Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-04-04

what state wants him for governor, Eilat
nation wants him for president or for kingf
Let a man openly proclaim himself the /
enemy Of our glorious Christianity, and he
cannot get majority OF votes in any State, 1
in any city, in any county, in any ward OF
America
Do you think that such a scene could be !
enacted now as was enacted in the days OF |
Robespierre, when a shameless woman was |
elevated as a goddess and was carried In a |
golden chair to a cathedral. where incense |
was burned to her and people bowed down
bsfore her as 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-
bauchery and obscenity as has never been
witnessed? Do Jcu believe sa-a a thing
could possibly occur in Chrlstendom to-day?
30, sir The police, whether OF Paris or
New York, would swoop en- it.
/ know infdelity makes a good deal OF
talk In our day. 1t is on the principle that
Il a man jump overheard from Cunard
steamer he makes more excitement than all
the 500 people that stay on the decks. But
the fact that he jumps overboard-dOes that
stop the ship? Does that wreck the 500
passengersG II makes great excitement
when man jumps from the lecturing plat
form or from the pulpit in fidelity, but does
that keep the Bible and the Church from
carrying their millions OF passengers into
the skies?
They say, these men, that science is over
coming religion in our day. They look
through the spsctacies of the inhdel sclen-
lists. and they say : "It ia impossible that
this book can be true. People are finding it
our. the Bible has got to go overheard.
Science Is going to throw it overheard" Do
you believe that the Bible account OF the
origin o. life viii be overthrown by infdel
scientists who have fifty different theories
about the origin OF lie? n they should come
nv. in hall oil M
sentiment and one theory, perhaps Christian
ity might he damaged, but there are not so
many differences Of opinion inside the
church rs outside the church.
People used TO say, There are so many
different denominations of Chrlstians-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
Scr ptures How is it on the other siiof
All split up-you cannot find two of them
alike. On, it makes me sick to see these lit
erary tops going along with copy OF Dar-
win under one arm and a case of transaIed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the other
arm. telling about the Survival OF the ft-
| test" and Huxley's protoplasm, and the
IeJular hypothesis.
the fact is that some nac-raIists just as
soon as they find out the difference between
the fGelsrs OF wasp and the horns of beetle
begin 10 patrOnizs the Almighty, while Aggs-
siz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any
pretensiOns to being a Christian, puts both
his feet On tte doctrine Of evolution and
says, y see that many of the naturalists OF
| our day are adopting facts which do not
bear observation or have not passed uni ier
D sarvation." These men warriug against
'a"i Other-Darwin warning against LII
marnhe. Wallace warning against Cope, even
| Hers -hel GenOuncing Ferguson.
They do NOT agree about anything They
| 20 nor agree on enbrYology, do not agree
| IN tire grgiliiOn OF the species. What 10
I tney agree on? Herschel writes whole
chapter on the errors of astronomy. La
| Place declares that the moon was not put in
he right place. He says that if it had been
| pGt four times farther from the earth than il
| S now there would be more harmony in the
universe, but LiOnville comes up Just in tins
| 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
borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias.
| One hundred and sixty-eight miles, SAYS
/ rwining. How far is the sun from the sgrtn?
| ISeventy-siN million miles, SAYS Igcalle.
| Eighty-twO million miles, SAYS Humboldt.
Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One
hundred and four milton miles. saws NGyet
|
] All split up among th-mseIvt vts-uy- ayr seing
On anything. Tney come Cni say that the
| .hurches OF Jesus Christ are divised on ths
| -rsat doctrines. All united they are, IN
| icsUS Christ. in the divinity o. the Scrip
! ures. While they come up and propose 10
| ,euier their verdict, no two Of tusm agree
on that verdict.
| "Gsntlemen OF the jury, have you agreed
| on verdict? asks the court or the clerk OF
| he jury rs they come IN after having spent
| the whole night in deiibsrItiug. II the Jury
SAYS "Iss, we have agreed" the verdict is
IrecJried. but suppose "ne Of the iuryEnen
| saws, 4 think the man WIS guilty Of mur-
der another says, 81 think he was guilty o.
mauslaughter in the second degree and
Ianotherman says, - think he was guilty Of
assault and battery, with intent TO kill, the
u1ge would say $50 back to your room
! md bring in a verdict. A-rse on som mstEing.
| That is no verdict"
| Here these infldel scientists have impan-
| eied themselves as a jury to decide this trial
between infldelity, the plaintiff, and Chris
| tianity, the defendant, and after being out
| for centuries they come in to ren Ter their
| verdict. Gentlemen of the jury, have ycp
| igveed on verdict? No, no. Tuen 20 back
! 'Or another 500 years and deliberate and
| lgree on something. There is not poor,
| miserable wretch in the TOmbs cOlrt to-mor-
-Oy that could be condemned by q jury that
| lid not agree on the verdict, AMI Yet you eX-
oect Us to give up our glorious Christianity
| o please these men who cannot agree on
| anything.
| All, my friends, the church OF JoST5 Christ
instead OF falling back, is on the advance l
an certain it is on the advance. o Lord Goi,
take Thy sword from Thy thigh and ride
forth to the victory!
| am nightly encouraged because find
among other things that while this Chris
ltianity has been bOmbaried for centuries in
fidelity has not destroyed one church, or
crippled one minister, or uprOOted one verse
| Of one chapter of all the BiDle. The church
all the time getting the victory, and the shot
! and shell of its enemies nearly exhausted.
| l have been examining their ammunition
lately. 1 have looked all through their
( cartridge boxes. They have rot in the last
twenty years advanced one no- idea. They
nave utterly exhausted their ammunition II
the battle against the church and acains
| the Scriptures, while the sword Of the LOrJ
| Almighty is as keen rs it ever was. We ar
! Just getting our troops into line. They ar
| coming up m companies, and in regiments
| and in hriya1es. and YOU will hear a shOu
| after awhile that will make the earth Quak
and the he1vrns ring with "Alleluia " l
| will bs this. Forward, the whole lnei'
| And then find another most encouraging
| thought in the fact that the secular printin
| press and pul pit seem harnessed in the sam
| team for the proclamation OF the gosOe!
| Every Wall street banker tomorrow in Ney
| AOTN. every state street pan Ner IO-'nOrTO9
in Boston. every Third street banker tO-mOr
row I'm Philadelphia. every banker in N
| United States, AMI every merchant will Eay
| N his pocket q treatise on Christianity,
| call to repeDtenoe. ten, twenty or thtrt
J p lss7G0s of Scripture in the reports OF sas
! sion preached throug ghOut these cities an
throughout the land ;o-lay. Il will be so il
| CDicago. so in New Orleans. so in Charles
ton. so in Boston, SO in Philadelphia, s
| everywhere.
| I know the tract socisiies are doing
| grand and glorious work, but 1 tell you ther
is no power on earth to-day equal TO tn
factthat the American printing press is tax
Ing NJ the sermons which ara preached to
| few hundred or few thousand people an
on Monday morning and Monday evening. in
the morning and evening papers, scatterin
! that truth to the millions. What a though
tits What an encouragement for ever.
Christian man.
| Besides that, have you noticed that dur,n2
the past few years every one OF the doctrine