Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-07-25
The inlidels say: 'There is great liberty

as it was in the days of our fathers. Do
you know that in the days of our fathers
there were pronounced infidels in public
authority, and they could get any political
position! Let a man to-day declare HIM
self antagonistic to the Christian religion,
and what city wants him for mayor, what
State wants him for Governor, what ma
ton wants him for President or for king?
Let a man openly proclaim himself the
enemy of our glorious Christianity, and
he cannot get a majority of votes in any
State, in any city, in any, county, in any
ward of America. The Christian religion
is mightier to-day than it ever was.
These opponents say that science, is
overcoming religion in our day. They
look through the spectacles Of the infidel
that this book be true. ' People are finding
it out. The Bible has got to go over
board" Do you believe that the Bible
account of the origin of life will be over
thrown by infdel scientists who have
fifty different theories about the origin OF
phalanx, all agreeing on one sentiment
and one theory, perhaps Christianity
might be damaged, but there are not so
MANY differences of opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
Oh. it makes me sick to see these liter
ary fops going along with a copy OF Oar,
win under one arm and case of transfixed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the.
other arm, telling about the survival OF
the fittest" and Huxleys protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact, is that
some naturallsts, just as soon as they hnd
out the difference between the feelers OF
a wasp and the horns of beetle, begin
to patronize the Almighty, while Agassiz,
glorious Agassiz, who never made any pre-
tension to being Christian, put both his
feet on the doctrine of evolution and says:
81 see that many of the naturaists 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 Lamarch,
Wallace warning against Cope even her
schel denouncing Ferguson. They do not
agree about anything.
Then you have noticed a more significant
fact if you have talked with people on the
subject-that they are getting dissatisfied
with worldly philosophy as matter OF
comfort. They say it does not amount to
anything when you have 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 reh-
gion that ever came into the world. You
Just take scientinc cohso'aeloh io in.o hHd ,nd'
room "here nlother mas l?s' etr, net H,,'o f
thas r,',,ai 81 rm", tha 6tteSt Tell her
that child died because it was not worth
as much as the other children. That is
your Survival of the httest." just try
,.'' sour a;nr"a au tLat Ma aoued snnl and
teIl her i was n oeojoo;caI necessity that
har cnnnanion sbonld he taken away from
ber met as in the course of the worlds
history the meOatherium and the ichthvo.
sanrus had to mass out of existence. and
tben Won 90 on in your scientific consola-
ton until you get to the sublime fact that
NAV he scientific specimens on the geo
logic shelf. petri6ed specimens of an ex-
tinct human race and after Won have got
ali through with your consolation. if the
moor afflicted soul is not crazed bv it, we
viii send forth from any of our churches
the plaiuest Christian we have, and with
one half hour of PRAYER and reading of
Scripture promises the tears will be wiped
awav. and the house from floor to cupola
will he flooded with the calmness of an
Indian summer sunset. There is where |
see the triumph of Christianity. People
are dissatisfied with everything else. They
want God: they want Jesus Christ
The fact is that infdelity and agnosti-
cism are founded on ignorance geological.
Ignorance chemical. ignorance astronomi-
cal ignorance geographical We have
heard what the enemies of Christianity
have had to testify. Now | put before
Won the testimony of the church on earth
and the church in heaven. Not fifty, not
a thousand, not million. but all of the
church on earth and all of the redeemed
in heaven.
WIN ,,o,.+oto tbe evdence of those
,rbo = have ye' witnessed az we'll as felt the
,',N,or WIZ ny af ralainn or will Won nrefer the
tast;n,our poTrr nv Of those who beg;n bv declar.
;r,s .hat tho, haua nerer w;fnessed or felt
;s ;ts sr5 'n~. NV n,, talI noa that on a certain
AZ pof Warob t,uan+,, uearS aao n Pres;.
don't of the Jfn;tad' States Vas inauru.
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thare were % 0oo nersons who distinctly
haard h;s na,'a,,r,1 padJraSs denv hoth
I a., '"1 that he ,ra ;na,,e,rated 7 denv
thot liz '';as ;ps,,o,,,raI addreSs wss delivered
Won asl, w. a;J not see if I did
not heaM " my Rr, von ,' saw n that there were
On 200 raoni. ,yho ia sas sae nd haar him
49, peoP,e tP tnt;n mnp uau &c tha On oon who
,,ara rrosa,,+ ,,orth ,,,ora than tho tast;.
n,onv p Of o,a who o' W. ,naS I ahsents Now there
49, al,e son,o ", or r,.n who sau thav have never
aae, Ghr;at n,ou,n.d y tbe haor+ and
a., dn ~ bela,,a - ;s e,er dome There
!; .noS % uo noo os r,,an v,ho CO.. theu have never
haar6 the uo;ne of Tbr;St that thew have