The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1894-03-23
THE RECRUITS.
fh rrs
tc' Jesus Christ Are Increasing by
the Millions.

only One Century In Nineteen shows q
Loss rom Half "a wilton in the FIRST
Century to Three Hundred Million
Ia the Present-Tal Images sermon.
IN the Tabernacle Sunday Rev. Dr.
Tai maze preached q most eloq arnt and
Enthusiastically vigorous sermoc in
yefutation of the oft-renewed asser-
ton of the enemies Of religion that
Christianity is retrograding and the
4 Bible losing its hold upon the hearts
and consciences OF men. The subject
OF the discourse, as announced. was,
From Conquest TO Conquest, the text
being taken from Amos tx, 70: be-
hold the days come saith the Lord.
that the plowman shall ovcrtsas the
lreaper."
4 Picture of = tropical cline With a sea-
lecp - ,prospsrous that the harvess
lrsaches clear over 70 tbs ploakl(7 ~
] lSe {Se sfsxSs e. - II = 81
most feels the breath of the horses on
his shoulders, the horses hitched to tho
pillow preparing for a new crop. Be
hold the days come. saith the Lord, that
the plowman shall overtake the reap.
err" When is that? That is now.
That Is this day, when hardly have you
done reaping one harvest before the
plowman is getting ready for another
, know that many declare that Chris
tianity has collapsed; that the Bible is
an obsolete book; that the Christian
church is ON the retreat ! will here
and now show that the opposite OF that
Is true.
An Arab guide was leading French
| infidel across a desert. and ever and
anon the Arab guide would get down
in tn, sand and pray 10 the Lord. IL
| Disguised the French infidel, and after
awhile, as the Arab got up from one of
his prayers, the infidel said: How do
you know there is any God?"i and the
| Arab guide said: ''How do know
that man and a camel passed along
| our tent last night? ! know it by the
footprints in the sand. And you want
to know how l know whether there is
| any God. Look at that sunset Is that
| the footstep of a MANI" And by the
same process you and'I have come to
| understand that this book is the foot
step of God
But now let us see whether the Bible
is a last years almanac. Let us see
whether the Church of God is in Bull
Run retreat, muskets, canteens and
baversacks strewing all the way. The
great English historian, sharon Tar
ner. a man of vast learning and OF
great accuracy, not n clergyman, but
AN attorney. as well as a historian,
gives this overwhelming statistics in re-
gard to the number of Christians in the
different centuries. In the first century.
500, 900 Christians; in the second GEN.
fury, 1000 600 Christians; in the third
century. 5.000,0 900 Christians; in the
fourth century, 10 900 900 Christians: in
the fifthcentury, ! ), 600, 900 Christians; in
the sixth century, 10000, 600 Christians;
in the seventh century, "a. 900, 900 Chris
tians; in the eighth century, so, 900, 600
Christians; in the ninth century, 40. 0OO.-
900 Christians; in the tenth century,
b0, 900, 600 Christians: in the eleventh
century, 20 00O, 600 Christians: in the
twelfth century, so 600 900 Christians;
in the thirteenth century, $4,000, 900; in I
the fourteenth century, 50, 900, 600 Chris |
tans: in the fifteenth century, 100, 0OO,- |
900 Christians; in the sixteenth CEN
Jury. l23 00) 900 Christians; In the sew 4
snteenth century, 155, 600. 600 Christians:
n the eighteenth century, 200, O0O,- 4
700 Christians-a decadence, as you
observe in only one century, and more
than made up in the following centur.
les. while it is the usual computation
that there will be. when the record of
the nineteenth century is made up, at
least 3O0. 900, 600 Christians Poor
Christianity. what pity il has no
friends. How lonesome il must be.
Who will take it out OF the poor-house?
Poor Christianity! Three hundred mil
lions in one century. In few weeks
Of the year 1881 2, 500, 600 copies of the
New Testament distributed WHY, the
earth is like an old castle with twenty I
gates and park of artillery ready
TO thunder down every gate Law '
aside all Christendom and see how
leathendom is being surrounded
Ind honeycomhed and attacked by q
his all'conquering gospel. At the {
of this century there were l
only $50 missionaries; now there are 9
a, 900 missionaries and native helpers q
ina evangelists At the beginning of !
his century there were only 40 o1o S
leathcn converts: now there arc 7,o. {
100 converts from heathendon. Thcre +
: not a sea coast on the plane, but the )
,attery of the GOSPEL is planted and |
eadv to march on. north. soutb eost d
vest. You all know ,hpchief work ~ p
m army is to plant the batteries II f
nay take many DAYS to plant the hat. e
cries, and thev do all their work in 10 S
minutes These batteries are heinz h
,lauted all along the sea coasts and in $
II nations. I, MAJ tal,e a good vhila z
o plant them. and they NAV do ali a
heir work in one dav. They will (,
Nations are To be horn in a d,v RAT b
ust come back to Christendo;n and rec. G
rnize the fact that during the last ton p
ears as many people have connected
themselves with the evangelic,l q
hurches as connected themselves with l.
ne churches in the first so wears of his $
entury. :
so Christianity is fallintr hocl, and n
he Bible. they saw. is becoming an oh. o
olcte book. 90 into court. and i