The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1894-03-23


tan, put both his feet on TIE doctrine
o. evolution. and says: II see that
many ~ tie naturali,ts of cur day are
ting facts which do not bear OBJ
0crration or have not passed undcf ob.
servatton. These men warning with
each other Darwin warning against
Lamarche. Wallace wa-ring against
Cope. even IIerschel denouncinr
ferguson. They do not agree about
ANYTHING. They do not agree on
emoryo!ogy, do not agree on the
graduation OF the species. What do
they agree on? llerchel writes whole
chapter on the errors of astronomy.
La Place declares that the moon was
not put in the RICH. place lie saws
that II IL had been put four times
further from the earth than it h now
there would be more harmony In the
universe; but Lionville comes IN lust
IN time TO prove that the moon was
pu, In the right place. How many
colors woven into the light? seven,
says Isaac Newton. Three, says David
Brewster. How high is the Aurora
Borealis? Two and half miles, saws
Las, One hundred and sixty-eight
u1cnxe 7 wiaing- lloafztpfuIi -
million miles, says HumboIdt NMtty
million miles, says Henderson, Ono
hundred and four million miles.
says MAYER. Only little diff
Hrence. of $4,000 900 miles! All split
up among sthemselves-not agreeing
on anything. hey come and say that
the churches, % Jesus Christ are
divided os the great doctrines. All
united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the
divinity OF the scriptures; while they
come up and propose to rendcd their
verdict, no two OF them agree on that
verdict Gentlemen of the jury have
you agreed on verdict?" asks tho
court or the clerk OF the jury as they
come in after having spent the whole
night in elaboration II the Jury say,
/ Yes, we have agreed" the verdict Is
recorded; but suppose one of the jury
men says, II think the man was guilty
of murder" and another says. II think
he was guilty of mansllughter in tho
{ second degree" and another says. 81
think he was guilty of assault and
battery with intent to kill" the judge
would say: go back to your room and
bring in a verdict; agree on something;
that is no verdict"
! Here these infidel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as jury TO decide
this trial between infdelity, the plant
I i'll, and Christianity, the defendant,
and after being out for centuries they
come in to tender their verdict. Gentle.
men of the jury, have you agreed on a
verdict? No, no Then gc back for
another 800 years and deliberate and
agree on something There Is mt
poor miserable wretch ir the Tomb.
court tomorrow that con'd be COM
demned by jury that did not agree OF
the verdict, and yet you expect us to
give up our. glorious Christianity to
please these men who can not agree on
anything.
Ali my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ instead Of falling back. is on
the advance. ! am certain IL is on tho
advance. O Lord God, take Thy sword
from Thy side and ride forth to the vic.
tory.
! am nightly encouraged. because
dmOuI tUlHgS tnHf WHO
this Christianity has been bombsrded
for centuries, infideltv has not de-
stroyed one church. or cripple one
minister, or uprooted one verse of one
chapter of all the Bible. The church
all the time getting the victory, and
the shot aud she'll of its enemies nearly
exhausted ] have been examininr
their ammunition lately; have
looked all through their cart
ridge boxes. They have not in
the last twenty years advanced
one new idea, They have utterly ex-
hausted their ammunitioniia the battle
against the church an against the
Scriptures. while the sword of tn,
Lord Almighty is as keen as it ever
was. We are just getting our troops
INTO line; they are coming up in com.
oanies and in regiments and in bri.
yades. and you will hear a shout after
awhile that will make the earth quaki
ind the Heavens ring with Alleluia
L will be this: Forward the who'll
inc"
And then ! find another most en-
thought in the fact that tn,
ocular printing press and pulpit seem
in the same team for tho
PROCLAMATION of the Gospel Every Wall.
treet banker tomorrow in New YORK,
very State-street banker tomorrow
n Boston, every Third-street banker
o-morrow in Philadelphia, every
merchant will have in his pocket o
realise on Christianity, a call to re-
'entancc, ten, twenty or thirty
passages Of scripture in the re.
'orts of sermons preached throughout
hese cities and throughout the land
o-day. 1t will be so in Chicago, so in
New Orleans, SO in Charleston, so in
Boston, so in Philadelphia, SO every.
where / know the tract societies are
ioing "A grand and glorious work. but
ell you there no power on earth to-day
quail to this fact that the American
printing press is taking up the sermons
which are preached to few hundred
VI few thousand people, and on Mon
lay morning and Monday evening, in
he morning and evening papers, scat
cring that truth to- the millions
What a thought il is. What an en-
for every Christian mani
Beside that, have YOU noticed that
Turing the past few years every one o,
he doctrines of the Bible came under
discussion in the secular press? DO you
not remember few years ago-when
very paper in the United States had
IN editorial on the subject: is there
uch thing as future punishment
I was the straDgest thing that theirs
hould be a discussion in the secular
,ress on that subject, but every paper
n the United States and in Christen.
on discussed: us there such thingas
etri bution?' | know there were small
Wits who made sport Of the discussion
'ut there was not an intelligent man
n earth who. as the result of that dis
ussion did not ask himself the ques-
on: What is going to be my eternal
estiny?' SO il was with Tyndalls
rayer guago. About twelve year,
90, you remember. the secular papers
iscussed that, and with just as much
as the religious papers
nd there was not man in Chrsten-
)m who did not ask himself the queS.
on; "Is there anything in prayer
ay the creature impress the Creator
h. what a glorious fact, the secular