The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-17

! jumps 1IOAA IAO AoSIo.ioS P1S W
from the pulpit into infdelity, but does
that keep the Bible or the church from
carrying millions Of passengers to the
shore Of eternsl safety?
These opponents say tina. science IS
overcoming religion in ouc day. They
look through the spectacles Of the in
fden scientists, and they say: 1T is
impossible that this book be true. Peo.
pie are 6oding it out. The Bible has
got to go overheard Science is going
to throw it overheard Do you believe
that the B bic account Of the origin Of
life will be overthroWn by in6dol scien-
lists who have so diff srsnt theories
about the origin of life? II they should
all come ~ in solid phslsnx. all agrse-
ing on enc sentimsnt and one theory,
perhaps Christianity might be damsged,
but there are not so many differences
Of oriuioo inside the church as outside
the chursh. Oh, j. makes me sick to see
these literary fop5 going along with q
COPY Of Dlr7in under one arm and a
case CT tra1s6zed srasshoppers and but
te,f 5 un er the other arm telling about
the ''surv;,Vsl of the 6tsess" sad Hux
ley's pco:oplasn and the ncbular hy-
pothesis! The fact is that some Dasu-
rslists just as soon as they ind out the
difference between the feelers of wasp
and the horns OF = be ,tle begin to pat
ronize the Almighty, Ehils Agsssiz,
glorious Agssslz. who never made any
preseusioo to b ing a Christian, puts
both his feet CD the doctrine Of evolu
tion and ssys: II see thss many Of the
nasura!ists of our dsy ere adopting facts
which do NOT bear observation, or have
no: passed under observation. Tne:e
men Rsrriag 7ith each othsr-D.rgin
warrirg against Lamarch, Wallace war
ring against Cope, even Hsrschel de-
rouoc;ng Ferguson. They dc not agree
about anything. They DO not agree on
the gradation o. the species"
What do they agree on? Herscbel
writes 8 whole chapter on the the elr ITS
Of astronomy. L. Piaoe declares that
the moon was not put in the right
plsce. He says if i: had been put four
times farther from the earth than it is
noF there would be more harmony IN
the universe, but L;on7ille comes up
| just in time to prove that the moon Was
put in the right place. How many
coIors woven into the light? Ssven,
says Isaac Na#ton. Taree, says David
Brewster. How high is the aurora
borealis? Two and half miles, says
L:ss. Ninety miles, say other scien-
lists. How far is the sun from the
earth? Seventy-six million miles, says
Lacalle, Eighty-two million, says Hum
boldt. Ninety million miles, says Hen
derson. Ole hundred and four million
miles, says Mayer. Only a little diff ,r-
ence Of $4,000. 900 miles! All split up
among thenselves-nos agreeing on
anything.
Here these infdel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves IS jury to decide
this trial between Infdelisy, the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant,
and after being out for centuries they
come in to render their verdict. Gsn-
tlemen of the jury, have you agreed on
q verdict? No, no. Then 90 back for
another 500 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There is not a
poor misersble wretch in the city prison
tomorroE 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,
Ab, my friends, the church Of
Jesus Carist instead Of falling back is
on the advance. am cerssio it is on
the advance. I see the glittering of the
swords; 1 hesr the tramping of the
troops; hear the laundering parks Of
artillery. OG,d, | thank thee that I
have been permitted to see this day of
thy triumph, this day Of the confusion
Of thine enemies! 0 Lord God, take
thy sword fr,m thy thigh and ride forth
to the victory!
[ am nightly encouraged tecause l
find, among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuriesin6delity has not destroyed one
church, OF crippled one minister, or up
rooted one verse Of one chapter Of all the
Bible. IF that hiss been their magni6-
cent 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.
And than l 6nd another most en-
c,uraging thought in the fact that the
secular printing press and the pulpit
seem harnesssd in the same team for
the proclsmstion Of the gospel. Every
banker in this capital tom brow, every
Wall street banker tomorIo7 in New
York, every State street banker tomor-
roT in Boston, every Taird street
banker in Pailadslp iia, every banker
in the Ua,tei States and every mer-
chant will have in his pocket treatise
on ChrissisntY, 10, 20 or 80 passages Of
Scripture in the reports of sermons
prea,hed throughout the land todsg.
It will b. so in Uhicsgo, SO in New Or
leans, so in Charleston, so in Boston.
50 iD Philsaelphia, 50 in Cincinnati, so
everywhere. IkuoR the tract societies
are doing grand and glorious worz,
but | tell you thers is 10 power on
earth today equal to ths fact shss the
American printing press is taxing up the
sermons which sre preached to feH
hun !rzd or few thoussaG people, and
on Monday morning snd Monday eve
ming scattering that truth TO millions
WAT an encouragement to every Chris
tlsn man!
The you have noticed more sig
niicant fact if you have talked With
people on the subject, that they are
getting disgu ,ted with worldly philo6o-
ply as msster Of comfort. They say
it does not amount to anything when
you have dead child in the house
They tell you when they Wer, sick and
the door Of the future ssemsd opening