Connecticut western news., 1894-03-22

uiNiucu on tuc great uOCII1ueS- All united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scriptures. While they come up and propose to render their yer dict, no two of them agree on that yer dict.
 Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on verdict?" asks the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in aft CT having spent the whole night in de- hberating. If the jury say, "Yes, we have agreed" the verdict is recorded, but suppose one of the jurymen says, "I think the man was guilty of murder" and another says, ''I think he was guilty of manslaughter in the second degree" and another man says, II think he was guilty of assault and battery, with in- tent to kill" ;" the judge would say: "Go back to your room and bring in yer dict. Agree on something. That is no verdict"
 INFIDEIITY AT A STANDSTILL. Here these infidel scientists have inn paneled themselves as & jury to decide this trial between infidehty, 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 go 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 yet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on anything.
 An, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ, instead of falling back. is on the advancei I am certain it is on the ad- vance. O Lord God, take thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic | toryl
 am nightly encouraged because l | 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.
 I have been examining their ammuni- | ton lately. I have looked all through | their cartridge boxes. They have not in | the last 20 years advanced one new idea. l 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 a shout after | awhile that will make the earth quake I and the heavens ring with "Alleluiar' 1t will be this, Forward. the whole hnep' And then find another most encour- aging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and pulpit seem harnessed l 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 treatise on Christianity, call to repent | ance, 10. 20 or 30 passages of Scripture | in. the reports of sermons preached throughout these cities and throughout the land today. It will be 80 in Chicago, | so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so | in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so every | where.
 Iknow the tract societies are doing grand and glorious work, but I tell you
 there is no power on earth today equal | to the fact that the American printing press is taking up the sermons which are | preached to a few hundred or few
 thousand people, and on Monday morn ing and Monday evening, in the morning
 and evening papers, scattering that truXI | 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 few years ago, when every | paper in the United States had an edi-
 torial on the subject, "Is There Such
 Thing as Future Punishment" It was
 the strangest thing that there should be
 discussion in the secular papers on that
 subject, but every paper in the United
 States and in Christendom discussed,
 "Is There Such Thing as Retribution?'
 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 12 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: "Is there anything in pray
 err May the creature impress the Gre
 atorw Oh, what a mighty fact, what 8
 glorious fact-the secular printing press
 and the pulpit of the church of Jesus
 Christ harnessed in the same teami
 Then look at the international series
 of Sunday school lessons. Do you know
 that every Sabbath, between and 5
 o'clock, there are 5. .0OO, 900 children study
 ing the same lesson-a lesson prepared
 by the leading minds of the country
 and printed in the epapers-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 story in the Bible, now
 they are taken through from Genesis to
 Revelation, and we shall have 5 5,00O, 900
 children forestalled for Christianity. My
 soul is full of exultation. feel as if
 could shout-I will shout, "Alleluia, the
 Lord God omnipotent reignethr
 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 8
 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 over
 the land that science and philosonhy can-