The Penn's Grove record., 1894-03-23

over IT. No. YoI say, Give us the nous
of God"
And il there Is a song to be sung at th
obsequtes. what do you want2 What doe
ANYBODY want? THE Marseillaise" hymn
"toi Save the Q~ueeni'' Our wi gran
national air2 No. They want the bym
with which they sang their old Christia
mother into her last sleep, or they want sun
the sabbath-schoo hymn which their httl
girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she wa
out before she got that awful sickness whiel
broke Your heart. appeal to your common
sens You know the most endearing in
st'iut'on on earth, the most popular institu
on on earth to-day Is the church OF tn
Lord Jesus Christ.
The inldels say, "%Inadelity shows its sue
cesses from the fact that II is everywhere
accepted. and it can say what it will" Why
my trends. inildelity is not half so blatanl
IN our days as it was in the days OF GU
fathers. Do you know that in the days of OH
1athers there were pronounced in1dels IL
public authority and they could get an,
political position? Let a man to-day declare
himself nntaeonistic to the Christian re
hgion, and what city wants him for mayor
what State wants him Tor governor, whai
nation wants him for president or for king
Let Il man openly proclaim himself thu
enemy of our glorious Christianity, and hi
cannot get a majority OF votes in n State
IN any city, in any county, in any ward o
America
Do you think that such a scene could be
enacted now as was enacted in the DAYS o
Robespierre, when a shameless woman wa
elevated as a goddess and was carried in q
golden chair to a cathedral. where incense
was burned to her and people bowed down
before her as a divine being, she taking the
place OF the Bible and God Almighty. while
in the corridor of that cathedral were en-
acted such scenes of drunkenness and de-
b%auchery and obscenity as has never been
witnessed? Do you believe such a thing
could possibly occur in Christendom to-day
No, sir! The police. whether of Paris OF
New York, would swoop on ii.
know infldelity makes a good deal oil
talk In our day. It is on the principle that
1t a man jump overheard from a Cunard
steamer he makes more excitement than all
the 5U0 people that stay on the decks. But
the fact that he jumps Overboard-does that
stop the ship? Does that wreck the SOC
passengers? 1t makes great excitement
when a man jumps from the lecturing plat
form or from the pulpit in fidelity, but does
that keep the Bible AMI the Church from
carrying their millions Of passengers into
the skiesP
They say, these men, that science is over
roming religion in our day. They look
through the spectacles Of the infdel scien-
lists, and they say ut ls impossible~Jhat
this book can be true. People are finding 1t
out. The Bible has got to go overheard.
Science Is going to throw it overheard" Dc
you believe that the Bible account OF the
origin of life will be overthrown by inhdel
scientists who have fifty different theories
about the origin Of HE? II they should come
up in solid phalanx, all agreeing upon one
sentiment and one theory, perhaps Christian
ity might he damaged. but there are not SO
many differences OF opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
People used to say, There are so man
different denominations of Christians-that
shows there is nothing in religion" have
to tell you that all denominations agree on
the two or three or four radical doctrines OF
the Christian religion. They ere 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 up-you cannot fin two of them
alike. Oh, it makes me sick to see these lit
erary tops going along with q copy OF Oar
win under one arm and a case of transfixed
~grasshoppers and butterflies under the other
telling about the Survival of the fit
test" and Huxley's ~protoplasn, and the
nsbular hypothesis.
The fact is that some nac- caIists lust 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 Agas-
sfz, glorious AgassiZ, who never made any
pretensions TO being a Christian, puts both
his feet on the doctrine of evolution and
says, 81 see that many of the naturallsts of
our day are adopting facts which do not
bear o 'sarTation or nsye not passed under
Observation These men warning against
each othrr-Darwin warning against Ia
marche. Wallace warrtns 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 species. What do
they agree on? Herschel writes a whole
on the errors Of astronomy. La
Place declares that the moon was not put in
the right place. He says that IL 1t had been
put four times farther from the earth than it
Is now there would be more harmony in the
universe, but Lionville 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 aurora
horealis? Two and n half miles, says Lias.
One hundred and sixty-eight miles, says
Twining. How far is the sun from the earth?
million miles, says Lacalle.
million miles, says Humboldt.
Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One
hundred and -four million miles, says Mayor
only a little difference OF IS, 900, 900 miles
All split up among themselves-not agreeing
On anything. They come and say that the
of Jesus Christ are divided on the
great doctrines. All united they are, In
Jesus Christ. in the divinity Of the Scrip
lures. While they come up and propose to
their verdict, no two OF them agree
that verdict.
"Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed
On a verdict2' asks the court or the clerk of
jury as they come in after having spent
The whole night in celebrating. II theiury
says, Eyes, we have agreed" the verdict is
recorded, but suppose one of the iurymen
says, Il think the man was guilty Of MUIR
ier,' another says, 81 think he was guilty of
n~anslaughter in the second degree and
mother man says, "Ithink he was guilty of
and battery, with intent to Kill, 1.-THE
Judge would say $50 back to your room
md bring in a verdict. Agree on something.
is no verdict"
Here these infdel scientists have impan.
sled themselves as q jury to decide this trial
in1delity, the plaintiff, and Chris
ianity, the defendant, and after being out
or centuries they come in to render their
Gentlemen of the jury, have YOU
igreed on a verdict No, no. Then go back
or another 500 years and deliberate and
lgree on something. There is not a poor.
miserable wretch in the Tombs court to-morl
'ow that could be condemned by a jury that
lid not agree on the verdict, and yet you ex-
,ect us to give up our glorious Christianity
o please these men who cannot agree on
Inything.
All, my friends, the church OF Jesus Christ
instead Of falling back, is on the advance l
Lm certain it is on the advance. o Lord God,
AXE Thy sword from Thy thigh and ride
orth to the victory!
/ am nightly encouraged because / find
other things that while this Chris
ianity has been bombarded for centuries In
ldellty has not destroyed one church, or
ore minister, or uprooted one verse
# one chapter OF all the Bible. The church
IL the time getting the victory, and the shot
nd shell Of its enemies nearly exhausted.
l have been examining their ammunition
l have looked all through their
artridge boxes. They have not in the last
wenty years advanced one new idea. They
nave utterly exhausted their ammunition 10
battle against the church and against
Scriptures, while the sword of the Lord
Almighty is as keen as 1t ever was. We are
lust getting our troops into line. They are
IN in companies, and in regiments,
and in brlgades, and You VIII hear q shout
after awhile that will make the earth quake
and the heavens ring with "Allsluia I" II
will be this, UForward. the whole liner
And then l find another most encouraging
thought In the fact that the secular printing
press and pulpit seem harnessed IN the same