Milford chronicle., 1901-07-12

Eighty-two million miles, says Hum
boldt. Ninety million miles, says Hen
derson. One hundred and four million
miles, says Mayer. Only a little differ
ence of 2S,O0O000 miles! All split up
among themselves-not agreeing on any
thing.
Here these infideI scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as a jury to decide
this trial between Intidelity, the plaintiff,
and Christianity, the defendant, and aft
er being out for centuries they come in to
render their verdict. Gentlemen Of the
jury, have you agreed on a verdict No,
no. Then go back for another 500 years
and deliberate and agree on something
There is not a poor miserable wretch in
the city prison tomorrow that could be
condemned by a jury that did not agree
on the verdict, and yet you expect US to
give up our glorious Christianity to please
these men who cannot agree on anything.
All, my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ instead Of falling back Is on the
advance. ] am certain it is on the ad-
vance. see the glittering Of the swords;
hear the tramping of the troops: hear
the laundering parks of artillery. o God,
/ thank thee that have been permitted
to see this day of thy triumph, this day
of the confusion of thine enemies! o
Lord God, take thy sword from thy
thigh and ride forth to the victory!
am nightly encouraged because
find, among other things, that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for cen
turtles infdelitv has not destroyed one
church, or crippled one minister, or up
rooted one verse Of one chapter Of all the
Bible. If that has been their magnificent
record for the centuries of the past, what
may we expect for the future? The
| church all the time getting the victory,
and their shot and shell all gone.
Secular ana Religious Press.
And then | find another most encourag
ing thought in the fact that the secular
| printing press and the pulpit seem har
messed in the same team for the procla
nation of the gospel. Every banker in
| this capital tomorrow. every Wall street
| banker tomorrow in New York. every
| State street banker tomorrow in Boston
every Third street banker tomorrow il
| Philadelphia. every banker In the UniteC
| States and every merchant will have il
his pocket u treatise on Christianity, 10
20 or 90 passages of Scripture in the re-
ports of sermons preached throughout tn,
| land today. 1t will be so In Chicago, $,
In New Orleans, so in Charleston, so il
Boston, so in Philadelphia. so in Cincin
natl. 80 everywhere. ! know the trac
societies are doing n grand and glorious
work, but | tell you there Is no power OF
earth today equal 20 the fact that tn
American printing press is taking up tn
sermons which are preached to a few
hundred or a few thousand people, an,
on Monday morning and Monday evening
scattering that truth to the millions
What an encouragement to every Chris
tian mani
Then you have noticed a more sig
nificant fact IL you have talked with pee
pie on the subject. that they are gettin
disgusted with worldly philosophy as
matter Of comfort. They say it does no
amount to anything when you have
dead child in the house. They tell 20
when they were sick and the door OF tn
! future seemed opening the only cOmfoI
they could find was the gospel. PeOpl
are having demonstrated all over the Ian
that science and philosophy cannot solaC
the troubles and woes of the world an
they want some other religion. and the
Rre taking Christianity. the only symp,
thetic religion that ever came into th
: world. You just take a scientific cons
s lation into that room where a mother hg
+ lost her child. Try In that case yOU
! splendid doctrine OF the Survival of Il
j fittest." Tell her that child died becau.
l 1t was not worth as much as the Otht
e children. That is your Survival Of Il
n fittest." just try your transcendentalisr