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

I -. Vop Su1S nSguN EGu0 UVU, pSS9OUSoCSs
u makes great oxoitomont whom a man
Jumps from tho looturing platform or
from tho pulpit into infidelity, but docs
that keep the Bible or tho church from
carrying millions Of passengers to tho
shore OF otornal aafoty2
IneBo opponents say that soienoe is
overcoming religion in our day. They
LOOK through tho speotaolos of the in.
hden scientists, and thoy say: .'Ii is
impossible that this book DO true. Poo.
plo are finding it out The Bibls has
got to go overheard. Soienoe is going
to throw it overheard. J" Do you bciioye
that tho Biblo account Of tho origin Of
life will be ovorthrown by infdel soion-
lists who havo 80 different theorios
about tho origin Of life? If they should
all como up in solid phalanx, all agree
ing on one sentiment aud ono thoory,
porhaps Christianity might bo damaged,
but there arc not so many differenoos
of opinion inside the church as outside
tho church. Oh, it makos mo sick to 500
thoso literary fops going along with a
copy OF Darwin under ono arm and a
opso of tranaixod grasshoppcrs and but
tor ftss un' or tho other arm telling about
tho survival Of tho Gttost" aud Hux
loy's protoplasm and the nobular hy.
pothesisl The fact is that somo nstu-
raists just as soon as tbey ind out tho
difference betwoen tho foelers Of q wasp
and tho horns Of boetle begin to pat.
ronjze tho Almighty, whilc AgasBiz,
glorious Agassiz, who novor msdo any
protension to b ing Christian, puts
both his feot on the doctrine Of ovoIu
tion and says: u soc that many Of tho
naturalsts of our day arc adopting facts
which do not bear observation, or hayo
not passed under observation. Those
mon warning With each other-D .rwin
warning against Lamaroh, Wallace war
ring against Cope, evon Horsohol dc.
nouncing F9rguoon. Thoy do not agreo
about anything, Thoy do not agroo on
tho graduation Of tho speoies."
What do they agroe on2 Hersohel
writes whole ohaptor on tho the oJrors
Of astronomy. La Plaoo declares that
tho moon was not put in tho right
plsoe. Ho says if it had boon put four
timcs farther from the earth than it is
nov there would bo moro harmony in
tho universe, but L;onvillo comes up
just in timo to provo that tho moon WAS
put in tho right placo. How many
aolora woven into the lighl2 Savon.
says Isaac Nowton. Threo, says David
Brewstor. How high is the aurora
borcalis2 Two and half miles, says
l4ias Ninety miles, say othor aoion-
lists. How far is tho sun from the
oarth? Sovonty.six million milos, says
Laoalle, Eighty-two million, says Hum.
boldt. Ninoty million milos, says Hou-
dorson. One hundred and four million
miles, says Mayer. Onlya littlo differ
onoe Of 28, 000, 600 milosl All split up
among themselves mo. agreeing on
anythiag.
Hero these inidtl scientists have i'm
panoled themselves as o jury to decide
this trial bctwoon In6dolity, tho plain
tiff, and Christianity, tho dofondant,
and after being out for centuries they
como in to rondor their verdict. Con.
tlomon Of tho jury, have you agreed on
vordiot2 No, no. Then go back for
another 900 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There is not
poor miserable wretoh in the city prison
tomorro that could be condemned by
jury that did not agree on tho verdict,
and yet you expect us to gvo up our
glorious Christianity to please those
mon who cannot agreo on anything
Ah, my friends, the church Of
Jesus Carist instead of falling back is
on tho advance. I am certain it is on
the advance. I 500 tho glitteripg Of the
swords; [ !, hear the tramping OF the
troops; l hear the laundering parks OF
artillery. o God, I thank thee that 1
have been permitted to sec this day Of
thy triumph, this day of tho confusion
OF thine enomiesl D Lord Ged, take
thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth
to tho victory
| am nightly encouraged kecauao l
find, among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuries infdolity has not destroyed one
church, or orippled ono ministor, or UP.
rooted ono verse Of ono chapter Of all the
Biblo. If that has boon their magnif-
cont record for the centuries Of the past,
what may We expect for tho future2
The church all the time gotting the
victory, and their shot and sholl all
gone.
And then | find another most en-
c,uraging thought in tho fact that the
secular printing press aud tho pulpit
aoem harnossed in tho samo toam for
tho proclamation Of tho gospel Evarg
banker in this capital TOM brow, overy
Wall street banker tomorrog in Now
York, every State street banker tomor-
TOW in Boston, ovory Third stroot
banker i'll Philadelphia, oyory banker
in tho Unltod States aud ovory NOR
ohant will have in his pocket a 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, so in New Or
leans, 30 in Charleston, so in Boston,
50 in Philadelphia, 30 in Cincinnati, 80
everywhere. | know the tract societies
are doing grand and glorious work,
but l tell you there is no power on
earth today equal to tho fact that tho
American printing prcss is taking up tho
Bormons which arc proaohed to u fow
hun 1red or fow thou people, and
on Monday morning and Monday owe.
ming sosttoring that truth to millions
What on on noouragomont to every Chris
tian mani
The you havo noticed moro sig
nifioant fact If you havo talked With
people on tho subject, that thoy aro
gotting diagusted with worldly philoso-
ply as mattor of comfort. Thoy say
it does not amount to anything whom
you have dead child in tho house
fhoy toll you whom they wor5 sick and
tho door Of tho future soomed opening
tho only comfort thoy oould find waa