The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-22
tears raining down their cheeks. The whole

you sen1 IOTG lUe postmaster. tIle hlNoT0PN-
general, the hote-keeper. alderman No I;
you send for a minister ofthis Bible region.
And II you have not room in your house
for the obsequies. what building do you So
licit2 DO you say. "Give me the finest room
In the hotelY' Do you say. "Give mo that
theatreg" DO you say. "Ciive me place In
that public building. where I can lay my
dead for a little while until we say n prayer
over it?' No. You say, give US the house
OF God"
And II there Ia n song 10 br sung T.. the
obsequies. what do you wan'2 What does
ANYBODY want2 'The Marseillaise" hymn?
"God Save the QueenP" Our own grand
national air2 No. They want tho 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 sabbath afternoon she was
out before she cot that awful sickness which
broke your heart Iappeal 20 your common
sense. You know the most endearing in
stitution on earth. the most popular institu-
ton on earth to-day is the church OF the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The infldels say. "TnndelItv shows It's sue
cesses from the fact that IL Il everywhere
accepted. and II can say what Il will" Why.
my friends. inldelity ia not half so blatant
in our days as II was In tho days OF our
fathers. DO you knowthat in the days OF our
fathers there were pronounced inlldels In
public authority and they coull get any
political position2 Let man to-day declare
himself antagonistic to the Christian re-
lgion, and what city wants him for mayor,
what State wants him Tor governor. what
nation wants him for president or for kng2
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.
DO you think that such a scene could be
enacted now as was enacted In the days Of
Robespierre, when = shameless woman vas
elevated as a goddess and was carrief "a a
golden chair to q cathedral where y use
was burned 10 her and people bowoo own
before her as divine being, she taking the
place OF the Bible and God Almighty, while
In the corridor of that cathedral werr en-
acted such scenes OF drunkenness and de-
bauchery and obscenity as has never been
witnessedp Do you believe such thing
could possibly occur In Christendom to-day?
No, sir The police, whether OF Paris or
New York. would swoop on It.
L know inhdelity makes u good deal o'
talk in our day. II Is on the principle that
IL man jump overheard from Cunard
steamer he makes more excitement than all
the 500 people that stay on the decks. But
the fact that he jumps overboard--does that
stop the shipY Does that wreck the 500
passengers? II makes great excitement
whe- man jumps from the lecturing plat
form or from the pulpit in fidelity, but does
that keep the Bible and the Church from
carrying their millions OF passengers into
the skiesl
They say. these men. that science Is over
coming religion In our day. They look
Though the spectacles of the infldel scien-
lists, and thcy says 1T IL impossible that
this book can be true. People are finding It
out. The Bible has got to go overheard.
Science is going TO throw II overheard" Do
you believe that the Bible account OF the
origin OF life will be overtbrown by ipAdel
scientists who have ffty different theories
about the origin OF liieI II they should como
up in solid phalanx, all agreeing upon ono
sentiment and one theory, perhaps Christian
ity might be damaged, but there are not so
many differences OF opinion inside the
| church as outside the church.
People used 10 say. There are so many
| different denominations OF Chrstians-tha,
shows there is nothing in religion" have
| TO tell you that all denominations agree on
the two or three or four radical doctrines OF
the CHRISTIAN religion. They are unanimous
In regard to Jesus Chrisf I'D thev are
'"~''"- - rd.a a. sinit. .hs
scriptures. How Is II on g. other side?
All split up-you cannot find two OF .hem
alike. On. IL makes me sick TO see these lit
erary fops going along with n copy OF Dar-
win under one arm and case OF transhxed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the other
arm, telling about the survival of the fit
test and HuNley's protoplasm, aud the
nebular hypothesis.
The fact is that some naturallsts Just as
soon as they find out the difference between
the feelers OF u wasp and the horns OF beetle
begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agas-
siz, glorious Agassiz who never made any
pretensions 10 being n Christian. puts both
his feet on the doctrine OF evolution and
says, 81 see that many OF the naturaists OF
our day are adopting facts which do not
bear observation or have not passed under
observation" These men warning against
each other-Darwin warning against La
marche. Wallace warning against Cope, even
Herschel denouncing Ferguson.
They do not agree aboat anything. They
do not agree on embryoloSy, do not agree
on the gradation OF the species. What do
they agree on? Herschel writes whols
chapter on the errors OF astronomy. La
Place declares that the moon was not put in
the right place. He says that IL IL had been
put four times farther from tho earth than It
Is now there would bs 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 aurora
borealis2 Two and "a half miles, says Lias
One hundred and slxty-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 % 900. 900 miles
All split up among themselves mot agreeing
| on anything They come and say tha. the
churches of Jesus Christ ara divided on the
great doctrines. All united they are, In
Jesus Christ. in the divinity OF the Scrip
lures. While they come up and propose TO
render their verdict, no two OF them agree
on that verdict.
"Gen;lemen OF the jury. have you agreed
on yerdicty' asks the court or the clerk OF
the jury as they come in after having spent
the whole night In deliberating. IL the jury
says. ''Yes, We have agreed" the verdici is
recorded, but suppose ono of the jurymen
says, 81 think the man was guilty Of MUIR
der, another says, II think he was guilty OF
manslaughter in tho second degree" and
another man says, "lthinS he was guilty OF
assault and battery, with intent 10 kill, =" the
| judge would say Go back 10 your room
and bring in a verdict. Agree on something.
That Is no verdict"
Here these infdel scientists have impan-