The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-03-24

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: at 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 infidel
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
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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 n copy of Darwin
under one arm and n 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 act is, that some naturalist just
as % as they find out the difference
between the feeling of a wasp and the
horns of a beetle, begin to p%atronize
the Almighty; while Agassiz, glorious
Agassiz, who never made any preten-
sion to being a Christian, puts both his
feet on the doctrine of evolution, and
says: see that many of the natural
lists of u day are adopting facts which
do not bear observation, or nave not
passed under observation" These
men warning with each other; Darwin
warning against Lamarche. Wallace
warning against Cope. even Herschel
d%enouncing 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 1
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuries, infidelity has not destroyed
m church, or crippled n 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.
l have been examining their ammuni-
ton lately; l have looked through all
their cartridge boxes They have not
in the last twenty years advanced n
new idea. They ave 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
a treatise on Christianity. a call to re
pentance. ten, twenty or thirty pas
sages of Scripture in the reports of ser
mons preached throughout these cities
and throughout the land to-day. II
will be so in Chicago, sc in New Or
leans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, sc
in Philadelphia, so everywhere.
Beside that, have you noticed that
during the past few years every one o.
the doctrines of the Bible came under
discussion in the secular press? Dc
you not remember a few years ago
when every paper in the United States
had an editorial on the subject: 81:
there such a thing as future punish
ment?" 1t was the strangest thing
that there should be discussion in the
secular papers on that subject, bu'
every paper in the United State.
and in Christendom discussed: al
there such a thing as retributionT"
know there were small wits who mad,
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not an intelligent man on earth who
as the result of that discussion, did no
ask himself the question: "What i
going to be my eternal destiny!'
Then look at the international seric
of Sunday school lessons. Do yo'
know that every Sabbath, between
and 5 o'clock, there are 5000. 600 chill
dren studying the same lesson, a lessor
prepared by the leading minds of tn
country, and printed in the papers, an
these subjects are discussed and give
over to the teachers, who give then
owe to the children; so whereas once
and within u memory-the childre'
nibbled here and there at a story in tn
Bible, now they are taken from Genesi
to Revelation, and we shall have 5000
900 children forestalled for Christian
ity. My soul is full of exultation.
feel as if l could shout will shout
"Alleluia, the Lord God omnipoten
reigneth!"
Then you notice a more significan
fact, if you have talked with people OIL
the subject, that they are getting di'
satisfied with philosophy and scienc
as a matter of comfort. They say
does not amount to anything when 20
have n dead child in the house. The
tell you, when they were sick and tn
door of the future seemed opening, tn
only comfort they could find was in TIL
gospel. People are having demon
strated all over the land that scienC
and philosophy cannot solace til
trouble and woes of the worlt
and they want some other n
ligion, and they are taking Christian
ity, the only sympathetic religion tina
ever came into the world. You jus
take your scientific consolation int
that room where a mother has lost he
child. Try in that case your splendi
doctrine of the survival of the a
test" Tell her that child died becaus
it was not worth as much as the othe
children. That is our Survival {
the fittest." Go to that dying man an
tell him to pluck up courage for the f,
ture. Use your transcendental phras'
ology upon him. Tell him he ought
be confident in ''the great to be-" an
the everlasting now" and the "ete
nal what-is-it." Just try your tran
c~endentalism and your philosophy an
your science on him. There is where
see the triumph of Christianity. Pc,
pie are dissatisfied with everythin
else. They want God. They wal
Jesus Christ.
Talk about the exact sciences. theI
is only one exact science. 1t is n,
mathematics. Taylor's logarithn
mn