The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-03-24
RELIGION GROWING.
Dr.. Talmage Denies That Christi
anity Is Retrograding.
The Good Work Moving Forward The hi.
bic More Popular Than Ever BEFORE
False Charges vigorously
Refuted-The Proof.

htH >tt
Refuted-The Proof.
In a late sermon ut Brooklyn Rev. Il.
Dewitt Talmage took for his subject
Prom Conquest to Conquest" the text
being taken from Amos IN. Is: Behold
the days come, saith the Lord, hat the
plowman shall overtake the reaper"
DIR. Talmage said:
Picture of n tropical CLINE with n
season so prosperous that the harvest
reaches clear over to the planting time,
and the swarthy husbandman swing
ing the sickle in the thick grain almost
feels the breath of the horses on his
shoulders, the horses hitched to the
pillow preparing for u new crop. "Be-
hold the days come" saith the Lord,
that the plowmau shall overtake the
reaper!' When is this? That is now.
That is this day when hardly have you
done reaping one harvest before the
plowman is getting ready for another.
| know that many declare that
Christianity has collapsed, hat the
Bible is an obsolete book, that the
Christian church is on the retreat. l
~ Y "A III INV" oio" tlldt Vic opp
site of that is true.
An Arab guide was leading n French
infidel across II desert, and ever and
anon the Arab would get down in the
sand and pray to the Lord. 1t disgust
ed the French infidel, and after awhile
as the Arab got up from n of his
prayers the infidel said: "How do you
know there is any God?' and the Arab
guide said: "How do | know that a
man and a camel passed along our tent
last night? know it by the footprints
In the sand. And you want to know
how / know whether there is my God.
Look at the sunset. Is that the foot
step of a MANI" And by the same pro-
cess you and l have come to understand
that this book is the footstep of q God.
But now let us see whether the
Bible is a last years almanac. Let us
see whether the Church of God is n
Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens
and haversacks strewing all the way.
The great English historian, Sharon
Turner, n man of vast learning and of
great accuracy, not a clergyman, but
an attorney, as well as n historian,
gives this overwhelming statistic in re-
gard to Christianity and in regard to
the number of Christians in the differ
ent centuries: In the first century,
500, 900 Christians; in the second CEN
fury. 1000, 900 Christians; in the third
century, 5000, 900 Christians; in the
fourth century, 10, 600, 900 Christians; in
the fifth century, 10, ZOO, 600 Christians;
in the sixth century, 90, 600, 900 Chris
tians; in the seventh century, "a, 900, =
900 Christians; in the eighth century,
30, 900, 900 Christians; in the ninth CEN
fury, 40, 900, 900 Christians; in the tenth
century, so, 900, 900 Christians; in the
eleventh century, 40, 600, 900 Chris
tians; in the twelfth century, so, 000, 600
Christians; in the thirteenth century,
10, 900, 900 Christians; in the fourteenth
century, so, 600, 600 Christians; in the
fifteenth century, 100, 600, 900 Christians;
in the sixteenth century, les, O00, 600
Christians; in the seventeenth century,
155, 900, 900 Christians; in the eighteenth
century, 200, 900, 900 Christians-a de-
cadence, as you observe, in only one
century, and more than made up in the
following centuries, while it is the
usual computation that there will be,
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