The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-23

to tho fact that the American printing
press Is taking up the sermons which are
preached to few hundred or q 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 1t Isl
What an encouragement for every Chris
tian mani
GLORIOUS FACT.
Besides that, have you noticed that
during the past few years every one Of
the doctrines of the Bible came under dis.
cussion 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, ''Is There Such
Thing as Future Punishment" 1t was
the strangest thing that there should be
discussion In the secularpapers on that
subject, but every paper in the United
States and in Christendom discussed,
lis There Such Thing as RetributionT
| 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 Tyndalls prayer gauge.
About 10 years ago, you remember,
the secular papers discussed that, and
with just as much earnestness us tine re-
ligious papers, and there was not man
in Christendom who did not ask himself
the questions; Is there anything in pray
err May the creature impress the Gre
atory" Oh, what mighty fact, what a
glorious fact-the 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 8 and .
O'Clock, there are ., 900, 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.
childreng So, whereas, once, and within
our memory, the children nibbled here
and there at story in the Bible, now
they are taken through from Genesis to
Revelation, and we shall have 5000, 900
children forestalled for Christianity. Ny
soul is full of exultation. / feel as il /
could shout-I viii shout, "Alleluia, the
Lord God omnipOtent reignethT'
SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION.
Then You notice a more significant
fact, il you have talked with people on
the subject, that they are getting dissat-
isfed with philosophy and science as a
matter of comfort. They say it does not
amount to anything when you have o
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 rel-
gion, and they are taking Christianity,
the only sympathetic religion that ever
came into the world.
( You just take your scientific consola-
tion 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
fittest." 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 ever
lasting now and the eternal what Is
it," Just try your transcendentalism
and your philosophy and your science on
him.
I Go to that widowed soul and tell her
it was q 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 5O,O00,0OO years from
now we ourselves may be scientific spec
linens on geological shelf, petrifed
specimens Of an extinct human race.
And after you have got all through
with your consolation, if the poor aftlict-
ed soul is not crazed by it, will send
forth from this church the plainest
I 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
Is only one exact science. Itis not math-
ematics. Taylor's logarithms have many
imperfections. The French metric sys-
TEN has many imperfections. The only
exact science is Christianity-the only
thing under which you can appropriately
write, "Quod erat demonstrandum. " You
tell me that two and two make four.
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