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A GLORIOUS GrEOWTH REV. DR. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW CHRISTIANITY MOVES FORWARD. Some Sturdy Blows st Infidelity-Religion Good to lave by and Consoling to Die By-An Encouraging Discourse by toe . Eloquent Pastor. BROOKLYN, March 18.-In the Taber? nacle today Rev. Dr. Talmage preached s most eloquent and characteristically vigorous sermon in refutation of the oft renewed assertion of the enemies of reli? gion that Christianity is retrograding and the Bible losing its hold upon the hearts and consciences of men. The sub? ject of the discourse as announced was "From Conquest to Conquest," the text being taken from Amos ix, 13, "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." Picture of a tropical clime, with a sea? son so prosperous that the harvest reach? es clear over to the^iantmg time, and the swarthy husbandman swinging the sickle in the thick grain almost feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days; come, saith the Lord, that tile plowman shall overtake tba reaper." When is that? That is now. That is this day, when hardly have you done reaping one harvest before the plow? man is getting ready for another. I know that many declare that Chris? tianity has. collapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian church is on the retreat. X will 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 Arah guide would get down in the sand and pray to the Lord. It disgusted the French infidel, and after awhile as the Arab got up from one of his prayers the infidel said, "How do you know there is any God?" and the Arab guide said: "How do I know that a man and a camel passed along our tent last night? I know it hythe footprints in the sand. And yen 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 come to under? stand that this book is the footstep of a God. A HEALTHY GROWTH. But now let us see whether the Biblo is a last year's almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is in a Bull Bun retreat, muskets, canteens and hav? ersacks strewing all the way. The great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and of great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, gives this overwhelm? ing statistic in regard to Christianity and in regard to the number of Christians in the different centuries: In the first cen? tury, 500,000 Christians; in the second century, 2.000,000 Christians; in the third century, 5,000,000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000,000 Christians; in the fifth century, 15,000,000 Christians; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Chris? tians; in the seventh century, 24,000, 000 Christians; in the eighth cen? tury, 30,000,000 Christians; in the ninth century, 40,000,000 Christians; in the tenth century, 50,000,000 Chris? tians; in the eleventh century, 70,000,000 Christians; in the twelfth century, 80, 000,000 Christians; in the thirteenth cen? tury, 75,000,000 Christians; in the four? teenth century, 80,000,000 Christians; in the fifteenth century, 100,000,000 Chris? tians; in the sixteenth century, 125,000, 000 Christians; in the seventeenth cen? tury, 155,000,000 Christians; in the eight? eenth century, 200,000,000 Christians a decadence, as you observe, in only one century and more than made up in the following centuries, while it is the usual computation that there will he, when the record of the nineteenth century is made up, at least 300,000,000 Christians. Poor Cbristiaiiity! What a pity it has nb friends! How lonesome it must be! "Who will take it out of the poorhouse? Poor Christianity! Three hundred mil? lions in one century. In a few weeks of the year 18812,500,000 copies of the New Testament distributed. Why, the earth is like an old castle with 20 gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom and see how heathendom is being sur? rounded and honeycombed and attacked by this all conquering gospel. At the beginning of this century there were only 150 missionaries; now there are 25, 000 missionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of this ! century there were only 50,000 heathen j converts; now there are 1,750,000 con- ? verts from heathendom. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the battery of the gospel is planted and ready to march on-north, south, east, west. You all know that the chief work of an army is to plant the batteries. It may take many days to plant the bat- j teries, and they mayde all their work in 10 minutes. These batteries are being planted all along the seacoasts and in all nations. It may take a good while to plant them, and they may do all their work in one day. They wilL Nations are to be born in one day. But just come back to Christendom and recognize j the fact that during the last 10 years as j many people have connected themselves with evangelical churches as connected j themselves with the churches in the first ? 50 years of this century. ? GLORIOUS BOOK. So Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, they say, is becoming an obsolete book. I go into a court, and wherever I j find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I j find a. Bible. Upon what book could j there be uttered the solemnity of an oath? What book is apt to be put in the j trunk of the young man as he leaves for j city life? The Bible. What shall I find in nine out of every ten homes in Brook? lyn? The Bible. In nine out of every ten homes in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bible in the nineteenth century would become extinct. The century is nearly gone, and as there have been more Bible* published in the latter part of the cen? tury than in the former part of the cen? tury do you think the Bible will become extinct in the next six years? 