The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-19


the whole night in celebrating. If the
jury says, Yes. we have agreed, the
verdict is recorded. bat suppose one OF
the iurymen says. j think the man was
guilty of murder and another says, Il
think he was guilty Of manslaughter IN
the second degree and another man
says. 81 think he was guilty OF assault
and battery with intent 10 kill the
Judge would say. GO back to your room
and bring in verdict; agree on some
thing that is no verdict"
Here these intdel scientists have en-
pauCIlel themselves as a jury TO decide
this trial between infdelity. the plaintiff
. 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 verdict, No,
( no. Then 20 back for another five hun
I dred Years and deliberate ana agree on
/ something. There is not a poor miserable
/ wretch In the TOmbs court tomorrow
I that could be condemned by a Jury
] that did not agree on the verdict, and yet
l you expect us to give up our glorious
/ christianity to please these men who can
/ not agree on anything.
All my friends. the church of Jesus
! Christ, instead of falling back, is on the
| advance. l am certain it is on the ad-
/ vance. O Lord God take thy sword from
/ thy thigh and ride forth to the victory.
. =
among other things that while this Chris
| tianity has been bombarded for centuries.
lnhdelltY has not destroyed one church,
| or crippled one minister, or uproOted one
! verse Of one chapter of all tho Bible The
! church all the time getting the victory,
and the shot and shell of its enemies
nearly exhausted. | have been eXamin-
| ing their ammunition lately: have looked
| all through their cartridge-boxes. They
| have not in the last twenty years adj
! vauced one new idea. They have utterly
| exhausted their ammunition in the battle
| against the church and against the scrip
lures, 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 regi-
ments and in brigadeS and you will hear
a shout after awhile that will make the
earth quake and the heavens ring with
Alleluia. 1t will be this Forward the
whole line.'
And then find another most encourag-
ing thought in the fact that the secular
printing press and pulpit seemed har-
messed in the same team for the procla-
nation of the gospel. Every Wall street
banker tomorrow 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
bis pocket treatise on Christianity, a
call to repentance, ten, twenty, or thirty
passages of scripture in the reports of
sermons preached throughout these cities
and throughout the land to-day. 1t will
be so in Chicago, 50 in New Orleans, so
in Charleston, so in Boston, so in Phila-
delphla, so everywhere. | know the tract
societies are doing a grand and glorious
work, but | tell you there is no power on
earth to-day equal to the fact that the
American printing press is taking up the
sermons which are preached to a few
hundred or few thousand people, and on
Monday morning and Monday evening in
the morning and evening papers, scatter
ing that truth TO the millions. What
thought it is What an announcement
for every Christian man!
Besides that, have you noticed that
during the past few years every one of the
doctrines of the Bible came under discus
sion in the secular pressl Do you not re-
member few years ago-when every
paper in the United States had an edito-
rial on the subject: rs there such a thing
as future punishment" 1t was the
strangest thing that there should be a dis
cussion in the secular papers on that sub
iect, but every paper in the United States
and in ChristendOm discussed. rs there
such a thing as retribution2" / know
there were small wits who made sport of
the discussion, but there was not an intel
ligent man on earth who, as the result of
that discussion did not ask himself the
question: What is going TO be my eternal
Gestiny2' So it was in regard to Tyndall's
prayer guage. About twelve years ago
you remember the secular papers dis
cussed that, and with Just as much earn
estness as the religious papers, and there
was not n man in Christendom who did
not ask himself the question: rs there
anything in prayer May the creature
Impress the Creator" Oh, what a mighty
fact, what glorious fact, the secular
printing press and the pulpit of the church
of Jesus Christ harnessed in the same
team.
Then look at the International Series of
Sunday School lessons. Do you know
that e ely Sabbath between three and
five o'CllCN, there are five million child
rem studying the same lesson, a lesson
! prepared by the leading minds of the
country, and printed in the papers, and
tncn these subjects are discussed and
| given over to the teachers, who give them
| over to the children; so whereas once
ana within our memory --the,children nib
| bled here and there at story in the
| Bible now they are taken through from
| Genesis to Revelation and we shall have
five million children forestalled for
| Christianity. NV soul is full of exulta-
ton / feel as if could shout will
] nll'u's <AAtCAUAtl, VIC L-OLu NtOeA OAlul pc
tent reignethn'
Then you notice a more significant fact,
if you have talked with people on the sub
iect, that they are getting dissatisfied
with philosophy and science as 4 matter
of comfort They say it does not amount
10 anything when you have a dead child
| in the house. They tell you, when they
were sick and the door of the future
| seemed opening, the only comfort they
/ could find, was in the gospel People are
/ having demonstrated all over the land
| that science and phiosO 5hy cannot solace
| the trouble and woes of the world, and
| they want some o,her religion. aud they
are taking Christianity, the only sympa-
/ thethic religion that ever came into the
/ world. Nou Just take your scientific con
/ ISOLATION into that room where a mother
has lost her child. Try in that case Your
! splendid doctrine of the Survival of the
/ tittest Tell her THAT child died be- ause
/ it was not worth as much as the other
! children. That is your survival of the
tttest." 60 10 that diving man and tell
} him to pluck up courage Tor the future
/ Use your transcendental ,phrascology upon
I him. Tell him he ought TO be confident in
The great to be, and the everlasting
now and the eternal WHAT'S it." Just
try your transcendentalism and your
philosophy and your science on him. Go
to that widowed soul and tell her it was