The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-06

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Rev. w. L. S. Murray preached
very interesting sermon In St.
Paul' 8 M. e. Church, on Sunday
morning, from the last clause of the
3oth verse of the I'd chapter of Dam
lei: "And the stone that smote the
image became great mountain and
hlled the whole earth" The
preacher considered the mystic
stone represented Christ, whose in.
fiuence will eventually fill the W hole
earth. In the past hundred wears
a great work has been accomplished
in the different nations of the earth
and the time is rapidly coming when
the knowledge Of the Lord shall
cover the earth, as the waters do
the great deep, when every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess,
as Christ came to the earth not to
fail, but to succeed. The Colossus
at Rhodes and other he athen shrines
do not begin to stand as high today
as do the truths of the Gospel. He
quoted the desire of Charles Wesley:
"Oh for thousand tongues to sing,
My great Redeemer's praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs Of his grace.
Through the preaching of the
gospel, the images of iron, clay,
brass, silver and gold are being
broken to pieces and scattered like
chatf on the summer threshing floor.
The Acts of the Apostles furnish
the greatest missionary exhorta-
tons that can be found anywhere.
He spoke of the great work per-
formed in the foundation of the tenn
pie of Diana by the Ephesians, yet
it could not stand the mutations OF
time. st. Paul hnrled the Mystic
Stone that will eventually dispel all
error. The Bible and the common
schools were showing the falsity Of
the Koran and the books of Confuci-
us. The Bible has been printed in
over 300 languages and its teach
ings will grind topowder every idol
in existence.
The assaults of Paine, Voltaire
and Rosseau had utterly failed and
every skeptical hammer had been
broken to pieces. What God has
said must be so. The Bible was
the exponent of truth, and the reply
of the Irishman to the Priest was
commended, "what we understand
does us good, and what we do not
understand does no harm, therefore
he preferred to read and interpret
its mysteries for himself, instead Of
relying on Others .
In 1852 the English gave SO, $50, 900
for repairing heather temples and
images in India, believing that the
missionaries could effect little good
among the natives. In 1887 the Sc
poy Rebellion occurred and had it
not been for the aid afforded by the
converted heather, the English army
would have been defeated and driv.
ell out of that country. Since that
date the East India Company has
not given one dollar to promote
idolatry. There are now some
10000 missionaries employed In
heather lands, and yet in China
there is scarcely one missionary to
a million heather. He could not
understand how one could be ex.
pected to influence such a vast null,
titude, when he could scarcely keep
500 christians straight in our civil.
lied city. Some of the greatest
men in China were studying the
scriptures and a great work may be
in that country. AS tho
numberof missionaries increase, the
influence Of the prayers of their
relatives and friends would be more
greatly seen. The prayers going
up from our city for the young mis-.
sent out by st. Paul's
Church would prove a great power
for good. He believe the money
for the missionary cause
will prove a good investment in a
point Of view as we'll as In
a spiritual one. AS savages becoma
civilized they want clothing as we'll
as better food. Commerce would 20
hand in hand with enlightenment,
and the result of liberal contribu.
tons would be good in every way.
He told what Mr. Goucher of Balti,
more had done by establishing 100
schools in heather lands and his
efforts had been duplicated by the
pcopleof England. lie thought the
of the century would