The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-29
tracts, or Macauley's "History OF Eng.

book where there is not more
Than ono man who would die In dc. |
lonse OF any other book. You try to
insult my common sense by tell.
Ing me the Bible is fading out from
the world. 1t is the most popular book
OF the century. How do know Up II
know it just as 1 know In regard to other
books. How many volumes of that
book arc published2 Well, you say, g..
OOO. How many copies of that book
are publishedP A hundred thousand,
Which Is .he more popular? Why, of
course the one that has 100000 circula
ton. Aud this book has more copies
abroad in the world, if there are five
times as many Bibles abroad as sny
other book, does not that show YOU that
the most popular book on The planet to.
day is Tho Word OF God?
"Oh," say people, "the church is q
collection of hypocrites, and it is losing
lts power, and it is fading out from the
world" Ls i2 A bishop of the Meth
Cdlst church told me that that denomina-
ton averages two new churches every
day cf the year. There are at least IT,
500 now Christian churches built IN
American every year. Does that look
as though the church were fading out.
as though 1t were defunct institutions
Which institution stands nearest the
hearts OF the people Of America today?
do not care in what city, OF what neigh.
b0rhood you go. Which institution is
it2 Is il the postofIict? Ia it the holeJP
Is 1t the lecturlpg hall? All, you know
it is not. You know that the institution
which stands nearest TO tho hearts of
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church. 1fyou have ever seen church
burn down, you have seen thousands of
people standing and looking at it-poo.
pic who never 20 into Church-the
tears raining down their checks. The
whole story ls told.
You may talk a6 out the church being
n collection OF hypocrltes, but when the
dlphtheria sweeps your children of
whom do you send fol? The poetmas.
Ter, The attorney general the hotel keep.
er, alderman? No, you send for minis.
Ter OF this Bible religion. And if YOU
have not room in your house for the OBJ.
scqules what building do you solicit? DO
You say, "Give me tho finest room in
tho hotol?" DO you say, "Give me that
theate19" DO you say, HGive me place
in that rublic building where can Law |
my dead for q little while until we cav
prayer over i;2" No. You say, "Give
us the house of God.n
And it there is q song to be sung at
The obsequies whatd do you want? What
does anybody want? "The Marseillaisen
hymn! "God save the Queen9n Our
own grand national airf No, They
want the hymn with which they sang
thcr old Christian mother into her last
sleep, or they want sung the Sabbath
school hymn which their little girl sang |
tho last Sabbath afternoon she was out |
before she got thai awful sickness which |
broke your heart. appeal to your COM
mon eense. You know the most endear
ing institution or earth, the most popu-
lar institution on earth TODAY, ia the |
church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The lnlidels say, "Infidelity shows it's
success from the fact that It ia everv.
where accepted, and it can say what it
will" Why, my friends, infidellty ls
not halt 80 blatant In our day as 1t was
IN the days ofour fathers. Do you know
that III the days of our fathers there
were pronounced lu(ldels IN public au.
thorlty, andlthey could get any political
poaitiorp Let n man to-day declare him. !
self antagonstic to the Christian re)ig.
on, and what city wants him for may. !,
Dr., what state wants him for governor, q
what nation wants him for president or
or king? Let man openly proclaim y
himself the enemy of ourEgl0rious Chris. q
Aanlty, and he cannot get q majority Of b
'oles in any state, IN any city, in any =
county, in any ward Of America. u
DO you think that such scene could
20 enacted now as was enacted In the r
lays Of Robesplerre, when q shameless b
'oman was elevated as a goddess and {
vas carried in a golden chair to cathe- I
raj, where incense was burned to her =
nd people bowed down before her as a
lvine being, she taking the place of the :
5'ble and God Almighty, while in the
corridor OF that cathedral were enacted /
uch scenes OF drunkenness and debauch- {
'ry and obscenity as have never been {
'itnessedp DO you believe such thing
,ouid possibly occur IN Chrstendom to. {
ial5 No, sir. The police, whether of
fhr!s or New York, would swoop on it.
know lnl,delitY makes good deal
oi talk III our day. 1t Is on the princi-
pie that II man jumps overheard from
Z Cunard steamer he makes moro ex- :
element than all the 500 people that ;
stay on the decks. But the fact that he
jumps oYerboard--does that stop the
'hlp? UOes that wreck the 500 pessen.
,ers? 1t makes great excitement when
man Jumps from q lecturing platform
,r from the pulpit into inlidslity. But ,
ioes that keep the Bible and the church
rom carrying their mllllons of passen.
GERS into the skies?
They say--these men-that science ia
overcoming religion in our day, They
ook through the spectacles Of the lntldel
and they say: cit is impos.
'ible that this book can be true. Peo
Die are finding 1t out. The Bible has
.ot to 60 overheard. Science 10 going
o throw 1t overboard.' DO you believe {
hat the Blblo's account of the origin of
iie will be overthrown by ,ntidel sci. (
ntists who have so different theories
bout the origin of life? If they should
ome up in solid phalanx, all agreeing
n one sentiment and one theory, per.
APPS Christianity might be damaged,
ut there are not so many differences of
plnion inside the church as outside tho
hurCh.
People used to say: "There are 30 1