Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-24

lSin Vi NE! Ii tney should come up IN sol
I id phalanx, all agreeing upon one senti-
ment and one theory, perhaps Christiani-
| ty might be damaged, but there are not
so many differences of opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
THE FITTEsT SURVIVES.
People used to- say, There are so many
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
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 up-you cannot
find two of them alike. Oh, it makes me
sick to see these literary fops going along
with a copy of Darwin under one arm
and case of transtixed grasskoppers and
butterflies under the other arm, telling
about the Survival of the fittest," 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 wasp and the
horns of a beetle begin TO patronize the
Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas-
siz, who never made any pretension to
being Christian, puts both his feet on
the doctrine of evolution and says, Il
see that many of the naturalists of our
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 denouneing Ferguson.
They do not agree about anything.
They do not agree Gu embryology, 60
not agree on the graduation of the spe-
cies. What do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on 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 Lionville comes up Just i'll
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 borealis? Two and half miles,
says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight
miles, says Twining. How far is the sun
from the earthg 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 29,000,G 600 miles!
All split up among themselves-not
agreeing on anything. They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided on the great doctrines. All
united they are, III 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 7rdict!' asks the court OF
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,
Il think the man was guilty of murder,
and another says, Il think he was guilty
of manslaughter in the second degree, !"
end another man says, Il think he was
guilty of assault and battery, with in
tent to KILL" the judge would say: $50
back to your room and bring in ver-
dict. Agree on something. That is no
verdict"
INFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL.
Here these infdel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as a jury to decide
this trial between infidelity, 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 poor, miser-
able wretch in the Tombs court tomor-
row that could be condemned by Jury
that did not agree on the verdict, and vet
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! | am certain it is on the ad-
vance. o Lord God, take thy sword
| from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic
tory!
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.
l have been examining their ammuni-
ton lately. | have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last go 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
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 shout after
awhile that will make the earth quake
aud the heavens ring with '.Alleluiar' 1t
will be this, Forward, the whole liner
And then ! find another most encour-
aging thought IN the fact that the secular
printing press and pulpit seem harnessed
in the same team for the proclamation of
the gospel. Every Wall street banker to-
morrow in New York. every State street
banker tomorrow in Boston, every Third
street banker tomorrow in Philadelphia.
every banker in the United States, and
every merchant will have in his pocket a
treatise on Christianity, call to repent
ance, 10. 20 or 80 passages of Scripture
in the reports of sermons preached
throughout these cities and throughout
the land today. 1t will be SO in Chicago,
SO in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so
in Boston, SO in Philadelphia, SO every
where.
know the tract societies are doing
grand and glorious work, but | tell you
there is no power on earth today equal