The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-23

copies of that book are publishedp A
hundred thousand Which is the more
popular2 Why, Of course the one that
has l00, 900 circulation. And if this book
has more copies abroad in the world, if
there are five times as many Bibles abroad
as any other book, docs not that show
You that the most popular book on the
planet today is the word Of God?
"Oh," say people, "the church is col
lection of hypocrites, and it is losing its
power, and it Is fading out from the
world" Is it? A bishop of the Metho-
dist church told me that that denomina-
ton averages two new churches every
day of the year. There are at least 800
new Christian churches built in America
every year. Does that look as though
the church were fading out, as though it
were defunct institution Which in.
stitution stands nearest the hearts of the
people of America today I do not care
in what village, or in what city, or what
neighborhood you go. Which institution
is it? Is it the postoffice? Is it the no.
tel? Is it the lecturing hallf All, You
know it is not. You know that the in
stitution which stands nearest to the
hearts of the American people is the
Christian church. If you have ever seen
a church burn down, you have seen
thousands of people standing and look
ing at it-people who never go into
church-the tears raining down their
cheeks. The whole story is told.
AN UNPOPULAR RELIEF
You may tank about the church being
collection OF hypocfites, but when the
diphtheria sweeps your children Off
whom do you send lori The postmaster,
the attorney general, the hotel keeper,
alderman! NO, you send Tor minister
OF thls BLDG rehglon. ana II you nave
not room IN your mouse Tor the obse-
quies' what building 40 you solicitf Do
you say tive me the nnest room IN the
hotelr 10 you say, GIVE me that
theater! 10 you say: 0iVe me place
In that pubic building, where can lay
my dead Tor little while until we say
prayer over its NO. you say, Give
us the house OF God.
ana II there IS song 10 De sung at the
obsequles, what 40 you want! what
does anybody wantt line Marselllalse'
hymn' Goo oaVe tne%tueens our own
grand national arr NO Ihey want the
hymn with which they sang their old
Christian mother into her last sleep, OF
they want Sung the Sabbath school hymn
which their little girl sang the last sab
bath afternoon she was out before she
got that awful sickness which broke your
heart. | appeal to your common sense
You know the most endearing institu-
ton on earth, the most popular lnstitu-
ton on earth today, is the church of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The infidels say, 'lnfdelity shows its
successes from the fact that 1t is every
where accepted, and it can say what it
will" Why, my friends, infidelity is
not half so blatant In our days as 1t was
in the days OF our fathers. DO you know
that in the daysof our fathers there We're
pronounced infidels in public authority
and they could get any political positionF
Let man today declare himself antag-
onistic to the Christian religion. and
what city wants him for mayor, what
state wants him for governor. what ma
ton wants him for president or for king!
Let q man openly proclaim himself the
enemy OF our glorious Christianity, and
he cannot get majority OF votes in any
state, In any city, In any county, in any
ward OF America.
RELIGION is SCIENCE.
Do you think that such scene could
be enacted now as was enacted In the
days of Robespierre, when shameless
| woman was elevated as goddess and
was carried IN golden CHAIR TO cathe-
dral, where incense was burned to her
and people bowed down before her as
divine being, she taking the place of the
Bible and God Almighty, while in the
corridor OF that cathedral were enacted
such scenes Of drunkenness and debauch-
cry and obscenlty as have never been
"ltnesseds 10 you oeheve such a thing
couid possibly occur IN Cnrlstendom TO-
day. NO. SIT! Inc ponce, whether OF
faf,s OF new 1ork' "ouid swoop on II.
| kno" WI, 1nndeiity MAKES a gooo deal OF
taik IN our oay. II Is on the prlncipie
tnat II man jump overDoaru from
Cunard steamer ne makes more excite
'neht ehah an the ooopeopie tnat stay on
Inc decks. But the tact That ne Jumps
overpoara-Qoes That stop the shlpf Does
that wreck the ooo passengers ltmakes
great excisement when a man Jumps
IRON the occurring platform or from the
pulpit into 1nndeilty, Dut does that keep
the Bible and the church from carrying
their millions of passengers into the
skies?
They say, these men, that science is
overcoming religion in our day. They
look through the spectacles of the infidel
scientists, and they say: 1T is impossi-
BILE that Ia hook can be true. People
are finding IL out. The Bible has got to
60 overheard. Science is going to throw
1t overheard. Do you believe that the
Bible account of the origin of life will
be overthrow by infidel scientists who
have so different theories about the or.
igin of life2 If they should come up in sol.
i'd phalanx, all agreeing upon one senti.
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