The herald., 1894-04-09
East Los Angeles saptist.


Yesterday morning Rev. George E i.
Dye preached on the theme, "Is Christ
ianity Failure?" from the text, "He
shall not fail nor be discouraged till he
set judgment in the EARTH" lis. xiii ~
The purpose OF Christ is the conquest
of this world. 1t is vast undertaking,
a mighty work. Men say Christianity
has failed to do it's work; fifty genera
tions have paeaed away and yet not one
third of the population of the earth is
Christian. True in a sense. But what
do scientists say? They say it took
millions OF years to make this earth.
They say it took great stretches OF time
to evolve animals from moisture and
men FROM monkeys. Won't they give
Christianity as much time to cure this
world and turn sinners to saints?
Ii we Judge Christianity from the
standpoint of "the survival of the fit
test" she has accomplished what scepti-
clam could not do, viz conquered the
paganism OF Greece and Rome, closed
the temples and dethroned the idols.
What Judaism could not do Christ
ianity has done, and today the ruins of
temples in Athens and Rome testify
with mute lips to the power OF feeble
men filled with the spirit of Christianity.
Brahmanism lies in the dust, and 220,-
000,000 heathen are held in check by
35. 900, 900 of Englishmen with the supe-
rior system OF Christianity. 1t is re-
ported that Col. Robert g. Ingersoll will
soon go to Asia to spend six months in
preparation ofa lecture on Confucianism.
Let him stop here on the coast and 90
into Chinatown and study the results of
the teachings of Confucius. So contain
mating is it that. after trial of it here,
the cry is: THE Chinese must go!'
Christianity has measured lances with
infdslity and come out victorious. The
Daily Chicago Inter Ocean OF February
Z, 1894, says: "The popularity of Col.
Robert 8. Ingersoll as a critic of Moses
seems to worry some OF the ministers.
But the people are not breaking away
from the churches. The reports from
revivals all over the country would in
dicate that the churches were recruiting
more msmb bers this year than usual.
Every large city has had great revival,
and some OF these have been phenom-
email in results" The St. Louis
Globe Democrat has gathered sta
tstics in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Ar
kansas and Texas. which show that in
CHee6 uV6 blAtea tn6ro nave Deon nearly
81, 900 conversions aud as, 900 new mem
bers have been added to the churches.
The same general average will hold for
most all of the states OF the union, which
shows that inhdelity has failed to make
the inroads on Christianity which it
contemplated.
tkVictory is perched upon the Christian
banner and she is growing stronger
every day. Christianity is just begin
ming to raise herself. Her schools, col
leges, hospitals and charities were
never so great and large-hearted as now.
To-Day there are more Bibles, more. Sun
day schools, more teachers, more
than ever before. Our invent
ors, discoverers and educators are in
Christian lands. The arts and sciences
are under her wings. All the grest
minds of the world are with her and her
failure is impossible
But with this comes corresponding
The church owes to the
working men more than soups and bread.
She gave eIaAS cipation to the slave; she
must givAMA ASlAlty and justice to the la
boring pAgNtk ,aboi must have, and
will 1f MI st share of the wealth
il yatsazs, l9 Arch must liberate
mn NIllksH from the prison
hsNga u Mve better shelter
eslss lsiie hl 10 nAAych must take