Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-11

come In to render their verdict. Cen
tlemen Of the jury, have you agreed on
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 prls-
on tomorrow that could be condemned
by 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 any.
thing. All, my friends. the church Of
Jesus Christ instead of falling back is
on the advance. l am certain it is on
the advance. / see the glittering of
the swords; l 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
oil thine enemies! o Lord God, take
thy sword from thy thigh and ride
forth to the victory!
Secular and Religious Press
And then l find another most en-
couraging thought in the fact that 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 to-
morrow in Boston, every Third street
hCnknr in Dhi1adn1nhio
cry banker in the United States and
every merchant will have In his peck
ct treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or
80 passages of Scripture in the reports
OF sermons preached throughout the
land today. 1t will be so. in Chicago,
SO in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so
in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so in
Cincinnati, SO everywhere l know the
tract societies are doing a grand and
glorious work, but | tell you there Is
no power on earth today 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 Mondoy morn
ing and Monday evening scattering
that truth to the millions. What an
encouragement to 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 disguised with worldly philos.
ophy as matter of comfort. They
say it does not amount to anything
when you have dead child in the
house. They tell you when they were
sick and the door of the future seem.
ed opening the only comfort they
could find was the gospel. People are
having demonstrated all over the land
that science and philosophy cannot So
lace the troubles and woes of the
world, and they want some other re-
ligion. and they are taking Christian
ity, the only sympathetic religion that
ever came into the world. You just
take scientific consolation into that
room where mother has lost her
child. Try in that case your splendid
doctrine of the survival of the iit-
test" Tell her that child died because
II was not worth as much as the other
children. That is your survival Of
the fittest."
Not Ashamed Of the Bible.
Young man. do not be ashamed to
be friend of the Bible. Do not put
your thumb in your vest, as young
men sometimes do, and swagger about
talking Of the glorious light of nature
and Of there being no need of the
Bible. They have the light of nature
in India and China and in all the dark
places of the earth. Did you ever hear
that the light Of nature gave them
comfort for their trouble? They have
lancets to cut and juggernauts to
crush. but no comfort. All, my
friends, you had better stop your skep-
ticism. Suppose you are put in a crisis
like that Of Colonel Ethan Allen.
saw the account and at one time men
toned it in an address. A descendant
Of Ethan Allen, who is an infidel, said
1t never occurred. Soon after re-
ceived letter from professor in one
of our colleges, who is also a descend
ant of Ethan Allen and is a Christian.
He wrote me that the incident is ac-
curate; that my statement was au-
thentic and true. The wife of Colonel
Ethan Allen was a very consecrated
woman. The mother instructed the
daughter in the truths of Christianity.
The daughter sickened and was about
to die. and she said to her father:
Father. shall take your instruc-
ton or shall take mothers instruc-
ton? l am going to die now; must
have this matter decided" That man,
who had been loud in his infidelity,
said to his dying daughter, my dear,
you had better take your mothers re-
ligion." My advice is the same to
you, o young man! You know how
religion comforted her. You know
what she said to you when she was
dying. You had better take your
mothers religion.
Beaeen by Soap and Water.
At one of their joint discussions,