News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-22


stitution stands nearest the hearts OF the
people of America today? l do not care
in what village, or in what city, OF WilaI
neighborhood you go. Which INSTITUTION
is it? Is it the postoffice? Is 1t the no.
telP Is it the lecturing hallE An, you
know if is not, You know that the IN
stitution which stands nearest to the
hearts of the American people Is the
Christian church. If you have ever seen
a church burn down, you have seen |
thousands of people standing and look
ing at it-people who never go into
church-the tears raining down their |
cheeks. The whole story is told.
AN UNPOPULAR BELIEF.
You may talk about the church being
a collection of hypocrites, but when the
diphtheria sweeps your children OH
whom do you send for? The postmaster,
the attorney general, the hotel keeper,
alderman? No, you send for minister
of this Bible religion. And if you have
not a room in your house for the obse-
ouies, what building do you solicit2 Do
YOU say, "Give me the finest room in the
hotel?" Do you say, "Give me that
theater?" Do you say: "Give me place
in that public building, where l can lay
nv dead for little while until we say
PRAYER over itT' No. You say, ''Give
us the house of God"
And if there is song to be sung at the
obsequies, what do you want? What
does anybody want? 'The Marseillaise'
hymn. 'God Save the Queen?" Our own
grand national air? No. They want the
HYMN with which they sang their old
Christian mother into her last sleep, or
they want sung the Sabbath school hymn
which their little girl sang the last Sab
bath afternoon she was out before she
got that awful sickness which broke your
heart. Iappeal to your common sense,
You know the most endearing instltu-
ton on earth, the most popular institu-
ton on earth today, is the church of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The infidels say, ''Infdelity shows its
successes from the fact that it is every
where accepted, and it can say what it
will" Why, my friends, infdelity is
not half SO blatant in our days 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 today declare himself antag-
onistic to the Christian religion, and
what city wants him for mayor, what
| state wants him for governor, what ma
ton wants him for president or for king?
Let man openly proclaim himself the
enemy of our glorious Christianity, and
he cannot get majority of votes in any
state, in any city, in any county, in any
| ward of America.
| RELIGION is SCIENCE.
Do you think that such a scene could
be enacted now as was enacted in the
days of Robespierre, when a shameless
woman was elevated as a goddess and
was carried in golden chair to cathe-
dral, where incense was burned to her
and people bowed down before her as a
divine being, she taking the place of tbs
Bible and God Almighty, while in the
corridor of that cathedral were enacted
suchscenes of drunkenness and debauch-
cry and obscenity as have never been
witnessed? Do you believe such a thing
could possibly occur in Christendom to-
day? No, sir! The police. whether of
Paris or New York, would swoop on it,
know infidelity makes good deal of
talk in our day. 1t is on the principle
that if man jump overheard from a
Cunard steamer he makes more excite
ment than all the 500 people that stay on
The decks. But the fact that he jumps
overboard-does that stop the ship? Does
that wreck the 800 passengers? 1t makes
great excitement when man jumps
from the lecturing platform or from the
pulpit into infidelity, but does that keep
the Bible and the church from carrying
their millions of passengers into the
skies?
They say, these men, that science is
overcoming religion in our day. They
look through the spectacles of the infidel
scientists, and they say Is fmpoSs1-
| BILE 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 so different theories about the or
igin of life? If they should come up in SOL
id phalanx, all agreeing upon one senti.
ment and one theory, perhaps Christiani-
ty might be damaged, but there are not
church as outside the church.
THE FITTEsT SURVIVES.
Peopleused to say, "There are so many
different denominations of Christians
that shows there is nothing in religion"
have to tell you that all denominations
agree ON the two or three or four radical
doctSines of the Christian religion. They
are unanimous 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 tops going along
with a copy of Darwin under one arm
and q case of transfxed grasshoppers and
butterflies under the other arm, telling
about the Survival of the fittest," and
Huxley's protoplasm, and the nebular
hypothesis.
| The fact is that some naturalists just
as soon as they find out the difference
between the feelers of a wasp and the
horns of beetle begin to patronize the
Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas-
siz, who meyer made any pretension to
being a Christian, puts both his feet on
the doctrine of evolution and says, 81
see that many of the naturalists of our
day are adopting facts which do not bear
| observation or have not passed under OBJ
servation." These men warning against
each other-Darwin warning against La
marche, Wallace warning against Cope,
even Herschel denouncing Ferguson.
| They do not agree about anything.
They do not agree on embryology, do
not agree on the graduation of the spe-
cies. What do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on the errors of
astronomy. La Place declares that the
moon was not put in the right place. He
says that if it had been put four times
farther from the earth than it is now
there would be more harmony in the
universe, but Lionville comes up just in
time to prove that the moon was put in
| the right place.
How many colors woven into the light?
/ Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says
David Brewster. How high is the au-
rora borealis? Two and a half miles,
| says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight
miles, says Twining. How far is the sun
| from the earth? Seventy-six million
miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million
| miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million
| miles, says Henderson. One hundred
and four million miles, says Mayer-only
a little difference of $4,000, 900 milesl
All split up among themselves-not
agreeing on anything. They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided on the great doctrines. All
united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the
divinity of the Scriptures. While they
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