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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-3-29, Page 21 CONQUEST TO CONQUEST. —.,...--. 'PALMACT4xleIgX4S;LAITIsTate.33RIS Omelet Thet the IllMc ie Stemma lag Obsolete Iternten With Itlounenee nue Aimuniest-The (Growth et lauthlt• laulty Wrens Early hays. BaodeenetN. Y. March 18.„ -In the Tabernl eole "toeey, ' Rev. Dr. Damage reached rt most claque:it a.na (diameter- istically vigorous sermon in refetetion of that ofterenewea assertion of the enemies of religiou tit Chriatiauity is retrograd. nig mid the Bible losing its hold upon, the henna and consciences of men, The subs ince of the dithourse as annonueed was; From Couqueet to Conquest, the text being taken from Amos 9, la, "Behold the days coins), saith the Lord, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper." Picture of a tropical clime with a seeSon eo protperous that the harvest reaches ()leer over to the planting time, and the swarthy 1 huebandrnan winging the siokle in the thick grain almost feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the homes hitched to the plough preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days come, seiththe Lord, that the ploughmau shall overtake the reaper," When is that? That is now? That is this day when hardly have you done reapieg one harvest before the ploughman is getting ready for another, I know that many deolare that Christ- ianity has collapsed, that the Bible is an an obsolete book, that the Christian Church is on the retreat. I wiU here and now show that the opposite of that is true, An Arab guide was leading a French infidel across a desert, and ever and anon the Arab grade woeld get down in the sand and pray to the Lord, It disgusted the French infidelmnd after a while its the Arab getup from one of his. prayers the infidel said : "How do you know there is an God?" and the Arab said: "'How do know that a man and a camel passed our tent laat night? I know it by the footprints in the amide And you want to know how I know whether there is any God. Look at that sunset. Is that the footstep of a man ?" And by the same process you and I have came to understand that this Book is the footstep of a God. t Bub now let us see whether the able is a last year's almenec. Let us see whether the ehurch of God is in a Bull Run retreat, muskeM, canteens and haversacks strewing all the way. The great Enghsh historian, Sharon Turner, a Man of great learning and of great acceracy, nota clergyman but an attorney, as well as historian, gives this overwhelming statistic in regard. to Chris- • tianity and in regard to the number of Christians in the different centuries. Lx the first century 500,000 Christians; in the sec- ond century, 2,000,003 Christians; in the ahird century, 5,000,000 Christians ; in the fourth century, 10,000,030 Christians ; In the fifth century, 15,000,000 Chris - Maus ; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Christian ; in the seventh century, 24s- 000,000 Christians ; in the eighth cen- tury, 30,030,000 Christians ;in the ninth century, 40,000,000 Christians ; •in the tenth century, 50,000,000 Christians S in the eleventh century, 70,000,000 Chris- tians ; in the twelfth century, 80,0e0,00 0 Christians ; in the thirteenth century, 75,- 000,000 Christiana; in the fourteenth century, 80,000,000 Christians; in the fifteenth century, 100,000,000 Christians' . in the sixteenth. century, 125,000,000 Christians; in the seventeenth century, 155,000,000 Christians; in the eighteenth century, 200,000,000 Christains-a &mad. enee, as you will observe in only one century, and more than made up in the following centuries, while it is the usual coniputation that there will be, when the record of the nineteenth century is made up, at least 200,000,000 Christians. Poor Christianity. What a pity it has no friends. How lonesome it must be. Who will take it out of the poor house? Poor Christianity. Three bundred millions in one century. In a few weeks of the year 1881, 2,440,000 copies of the New Testament distri- buted. Why, the earth is like an old castle with twenty gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom and see how heathendom is being surrounded and honey -combed and attached by this all - conquering GospeL At the beginning of this century there were only 150 mission- aries; now there are 25,0e0 missionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of this century there were only 50.000 heathenconverts ; now there are 1,750,000 converts from heathendem. