Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-11

| ed States, there would be 100000 pco-
| pie in an army TO put down such law
and defend their right TO read the Bible
But suppose the congress of the United
States should make a law against the
reading or the publication of any other
! book, how many people would go out in
such a crusade? Could you get G0,00O,-
600 people to 60 out and risk their lives
in the defense Of Shakespcare's TRACE
dies or Gladstone's tracts or Macauay's
History of England" You know that
there are thousand men who would die
in the defense of this book where there
is not more than one man who would die
in the defense Of any other book. You
try TO insult my common sense by telling
me the Bible is fading out from the
! world 1t is the most popular book of
the centuries.
How do l know it? know it just as
know in regard to other books. How
many volumes Of that history are publish
ed? Well, you say 5000 How many
copies Of another book are published? A
hundred thousand. Which is the more
popular? Why. Of course, the one that
has the hundred thousand circulation.
Aud if this book has more copies abroad
in the world, if there nre FIVE times as
many Bibles abroad as any other book
among civilized nations, does not that
show you that the most popular book on
earth today is the word Of God?
"Oh," say people. "the church Is n col
lection of hypocrites, and it Is losing its
power and it is fading out from the
world" Is it? A bishop OF the Methodist
church told me that that denomination
averages two new churches every dnS'.
In other words they build 130 churches
in that denomination in year. and there
are at least ! 800 new Christian churches
built in America every year. Does that
look as though the Christian church were
fading out, as though it were defunct
institution? What stands nearest to the
hearts Of the American people today? l
do not care in what village or what city
or what neigbborhood you go. What is
it? Is it the postoffice? Is it the hotel
Is it the lecturing hnll? All, you know it
is not! You know that that which stands
nearest to the hearts of the American
people is the Christian church.
In the Hour of Distress.
You may talk about the church being a
collection of hypocrites, but when the
diphtheria sweeps your children off whom
do you send for? The postmaster, the at
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