Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-23

hear a shout after while that
will make the earth quake and the
heavens ring with Alleluia. It will
be this Forward the whole line"
And then / find another most en-
couraging thought in the fact that
the secular print ting press and pulpit
seem harnessed in the same team for
the proclamation of the gospel Every
Wall street banker tomorrow in New
York, every State street banker to-
morrow 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 re-
pentance, ten, twenty, or thirty pas
sages of scripture in the reports of SER
mons preached throughout these cities
and throughout the land to-day. 1t
will be so in Chicago, SO in New Orleans,
so in Charleston, SO in Boston, so in
Philadelphia, SO everywhere. l 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 few hundred cr a
few thousand people, and on Monday
morning and Monday evening, in the
morning and evening papers, scatter
ing that truth to the millions What
n thought it is! What an encourage
ment 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
discussion in the secular press? DO
you not remember few years ago
when every paper in the United States
had an editorial on the subject: us
there such a thing as future punish
ment?' 1t was the strangest thing
that there should be n discussion in
the secular papers on that subject, but
every paper in the United States and
in Christendom discussed: is there
such thing as retribution?" /
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 des-
tiny?" So it was in regard to Tyn-
dall's prayer gauge About twelve
years ago you remember the secular
papers discussed that, and with just
as much earnestness as the religious
papers, and there was not man in
Christendom who did not ask himself
the question: as there anything in
prayer? May the creature impress the
Creator?" Oh, what mighty fact,
what glorious fact. the secular print
ing 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 every Sabbath between 3
and 5 o'clock, there are 5000, 900 chill
dren studying the same lesson, les
son 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 10 Revela-
ton and we shall have 1000 900 chill
dren forestalled for Christianity. My
soul j. full of e;Sultation. l feel as if
| could shout will shout, "Alleluia,
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!'
Then you notice more significant
fact, if you have talked with people on
the subject that they are getting dis
satisfied with philosophy and science
as matter of comfort. They say it
does not amount to anything when
you have n 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 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
G. ne into the world. You just take
your scientific consolation into that
room where mother has lost her
child Try in that case your splendid
doctrine II the survival of the fttest. Z"
Tell her that child died because it was
not worth as much as the other chill
dren.' 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 upon him. Tell him he
ought to be confident in 1.-The great to
be" and the everlasting now" and
the eternal what-isit Just try
your transcendentalism and your phi
losophy and your science on him. Go
TO that widowed soul, and tell her
it was a geological necessity that
her companion should be taken
away from her, just as in the course
of the worlds history the mega
therium had TO pass out of existence;
and then you go on in your scientific
consolation until you get to the sub
lime fact that fifty million years from
now we ourselves may be scientific
specimens en- geological shelf, petri-
fed specimens of an extinct human