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the battery of the Gospel is placed and ready to march on'north-south, east, Fest. You all know that the chief work of pm army is to plant the batteriere It may take many days to plane the batteries, had they may do all their work in ten minutes. These batteries are being planted all along the sea -coasts and in all nations. It may take a good while to plant them, and they may do all there work in one day. They will. Nations are to be born in a day. But just come bitekS to :Christendom and recognize the fact that during the last ten years as many people have connected themselves with evangelistic churches as connected tee mselves withItheSchurchesen theffirst fifty years of this century. So Christianity is falling back and. the Bible' they say, is becoming an obsolete book.I go into a court, and Wherever / find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a:Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the solemnity of an oath? What book is apt to be put in the trunk of the young man as he leaves for city life? The Bible. What shall I find in mile out of every ten homes in Brooklyn: Tbh Bible. In nine out of every ten homes in Christen- dom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the pro- phecy that the Bible in the nineteenth cen- tury would become extinet. The century is needy gone, and as there have been more Bibles published in the latter part of the century than in the former part of the century, do you tbink the Bible Will 'become extinct in the next six years. I have to tell you that the room itt which Voltaire wrote that prophecy, not long ago was drowned from floor to coiling with Bibles from Switzerland. Suppose the C/cmgrees of the United States should pass a law that there should be ne more Bibles printed in America, and no more Biblerea& If there are forty million grown people in the thited States, there would be forty million people in an army to put down such is law and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the Congress of the United States ehould Make a hew against the reading or the pablieation of any other book hew many people would go out in Truth a crumele ? Could yeti get forty million people to go mit and risk their harm in defence of Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's traets, or Meemulayse Itietory of England? - Yoe know that them are a thousand men who woeld die in defence of thia book where there is not more than ono man who would, client defence of any other book, You try to insult rhy ocinimon-sense A Little Daughter Ot a Church of England minister Cured of a distressing rash, by • Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Mr, Eica&RD BUMS, the well-known Druggist, 207 MuQIU st., Moutreal, P. Q., says: I have sold Ayer's Family Medicines for 40 years, and have heard nothing but good said of them. I know of many Wonderful Cures performed by Ayer's Sarsaparillscene in partieular being that ot a • daughter of a Church of England minis- ter, The child was literally covered from head to foot with a red and exe eeedingly troublesome rash, froin which she had sufEered for two or three years, in smite of the best medical treatment available. Her father was in great distress about the ease, and, at irm recommendation, at last began to ad- minister Ayer's Sarsaparilla, two bet. ties of which effected a complete cure, much to her relief and her fancies delight. I am sure, were he here to -day, heevould testify in the strongest terms • as to the merits of Ayer's Sarsaparilla 1?.ropared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell,Mass, Cures others, will cureyou TithExETEE TIMES. 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Ile who would fres fleet /halloo pass his dams attest live obscure and tever merit se else, • I -le Who learns and makes no use of his 'earning is a hetet of burden with a load of books. by telling me the Bible is fade out from the world. It is the moot popular hook of the centery, How do I know? 1 kixew it juat as I knowin regard to other books, liow many volumes of Mutt book are pub - lathed?. Well, you say, five thOnSand. EON? Many copies of that, book •ere publiehed ? A huridred thousand, Which is the more ?opulent' Why of course the •one that, has a hundred thousand eiroula- time And if thia lesok has more ontsioa abroad in world, if there are five times es many Bibles abroad as aim other book, does not that allow you that the most pep- uler book on the planet to -day is the Word of God? "O," eve , people, "the Church is a mile:time of hypocrites, and it is losing ite power and it is fading out from the world." I e it? A bishop of the Methodist Church told nie that denomiaation averages two now churches every day a the year. There are at leaat fifteen Unfired new Christian churches built in America, every' year, Does thee look at though the Church were fo,diug otitf as though it were a defunot in- stitutionVhieti hatitinition stands newest the hearts of the people of America to -day? I do not ears in what village or in what city, or what neighborhood you got Which institution is it ? Is it the lecturing hall? Is it the post offi ce ? Is it the hotel? .4.h,yeu knew it is ot. You know that the institution which stands neareet to the hearee of the American people is the Chris- timiCeurch. If you have ever seen a church bairn down, you have seen thousand a of people standing and looking at in -people who never go into a church -the tears run- ing down their cheeks. The whole story is tolci. 