Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-03-30


girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was
ont before she got that awful sickness which
broke your heart. appeal to your common
sense. You know the most endearIng In
stitution on earth, the most popular ihst1tr
tIon on earth to-day is the church OF the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The infdels say, "Infdelity shows its sue
cesses from the fact that it Is everywhere
accepted, and it can say what 1t will. why,
my friends, infldelity is not half SO blatant
In our days as it was in the days OF our
fathers. Do you know that in the days OF our
fathers there were pronounced inldels IN
public authority and they could get any
political position2 Let man to-day declare
himself antagonistic to the Cbristian re-
iigior and what city wants him for mayor,
what State wants him Tor governor, what
nation wants him for president or Tor KING!
Let n man openly proclaim. himself the
enemy of our glorious Christianity, ana nc
cannot get majority OF votes in any stare,
in any city, in any county, in any Waru VI
America. ,,
Do YOU think that such scene could De
enacted now as was enacted in the days OF
Robespierre, when shameless woman was
elevated as a goddess and was carried III
golden chair TO cathedral. whara incense
was burned to her AMI people bowed down
befote her as divine being, she taking the
place of the Bible and Col Almighty, while
in the corridor of that cathedral wers en-
noted such scenes of drunkenness AMI de-
bauchery and obscenity as has never been
witnessed2 Do you believe such thing
could possibly occur in Christendom to-day?
No, sir The police, whether OF Paris or
New York, would swoop on If.
tror inhdolifv makes NO01 deal oil
talk in our dav. It is on the principle that
If a man lump overheard from Cunard
steamer be makes more excitement than all
the 800 people that stay on the decks. But
the fact that he jumps overboard=does that
stop the shp2 Does that wreck the SOD
passehgers2 1t makes great excitement
when man jumps from the featuring plat
form or from the pulpit id fidelity, but does
that keep tho Bible and the Church from
carrying their millions Of passengers into
tie skiesS
They say. these men, that science is over
coming religion in our day. They look
through the spectacIes OF the inhdel sclen~
lists, AMI they say: at is impossible that
| this book can be true. People are nn1ing II
out. The Bible has got to go overheard
Science is going to throw it overheard" Do
you believe that the Bible account OF the
origin of life will be overtbrown by inhdel
scientists who have fifty different theories
about the origin OF lie? II they should come
up in solid phalanx. all agreeing upon one
sentiment and one theory, perhaps Christian
jty might be damaged, but there are not so
many differences of opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
People used 10 say, 'rrhere are 30 many
different denominations of Christiahs-that
shows there is nothing in religion" have
to tell you that all denominations agree on
the two or threa or four radical doctrines of
the Christian religion. They are unanimous
in regard to Jesus Christ, and they are
unanimous in regard 10 the divinity OF the
Scriptures. How is it on the other side?
Ill split up--you cannot find two Of them
alike. Oh, it makes me sick to see these lit
erary fops going along with copy OF OAR
win under one arm and a case of transflxed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the other
arm, telling about the Survival of the fit
test" and Huxiey's protoplasm, and the
nebuIar hypothesis.
The fact is that some naturalists just as
soon rs they find out the difference between
the feelers of a wasp and the horns OF beetle
begin TO patronize the Almighty, while Agas-
siz, glorious Agass;z, who never made any
pretensions to being a Christian, puts both
his feet on the doctrine of evolution and
1
our day are adopting facts which do not
bear observation or have not passed under
observation" These men warning against
each other-Darwin warning against La
marche, Wallace warning against Cope, even
Hersche dehouncing 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? Hersche1 writes whole
chapter on the errors OF astronomy. La
Place declares that the moon was not put in
the right place. He says that il it had been
put four times farther from the earth than it
is now there would be more harmony in the
universe, but Lic.ville 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
borealis? Two and half miles, says Las.
One hundred and sixty-eight miles, says
Twining How far is the sun from the earth3
Seyenty-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 Is, OOO.O miles
All split up among themselves-nota agreeing
on anything. They come and say tnat the
:
great doctrines All united they are, in
Jesus Christ. in the divinity Of the Scrip
lures. While they come up and propose to
rem Ter their verdict, no two OF them agree
on that verdict.
Gentlemen of the jury. have you agreed
on yer iict?' asks the court or the CLERK OF
the jury as they come in after having spent
the whole night in celebrating. II thejury
says, eyes, we have agreed, the verdict IS
| recorded, but suppose one OF the Jurymec
says, II think the man was guilty OF muir
DER another SAYS, 81 think he was guilty of
manslaughter in the second degree" and
another man says. II think he was guilty OF
assault and battery, with intent TO kill, the
Judge would say go back TO your room
and bring in a verdict. Agree on something.
That is no verdict.
Here these infidel scientists have impair
eed themselves as a jury to decide this trial
between infldeity, the plaintiff, and Chris.
tianity, the defendant, and after being OUT
for centuries they come in to render their
verdict. Gentlemen of the jury, have you
ggreed on a verdict No, no. linen go back
for another 500 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There Is not poor,
miserable wretch in the Tombs coart to-mor-
row that could be condemned by jury that
did not agree on the verdict, and yet you eX-
pect us to give up our glorious Christianity
10 please these men who cannot agree on
anything.
All, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ
instead of falling back, is on the advance
am certain it is on the advance. 0 Lord Goa,
take Thy sword from Thy thigh and ride
forth 10 the victory
am nightly encouraged because l find
among other things that while this Chris
tianity has been bombarded for centuries IN
fidelity has not destroyed one church, or