Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-07-13

agreeing on one sentiment ana one tlle'
ory, perhaps Christianity might be dam.
aged, but there are not so many differ
ences of opinion inside the church as
outside the church. Oh, II makes me
sick to see these literary fops going
along with copy Of Darwin under one
arm and O case of transfixed grasshop-
pers and butterflies under the other
arm, telling about the Survival OF the
fittest" and Huxley's protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact is
that some naturalists, Just as soon as
they find out the difference between
the feelers of wasp and the horns OF
a beetle, begin to patronize the AL
mighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agns-
siz, who never made any pretension to
being a Christian. puts both his feet
on the doctrine of evolution and says:
IL see that many of the naturalists OF
our day are adopting facts which do
not bear observation or have not pass
ed under observation" These men war
ring with each other-Darwin warning
against Lamarch, Wallace warning
against Cope. even Herschel denounc'
ing Ferguson. They do not agree about
anything.
What. do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on the errors OF
astronomy. La Place declares that the
moon was not put in the right place
He says If it had been put four times
farther from the earth than 1t Is now
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
borealis2 Two and half miles, says
LAS. Ninety miles. say other scien-
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 four
million miles, says Mayer. Only little
difference of 2S,0O0.000 miles! All split
up among themselves-not agreeing on
anything.
The Church Advancing.
Here these lnfdel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as jury to decide
this trial between Inhdelity, the plain
tiff. and Christianity, the defendant
and after being out for centuries they
come In to render their verdict Cen
tlemen of the jury. have you agreed on
q yerdict2 No, no. Then go back for
another 500 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There Is not a
Door. miserable wretch In the city pris-
on tomorrow that could be condemned
by jury that did not agree on the YER
diet. 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
OH the advance.
am nightly encouraged because
find, among other things, that while
this Christianity has been bombnrded
for centuries infdellty has not destroy
ed one church or crippled one minister
or uprooted one verse Of one chapter OF
all the Bible II that has been their
.maxnifoent rccord f9r>tha centuries oil
the past. what may we expect for the
future? The church all the time get.
ting the victory. and their shot and
she'll all gone.
And then | find another most encour'
aging thought In the fact that the Sec
ular 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 tomor'
row in Boston, every Third street bank
er tomorrow IN Philadelphia, every
banker in the United States and every
merchant will have In his pocket
treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or 3C
passages Of Scripture in the reports ol
sermons preached throughout the LAND
today. 1t will be so In Chicago, so II
New Orleans, so IN Charleston, so IL
Boston, so In Philadelphia, so In Gin
cinnatl, so everywhere. | know the
tract societies are doing a grand anc
glorious work, but | tell you there is
no power on earth today equal 10 th'
fact that the American printing press
Is taking up the sermons which are
preached 10 a few hundred or a few
thousand people and on Monday morn
ing and Monday evening scattering
that truth to tue millions. What an en-
couragemcnt for every Christian man
Significant Facts.
Then you have noticed a more sig
nificant fact If you have talked will
people Oh the subject-that they are
! getting dissatisfied with worldly phi
losophy as q matter OF comfort. They
say II does not amount to anything
when you have a dead child in thu
house. They tell you when they were
sick and the door Of the future seemed
opening the only comfort they coult
find was the gospel. People are hav
ing demonstrated all over the land tina
science aud philosophy cannot solae'
The troubles and woes of the world, an'
they want some other religion, AM
they are taking Christianity, the onl.
sympathetic religion that ever came IN
to the world. You just take scientli
ic consolation into that room where
mother has lost her child Try In tha
case your splendid doctrine of the SUI
vival Of the fittest." Tell her ina
child died because 1t was not worth a
much as the other children. That
your Survival of the fittest." Just TT
YOUR transcendentalism, your philos'
ply, your science, on that widowe
soul and tell her 1t was geologlca
necessity that her companion should D
taken away from her, just as ID I'll
course of the worlds history the megi
therium and the ichthyosaurus had
mass ont of existence. and then you Z