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? IThe attorney -general? The hotelkeeper ? Alderman ? No; you send for a minister of this Bible -religion, And if you have nob a room in your house for the obsequies, what building do you solicit? Do you say, "Give ine the finest room in the hotel?" Do you say, "Give inc that theatre ?" Do you say, "Give me a place in :bleat public building, where I can lay my dead for a little while uutil we say a prayer over it?" No; you say, "Give as the house of Go&" .And if there is a song to be Etung at the obsequies, what do you went? What does anybody want? The Marseillaise hymn? God save the Queen? Our own grand national air? No. They want the •lay= with which they- sang their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want sung the Sala bath School hymn which their little girl Sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was oue before she got that awful sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to your com- mon sense. You know the most endearing institution on earth, the most popular in- stitution on earth to -day, is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The infidels say: "Infidelity shows its successes from the fact that it is everywhere accepted, and it can say what it will." 4Vhy, my friends, fnfidelity is not half so blatent in our'day as it was in the days of our fathers. Do you know that in the days of our fathers there were pronounced in- fidels in public authority and, they could, ant any. political, position? Let a man to- day declare himself antagonistic to the Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, what State wants him for gov- ernor, what nation wants him for president or for king? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious Christiatu- ity, and he cannot get a majority ot votes in any State, in any city, in any country, in any ward of America. Do you think that -such a scene could be enacted now as was enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elevated as a goddess, and was carried in a golden chair to a cathedral where in- cense was burned to her and people bowed down before her as a divine being, she taking the place of the Bible and God Almigbty, while in the corridor of that cathedral were enacted such scenes of drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity as heves never been witnessed? Do you believe such a ,thing could possibly occur in Chrbstendom to -day? No, sir. The police, whether in Paris or New York, would swoop on it. I know infidelity makes a good deal of talk in our day. It is on the principle that if a man jump overboard from a Canard steamer he makes more excite- ment than all the five hundred people who stay on the decks. BUS the fact thee he juraps overboard -does that stop the ship? Does that wreck the five hnndred passen- gers? It makes great excitement when a man jumps from the lecturing platform, or from the pulpit, into infidelity ; but does that keep the Bible and the Church from carrying the millions Otpassertgers into the skies? - They say, these men, that science is over coming religion in our day. They look through spectacles of the infidel scientists, and they say: "It is impossible that this book can be true ; people are finding it out; the Bible hat got to go oherboard ; science is going to throw it overboard" Do you believe that the Bible account of the origin of life will be overthrown by infidel scien- tists who have fifty different theories about the origin of life? If they should come up in solid phalanx, all agreeing on one senti- ment and one theory, perhaps Christianity might be damaged ; hitt there are not so many differences of opinion inside the Church as outside the Church. People used to Bay, "There are so many different de, nominations of Christians --that shows there is nothing in religion." I have to tell you that all denominations agree on the two or three or four radieel doctrines of the Christian religion. , They are unanimous in regard to the divinity of the ecriptures.. Howes it on the other side All split up; you cannot find two of them alike. Oh, it makes me sick to see these literary fops going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of trans. fixed grasshoppers and butterfilee under the other arm, telling about the "survival of the fittest," and Huziey's protoplasm, and the nebular hypetheeis. The faot is, that some naturalists just as soon as they find out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the home of a beetle, begin to patronage