The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-14

Il there would be more harmony in the universe. but Lionville comes up just In time to prove that the moon was put in the right place. How many colors woven into the light? Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and half miles. says
 Lias. Ninety miles, says other scleh- | lists. How far is the sun from the | earth? Seventy-six million miles. says
 Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles, says
 Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says | Henderson. One hundred and Tour million miles. says Mayer. Only little difference of 2S,000.000 miles! All split up among themseives-not agreeing on
 The Church Advancing.
 Here these infidel scientists have i'm paneled themselves as a jury to oecioe this trial between infidelity, the plain | tiff, and Christianity. the detenoant, and after being out for centuries they come in to render their verdict. Gen- | tlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict? No. no. They go bacK TOT another 800 years and deliberate ana agree on something. There IS not poor, miserable wretch in the city prs, I on tomorrow that could be conoeHileo | by jury that did not agree on the Ne dict. and vet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on any. | thing. An. my friends. the churcn or Jesus Christ. instead of falling back, IS | on the advance. am nightly encouraged because | find, among other things. that whhs | this Christianity has been bomoaroe | for centuries infidelity has not destroy | ed one church or crippled one rninis'et | or uprooted one verse of one cnap'eI VI all the Bible. If that has been tneiI magnificent record for the centuries U. the mast what may we expect for the l future? The church all the time get.
 tire Inc victory. and their shot and | shell all gone.
 | And I find another most encour- | aging thought in the fact that tne sec I ular printing press and the pulpit eeSni | barnessed in the same team TOT the | proclamation of the gospel. Every banker in this capital tomorrow, every | Wall street banker tomorrow III Ne" | York, every State street banker toniol- row in Boston, every Third street oanA- CT tomorrow in Philaoelphld' every | banker in the United States and every
 merchant will have in his pocket a a treatise on Christianity, 10, 70 or So messages of Scripture in the reports or | sermons preached throughout the lana today. It will be so in Chicago. so Tn | New Orleans, so in Charleston, 20 III
 Boston. so in Philadelphia, so Tn Cih- cinnati. so everywhere. l know the
 tract societies are doing grand ana
 glorious work. but l tell you mere ID | no power on earth today equal to the fact that the American printing press
 is taking up the sermons wnlch are | few | thousand people and on Monday morn ing and Monday evening scattering | that truth to the millions. What an en- couragement for every Christian man!
 Significant Facts.
 Then you have noticed more Sig
 nificant fact if you have talked Witn
 peonle on the subject-that they are
 getting dissatisfied with worldly phi
 hsophv as a matter of comfort. They say 1t does not amount Co anything l when you have a dead child in the house. They tell you when they were | sick and the door of the future seemed opening the only comfort they ccuiu find was the gospel. ?eopie are nay. ing demonstrated all over the ana ;nas i science and philosophy cannot soiace the troubles and woes of the world, ana
 they want some other religion, and they are taking Christianity, the only | svrnpathetic religion. that ever came in- | to the world. You just take sclentl- | ic consolation into that room wnere q l mother has lost her child. Try III that | case your splendid doctrine Of the sur
 vival of the fittest." Tell her that child died because 1t was not worth as
 much as the other children. Tnat IS | your survival of the fittest. Just try | vour transcendentalism, your philoso- l -AtA fhAC | soul and tell her it was a geological | necessity that her companion should De | take away from her, just as Tn the
 course of the worlds history the mega
 therium and the ichthyosaurus had to pass out of existence, and then you eo on in your scientific consolation untli | won get the sublime fact that 5O,OOO. 0Oe years from now we ourselves may be scientific specimens on the geologic
 shelf. petrified specimens of an extlnct human race. and after you have got all
 through with your consolation, II 'nt
 uoor. afflicted soul is not crazed by H.
 we will send forth from any of our churches the plainest Christian we have. and with one half hour of prayer
 and reading of Scripture promises the
 tears will be wiped away, ana the
 house from floor to cupola will De flooded with the calmness of an Indian
 summer sunset. There is where l see
 the triumph of Christianity. People
 are dissatisfied with everything else.
 They want God; they want Jesus | Christ.
 The fact Is that infidelity and agnos- ticism are founded on ignorance geolog- ical. ignorance chemical, ignorance as-
 tronomical, ignorence geographical. we have heard what the enemies of Chris | tianity have had to testify Now l put
 before you the testimony of the church on earth and the church in heaven. Not | fifty. not a thousand, not million, but ] all of the churches on earth and all or the redeemed in heaven. Will you take the evidence of those who have Wit | messed as well as felt the power Of re- Mgion. or will you prefer the testimony of those who begin by declaring that | they have never witnessed or felt it's
 power? You tell me that on certain
 4th of March. 20 years ago, President | of the United States was inaugurated | How do I know it? You tell me there
 were 20. 900 persons who distinctly heard his inaugural address. I deny both.
 deny that he was inaugurated l deny
 that his inaugural address was deliv-
 cred. You ask why? I did not see it.
 I did not hear it. But you say that
 there were 10000 people who did see
 and hear him. Is not the testimony oi
 the 10000 who were present worth
 more than the testimony of one who
 was absent? Now, there are some men
 who say they have never seen Christ
 crowned in the heart and they do not
 believe it is ever done. There is a
 group of men who say they have never