The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-29
Cope, even Herschel denouncinp Fer,

not agree on the graduation Of the the
species. What do they agree on
Herschel writes whole chapter on
the errors of astronomy. La Place
declares that the moon was not nut
IN the right place. He says that If il
been put four times farther from the
earth than 1t Is row there would be
more harmony In the universe, but
Llonviiie comes up jusu In time te
prove that the moon WAS put in the
right place.
How many colors woven into the
light? Seven says Isaac Newton. Three
says David Brewster. How high is the
aurora oorealis? Two and a half mile.
says says. Las. One hundred and sixty
eight miles says Twining. How far /.
the sun from the earthf Seventy.
million miles says Lacalle. Eighty two
million miles says Humboldt. Ninet,
mlllion miles says Henderson. On,
hundred and four million miles say,
Mayer. Only little difference of %,
oO0OOO milesl All split up among them
selves, not agreeing on anything. They
| come and say that the churches oj
Jesus Christ are divided on the great
doctrines. All united they are in
Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the
Scriptures. While they come up and
propose to render their verdict, no two
of them agree on that verdict.
"Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed on Verdjctp" asks the court or
Che clerk OF the jury as they come in
after having spent the whole night In
celebrating. If the jury say, Eyes,
we have agreed" the verdict is record
ed. But suppose one Of the jurymen
says, II think the man was guilty of
murder" and another says, 81 think he
was guilty Of granddaughter in the Sec
| ond degree" and another man saws, IL
think he was guilty Of assault and bat
terry with intent to kill" the Judge
would say: "Go back to your r0om and
bring In verdict. Agree on some.
thing. That Is no verdict.
Here these inlldel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as a jury to decide
this trial between infidel1ty, the plain
TIL, and christianity, the defendant.
ana after being out for centuries they
come come IN to render their verdict. Gen
tlemen OF the jury, have you agreed on
a verdict? No, no. Then 90 back for
another 500 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There Is not a
poor, miserable wretch in the Tombs
court tomorrow that could be con,
demned by "a 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.
Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ, instead Of falling back, Is on the
advance. l am certain it is on the ad.
vance, . Lord God, take thy sword
from thy thigh and ride forth to the
victory.
am nightly encouraged because
una among other things that while
this Christianity has been bombarded
tor centuries intidelity has not destroy
ca one church, or crippled one minis
ter Of all the Bible. The church all the
time getting the victory, and the shot
and she'll of it's enemies nearly exhaus-
ted.
have been examining their ammu-
milton 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 ammunition in the battle against
the church and against the Scriptures,
while the sword of the Lord Almighty
ls as keen as 1t ever was. We are lust
getting our troops into line. They are
coming up In companies, and In regi-
nents, and In brigades. and you will
lear shout after awhile that VIII
make the earth quake and the heavens
ing with "AlleluiaP' 1t will be this,
Forward, the whole line!"
And then I find another most on
ouraging thought in the fact that the
ocular printing press and pulpit seem
arnessed in the same team for the
reclamation of the gospel. Every
Vail street banker tomorrow In New
!, ork, every State street banker tomor-
oW In Boston, every Third street
anker tomorrow in Philadelphia every
anker In the United States and every
Merchant will have In his pocket
realise on Christianity, a call to re-
entance-10, 20 or 30 passages of
crlptnres In the reports of sermons
reached throughout these cities and
throughout the land today. 1t will be
Q In Chicago, so In New Orleans, 80 in
charleston, 80 In Boston. 80 in Phia-
lelphia, so everywhere.
I know the tract societies are doing
grand and glorious work, but | tell
'ou there Is no power on earth TODAY
qual to the fact that the American
'r1nting press Is taking up the sermons
which are preached to few hundred
'r few Thousand people, and on Mon
lay morning and Monday evening, in
he morning and evening papers, scat
ering that truth to the millions. What
thought 1t is! What an encourage.
nent to every Christian mani
Besides that have you noticed that
Turing tbe past few years every one of
he doctrines Of the Bible came under
discussion In the secular pressp Do you
lot remember q few years ago when
'very paper In the United States had
IN editorial on the subject, "Is There
such Thing as Future Punishment?"
t was the strangest thing that there
hould be a discussion In the secular
papers on that subj ect, but every pa.
,er in the United States and in Chris
endom discussed, 'Is There Such q
Thing as Itetrlbution l know there
we're small wits who made sport of the
discussion, but there was not an intel.
igent man on earth who. as the result
II that discussion, did not ask himself
he question, "What is going to he my
'ternal destinyp" So 1t was In regard
o Tyndal's prayer gauge.
, About IL years ago, you remember,
he secular papers discussed that with
ust as much earnestness as tho reli-
'ious papers, and there was not man
n Christendom who did not ask him.
elf the questions: "Is there anything
q prayer? May the creature impress