The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-06-23
RAVENNA, SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1856.

great pretensionS to philanthropy, and de-
mands that for the sake of humanity, this
Bible be thrown away, andthe religion which
II proclaims discarded, when as a matter of
fact, he has stolen from it his every idea
of better state Of society, and every in
Auence which has been exerted for the ben
eft of man, has come from Il.
8. All science centers in the theology that
is taught in the Bible. Whatever direction
science may take she soon comes to a place
beyond which she can 90 no further and
comes to theology to ask what lies in that
unexplored region. And all along her course
questions are stated for which she has no
answer, but a confession of ignorance, and
all these questions she lays at the feet of
theology for an explanation, thus confessing
Their kindred and at the same time the su-
superiority of the science of theology.
We dig into the strata of the earth and
find layer after layer containing the remains
of the dead world of the past. At length we
find beginning, place beyond which we
can trace them no further. Then comes up
the question what was before that! And
what was the cause of this beginning! Science
is silent or gives the answer of the Bible,
God. We look abroad into the heavens and
behold the hosts of stars each retaining its
proper place in its order and yet each NOV
ing forward with amazing velocity, and asks
who marshalled their hosts; and what pow
er guides them! and the Bible answers
God.
We ask again, for what purpose were all
these things created! And we must come
to the same source for an answer. We feel
pain sickness and the absence of food
The physician traces the pain to its immedi-
ate cause and perhaps effects a cure. But
you ask SOhy are we so subject to pain and
disease, and why is man more subject to
pain and disease than all other anirnals!-
Physiology is silent. Itcan give no account
of the matter. But turn to the book OF
Genesis book written before modern sci
ence had any existence, anI there we find an
answer. Thus every science is bordering
upon the science of theology, of religion. and
related to it. The Bible does not indeed an
swer all the questions which science pro-
pounds. But it does answer many, and the
reason it does not answer more Of them, may
be because we could not understand that an
swer for can weak man understand all the
works and ways of the infinite God? Men
sometimes find fault with religion for deal.
ing in dry and knoty questions. It is be.
cause all science brings to it, as the mistress
and instructor, ali their difficulties to bt
solved. 1t is the science of sciences AMI
embraces in itself the fullness of then
all.
Unbelievers hive searched heaven an,
earth for evidence to overthrow the claim
of the Bible to be revelation from God.-
And the hpstart smatterer has caught at
few things, which have seemed to confic
with those claims, and with an impnden
boldhess becoming ignorance, has demand
ed that we give up our Bibles. But the com
plete investigations OF science have in every
case contributed to substantiate those claims
A pretending book by an unknown au
thor has been published and circulated t
some extent in this region, called Vestiges o
Creation. 1t processes to show how thu
world was formed upon the nebular hypoth
esis, which was started some years ago
which some eminent astronomers at ent
time received as hypothesis, but late as
tronomers, with more powerful instruments
have resolved these nebule into stars an,
shown that the whole hypothesis was liter
ally moonshine, the Eebule being the ligh
of clusters of stars which are unseen.
Again it has undertaken to show that on
species OF living creatures has been develop
ed from an other; and that man is derive
from some of the lower animals by law O
development. To sustain it's hypothesis
examines the remains of fossil animals pre-
served in the strata of the earth. 1t find
that In general the lowest orders of life ar
first and Hence the law of developnient.-
But there are links wanting, there are de
scending series as we'll as ascending, an
the series has been broken once and agair
but conjecture may supply the place that
vacant, and the unbeliever takes this boo
so disjointed, or whose joints are formed {
loose conjectures, and which is not sustaiiie
by one single we'll established fact, and dc
mands that for it, we give up our Bibles
We shall, do no such thing; for in thee
strata of the earth, we see the "foot prints
the Creator" which bear witness that tn
God of nature is the author of the Bibl
which tells US that he created man in h
own image.
A. open this book and ask is there an
thing there which shall either confirm
destroy my confidence in its divine truth an
authority! find that it is a series of tract
sixty six in all written by almost as many di
ferent writer's. Men of learning, and me
unlettered, statesmen, orators, poets, philos
ophers, and plain looking men, shepherd
agriculturists, fishermen, courtiers, warriors
and kings, who were scattered along throug
a period of somewhere 1860 years. I fin
in them ALL wonderful agreement in re