The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-21

terry with intent to kill" the judge would
say: Go back to your room and bring
in verdict Agree on something. That
is no verdict"
No Growth to InfdcIify.
Here these inhdel scientists have inn
paneIed themselves as jury to decide
this trial between infidelity. the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and
after being out for centuries they come
in TO render their verdict. Gentlemen Of
the jury, have you agreed on verdict?
No. no. Then go back for another 500
years and deliberate and agree on some
thing. There is not poor miserable
wretch i'm the tOmbs court tomorrow that
could be condemned by jury that did
not agree on the verdict, and yet you
| expect us to give mp our religious Chris
| tianity to please these men who cannot
agree on anything.
All. my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ. instead of falling back, is on the
advance l am certain il is on the ad-
vance. Lord Cod take Thy sword
from Thy thigh and ride forth TO the
victory.
| am nightly encouraged because 1
find among other things that while this
Christianity has been bOmbarded for CEN
turtles inf1elity has not destroyed one
church, or crippled one minister. or up
rooted one verse Of one chapter of all
the biole. The church all the time get
ting the victory and the shot and shell
of its enemies nearly exhausted.
| have been examining their ammuni-
tion lately. / have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last twenty years advanced one new
idea. They have utterly exhausted their
ammunition i'm the battle against the
church and against the scriptures while
the sword of the Lord. Almighty is as
keen as il ever was. We are just get
ting our troops into line. They are COM
ing in companies, and in regiments. and
in brigades. and you will hear shout
after awhile that will make the earth
quake and the heavens ring with ALE
Lula 1t will be this: Forward, the
whole nner'
And then | find another most encour-
aging thought in the fact that the secu-
lar printing press and pulpit seem har
messed in the same team for the procla-
nation of the gospel. Every Wal-st
banker tomorrow in Boston. every Third
St banker tomorrow in Philadelphia, ev
cry banker in the United States and ev-
cry merchant will have i'm his pocket a
treatise on Christianity. a call to repent
ence-ten, twenty or thirty passages of
scripture in the reports of sermons
preached throughout these cities and
throughout the land today. II will be
So in Chicago, so i'm New Orleans, so in
Charleston, SO i'm Boston, so in Philadel-
phia. 50 everywhere.
know the tract societies are doing
grand and glorious work, but ! tell you
there is no power on earth today equal
to the fact that the American printing
press is taking up the sermons which are
preached 10 a few hundred or a few
thousand people, and on Monday morn
ing and Monday evening. in the morn
ing and evening papers, scattering that
truth to the millions. What a thought
it is! What an encouragement for every
Christian mani
Fact Worth Noting.
Besides that have you noticed that
during the past few years every one of
the doctrines Of the bible came under
discussion in the secular press? Do you
not remember a few years ago when
every paper i'm the United States had an
editorial on the subject. us There Such
Thing as Future Punishment" 1t was
the Strangest thing that there should be
discussion in the secular papers on
that subject. but every paper in the
United States and in Christendom dis
cussed rs There Such Thing as Retri-
butiOn?" ] know there were small wits
who made sport of the discussion, but
there was not an intelligent man on
earth who, as the result of that discus
sion, did not ask himself the question
What is going to be my eternal des-
tiny?' So it was in regard to Tyndalrs
prayer gauge.
About twelve years ago. you r2mem-
ber the secular papers discussed that
with Just as much earnestness al the re-
| ligiOuS papers. and there was not man
! in ChristendOm who did not ask himself
the questions: is there anything in
| prayer? May the creature impress the
| Creator?" oh, what a mighty fact. what
a glorious fact-the secular printing press
| and the pulpit Of the church of Jesus
| Christ harnessed in the same team
Then look at the international series
Of Sunday-school lessons. Do you know
that every Sabbath between 3 and 5
| O'Clock there are 5000 900 children study
| ing the same lesson-a lesson prepared
| by the leading minds of the country and
printed in the papers-and then these
| subjects are discussed and given over
| 10 the teachers, who give them over
| To the children, so whereas once-and
| within our memOry-the children nibbled
| here and there at a story in the bible
now they are taken through from Gen
| esis TO Revelation. and we shall have
| 100000 children forestalled for Chris
tianity. My soul is full Of exultation
| feel as if 1 could shout will shout
''Alleluia. the Lord God omnipotent
! reignethr'
Where Science Has No Place.
Then you notice a more significant
! fact. if you have talked with people on
the subject, that they are getting dis
satisfied with philosophy and science as
a matter of comfort. They say it does
| not amount to anything when you have
| a dead child in the house. They tell you
when they were sick and the door of the
| future seemed opening the only comfort
| they could find was i'm the gospel. Peo-
| pie are having demonstrated all over
| the land that science and philosophy can
not sOlace the trouble and woes of the
| world and they want some other relg-
ION, and they are taking Christianity,
| the only sympathetic religion that ever
| came into the world
You just take your scientific consola-
| ton into that room where a mother has
| lost her child. Try in that case your
| fittest." Tell her that child died be-
| cause il was not worth as much as the
| other children. That is your survival
| of the fttest." Go to that dying man
and tell him to pluck up courage for the
| future. Use your transcendental phras-
| eology upon him. Tell him he ought to
| be confident in the great TO be" and
| the everlasting now" and the eternal
what is it." Just try your transcenden-
| talism. and your philosophy, and your
| science on him.
Go TO that widowed soul and tell her
| il was a geological necessity that her
companion should be taken away from
| her lust as in the course of the worlds
| history the megatherium had to pass
| out of existence, aud then you go on in
your scientific consolation until YOU get
to the sublime fact that 50,O0O,OOO years