The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-06-30

men WI lie in the dSfense OF
this book where there is not more than
one man WHO'D would die in the defense
of any other book. You try to Insult
nv common sense by telling me the
Rible is fading, ont from the world Ii
It the most POPULAR book of the centu-
ries.
How do know? l know it just as
know In regard to other books. How
many volumes or that history are pup
Iished? Well, you say 5000. How
maSy copies of bother book arg pub
ushed? A hundred thousand. Nhlch
is the more popular? Why, ofeourse
the one that has theN hundred tlpusand
circulation. And If THIS book hls more
copies abroad in the world, if here are
five times as many Bibles Proad as
anv other book among NSlNized ma
tons, does not that show that the
most popular book on e today Is
the word of God?
collection of hypocrites, q d it is los
ing its power, and it is fading out from
the world. Is it? A bishop of the
Methodist church told me that that de-
nomination averages two new churches
every day. In other words, they build
40 churches in that denomination In
| a year. and there are at least 1900 new
| Christian churches built in America
| every year. Does that look as though
the Christian church were fading out;
as though it were defunct institution
What stands nearest to the hearts OF
the American people today? l do not
care in what village or what city or
what neighborhood you go. What is
It? Is it the postofice2 Is it the hotel!
Is it the lecture hall? All, you know
II is not. You know that that which
stands nearest to the hearts or the
American people is the Christian
church.
InfideIity Decreasing.
You may talk about the church being
a collection of hypocrites, but when the
diphtheria sweeps your children on
whom do you send for? The postmas-
ter? The attorney general? The hotel
keeper? Alderman? No. You send for
a minister Of this Bible religion. And
If you have not a room in your house
for the obsequies, what building do you
solicit? Do you say, "Give me the
finest room in the hotelY Do you say,
"Give me that theater% Do you say,
'Give me that public building, where !
can Law my dead for little while until
! | we say a prayer over it?" No. You
saw. sGiye us the house of God" And
: If there is a song to be sung at the
obsequies, what do you want? What
: does anybody want? The "Marseillais'
. HvmnY' God Save the QueenT' Oul
: own grand national air? No. The1
: want the hymn with which they SAM
q their old Christian mother into her las
: sleep or they want sung the Sabbatl
Y school hymn which their little girl SAM
: the last Sabbath afternoon she wa
b out before she got that awful sickness
e which broke your heart. appeal
n vour common sense. You know tn
J. most endearing institution on earth, tn
% most popular institution on earth tC
: dav. is the church Of the Lord Jesu
: Christ. A man is a fool that does nc
J. recognize 1t.
b The infidels say: 'SThere is great iii
le ertv now for infidels-freedom Of pla
s. form. Infidelity shows its power frol
J. the fact that it is everywhere tolera
y ed. and it can say what it will" WI.
h nv friends, infidelity is not half
he blatant in our day as it was in the day
s. of our fathers. Do you know that
D. the DAYS Of our fathers there were pr
~ noupced infidels in public authorit
re and they could get any political pos
u ton? Let a man today declare hlmse
IN antagonistic to the Christian rellglo
e. and what city wants him for mayo
IS, what state wants him for governo
is what nation wants him for president
i'll for king? Let a man openly proclai
is himself the enemy of our glorio'
Christianity, and he cannot get m
IL toritv of votes in any state, in any cit
st in any country, in any ward OF Anne
II lea.
n A distinguished infdel years as
w riding in a rail car in Illinois, sal
OF ssWhat has Christianity ever done
y, An old Christian woman said: 1T
20 done one good thing anyhow. 1t b
TO kept an infidel from being governor
Nv Illinois," AS l stood in the side roc
nd of the opera house of Peoria, liis.'
all prominent gentleman of that city sa
ng 81 can tell you the secret Of that {
N mendous bitterness against Chrisus
A. ity." Said l, 'What is itY' "Wh!
IT'S said he, ''in this very house there W
of a great convention to nominate a g
lily ernor. and there were three or four CT
Ter didates. At the same time there "
in a church in this city Saba
nd school convention, and it happened u
ob- one of the men who was in the SaDps
nd school convention was also memI
!. of the political convention. In the
lat litical convention the name highest
m the roll at that time and about to
to nominated was the name OF the gr
ian champion infidel. There was an
Die. tournment between ballots, and In
cry afternoon when the nominations W
In being made plain farmer got up
ris- said: Mr.. Chairman, that nominat
ote / must not be made The Sunday schc