The Yale expositor., 1901-07-12
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Perfection OF Christianity.
What do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on the errors q
astronomy. La Place declares that the
moon was not put in the right place.
He says il 1t had been put four times
farther from the earth than 1t is now
there would be more harmony in tho
universe, but Lionville comes up just
in time to prove that the moon was
put in the right place. How many col
ors woven into the light? Seven. says
Isaac Newton. Three, says David
Brewster. How high is the aurora boz
reals? Two and a half miles, says
Lias. 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 lit
tie difference of 2S,000,0O0 milesl All
split up among themselves-not agree
ing on anything.
Here these lnfldel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as a jury to decide
this trial between Infidelity, the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant,
and after being out for centuries they
come in to render their verdict. Gen
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 pris-
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. / am certain it is on
the advance. | see the glittering of
the swords; hear the tramping of tho
troops; hear the laundering parks of
artillery. God, thank thee that
have been permitted to see this day of
thy triumph. this day of the confusion
OF 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
banker tomorrow in Philadelphia, ev-
cry banker in the United States and
every merchant will have in his peck
ct treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or
30 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 | 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 arc
preached to 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
nilicant fact if you have talked with
people on the subject, that they are
getting disgusted with worldly philos
ophy as a matter of comfort. They
say it does not amount to anything
when you have a 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
over came into the world. You just
take a scientific consolation into that
room where a mother has lost her
child. Try in that case your splendid
uOClIlHb VI the survival Oh the Ill
test" Tell her that child died because
1t 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 t
be friend of the Bible. Do not pu
your thumb in your vest, as younf
men sometimes do, and swagger about
talking of the glorious light of natur,
and of there being no need of The
Bible. They have the light of natur,
in India and China and in all the darl
places of the earth. Did you ever heal
that the light of nature gave then
comfort for their trouble? They hav,
lancets to cut and juggernauts Il
crush, but no comfort. All, m!
friends, you had better stop your skep
ticism. Suppose you are put in a crisi
ike that of Colonel Ethan Allen.
saw the account and at one time men
toned it in an address. A descendan
of Ethan Allen, who is an infldel, sale
IL never occurred. Soon after | re
| oaivad a latter from a nrofeqsor In IN,