The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1894-03-23

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Methods, Church told me thu tna,
denominations averages two
churches every day of the year. ThN.
are az least 800 new Christian
churches built in America every year.
Does that look as though the church
were fading out, as though it were q
defunct Institution? Which institution
stands nearests the hearts of the peo-
pie OF America to-day? do not care
in what village or in what city, or
what ne.yhborhood you go Which in
stitution is 10? Is il the post office? Is
1t the Motel? Is it the lcctere hall? All,
you know il is not You know the In
stitutiOn which stands nearest to the
hearts Of the American people Is the
Christian church II you have ever
seen a church burn down you have seen
thousands Of people standing and
looking at people who never go into
a church the tears raining down their
cheeks. The whole story is told.
You may talk about the church be-
ing a collection of hypocrites, but
when the diphthe ria sweeps your chill
dren of whom do you send for? The
postmaster? the attorney-general?t the
hotelkeeper? alderman? No. you send
for minister of the Bible religion.
And il YOU have not room in your
house for the obsequies, what building
do you solicit? DO you say, Give me
the finest room in the hotel?' DO
You say, Give me that theater?' Do
You say, Give me a place in that pub
lie building where j can lay my dead
for n little while until we say PRAYER
over it, No You say, Give u the
house of Cod And If there y song
10 he sung at the obsequies what do
You wan@ What does anybody want?
The Marseillaise Hymn God save
the Queen?" Cur own grand national
ARP 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 appeal to your common
sense. lou know the most endearing
INSTITUTION on earth' the most popular
IN on earth today IS the
hurch OF the LORD Jesus CHRIST
The infidels say: "lnfidelity shows
It's successes from the fact that ii is
everywhere accepted, and 1T can say
what it will" Why, my friends, inf /
aeiity is not half SO blatant in our day |
rs 1t was in the DAYS of our fathers DO /
you know that in the days of our faith
ars there were pronounced infidels in
public authority. and they could get
any political position Let man to-
lay declare himself antagonistic TO the
-hristian religion. and what city wants
aim for mayor, what state wants him
'or governor, what nation wants him
or president or for king? Let man
openly proclaim himself the enemy of
'ur glorious Christianity and he can
lot get majority Of votes in any
tate, In any city, in any county, in any
'ard OF America
10 You think that such a scene could
'e enacted now as was enacted in the
avs OF Robes pierre when a shameless
woman was elevated as goddess. and
vas carried in a golden chair to ca
hedral' where incense was burned to
er ana people bowed down before her
divine being. She taking the place
the Bible and COD Almighty. while
the corridor Of that cathedral were
nac'ed such scenes OF drunkenness
no detauchery and obsccnity rs have
ever been witnessed DO you believe
zen thing could possibly occur in
hristendom to-day? No, sir The
oiice, whether Of Paris or
ew York, would swoop on it,
know intidelity makes good
'ai OF talk in our day. IL is on the
'inciple that if man jump overheard
ON a Cunard steamer he makes more
'citement than all the 800 people that
iy on the decks But the fact that
jumps over board-does that stop the
mp? Does that wreck the 500 passen-
RS? IL makes great excitement when
man jumps from the lecturing plat
rm or from the pulpit into inidelity;
1t does that keep the Bible and the !.
'nrch from carrying their millions of
'ssengers INTO the skies?
They say, these men, that science is
religion in our day. They
ok through the spectacles of infidel
,ipnfl~tS and thav Sau. al, ;s ;,,,rn.