The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-19


Docs that wreck tho 500 pasgongersP
1t makoa great oxoitomont whom a man
Jumps from the looturing platform or
from tho pulpit into inidolity, but docs
that koop tho Biblo or the church from
carrying millions Of passengers to tho
sh0ro OF otornal safoty2
| Those opponents say that soienoo is
overcoming religion in our day. Thoy
look through tho spoctacles of the in,
fidon scientists, aud thoy ssy: .sIt il
impossible that this book be true. Pan.
pio arp fnding it out. Tho Btbls has
got I'd go overheard. Science is going
to thrbw it overheard. Do you believe
that tho Biblo account Of tho origin Of
life will bo overthrow by infdel scion.
lists who have 80 differont thoorios
about tho origin Of life? If they should
all como up in solid phalanx, all agreo-
ing on one sentiment aud ono thoory,
perhaps Christianity might bo damaged, ,
but there arc not SO many differences
OF opinion inside tho church as outside
tho church. Oh, it makos mo sick to 500
those literary fops going along with a
copy OF Darwin under ono arm and g.
case OF transtixod grasshoppers and but
tol II IS un' or tho 0thor arm tolling about
tho survival Of tho fittost" and Hux.
loys protoplasm and tho nobular hy.
pothesisl The fact is that sonlo natu-
rsists Just as soon as tboy find out tho
diftorenoo betwoon tho foelors of q wa 80
a nd tho hnrpo of hootJo
ronizo tho Almighty, whilo Agassis,
glorious Agassiz, who novor msde any
protcnsion to b ing Christian, puts
both his feot on the doctrine Of ovolu
tion and says: ~ SOC that many Of tho
naturalists Of our day ara adopting facts
which do not bear observation, or have
not passed undor observation. Those
mon warning With each other--D .rwin
warring against Lamaroh, Wallace war
ring against Copc, evon Hcreohol dc.
nounoing Ferguson. Thoy do not agreo
about anything, Thoy do not agroo on
tho graduation Of tho spooios"
What do they agroo on2 Hersohel
writes whole ohsptor on tho tho oJrors
of astronomy. La Plaoo declares that
tho moon was not put in tho right
plaoo. 1o says if it had boon put four
timos farther from tho Garth than it is
nov therc would bo moro harmony in
the uniycrsc, but L'onyille oomos up
just in timc to provo that tho moon was
put in tho right plaoc. How many
colors woyon into the light? Sovon,
says Isaac Newton, Throo, says David
Brewster. How high is tho aurora
boroalis7 Two and half miles, says
lias. Ninety milos, say othor scion-
lists. How far is the sun from tho
Garth? Sevontysix million milos, says
Laoalle, Eighty-two million, says Hum.
boldt. Ninoty million milos, says Hou-
dorson. Ono hundred and four million
miles, says Mayor. Only little differ
enco Of 28, 900 900 miles All split up
among themselves mot agreeing on
any thing.
Hero these infd6l soiontists havo i'm
panoled themselves as jury to dooide
this trial botwoon Infdolity, tho plain
tiff, and Christianity, tho defendant,
and aftor being out for centuries they
come in to render their verdict. Gen.
tlemon of the jury, have you agreed on
a verdict? No, no. Then 60 back for
another 5GG years aud deliberate and
agreo on something. There is not
poor miserable wretch in tho oity prison
tomorrow that could be condemned by
q jury that did not agree on tho verdict,
and yct you expect us to give up our
glorious Christianity to please thoso
mon who cannot agroo on anything
Ah, my friends, the church Of
jesus Carist instead of falling back is
on tho advance. T am certain it ia on
the advance. I 500 tho glittering Of tho
swords; hear tho tramping Of tho
troops; | hear the laundering parks OF
artillery. o Tod, thank theo that I
have been permitted to SEQ this day of
thy triumph, this day Of tho confusion
OF Jhino enomiesl 0 Lord Gcd, take,
thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth
to tho victory
am nightly encouraged teoause I
find, among other things that whilo this
Christianity has been bombardod for
centuries infdolity has not d estroyod ono
church, or oripplod one minister, or up
rooted ono verse of ono ohaptor Of all the
Blblo. lf that has boon their nagnifi-
cont record for the centuries Of the past,
what may wo oxpoct for the future?
The church all tho time getting the
victory, and thoir shot and sholl all
gone.
And thon I find another most on
c,uraging thought in the fact that tho
secular printing press aud the pulpit
seem harnesstd in tho samo team for
tho proclamation of tho gospel. Every
banker in this capital tom prov, ovory
Wall street banker tomorrog in New
York, evory State street banker tomor-
row in Boston, ovory Third stroot
banker in Philadelphia, oyory banker
10 tho Unltcd States and every NOR.
chant will have in his pocket troatise
on christianity, 10, 20 or 80 passages Of
Scripture in the reports of sermons
preached throughout tho land today.
1t will be SO in chicago, 80 in Now Or
leans, 80 in Charleston, so in Boston,
80 in Philadelphia, 50 in Cincinnati, so
everywhere. [ know the tract societies
are doing a grand and glorious work,
but l tell you there is no power on
earth today equal to tho fact that tho
American printing press is taking vi the
sermons which arc proachod to few
hundred or few thousand pooplo, aud
on Monday morning and Monday oyo.
ming scsttoring that truth to millions.
What an encouragement to overy Chris
tian mani
The Won havn nntiood nooro .;o