The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-03-23

press is taking mp the sermons which are
nreached to a few hund- ed or a few
thousand people, and on Monday morn
ing and Monday evening, in the morning
and evening papers, scattering that truth
TO the millions. What thought it is
What an encouragement for every Chris
tian man!
GLORIOUS FACT.
Besides that, have you noticed thai
during the past few years every one Of
the doctrines of the Bible came under dis
cussion in the secular press? Do you mo-
remember few years ago, when every
paper in the United States had an edi
torial on the subject, SIS There Such 6
Thing as Future Punishment?' 1t was
the strangest thing that there should be
a discussion in the secular papers on thai
subject, but every paper in the United
States and in Christendom discussed,
SIS There Such Thing as Retribution?
I know there were small wits who made
sport of the discussion, but there was
not an intelligent man on earth who, az
the result of that discussion, did not ash
himself the question, what is going tt
be my eternal destiny?" So it was i'll re
gard to Tyndall's prayer gauge.
About 10 years ago, you remember
the secular papers discussed that, and
with just as much earnestness az the re
ligious papers, and there was not man
in Christendom who did not ask himself
the questions: is there anything in pray
err? May the creature impress the Gre.
ator?" Oh, what 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 c
o'clock, there are 5 200, 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 to
the teachers, who give them over to the
children2 So, whereas, once, and within
our memory, the children nibbled here
and there at story in the Bible, now
they are taken through from Genesis to
Revelation, and we shall have 5000, 00C
children forestalled for Christianity. My
soul is full of exultation. I feel as if ]
could shout will shout, "Alleluia, the
Lord God omnipotent reignethl"
SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION.
Then you notice more significant
fact, if you have talked with people on
the subject, that they are getting dissat-
isfied 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 will tell
you, when they were sick and the door Of
the future seemed opening, the only COM
fort they could find was in the gospel.
People 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 reli-
gion, 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 mother has
lost her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the Survival Of the
fttest." Tell her that child died because
it 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 phraseology up
on him. Tell him he ought to be conf
dent in 'the great to be-" and the lever
lasting now," and the eternal what is
it," Just try your transcendentalism
and your philosophy and your science on
him.
Go to that widowed soul and tell her
1t was geological necessity that her
should be taken away from
ner, just as in the course of the worlds
history the megatherium had to pass out
IF existence, and then you go on in your
scientific consolation until you get to the
sublime fact that 100000 years from
now we ourselves may be scientific spec
mems on a geological shelf, petrifed
specimens of an extinct human race.
And after you have got all through
with your consolation, if the poor affiict-
ID soul is not crazed by it, will send
'orth from this church the plainest
Christian we have, and with one half
hour of prayer and reading of Scripture
promises the tears will be wiped away,
md the house from floor to cupola will
Do flooded with the calmness of an In
liam summer sunset. There is where
zee the triumph of Christianity. Peo-
Die are dissatisfied with everything else
They want God. They want Jesus Christ.
Talk about the exact sciences. There
S only one exact science. 1t is not math-
,matics. Taylor's logarithms have many
The French metric sys-
em has many imperfections. The only
,xact science is Christianity-the only
hing under which you can appropriately
write, "Quod erat demonstrandum." You
ell me that two and two make four.
do not dispute it, but it is not so plain
hat two and two make four as that the
lord God Almighty made this world
md for man, the sinner, he sent his only
,egotten Son to die.
l put on the witness stand to testify
n behalf of Christianity the church
N earth and all the church in heaven.