the Ahnighty ; while Agassiw glorious Age,spie, who never made any pre- tension to beinga, Christian, puts both his feet on the doctrine of evolution, and says: "1 zee thet ineny of the naturalists of one day are adepting fuel which do not bear °Nervation, ot have not pemed. under ob- servation," These men werringa,gainst elieh othere-Darwin tverring against Las =robe. Wallace warring egainstame,even Hamad de/lemming Forge:ma-they do not agree about anything. They do not agree about embryology, do not agree on the gradation of the species.. What de they agree on? Herschel writes a, whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La, ?lase declares that the 1110611 Was not tont iri the righe place. He seem thee if it had been pat foite times further from the earth than it is toe there would be more harmony in the traverse; but Lionville tomes up jest, in time to prove that the moon WAS put irieem right plane. IloW Many colors are woven into the light? &Veils says baste Newton; three, says David Browner, How high is the Aaron, Borealis? Two fA'arndh: thall anfle, hesays QU,See vle:tnyd r,sed.i and sixtpeight miles, says Twing, Haw Million miles', says Lacelle, Eiglity-two million miles, save Hemboldie Ninety. million miles, says Henderson. Oise hundred end four million miles, says Mayer, Only a little differenoe sI twerdy.eightmillion miles All aplit among themselves -not agreeing on anything. 'rimy come and say that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on the greet doetrines. All united they aro, inera'eteuea;whiie ursChrist,in the divinity of ,the stv they mime up and proe Pee's to renier their verdict, no two of them agree on that verdiet. "Gentlemen of the pry, have you agreed on a verdict ?" aides the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in efter having spent the whole eight in tielibereahm, If the jury say, "Yes, we have agreed," thci verdict is recorded ; bun suppose one of the jurymen says I think the man is guilty of murder'"and another says, I think he was guilty of manslaughter in the seoond degree," and another man says, "1 think he was guilty of assualt aud battery with intend to,kill," the judge would say, "Go back to your room and bring in a verdiot ; agree on aoinething ; that is no verdict." Here these infidel scientists have empan- eled themselves as a jury to decide this trial between Infidelity, the plaintiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and after being Mit for centuries they nome to render their verdict. Gentlemen of the juiy, have You agreed on a verdiet? No, no. Then go back for another five hundred years and deliberates and agree on something. There isnotto-morrow ot ap-mrmiserale wretch in the Tombs ou that could be condemned by a jury then did not agree en the verdict, and yet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on anything. Ah, my friends, the Church of .Tesus Christ, instead of falling back, is on the advance. Tam certain it is on the advance. 0, Lord God, take Thy sword from Thy thigh and ride forth to the victory. Tarn mightily encouraged because I find among other things that while this Chris. tianity has been bombarded for centuries, infidelity has not destroyed one church, or crippled one minister, or uprooted one verse of one chapter of all the Bible. The church all the time getting the victory, and the shot and shell of its enemies nearly ex- hausted, I have been examining their ammunition lately; I have looked all through their oartridge-boxes. They have not in the last twenty years advanced one new idea. They have utterly exhausted their ammunition in the battle against the Church and against the Scriptures, while the sword of the • Lord Almighty is as keen as it ever was. We are just getting our troops into lines : they are coming up in companies, and in • regiments, and in brigades, and you will hear it shout after a while that will make the earbh quake, and the heavens ring with Alleluia. It will be this: "Forward the whole lines." ' And then I find another most encourag- ing thought in the fact that the secular printing press and pulpit seem harnessed in the same teain for the proclamation of the Gosphl. Every Wall street banker to- morrow in New York, every State street banker to -morrow in Boston, every Third street banker toanorrow in Philadelphia, every banker in the United States, and every merchant will have in his pocket a treatise on Christianity, a call to repent- ance, ten, twenty or thirty passages of Scripture in the reports of sermons preach- ed throughout the land to -day. Is will be so in Chicago'so in New, Orleans, so in ts Charleston, sin Boston, so in Philadelphia so everywhere. 