1 have to tell you that the room in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not long azo was crowded from floor to ceil ing -with Bibles from Switzerland. ! pose the congress of the . United St should pass a law that there shoul no more Bibles printed in America no more Bibles read. If there are 000,000 grown people in the Uro States, there would be 40,000,000 pie in an army to put down such a and defend their right to read the Bi But suppose the congress of the Un States should make a law against reading or the publication of anyo: hook, how many people would go on such a crusade? Could you get 40,000,000 people t< ont and risk their lives in defense Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladsto tracts or Macaulay's "History of ? land?" You know that there are 1 men who would die in defense of this b where there is not more than one i who would die in defense of any oi book. Yon try to insult my' come sense by telling me the Bible is fad ont from the world. It is the most popular book of the c tnry. How do I know it? I know it j as I know in regard to other books. H many volumes of .that book are publi ed? Well, yon say, 5,000. Howxm copies of that book are published? hundred thousand. Which is che m popular? Why, of course the one t? has 100,000 circulation. And if this b< has more copies abroad in the world there are five times as many Bibles abre as any other book, does not that sh yon that the most popular book on 1 planet today is the word of God? "Oh," say people, "the church is a c lection of hypocrites, and it is losing power, and it is fading ont from 1 world." Is it? A bishop of the Met] dist church told me that that denoinii tion averages two new churches ev? day of the year. There are at least 1,1 new Christian churches built in Ameri every year. Does that look as thou the church were fading out, as though were a defunct institution? Which i stitntion stands nearest the hearts of t people of America today? Ido not ca in what village, orin what city*, or wh neighborhood you go. Which institut! is it? Is it the postofi?ce? Is it the i tel? Is it the lecturing hall? Ah, y< know it is not. Yon know that the i stitntion which stands nearest to t hearts of the American people is t'. Christian church. If yon have ever sei a church burn down, yon have se*. thousands of people standing and loo ing at it-people who never go into church-the tears raining down thc cheeks. The whole story is told. AN UNPOPULAR BELIEF. Yon may taik about the church beir a collection of hypocrites, but when tl diphtheria sweeps your children o whom do yon send for? The postmaste the attorney general, the hotel keepe alderman? No, yon send for a minist? of this Bible religion. And if yon ha? noi a room in your house for the obs? quies, what building do yon solicit? E yon say, "Give me the finest room in tl hotel?' Do yon say, "Give me th; theater?" Do yon say: "Give me a plac in that public building, where I can la my dead for a little wh?e until we say prayer over it?" No. Yon say, "Giv ns the house of God." And if there is a song to be sung at th obsequies, what do yon want? Whs does anybody want? "The Marseillaise hymn. "God Save the Queen?' Our ow grand national air? No. They want th hymn with which they sang their ol Christian mother into her last sleep, o they want sung the Sabbath school hym; which their little girl sang the last Sat bath afternoon she was out before sh got that awful sickness which broke you heart. I appeal to your common sense Yon know the most endearing institu tion on earth, the most popular institu tion on earth today, is the church of th? Lord Jesus Christ. The infidels say, "Infidelity shows it successes from the fact that it is every where accepte*!, and it can say what i will." Why, my friends, infidelity ii not half so blatant in our days as it wai in the days of our fathers. Do yon kuovi that in the days of our fathers there we? pronounced infidels in public authority and they could get any political position! Let a man today declar? himself antag? onistic to the Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, what state wants him for governor, what na? tion 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. 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 cathe? dral, where incense was burned to her and people bowed down before her as a divine being, she taking the place of the Bible and God Almighty, while in the corridor of that cathedral were enacted snch scenes of drunkenness and debauch? ery and obscenity as have never been witnessed? Do you believe such a thing could possibly occur in Christendom to? day? No, sir! The police, whether of 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 Cunard steamer he makes more excite? ment than all the 500 people that stay on the decks. But the fact that he jumps overboard-does that stop the ship? Does that wreck the 500 passengers? 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 their millions of passengers into the skies? They say, these men, that science is overcoming religion in our day. They look through the spectacles of the infidel scientists, and they say: "It is impossi? ble that this book can be true. People are finding it out. The Bible has got to ? go overboard. Science is going to throw ! it overboard." Do yon believe that the Bible account of the origin of life will be overthrown by infidel scientists who have 50 different theories about the or- j igin of life? If they should come up in sol id phalanx, all agreeing upon one senti- j ment and one theory, perhaps Christiani- ! ty might be damaged, but there are not so many differences of opinion inside the 1 ! church as outside the church. THE FITTEST SURVIVES. People used to say, "There are so man different denominations of Christians that shows there is nothing in religion. I have to tell you that all denominatior agree on the two or three or four radie; doctrines of the Christian religion. The are unanimous in regard to Jesus Chris and they are unanimous in regard to tl: divinity of the Scriptures. How is it o the other side? All split up-you cannc find two of them alike. Oh, it makes m sick to see these literary fops going alon with a copy of Darwin under one an and a case of transfixed grasshoppers an butterflies under the other arm, tellin about the "survival of the fittest," an Huxley's protoplasm, and the nebula hypothesis. The fact is that some naturalists jus as soon as they find ont the differenc between the feelers of a wasp and th horns of a beetle begin to patronize th Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Aga* siz, who never made any pretension t being a Christian, puts both his feet o. the doctrine of evolution and says, " see that many of the naturalists of on day are adopting facts which do not bea observation or have not passed under ol] serration." These men warring agains each other-Darwin warring against