The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-23
FRIDAY MORNING.. MAR. 49, 1894.
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER,


miles. saws 1rwinine. How far Ia the sun
from the earth? Seyenty.s,x million
miles, saws Lacallc. Eiybty-two million
miles, says Humboldt, Ninety million
miles, SAYS Henderson. One hundred
aid four million miles, saws IIaver-onIy
a little difference Of 1000. 900 milesI
All split IN among themselves-.snot
agreeing on anything. They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided ON the great doctrines. All
united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the
divinity Of the Scriptures. While thew
come up and propose to render their YER.
dict, no two Of them agree ON that YER
dict.
"Gentlcmcn of the jury, have you
agreed on yerdict?" asks the court or
the clerk of the Jury as they come in aft.
er having spent the whole night in de-
liberating. If the Jury saw, Eyes. we
have agreed" the verdict is recorded,
but suppose one of the iurymen saws.
II think the man was guilty of murder. y
and another says, II think he was guilty
InAnSlHuVnJeI
and another man SAYS, II think he was
guilty of assault and battery. with in
tent to kill" the Judge would say. "Ge
back to your room and bring in a yer.
dict. Agree on something. That is no
verdict"
INFIpELIrY AT A srANpsr1LL.
Here these infidel scientists have i'm.
paneled themselves as a Jury to decide
this trial between infidelity. the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and
after being out for centuries they come
in to render their verdict. Gentlemen
of the Jury, have you agreed on a yer.
dict? No, no. Then 20 back for another
500 years and deliberate and agree on
something. There is not poor, miser.
able wretch in the Tombs court tomor-
row that could be condemned by Jury
that did not agree on the verdict, and vet
you expect us to give up our glorious
Christianity to please these men who
cannot agree on anything.
All, my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ, instead of falling back, is on the
advanced l am certain it is on the ad-
vance. o Lord God, take thy sword
from thy thigh and ride forth to the VIC
toryi
l am nightly encouraged because
find among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuries infdelity has not destroyed
one church, or crippled one minister, or
uprooted one verse of one chapter of all
the Bible. The church all the time get
ting the victory and the shot and shell
of its enemies nearly exhausted.
l have been examining their ammuni-
ton lately. have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last 20 years advanced one new idea
They have utterly exhausted their am
munition in the battle against the church
and against the Scriptures, while the
sword of the Lord Almighty is as keen
as it ever was. We are just getting our
troops into line. They are coming up in
companies, and in regiments, and in bri-
gades, and you Will hear shout after
awhile that will make the earth quake
and the heavens ring with "AlleluiaT' It
will be this, Forward, the whole liner
And then ma another most encour-
aging thought IN the tact that the secular
printing press and pulpit seem harnessed
IN the same team for the proclamation OF
the gospel. Every Wall street banker to-
morrow in New York, every State street
banker tomorrow 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 repent
ance, 10, 20 or 80 passages Of Scripture
in the reports OF sermons preached
throughout these cities and throughout
the land today. It will be so in Chicago,
so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so
in Boston, so in Philadelphia, SO every
where. 7tt
know the tract societies are doing a
grand and glorious work, but | tell yon
there is no power on earth today eq,,al
to the fact that the American printing
press is taking up the sermons which are
preached to q 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 is
What an encouragement for every Chris.
tian man!
A 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 moi
remember few years ago, when every
paper in the United States had an edi
torial on the subject. hIs There Such 9
Thing as Future Punish,nentY' It wa,
the strangest thing that there should b.
a discussion in the secular papers on tina,
snbiect Init every paper in the United
States and in Christendom discussed
as There Such Thing as Retribut;on?'
know there were small wits who mad,
snort Of the d;scuss;on Int there wa,
not an ;ntellirent man on earth who a,
the result Of that discussion did NOT asl
himself the nuestion "What is going 4
he NV eternal dest;nypn So Il was in re-
GARD r. Tvndall,s nrsver gange