1 know the tract societies are doing a grand and glorious work, but I tell you there is no power on earth to -day equal to the fact that the American printing press is taking up the sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thous- and people, and on Monday morning and Monday evening, in the morning and even- ing papers, scattering the truth to the mil- lions. What a thought it is. What an encouragement for every Christian man. Besides that, have younoticed that dur- ing the past few days every one of the doctrines of the Bible came under discussion in the secular press -when every paper in the United States had an editorial on the subject: "Is there such a thing as future punishment?" It was the strangest thing that there should be a diseussion in the secular pa.pera on that subject, but every paper in the United States and in Christen - dons discussed: " Is there such a thing as retribution ?" I know there were small wits who made sport of the discussion, but there was not an intelligent man oa earth who, as the result of that discussion, did not ask himself the question: "What is going to be my eternal destiny?" So it was in regard to Tyndallenprayergau e. About twelve year ago you remember bhe secular papers discussed that, and With jast at4 much earnestnese as the religious papers, and there was not a man in Christendom who did not ask himself the question, "Is there anything in prayer? May the creat - are impress the Creator." Oh, what a mighty fact, what a glorious fact, the secular print- ing press and the pulpit of the Church of Jesus Christ harnessed in the same team. Then look at the Internntional Series of Sunday School lessons. Do you know that every Sabbath between three and five o'clock there are five million ohildren studying the same lesson, aeIesson prepared bythe leading minds of the country and printed in the paphrs, and these subjeots are discussed and given over to the teachers, who give them over to the children ; so that whereas one -and within our memory -the children nibbled here and there at it story in the Bible, now they ere taken ehroitgh from Genesis to Reveletion, and we shall have five million children forestall. Ad for Christianity. My eoul is full of exultation. I feel as if I could ahout.-I will shout, "Alleluia, the Lord God ons. nipoteat reignetb." Then you noticed it more signifieseit fact, if you have talked with people on the subject: that they are getting dissatisfied with phil- osophy and science as a matter of comfort. They say it does not animum to anything when you Nem a deed child in the house. They toll you, when they were sick and the door of the future seemed opening, the only comfort they could flnd vvar in the Gospel. People are having demonstrated all over the land that Reim:ice end philo- sephy alma olace the trouble mid woes of the world, and they want thine other re- ligion, and they ere Miring Christianity, the only Syrapathetid religion that ever came into the world. Yen just take your scientifio consolation tete that room where e mother hail lost her ehild, Try in thee caire yottr 'splendid doctrine of the "sot. rival of the fittest," Tell her then child died beceeee it Was net Worth, as ninth as the other children. • That is your serve. val of the fittest." Go to, that dying man and tell him to pluck up eourage for the future. Use your transcendental phrase - °logy upon him. Tell him be ought te be cenfident la "the great to be," end the "everlesting now," and the "eternal whet is it," Just you try tanns, ceridentellem and your philoeophy end your esteems on him', Go to that widowed oil, and tell her it Was a geolegioal neoese sity that her husband ahould be taken away from her just as in the course of the world's history the megatherium had th vase out of existenoe ; and then you go in your thien- eiec consolation until you get to the sub- litue fad that fifty million years front now we ourselves' may he scientido specimens nn a geological shelf, petrided specimene of an extinct human rams, And after yon have Met all through with your ooneolation, if the poor AM ieted fioni is not erased by it, I will Send forth from this cherish the plainest Christian we have, and with one half hour of prayer and reading of Seripture promisee, the tears will be wiped away, and the house from floor to the cupola will be floored with the calmness of an Inlian SUrnmer sunset. There is where I see the triunaph Of Christianity. People are dis- staeisfied with everything else. They want God, They want Jesus Christ. Talk about the exec° sciences, there is only one exact science. It is not mathe- matics. Taylor's logarithms have many imperfectione. The French metric system has many. imperfeetions, The oply exact science us airiatianity--the only thing under which you can appropriately write, " Quod. erat demonstrendum," You tell me that two and two make four. I do not dis- pute it, but it is not so plain that two and two make foier as that the Lord Clod Al- mighty made this world, and for man, the &bluer, Ho sent His only begotten Son to die. I