The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-07-12
The.e armament. sax that science I.

thrown pN lnndel sclcntisNs VINO nave
fifty different theories about the origin of
hfes II they should all come up in solid
phalanx. all agreeing on one sentiment
and one theory, perhaps Christianity
might be damaged. but there are not 50
many differences of opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
Oh. II makes me sick 10 see these liter
airy tops going along With copy OF Oar,
win under one arm and case of transhxed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the
other arm, telling about the survival of
the httest" and Huxley's protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact is that
some naturahsts, Just as soon as they Ind
ont the difference between the feelers of
wasp and the horns of a beetle. begin
TO patronize the Almighty, while Ayassla,
glorious Agassiz. who never made any pre-
tension TO being a Christian, put 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 passed under OBJ
servation." These men warning with each
other-Darwin warning against Iamarch,
Wallace warning against Cope. even Her
sche denouncing Ferguson. They DO not
agree about anything.
Here these in6del scientists have in.
paneled themselves as jury 90 decide
this trial between Intidelity, the plaintiff,
and Christianity. the defendant. and after
Otlnk ONk iNI AtuAullNN AN'N ANHAt III W
render their verdict. Gentlemen of the
jury, have YOU agreed on a verdicty No,
no. Then 90 back for another 500 years
and deliberate and agree on something.
There is not poor miserable wretch IN
the city prison 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 anything
All. my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ, instead of falling back, is on the
advance.
And then | hnd another most encourag-
ing thought In the fact that the secular
printing press and the pulpit seem har-
messed in the same team for the procla'
nation OF the gospel Every banker IN
this capital tomorrow, every Wall street
banker tomorrow in New York, every
State street banker tomorrow IN Boston,
every Third street banker tomorrow IN
Philadelphia, every banker IN the United
States and every merchant viii have IN
his pocket a treatise on Christianity ten,
twenty or thirty passages OF scripture IN
the reports of sermons preached through
out the land to-day. 1t will be so IN Chi
cago, so in New Orleans, so in Charleston,
so in Boston, so IN Philadelphia, 80 IN
Cincinnati, so everywhere. | know the
tract societies are doing a grand and glo'
rious work, but | tell you there is no
power on earth to-day equal to the fact
that the American printing press ~ tax.
ing up the sermons which are preached
to a few hundred or a few thousand peo.
pie. and on Monday morning and Monday
evening scattering that truth 10 the mill
ions. What an encouragement for every
Christian mani
Then YOU have noticed n more significant
fact II you have talked with people on the
subiect-that they are getting dissatisfied
..s.t Il ,,h. akN aa n mi al
comfort. They say II 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 seemed
opening the only comfort they could find
was the gospel. People are having dem
onstrated all over the land that science
and philosophy cannot solace the troubles
and woes of the world and they want
some other religion, and they are taking
Christianity, the only sympathetic reli.
gion that ever came into the world. You
lust take a scientific consolation into that
room where a mother has lost her child.
Try in that case your splendid doctrine of
the Survival OF the httest." Tell her
that child died because IL was not worth
as much as the other children. That il
your survival Of the fittest" just try
your transcendentalism. YOUR philosophy,
your science. on that widowed soul, and
tell her IL was geological necessity that
her companion should be taken away from
her, Just as in the course OF the worlds
history the megatherium and the ichthyo.
saurus had TO pass out OF existence, and
then you 60 on in your scientific consola'
tion until you get to the sublime fact that
30 ,0000OO years from now we ourselves
may be scientific specimens on the geo
logic shelf, petrified specimens OF an ex.
tinct human race, and after you have got
all through with your consolation, IT the
poor afflicted soul IL not crazed by it, we
will send forth from any of our churches
the p,anest Christian we have, and with
one half hour OF prayer and reading OF
Scripture promises the tears will be wiped
away, and the house from floor to cupola
will be flooded with the calmness Of an
Indian summer sunset There IL where |
see the triumph OF Christianity. People
are dissatisfied with everything else. They
want God: they want Jesus Christ.
The fact is that inhdelity and agnostl.
cism are founded on ignorance geological,
ignorance chemical, ignorance astronom'
cal ignorance geographical. We have
heard what the enemies of Christianity
have had TO testify. Now i put before
you the testimony of the church on earth
and the church IN heaven. Not fifty, not
a thousand, not a million, but all OF the
church on earth and all OF the redeemed
In heaven.
l. not the testimony OF the 10000 who
were present worth more than the testi
mony OF one who was ABSENT Now, there
are some men who say they have never
seen Christ crowned IN the heart, and
they do not believe 1t Is ever done. There
is a group OF men who say they have never
heard the voice Of Christ, that they have
never heard the voice of God. They do
not believe that anything like it ever oc.
Cured | point 20 twenty, a hundred
thousand or million people who say:
Christ was crowned IN our hearts aiiec.
tions We have seen Him and felt Him
~ our SOU, and we have heard His voice.
We have heard ~ ln the storm and dark
ness. We have heard II again and again"
You say morphia puts one 20 sleep.
You say IN time OF sickness II - very use
full ! deny IL. Morphia never puts any.
body 20 sleep. II never alleviatcs pain.
You ask why ! cay that have never
tried IT. ! never took u. ] deny that
morphia j. any soothing o. the nerves or
any quiet m times OF sickness. / deny
that inorphia ever put anybody 10 sleep.
Bot here are twenty persona who say they
have all felt the soothing effects OF ply
sician's prescribing morphine.
Whose testimony VIII you take, Those
who took the medicine or my testimony,
never having taken the medicine. Here
~ the gospel Of Jesus Christ, an anOdye
for all trouble. the mightiest medicine on
earth. Here is man who says. i don't
believe IN u. There is no power IN it,
Here are other people who say. we have
found out its power and know rs soothing
influence. II has cured ~" Whose testr
mony will you take in regard % this heal
ing medicine.
Young man, do not be ashamed 20 be =
friend OF the Bible. Do not put your
thumb n yOJr vest. ne Young men some
times do. and swazccr about, talking Oi
the glorious light Oi nature and Oi there
being no need OF the Bib,e. They have
the light oi nature IN India and China
and IN al the dark places Of the earth
Did you ever hear that the light Of nature