News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-22

Of the jury, have you agreed on. YER
1ict? No, no. Then go back for another
500 wears and deliberate and agree on
There is not a 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
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! l am certain it is on the adj
vance. o Lord God, take thy sword
from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic
toryl
1 am nightly encouraged because l
find among other things that while this
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. l have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last 20 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 1t 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
and the heavens ring with ''Alleluiar 1t
will be this, Forward, the whole line"
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
treatise on Christianity, q 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 soin Chicago,
so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so
in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so every
where.
Iknow the tract societies are doing
grand and glorious work, but l tell you
there is no power on earth today equal
to the fact that the American printing
press is taking up the sermons which are
preached to a few hundred or a few
thousand people, and on Monday morn
ing and Monday evening, in the morning
and evening papers, scattering that truth
to the millions. What thought it isl
What an encouragement for every Chris
tan man!
A GLORIOUS FACT.
Besides that, have you noticed that
during the past few years every one OF
the doctrines of the Bible came under dis
eassion in the secular press? Do you not
remember few years ago, when every
paper in the United States had an edi'
torial on the subject, SIS There Such a
Thing as Future Punishment? 1t was
the strangest thing that there should be
a discussion in the secular papers on that
subject, but every paper in the United
States and in Christendom discussed,
SIS There Such Thing as Retributionf
I know there were small wits who made
sport of the discussion, but there was
not an intelligent man on earth who, as
the result of that discussion, did not ask
himself the question, "What is going to
be my eternal destiny?" So it was in re-
gard to Tyndall's prayer gauge.
About 10 years ago, you remember,
the secular papers discussed that, and
with Just as much earnestness as the re-
ligious papers, and there was not man
in Christendom who did not ask himself
the questions: is there anything in pray
er? May the creature impress the Gre
ator?" Oh, what a mighty fact, what a
glorious fact-tho secular printing press
and the pulpit of the church of Jesus
Christ harnessed in the same teaml
Then look at the international series
of Sunday school lessons. Do you know
that every Sabbath, between and .
o'clock, there are 5. 200, 900 children study
ing the same lesson-a lesson prepared
by the leading minds of the country
and printed in the papers-and then these
subjects are discussed and given over to
the teachers, who give them over to the
children? So, whereas, once, and within
our memory, the children nibbled here
and there at a story in the Bible, now
they are taken through from Genesis to
Revelation, and we shall have 5000, 00C
children forestalled for Christianity. My
soul is full of exultation. l feel as if
could shout will shout, "Alleluia, the
Lord God omnipotent reignethr'
SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION.
Then you notice q more significant
fact, if you have talked with people on
the subject, that they are getting dissat.
isied with philosophy and science as a
matter of comfort. They say it does not
amount to anything when you have a
dead child in the house. They will tell
you, when they were sick and the door OF
the future seemed opening, the only COM
fort they could find was in the gospel
People are having demonstrated all over
the land that science and philosophy can.
not solace the trouble and woes Of the
world, and they want some other reli-
gion, and they are taking Christianity
the only sympathetic religion that ever
came into the world.
You just take your scientific consola-
ton into that room where mother has
lost her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the Survival of the
fttest." Tell her that child died because
it was not worth as much as the other
children. That is your Survival of the
fttest." Go to that dying man and tell
him to pluck up courage for the future.
Use your transcendental phraseology up.
on him. Tell him he ought to be conf
dent in "the great to be-" and the lever.
lasting now" and the eternal what is
it." Just try your characterization
and your philosophy and your science on
him.
Go to that widowed soul and tell her
it was geological necessity that her
companion should be taken away from
her, just as in the course of the worlds
history the megatherium had to pass out
of existence, and then you go on in your
scientific consolation until you get to the
sublime fact that 100000 years from
now we ourselves may be scientific spec
linens on a geological shelf, petriied
specimens of an extinct human race.
And after you have got all through
with your consolation, if the poor aff1ict-
ed soul is not crazed by it, / will send
forth from this church the plainest
Christian we have, and with one half
hour of prayer and reading of Scripture
promises the tears will be wiped away,
and the house from floor to cupola will
be flooded with the calmness of an In
dian summer sunset. There is where !
see the triumph of Christianity. Peo-
pie are dissatisfied with everything else.
They want God. They want Jesus Christ.
Talk about the exact sciences. There