put on the witness stand to testify in behalf of Christianity the Church on earth and all the Church in heaven. Not fifty, not a thousand, nos a million, but all of the Church on earth and all the redeeme d in heaven. You tell me James A. Garfield was in- augurated President of the United States on the fourth of March, 1881. How do I know ib? You tell me there were twenty thousand persona who distinctly heard his inaugural address. I deny both, I deny that he was inaugurated. I deny that his inaugural address was delivered. You ask why? I did not see it, I did not hear it. But you say there were twenty thousand persons who did see and hear him. I say I cannot take it anyhow, I did nob see and hear him. Whose testimony will you take? Yon will not take my testimony. You say, "You know nothing about it, you were not there'let as have the testhuony of the twenty thousand persons who stood before the capital and heard that magnificent inaugural." Why, of course, that is as your common sense dictates. • Now, here are some men who say they have never seen Christ crown- ed in the Iseart, and they do not believe it is ever done. There is a group of men who say they have never heard the voice of Christ, they have never heard the voice of God. They do not believe it ever trans- pired, or was ever heard -that anything like it ever occurred. I point to twenty, a hundred thousand or a million people who say: " Christ was crowned in our hearts' affections ; we have seen Him and felt Him in our soul, and we have 'heard His voice; we have heard it in stdrxn a,nd dark - nesse we have heard it again and again." Whose testimony will you take? These • men who say tbey have not heard the voice of Christ, have not seea his coronation ; or will you take the thousands and millions of Christians who testify of what they saw with their own eyes Mad heard with their own ears? Yonder is an aged Christian after fifty years' experience of the power of god- liness in his soul. Ask this man whether, when he buried his dead, the religion of Jesus Christ' was nob A consolation. .Ask him if through the long years of hispilgrim- age the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him when he looks forward to the future, if he has not a peace and a joy and a consolation tho world cannot, take away. Put his testi- mony of what he has seen and. what, he has felt opposite to the testimony of a man who says he has not seen anything on the sub- ject or felt anything on the subject. Will you take the testimony of people who have nob seen, or people who have seen? You say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time of sicknesa it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep, it never alleviates pain. You ask me why I say that. I have never tried it, I never took it. I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves, or any quiet in time of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anybody to sleep ; but here are twenty persons who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a physician's pres. oribing morphine. Whose testimony wiil you take? Thoae who took the medi- cine, or my testimony, I never having taken •the medicine. Here is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all trouble, the mightiest medicine that ever came down to earth. Here is a man who says : "I don't believe in it ; there is no power in it." Here are other people who say, "We have found out its power and know its soothing influence ; it has cured at." Whose testi- mony will you take in regard to this heal- ing medicine? • I feel that 1 have convinced every man in this house that ib is utter folly to take the testimony of those who hive never tried the Gosperof Jesus Christ in their own hearb and life. We have tens of thousands of witnesees. I believe you are ready to take their testimony. Young man, do not be ashamecl to be a friend of the Bible. Do not pet your thumb in your vest, as ;young men sometimes do, and awagger about, talking of the glorious light of the nine- teenth century, and of there being no need of a Bible. ' A misery is uot to be measured from the nature of the evils but from the teinper of the sufferer. We often hold firmer to the last crown we have amassed than to the first which we gained. Ile who bridles the •fury of the billows knows also to put a Stop to the secreb plane of the Wieked. Scandal breeds histred ; hatred begets Il- ; division makes faction, and faction bringa ruin. The voiee of parents is the voice of gods, for to their, children they are heaven's lieut- enant Two Oriental ruling Will 'visa Europe this year -the l(hedive of Egypt and the Shah of Persia. The freedom of Londfsn will be conferred trent the Ithedive. The Shah will be in Berlin in July, much to the regret of the Emperor, it, is said, andgo titmice to London. 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