La marche, "Wallace warring against Cope even Herschel denouncing Ferguson. They do not agree abont anything They do not agree on embryology, di not agree on the gradation of the spe cies. What do they agree on? Hersche writes a whole chapter on the errors o astronomy. La Place declares that th? moon was not put in tue right place. H? says that if it had been put four time: farther from the earth than it is nov there would be more harmony in thi universe, but Lionville comes np just ii time to prove that the moon was put ii the right place. How many colors woven into the light Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high is the au rora borealis? Two and a half miles says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eighi miles, says Twining. How far is the sm from the earth? Seventy-six millioi miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two millior miles, says Humboldt. Ninety millior miles, says Henderson. One hundrec and four million miles, says Mayer-onl} a little difference of 28,000,000 miles All split np among themselves-nol agreeing on anything. They come and say that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on the great doctrines. Al) united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scriptures. While thej come np and propose to render their ver? dict, no two of them agree on that ver? dict. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?" asks the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in aft? er having spent the whole night in de? liberating. If the jury say, "Yes, we have agreed," the verdict is recorded, but suppose one of the jurymen says, "I think the man was guilty of murder," and another says, "I think he was guilty of manslaughter in the second degree," and another man says, "I think he was guilty of assault and battery, with in? tent to kill," the judge would say: "Go back to your room and bring in a ver? dict. Agree on something. That is no verdict." INFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL. Here these infidel scientists have im? 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. Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a ver? dict? No, no. Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor, miser? able wretch in the Tombs court tomor? row that could be condemned by a jury that did not agree on the verdict, and yet you expect us to give np our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree OK anything. Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ, instead of falling back, is on the advance! I am certain it is on the ad? vance. O Lord God, take thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic? tory! I am mightily encouraged because I find among other things that while this Christianity 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 get? ting the victory and the shot and shell of its enemies nearly exhausted. I have been examining their ammuni? tion lately. I have looked all through their cartridge boxes. They have not in the last 20 years advanced one new idea. They have utterly exhausted their am? munition 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 line. They are coming up in companies, and in regiments, and in bri? gades, and you will hear a shout after awhile that will make the earth quake and the heavens ring with "Alleluia!" It will be this, "Forward, the whole line!" And then I find another most encour? aging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and pulpit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every Wall street banker to? morrow 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 will have in his pocket a treatise on Christianity, a call to repent- ? ance, 10, 20 or 30 passages of Scripture in the reports of sermons preached throughout these cities and throughout the land today. It will be soin Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so every- i where. I know the tract societies are doing a j grand and glorious work, but I tell you theTe is no power on earth today equal to the fact that the American printing ? press is taking up the sermons which are [ preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Monday morn- 1 ing and Monday evening, in the morning and evening papers, scattering that truth to the millions. What a thought it is! j What an encouragement for every Chris? tian man! A GLORIOUS FACT. Besides that, have you noticed that during the past few years every one the doctrines of the Bible came under d cussion in the secular press? Do you r remember a few years ago, when eve paper in the United States had an e< tonal on the subject, "Is There Such Thing as Future Punishment?" It w the strangest thing that there should a discussion in the secular papers on tb subject, but every paper in the Unit States and in Christendom discusse "Is There Such a Thing as Eetributioi I know there were small wits who ma sport of the discussion, but there w not an intelligent man on earth who, the result of that discussion, did not a himself the question, "What is going be my eternal destiny?" So it was in i gard to Tyndall's prayer gauge. About 12 years ago, you remembt the secular papers discussed that, ai with just as much earnestness as the i ligiou8 papers, and there was not a mi in Christendom who did not ask hims? the questions: "Is there anything in pra er? May the creature impress the Ci ator?" Oh, what a mighty fact, what glorious fact-the secular printing pre and the pulpit of the church of Jesi Christ harnessed in the same team! Then look at the international seri of Sunday school lessons. Do you kno that every Sabbath, between 3 and o'clock, there are5,000,000 children stud; ing the same lesson-a lesson prepari by the leading minds of the counti and printed in the papers-and then the? subjects are discussed and given over 1 the teachers, who give them over to tl children? So, whereas, once, and withi our memory, the children nibbled he] and there at a story in the Bible, no' they are taken through from Genesis 1 Revelation, and we shall have 5,000,0C children forestalled for Christianity. M soul is full of exultation. I feel as if could shout-I will shout, "Alleluia, th Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION. Then you notice a more significar fact, if you have talked with people o the subject, that they are getting dissai