Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-24


siz, who never made any pretension t.
being Christian, puts both his feet Of
the doctrine of evolution and says, g
see that many of the naturalists of GU
day are adopting facts which do not bea
observation or have not passed under oh
seryation." These men warning agains
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, Ok
not agree on the graduation of the spe
cies. What do they agree on? Hersche
writes whole chapter on the errors o.
astronomy. La Place declares that thu
moon was not put in the right place. HI
says that if it had been put four time!
farther from the earth than it is now
there would be more harmony in the
universe, but Lionville comes up just il
time to prove that the moon was put il
the right place.
How many colors woven into the light
Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, say:
David Brewster. How high is the au
rora borealis2 Two and half miles
says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight
miles, says Twining. How far is the SUI
from the earth2 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
little difference of 28,0O0,OO0 miles
All split up among themselves-not
agreeing ON anything. They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ arc
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 YER
dict, no two of them agree on that YER
dict.
Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed on a y>rdictl" asks the court or
the clerk of the jury as they come in aft
er having spent the whole night in de-
iberating. If the jury say, Eyes, 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, II think he was guilty
of manslaughter in the second degree"
and another man says, II 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 q YER
dict. Agree on something. That is no
verdict"
INFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL.
Here these infdel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as q jury to decide
this trial between inidelity, 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 YER
dict? No, no. Then go back for another
500 years and deliberate and agree on
something. There is not poor, miser-
able wretch in the Tombs court tomor-
row that could be condemned by 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
ssddYappce! am certain it is on the adj
from thy thigh and ride forth to the4vics
toryl
l am nightly encouraged because
find among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuries infdelity has not destroyed
one church, or crippled one 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 its enemies nearly exhausted.
have been examining their ammuni-
ton lately. / have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last 90 years advanced one 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
IS it ever was. We are just getting our
troops into line. They are coming up in
and in regiments, and in bri-
FADES, and you will hear a shout after
while that will make the earth quake
nd the heavens ring with "Alleluia!" 1t
will be this, Forward, the whole liner
And then l find another most encour-
ging thought in the fact that the secular
rinting press and pulpit seem harnessed
4 the same team for the proclamation of
he gospel. Every Wall street banker to-
borrow in New York, every State street
anker tomorrow in Boston, every Third
treet banker tomorrow in Philadelphia,
very banker in the United States, and
very merchant will have in his pocket
'eatise on Christianity, a call to repent
nee, TO- 90 or 80 passages of Scripture
| the reports of sermons preached
these cities and throughout
lie land today. 1t will be so in Chicago,
in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so
Boston, SO in Philadelphia, so every !
here. /
1 know the tract societies are doing '
and and glorious work, but l tell you
ere is no power on earth today equal
the fact that the American printing I
ess is taking up the sermons which are '
cached to few hundred or a few t
ousand people, and on Monday morn 4
g and Monday evening, in the morning v
d evening papers, scattering that truth h
the millions. What thought it is!
hat an encouragement for every Chris y
Il mani n
A GLORIOUS FACT. "
Besides that, have you noticed that j
ring the past few years every one of h
!, doctrines of the Bible came under dis 6
'sion in the secular press? Do you not b
member few years ago, when every tt
per in the United States had an edi- a
ial on the subject, ''Is There Such a
ing as Future Punishmentr's 1t was h;
strangest thing that there should be tc
iscussion in the secular papers on that h;
,iect, but every paper in the United fe