The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
DELIVERED TWO SERMONS
Rev. DR.. Robertson's Discourses in
the Penn Avenue Baptist
Church-Some of the Strong
Things He Said.

Rev. Dr. Robinson's two sermons
We're heard by large congregations
yesterday afternoon and evening. The
afternoon services opened at o'clock
continuing an hour Last night DR..
Robinson spoke from Tim r 10, This
is faithful saying and worthy Of
all aCceptation that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners, of whom
l am the first" In part. he said: I'VE
do not today meet many faithful say
ings. We are afraid to trust mems
opinion. | have to put an interrOga-
tion mark behind 999 out of a thous-
and sayings / read even in the news
papers, of course excepting the Scran-
ton press, and just here let me say
that ! don't wonder SCUtchmen like
to come here to Scranton. These hills
are the best sight I've seen since leav-
ing the Rocky mountains. 1t makes
my heart warm to look out and see
them. | could live in Scranton for the
sake of these hills.
people speak of science as being cor
rect and yet today they tell me the
earth is round. yesterday they said
it was fiat, tomorrow they may tell
Yesterday in the name of science they
told me the sun moved round the
earth. They caught Galileo and told
him they'd screw his head off if he in
sisted that the earth moved, but poor
Calico, in spite Of his torture. said
She does move
Tomorrow, in the same name of
science, they may tell us that neither
the earth nor the sun nor anything
moves. The science of tomorrow may
be the error of yesterday. The science
Of yesterday is the error of today. A
great scientist said that all the scien-
titiC books on a certain topic older
than ten years might be burned for
they We're all wrong. | thank God by
the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ
that the Word does not change"
The speaker then paid Il pretty trih-
ute to America as he said: we all
realize We are too big a BARN to be
tied to your mothers apron strings to-
day. We're quite proud of you and
you're mother has again taken you to
her heart You've taken your old
Weatherbeaten mother to yours. That
sea fighting spirit of yours, where did
you get it? Because after all We were
sucked on the breast of your mother
Brittania. Her home is on the deep
and 50 it is that the daughter takes
to the sea.
So we were greatly Interested i'm see-
ing the daughter lick the Spaniards.
London and Glasgow We're flooded with
extras, and when ! came to New York
| found still more extras and | had less
money to buy them. | never bought
the early extras. 1t is this way: over
the cable one word arrives and the edi-
tor says TO some poor fellow Now YOU
write two columns off of that word.
The four o'clock edition contradicts
the earlier one and the others do the
same. | learned to wait until the news
went out with my bawbee and got the
last edition, and all the news. do not
| believe the man who tells me that he
has other information to give out.
have the official last edition.
II bless God | have the last edition
| of the Gospel, never to alter till Goo
sets the pillars of the great whit;
| throne and calls men 40 Judgment
| Bless the Lord / have rock beneath my
| feet at last.
"Oh, beloved, when all else is as
| shifting as the sea, as slippery as The
sand, rest on the word of God. BY thr
word of His mouth the heavens were
| framed. 1t is just this, Christ Jesu.
| came to save sinners"