The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-28
church as outside the church.
THE FITTEST SURVIVES.


different denominations of Christians
that shows there is nothing in religion"
I have to tell you that all denominations
agree on the two or three or four radical
doctrines of the Christian religion. They
are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ,
and they are unanimous in regard to the
divinity Of the Scriptures. How is it on
the other side? All split upryou cannot
find two of them alike. Oh, it makesm me
sick to see these literary tops going along
with a copy of Darwin. under n arm
and acaseof transfxed grasshoppers and
butterflies under the other ann, telling
about the survival Of the fttest," and
Huxley's protoplasm, and the nebular
hypothesis.
The fact is that some naturalists just
as soon as they find out the difference
between the feelers of a wasp and the
horns of a beetle begin to patronize the
Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas-
siz, who never made any pretension to
being a Christian, puts both his feet on
the doctrine Of evolution and says, Il
see that many of the ~naturaiists Of u
day are adopting facts which do not bear
observation or have not passed under OBJ
servation." These men warning against
each other-Darwin warning against La
marche, Wallace warning against Cope,
even Herschel denouncing Ferguson.
They do not agree about anything.
They do not agree on embryology, do
not agree on the graduation of the spe-
cies. What do they agree on? Herschel
writes a whole chapter OF the errors of
astronomy. La Place declares that the
moon was not put in the right place. He
says that if it had been put four times
farther from the earth than it is now
there would be more harmony in the
universe, but LionviIle comes up just In
time to 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 au-
rora b~orealis?: Two and a half miles,
says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight
miles, says Twining. How far is the sun
from the earth: Seventy-six million
miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million
miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million
miles, says Henderson. One hundred
and four million miles, says Mayer-only
a little difference of 26,N0,000 miles!
All split up among thenselves-not
agreeing on anything. They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided on the great doctrines. Ali
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 a verdict" asks the court or
the clerk of the jury as they come in aft
er having spent the whole night in de-
liberating. If the jury say, Yes, we
have agreed" the verdict is recorded,
but suppose one of the jurymen says,
81 think the man was guilty Of murder,'
and another says, 81 think he was guilty
of manslaughter in the second degree
and another man says, Il 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 a YER
dict. Agree on something. That is no
verdict"
NFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL.
Eere these infdel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as a jury to decide
this trial between infdelity, 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 a poor, miser-
able wretch in the Tombs court tomor-
row that could be condemned 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.
All, my friends, the church Of Jesus
Christ, instead Of falling back. is on the
advance! I am certain it is on the adj
vance. O Lord God, take thy sword
from thy thigh and ride forth to the VIC
tory!
I 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 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 it's enemies nearly exhausted.
I have been examining their ammuni-
ton lately. l have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last 20 years advanced n new idea.
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