The Globe-republican., 1894-03-23
ing. where I can Law my dead for lit

ing. where can lay my dead for lit
! it?" No: you say: ''Give rs the house
of God" You know the most endear-
ing institution on earth. the most pop
ular institution on earth to-day is the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ
The infidels says: ''Infidelity shows
its successes from the fact that it is
everywhere accepted, and it can say
what it will" Whv, my friends, in
fidelity is not half SO blatant in our
day as it was in the days of our fathers
Do you know that in the days of our
/ fathers there were pronounced infidels
in public authority and they could get
any political position? Let man to-
day declare himself antagonistic to the
Christian religion, and what city wants
him for mayor, what state wants him
/ for governor, what nation wants him
for president or for king? Let man
openly proclaim himself the enemy of
our glorious Christianity, and he can
not get a majority of votes in any
state, in any city. in any country, in
any ward of America
!
| be enacted now as was enacted in the
| days of Robespierre, when a shameless
woman was elevated to goddess, and
| was carried on golden chair to
| cathedral, where incense was burned
to her and people bowed down before
her as divine being, she taking the
place Of the Bible and God Almighty,
while in the corridor of that cathedral
were enacted such scenes of drunken
ness and debauchery and Obscenity as
has never been witnessed? Do you be-
| lieve that such a thing could possibly
occur in Christendom to-day? No sir.
| The police, whether in Paris or New
York would swoop on it
They say, these men, that science is
overcoming religion in our day. They
look through the spectacles of the in
fidel scientists and they say: 1T is
| impossible that this book can be true;
people are finding it out; the Bible has
got to go overheard: science is going to
throw it overheard" Do you believe
! that the Bible account of the origin of
life will be overthrown by infdel
scientists who have fifty different
theories about the origin of life?
! If they should come up in solid
| phalanx, all agreeing on one
sentiment and one theory, per-
haps Christianity might be damaged;
but there are not so many differences
of opinion inside the church as outside
the church. People used to say: There
are so many different denominations of
Christians-that shows there is nothing
in religion" l have to tell you that all
denominations agree on the two or
three or four radical doctrines of the
Christian religion. They are unani-
nous in regard to Jesus Christ, and
they are unanimous in regard to the
divinity of the Scriptures How is it
on the other side? All split up-you
cannot find two of them alike? Oh. it
makes me sick to see these literary fops
going along with copy of Darwin
under one arm and case of transfiXed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the
other arm, telling about the sur
vival of the fittest," and HuXley's pro-
toplasm. and the nebular hypothesis.
The fact is, that some naturalist just
as soon as they find out the difference
between the feeling of wasp and the
horns of a beetle, begin to patronize
the Almighty; while Agassiz, glorious
Agassiz, who never made any preten-
sion to being Christian, puts both his
feet on the doctrine of evolution, and
says: see that many of the natural
lists of our day are adopting facts which
do not bear observation, or have not
passed under observation. These
men warning with each other; Darwin
warning against Lamarche, Wallace
warning against Cope even Herschel
denouncing Ferguson. They do not
agree about anything.
All! my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ, instead of falling back, is on
the advance. am certain it is on the
advance. o. Lord, God. take Thy
sword from Thy thigh and ride forth
to victory.
am nightly encouraged because l
find among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuries, infidelity has not destroyed
one church, or crippled one minister.
or uprooted one verse of one chapter of
all the Bible. The church all the time
getting the victory. and the shot and
shell of its enemies nearly exhausted.
have been examining their ammuni-
ton lately: / have looked through all
their cartridge boxes They have not
in the last twenty years advanced one
new idea They have utterly exhaust
ed their ammunition in the battle
against the church and against the
Scriptures while the sword of the Lord
Almighty is as keen as it ever was
And then l find another most en-
couraging thought in the fact the sec
ular printing press and pulpit seem
harnessed in the same team for the
proclamation of the gospel Every
Wall street banker tomorrow in New
York. every State street banker to-
morrow in Boston. every Third street
banker tomorrow in Philadelphia,
every banker in the United States and
every merchant will have in his pocket
treatise on Christianity. call to re-
pentance. ten. twenty or thirty pas