Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-21

press is taking up the sermons which are
preached TO n few hundred 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 isl
What an encouragement for every Chris
tian mani
GLORIOUS FACT,
Besides that, have you noticed that
during the past few years every one of
the doctrines of the Bible came under dis.
Cussion in the secular press? Do you not
remember a few years ago, when every
paper in the United States had an edi-
torial on the subject, "ls There Such
Thing as Future Punishment" 1t was
the strangest thing that there should be
a discussion III the secular papers on that
subject, but every paper in the United
States and in Christendom discussed,
lis There Such Thing as RetributiOn?'
l 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 discussion, did not ask
himself the question, "What is going to
be my eternal destiny?" So it was in re-
gard to Tyndall's prayer gauge.
! About 10 years ago, you remember,
| the secular papers discussed that, and
with Just as much earnestness as the re-
ligious papers, and there was not man
in Christendom who did not ask himself
/ the questions: lis there anything in pray
er? 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 and D
o'clock, there are 5, ,O00, 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
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 Genesis to
Revelation, and we shall have 100000
children forestalled for Christianity. My
soul is full of exultation. | feel as if
could shout will shout, "Alleluia, the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth!"
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 oven
, 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 evel
came into the world.
r You Just take your scientific consola
ton into that room where mother ha
lost her child. Try in that case you
q splendid doctrine of the Survival of tn,
fittest." Tell her that child died becaus
it was not worth as much as the othe
) children. That is your survival Of tn
y fittest." Go to that dying man and tel
. him to pluck up courage for the future
9 Use your transcendental PIN .-eolOgy up
on him. Tell him he ought to be conf
D dent in "the great to be-" and the lever
J.. lasting now" and the eternal what i
, it." Just try your transcendentalisn
and your philosophy and your science ol
him,
: Go to that widowed soul and tell he
o it was a geological necessity that he
: companion should be taken away fron
/ her, lust as in the course of the world
o history the megatherium had to pass ou
n of existence, and then you go on in you
: scientific consolation until you get to tn
r sublime fact that 50,0O0,000 years fror
n now we ourselves may be scientific spec
= linens on a geological shelf, petrifie
: specimens of an extinct human race.
v And after you have got all throug
t with your consolation, if the poor af1ic
8 ed soul is not crazed by it, will sen
o forth from this church the PLANES
Christian we have, and with one hal
"a hour of prayer and reading of ScriptuI
q promises the tears will be wiped away
/ and the house from floor to cupola wi
d be flooded with the calmness of an II
: dian summer sunset. There is where
see the triumph Of Christianity. PEI
l pie are dissatisfied with everything els,
is They want God They want Jesus Chris
II Talk about the exact sciences. Thel
d is only one exact science. Itis not natl
II ematics. Taylors logarithms have man
II imperfections. The French metric sy
+ tenn has many imperfectiOns. The onl
II exact science is Christianity-the onl
thing under whichyou can appropriated
i write, "Quod erat tdemonstrandum." Yo
n tell me that two and two make fou
N do not dispute it, but it is not so plai
A. that two and two make four as that Il
4 Lord God Almighty made this worl
n and for man, the sinner, he sent his on
le begotten Son TO die.
N / put on the witness stand TO testii
n in behalf of Christianity the churC
n on earth and all the church in heavel
j. Not 80, not a thousand, not a milliol
sr but all Of the church ON earth and a
,e the redeemed in heaven.