The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-07-13

the centuries IL the past what may
we expect for the futureP The church
all the time getting the victory ana
their shot and shell all gone
And then / find another most en-
couraging thought in the fact thar
the secular printing press and the
pulpit seem harnessed in the same
team for the proclamation 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
in Philadelphia, every banker in the
United States and every merchant
will have in his pocket a treatise on
Christianity, 10, go or 30 passages OF
Scripture in the reports of sermons
preached throughout the land to-day
II will be so in Chicago, so in New
Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Bos'
ton. so in Philadelphia, so ! n Cincin-
natl. so everywhere, I know the tract
societies are doing a grand and glo'
rious work, but l tell you there is no
power on earth to-day equal to the
fact that the American printing press
is taking up the sermons which are
preached TO a few hundred or a few
thousand people, and on Monday
morning and Monday evening scatter
ing that truth to The millions. What
an encouragement 20 every Christian
man.
Then you have noticed a more sig
nificant fact if you have talked with
people on the subject, that they are
getting ~disgusted with worldly philos'
ophy as a matter Of comfort. They
say it does not amount to anything
when you have a dead child in the
house. They tell you when they were
sick and the door of the future seemed
openingFthe only comfort they could
find was the Gospel, People are hav.
ing demonstrated all over the land
that science and philosophy cannot
solace the troubles and woe of the
world, and they want some other re.
ligion, and they are taking Christian
ity, the only sympathetic religion
that eve came into the world. You
just take a scientific consolation into
thai room where a mother has lost
her child. Try in that case your
splendid doctrine of the survival of
the ~fittest." Tell her that child died
because il was not worth as much as
the other chn6ren. That is your
survival of the fittest." Just try
your transcendentalism, your philoso-
ply, your science, on that widowed
soul, and tell her it was a geological
necessity that her companion should
be taken away from her, just as in
the course of the worlds history the
megatherium and the ichthyosaurus
had to pass out of existence, and then
you go on in your scientific consola-
ton until you get to the sublime fact
that 5~0,Oo0,0Oo years from now we
ourselves may be scientific specimens
on the geologic shelf, petrifed speci.
mems OF an extinct human race. And
after you have got all through with
your consolation, If the poor aflict.
cd soul is not crazed 10y 1t, we will
send forth from any OF our churches
the plainest Christian we have, and
with one-lalf hour Of prayer and
reading of Scripture promises the
tears viii be wiped away, and the
house from fioor to cupola will be
Hooded with the calmness OF an In.
dian summer sunset. There is where
l see the triumph Of Christianity.
People are dissatisfied with every.
thing else. They want God. They
want Jesus Christ.
The fact is that infdelity and ag-
Mysticism are founded on ipno.
ance geological, ignorance chemical,
ignorance astronomical, ignorance
geographical. We have heard what
the enemies Of Christianity have had
to testify. Now I put before you the
testimony of the church on earth and
the church in Heaven. Not fifty. not
a thousand. not a million, but all of
the church on earth and all of the
redeemed in Heaven. viii you take
the evidence OF those who have wit.
messed as we'll as felt the power OF
religion. or will you prefer the ties.
timony OF those who begin by declar.
ing that they have never witnessed
or felt its power? You tell me that
on a certain 4th of March. 20 wears
ago, a president Of the United States
was i~naugurated. How do I know itP
You tell me there were 10000 per.
sons who distinctly heard his innugu.
raj address. 1 deny both. / deny
that he was inaugurated. | deny that
his inaugural address was delivered.
You ask why2 ! did not see il. 7
did not hear II. But you say there
were 10000 people who did see and
hear him. Is not the testimony Of
the 10000 who were present worth
more than the testimony Of n who
was absentP Now, there are some
men who say they have never seen
Christ crowned in the heart, ind thew