Show christians IN CAMP whether or not there bo be much genuine christianity practised practiced in the world there certainly are arc large numbers who make loud professions and their forms of faith are exceed s numerous secular PC pers too are new now devoting a great deal of their space to reporting sunday service services held in the christ tian churches throughout the union much bluch of these reports form fc interesting and entertain entertaining ing reading to many people tho tire chicago news gives a syn of several sermons which were f preached reached at the camp meetings and other gatherings 0 at and near tho G arden Garden city A great many of this kind of assemblies have been held in that neighborhood during the all amer of this year on sunday last rev dr fowler preached to an immense audience in III the woods at and is is reported to have delivered a most powerful scholarly and exhaustive missionary sermon among other things the tho reverend gentleman said it took five generations of culture to form the neg ro BO so that the ball his toot would not enter the ground s and GOO years to make the anglo saxon slave a freeman bichard ri Ei chard of 0 athe the lion heart the speaker said was tho the highest type of a christian in in his time and yet he be killed CO GO saracens saracena Sara cens thinking to please god and this king was the product of 1300 years of christian education uca tion lie ile described the slow growth 9 crowth of missionary work in the church but made the sweeping assertion se that in twenty five years the tho whole world would be under christian influence lionhearted lion hearted christian king ing was not much like tho the king he e was 1 to emulate for ho 0 came as a man of peace and to promote WIG good will amon among mankind ho he taught them to cultivate not tho the ara arts of war but those of brotherly love if richard was tho the type odthe of the christians of his time 9 and rind yet he lie was a man kind of christians must the type be it must have been a singular kind of christianity that induced a man mau who was its highest typo type to slay of his fellow be ings whose enose religious faith differed diffie red from bu his own thinking thereby he would please god who has strictly forbidden tho the commis commission sidn of murder his christianity must have been something like that of martal mage who recommended the extermination mi nation of thousands of christian men inen women and children in utah by b y means of C cannon and rifle because their form of christianity offended him if as dr fowler F as eirts in twenty civo yea years rathe the whole world will be under christian christill n influence we hope it will be a di different christianity from tl latof the lion heart dr talmage an and d thousands of other professors and minia minis tera of the christianity of the nineteenth century dr r fowler gives somo very interesting te historical items in rel relation to tho tile enible bible the th bvrd speaker said in the year 1800 I 1 there were only bibles in ew existence and it took thirty three hun bun dred years to produce them since then lie say bay have been printed three hundred years ago it took a laboring 76 for forty years work to buy bu a bible and how he coula buy a better ono one with the wages of forty minutes work in tho year 1800 conj only Y one person in fifteen was a christian and nine out of ten ton of these christiana christians would be kicked out of our meanest churches while now one in five in america is a church member in speaking of tho the necessity of more funds to prosecute the christian missionary work among the people dr fowler eaid said from tho tile landing of the mayflower to 1810 wera 91 given ven to missionary work from t that 1 at time to iago two and a half times f as much waa was given and from 1860 to 1880 two and a n half halt times as much as durin during all the time preceding what would woul g it bo be in the next decade inthe if the members of tho methodist church would give us as much to this work aa its they did I 1 in G government taxes it would in one year build a church and schoolhouse in every heathen community on earth money is all that is now required by tho the christian church to carry out this great work go quick everywhere lathe is tho superlative duty of men thus it will be seen that h hundreds un of millions of dollars in this country alono alone have been expended for the circulation of the bible and propagation of the various religious systems but it has not had the ef feet of uniting unit uniting a them in brotherly affection af nor making them one body in christ jesus but they are very numerous and their faiths are many the chicago news in speaking editorially on these and other kinds of sunday gatherings sums up thug thus there can be no possible objection to the various temperance educational sunday school and religious iou picnics held every summer at ocean grove chautauqua lake bluff cedar lake and the rest if only their their essential es stia kel character as picnics is not lost sight of there can bo be no harm barin whatever in tho phenomenon of a dozen or twenty twe n t y gent gentlemen e men of national reputation h hurrying arryl g a around ro na the great circuit of these meetings mec tins and firing the popular heart in all the localities with their great lectures lecture u upon n soan so BO an arid d ao NO etisa it is a good thing for al rufio the e gentlemen it furnishes matter for the press when trade is dull and it harms nobody As to the real good that is accomplished complis hed wo we do not think it equal to tile promoters claims exactly the same kind one chief object of assembling the multitudes is to raise money and thus it is at every meeting ithe the plates are passed around and largo large sums are collected at the meeting above e named were raised of course this is all right enough the preacher has a right to ask for it and the people have an equal privilege to respond or not aa as they may elect |