isfied with philosophy and science as matter of comfort. They say it does nc amount to anything when you have dead child in thc house. They will tel you, when they were sick and the door c the future seemed opening, the only com fort they could find was in the gospel People are having demonstrated all ove the land that science and philosophy can not solace the trouble and woes of th world, and they want some other reli gion, and they are taking Christianity the only sympathetic religion that eve came into the world. You jost take your scientific consola tion into that room where a mother ha lost her child. Try in that case yon splendid doctrine of the "survival of ih< fittest." Tell her that child died becausi it was not worth as much as the ethe: children. That is your "survival of tb) fittest." Go to that dying man and tel him to pluck up courage for the future Use your transcendental phraseolo^o* up on him. Tell him he ought to be con fi dent in "the great to be," and the "ever lasting now," and the "eternal what ii it." Just try your transcendentalisu and your philosophy and your science oi him. Go to that widowed soul and tell hei it was a geological necessity that bet companion should be taken away fron her, just as in the course of the world".5 history the megatherium had to pass oui of existence, and then you go on in youi scientific consolation until you get to tnt sublime fact that 50,000,000 years from now we ourselves may be scientific spec? imens on a geological shelf, petrified specimens of an extinct human race. And after you have got all through with your consolation, if the poor afflict? ed soul is not crazed by it, I will send forth from this church the plainest 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 In? dian summer sunset. There is where I see the triumph of Christianity. Peo? ple are dissatisfied with everything else. They want God. They want Jesus Christ. Talk about the exact sciences. There is only one exact science. It is not math? ematics. Taylor's logarithms have many imperfections. The French metric sys? tem has many imperfections. The only exact science is Christianity-the only thing under which you can appropriately write, "Quod erat demonstrandum." You tell me that two and two make four. I do not dispute it, but it is not so plain that two and two make four as that the Lord God Almighty made this world and for man, the sinner, he 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 50, not a thousand, not a million, but all of the church on earth and all the redeemed in heaven. A QUESTION OF TESTIMONY. You tell me James A. Garfield was in? augurated president of the United States on the 4th of March, 1881. How do I know it? . You tell me there were 20,000 persons who distinctly heard his inau? gural address. I deny both. I deny that he was inaugurated. I deny that his in? augural address was delivered. You ask why. I did not see it; I did not hear it. But you say that there were 20,000 persons who did see and hear him. I say I cannot take it anyhow. I did not see and hear him. Whose testimony will you take? You will not take my testi? mony. You say: "You know nothing about it; you were not there. Let us have the testimony of the 20,000 persons who stood before the capitol and heard that magnificent inaugural." Why, of course that is as your common sense dic? tates. Now. here are some men who say thev have never seen Christ crowned in the heart, 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 clo not believe it ever transpired or was ever heard-that any? thing like it ever occurred. I point to 20, 100.000 or 1,000,000 people who say, "Christ was crowned in our hearts' af? fections; we have seen him and felt him in our soul, and we have heard his voice; we have heard it in storm and darkness; we have heard it again and a.?ain. Whose testimony will you take? These j men, who say they have not heard the S voice of Christ, have not seen the corona ! tion, or will yon take the thousands and ' millions of Christians who testify of what they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears? Yonder is an aged Christian after 50 years' experience of the power of godli? ness in his soul. Ask this man whether, when he buried his dead, the religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through the long years of his pil? grimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him, when he looks forward to the fu? ture, if he has not a peace, and a joy, and a consolation the world cannot take away. Put his testimony 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 subject or felt anything on the subject. Will yon take the testimony of people who have not seen or people who have seen? A BIT OF ADVICE. Yon say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time of sickness 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 times of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anybody to sleep, but here are 20 persons who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a physician's prescribing morphine. Whose testimony will you take? Those who took the medicine 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 us." Whose testimony will you take in regard to this healing medi? cine? I feel that I have convinced everyman in this house that it is utter folly to take the testimony of those who have never tried the gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart and life. We have tens of thousands of witnesses. I believe you are ready to take their testimony. Young man, do not be ashamed to be a friend of the Bible. Do not put your thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swagger abont talking of tL. glori? ous light of the nineteenth century and of there being no need of a Bible. They have the light of nature in India and China and in all the dark places on earth. Did yon ever hear that the light of na? ture gave them comfort for their trou? ble? They have lancets to cut and jug? gernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, my friends, yon had better stop your skepticism. Suppose you are put in this crisis: Oh, father, your child is dying. What are you going to say to her? Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous in? fidel in his day. His wife was a very j consecrated woman. 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