidel scientists
and they say. alt is impossible that
this book can be- true; people are find
ing 90 out; tho Bible has got 90 60 over
board; science is going 60 throw 10 over
board" DO you believe that the Bible
account Of the origin OF life will be
Overthr0wn by infdel scientists who
have fifty different theories about the
origin OF lIfa2 T.. they should come up
ln solid phalanE, all agreeing on ono
sentiment and 0ua theory perhaps
Christianity might be damaged; but
there are not SO many differences OF
opinion inside the Church as outside
the Church. People used TO say "Ihere
are so many different denominations Of
Cbristiaus-tL2t shows there is nothing
in religion" I have % tell you that all
denominations agree on the TWO or
three or four radical doctrines of the
Chrislian rel sion. They are unani-
nous in regard 90 Jesus Christ, and
they are unanimous In regard TO the di-
vinity OF the Scriptures. How is 10 on
the other s.de2 AN split no; you can
uot find two Of them alike. Oh, 10
makes me sick TO see these literary tops
going along with copy OF Darwin uu-
der one arm and a case OF trapsdxed
grasshoDDers and butterflies under the
other arm, telling about the survival
Of.the Gctest, and
uUSLEv's rEOT0PLAsoL
and the ne0ular hypothesis. The fact
isl. shat some naturalists just as soon as
they Ind OUT the difference between
the feeiers of a wasp and The horns OF
beetle, begin 90 patr0niZe the Almighty;
while AgassiZ, glorious Agassiz, who
never made any preteusiOns 90 being q
Christian, puts both his feet on the doc
trine OF evolution, and SAYS: 81 sec that
many of the uaturalisJs OF our day are
adopting facts which do not bear o5ser-
walton, or have not passed under obSer-
vatiOu." These men warning with each
other; Darwin warning against La
marche. Wallace warning against Cope,
even Harscdel deuouncing Ferguson.
They do not agree on the grad2Ji0n or
tne species. What do they agree on?
Herschel writes o whole chapter on the
errors Of astronomy. Ia Place declares
shat the moon was not put in the right
place He says that II 10 had been put
four times further from the earth than
To is now there would be more harmony
fa the universe; bus Liouyi,Ie comes up
lust in time 20 prove th2t the moon
was nut 10 the right place
How many colors woven into the
Iirht2 Seven, says Isaac Newton,
Three. says David Brewster. How
high is the Aurora B0Iealis2 Two and
o half miles, SAYS LiaS. One hundred
snd sixty-elgtt miles, says Twining.
How raris the sun from the earth?
Saventy-slX million miles, says Laca.le.
Eightv-tw0 million miles, says Hum
bo'dt. Ninety million miles, says Hen
dars0p. one hundred and four million
miles. SAYS Mayer. Only little differ
ence of tweuty-eight million miles. All
spIit up among tbemseiyes-nOt agree
ing on anything. They come and say
that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided on che great doctrines. All
united they are, In Jesus Christ In the
divinity of the Scriptures; while they
come up and propose 20 render their
var1fef no two or them
AGREE ON THAT VERDICT.
"Gepuemen of the jury, have you
agreed on % verdict?' asks The court or
the clerk of che Jury as they come 10
after having spent the whole night tn
Ii the jury say, yes, we
have agreed % the verdict is recorded;
but suppose one OF the jurymen says,
'I think the man was guilty OF muir
der" aud another says, 81 think be was
guilty of mausluughter in the second
degree" and another man says, 81
think be- was guilty of assault and bat
terry with intent 90 Kill the Judge
would say, eco back 90 your room ana
bring in @ verdict; agree on something;
that is no verdict
Have Won noticed that during the
MAST rev years every one of the doc
triues of the Bible came under discus
sion in the secular press? DO you not
remember a few years ago-when every
paper in the United States had an edi-
tor.lI on the subject; 'IS there such
thing as future punishment It was
the strangeSl thing that there should be
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