The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-06-30


VI Endeavor society at Cincinnati,
1sermon shows him to be in SYM
NV With the great movement; text,
AMOS tx. 13. Behold the days come.
saith the Lord, that the plowmaD shall
overtake the reaper"
Unable because Of other important
duties to accept the invitation to take
mart in the great convention of Chris !
ian Fndeavorers at Cincinnati, begun |
asst week. I preach a sermon of con-
kratulation for all the members of that |
magnificent association, whether now |
BATTERED in vast assembiage or busy in |
heir places of usefulness, transatlantic
md cisatlantic. And, as it is now har-
Test time in the fields and sickles are
Iashing in the gathering of great
rop, 1 find mighty suggestiveness In
by text.
It is a picture of a tropical cline,
Nth a season so prosperous that the
arvest reaches clear over to the plant
he time and the swarthy husbandman,
Busy cutting the grain, almost feels the
reath of the horses on his shoulders
he horses hitched to the pillow prepar-
ne for a new crop. Behold the days
rome, saith the Lord, that the plowman
shall overtake the reaper" When is
that? That is now. That is this day,
when hardly have you done reaping
one harvest of religious result than the
plowman is getting ready for another.
In phraseology charged with all ven
ON and abuse and caricature | know
that infidels and agnostics have de-
cIared that Christianity has collapsed;
that the Bible is an obsolete book; that
the Christian church is on the retreat.
shall answer that wholesale charge
today.
Between 100000 and 100000 En-
deavorers sworn before high heaven
that they will do all they can to take
America for God, Europe for God, Asia
and Africa for God-are not the signs
most cheering? Or, to return to the
agricultural figure of my text, more
than a million reapers are overtaken
by more than a million plowmen. Be
sides this, there are more people who
believe in the Bible than at any time
.,2n the worlds existence.
Growth of Christianity.
- But now let us see whether the book
is a last years almanac. Let US see
whether the church of God is a Bull
Run retreat, muskets, canteens and
haversacks strewing all the way. The
great English historian Sharon Turner,
a man Of vast learning and great &C
curacy, not clergyman, but an attor'
ney as well as q historian, gives this
overwhelming statistic in regard tC
Christianity and in regard to the mum
her of Christians in the different cen
turtles: In the first century 5OO,OO(
Christians, in the second century 1000,
900 Christians, in the third century
100000 Christians, in the fourth cen
fury 100000 Christians. in the fftl
century 100000 Christians, in tn
sixth century 100000 Christians, II
the seventh century 24,0O0,O0O Chris
tians, in. the eighth century 100000
Christians, In the ninth century 10000,
600 Christians, in. the tenth century 90
1000 Christians, in the eleventh cen
fury 10000, 900 Christians, in the twelft
century 100000 Christians, in tn
aAh,kteenth century 100000 Chris
+;s,. nf0urteenth century 10000
Eo ..,'s fs,z;s4IsSs "a the fifteenth centur
10000. 0o0. Christi1 ns, ~ .ne siA g -,
century 125 100000 Cnris son u.s. n 1s - :,
seventeenth CO fury lloo'VOO,ooo O noo
tians, in the eighteei nth century w
100000 Christians-a7 oecaoence' 90 ~
observe, in only one kcen.ury anu lnV'
than made up In the{ loi,owlns sen.'
ries. while it is the u ual conpu'A.,o
that there were at the Nose u ene IN
teenth century 470,00OSoo Cnriso4 ~
making us to believe TIM. -De.ore ~
century is closed the mi enniunr WI
have started its boom ana nleeu
bosanna.
EP6or Christianity What q pity
LAS no friendsi How lonesoN II lnu'
bel Who Wilt take it out OIL tne poo
housel Poor Christianity your nul
dred millions in one century. le
weeks Of this year 100000 foples
the New Testament Distributed W. !.
the earth Is like an old castle fFi.n
gates and a park of artillery feaoy
thunder down every gate. see no
heathendom is being SURROUNDED al
honeycombed and attacked (by TINS
conquering gospel At thf beglnnli
of the nineteenth century POO misslo
aries; at the close of that century .
600 missionaries and native helpe
and evangelists. At the beginning
the nineteenth century the1e were on
$4,000 converts; now the4e are ov
100000 converts from heathendom.
So Christianity is falling back al
the Bible. they say. is becoming an G
solete book / go into court, a
wherever ! find a judges bench or
clerks desk find Bible. Upon WI
book could there be uttered the sole
nifty Of an oath? What book is apt
be pct in the trunk Of the young IN
as he leaves for city life? The Bib
What shall l find in nine out of eve
ten homes In this city? The Bible.
. nine out Of every ten homes in Cnl
tendon? The Bible. voltaire wr