Smyrna times., 1860-02-23
Hriten for the Smyrna Times.
Science and Revelation,

~ having entirely failed in its arrav of prstende
ell Contradictions ;o tho D;,;,,. r,r: n,,,
~ has shown itself its own interpreter Chris
'0 tIanlty is still living power in the Earth
e- Voltalre'a savage ridcule, pointless and pow
'o erless, has fallen at her feet-Rosseaus sen
~ tImentallty, like dream, was dispelled by tht
dc cruel facts of the French Revolution. Th,
az classic criticism of Gibbon, of Hume of Hobbies
'ii have been but artistic riverside fountains, toy.
~ ing awhile in the sunlight only to be hushed al
last and forever in the roll of the great stream.
And now, while skepticism is bent on taking
Christianity through the conflict of Science,
g the Almighty hand seems leading her to Gu :
, er and more brilliant victories. The sheorem
,, OF measuring Christianity by Science, has ori-
glnated the more universal theorem of estima.
tins science by Christianity. So thoroughly
mas the gospel permeated the enlightened
world ; so completely has it commended itself
> as the great essential remedy of moral want,
'nat II has become the supreme standard TO
which all correlative nations are brought.
Christianity does not, however, absolutely
claim tribute of Science she needs no props
10 her inevitable throne; in graceful majesty
she sits above all these subordinate, though
noble themes-but where Science comes into
contact with Revelation, there its dignity must
bend, and its vaunted power dissolve.
The great bane of Science is quackery. III
those who minister at its altars would bring
no strange fire; if men would wisely and thor
oughy understand its claims before entering |
the lists of advocacy, through either the. press |
or the platform, there would be less error hang
around its shoulders, and its truths would en-.
counter less resistance.
The denominations Of Romanism have retarded
Christianity more in Thousand years, than all
the thrones, and courts and armies of Earth
could have done in thousand ages.
The abuses of Geology, by stupid votaries.
who have dragged it's inc pient revelations to
the contest against higher truth, notwith.
standing the heroic Miller has come to The res.
cue, have, no doubt, put the Science seye al
centuries behind. .
And Phrenology, that hGIO,ced Iamplight.
er along the pathDay of the souL-thst sacred
guardsnan On the dangerous spots of life, has
Oeen taken by the ears by such men as Fowler. I
and made to subserve fataism; hence Chris. Z
tIanlty has entered her protest, and public S
opinion, gauged by Christianity. has denounced c
the lnnovation-denounced it in the face of T
such men as DR.. Gall, and Spurzheim. and y
Combe, Caldwell, Mann, Peirpont, and scores of il
others, whose labors are monuments of their i.
philanthropy, and whose ashes are sacred TO i,
the race.
by the way, our village has been recently !,
favored with course of chronological lectures Of
by Professor Hemstrset, a student of the elder
Fowlers, and young man of talent, integrity. D
and an experience far beyond his years. He te
has practlced his profession in most Of the "a "a
Southern States, has collected some curious p,
specimens of human skulls, casts, &C., and has G
acquired the power of an entertaining and in ii
'tructlve lecturer--his personal explanations III
IND delneatons of character are excellent and y
'triKing' have learned that he purposes vi d,
sitting your intelligent and hospitable town; if al
30 he should be heard. eT
Mr.. Hemstreet does not claim for his Science n'
70 much as your correspondent is disposed to Of
;iaim-he regards it as independent of Chris ca
Ianity, and beautiful in the surety of it's owp ca
basis. But concerning as it does the IN
mystic connection between mind and BODY, il y"
nay be made, Gf it is not essentially sol, sub. %
erVlent to the highest development of mans tn
PIrltual being. Its 0levating regime, its ref.
ing philosophy, so exquisitey and harmoni- iu
'usly linked in the great chain of human 81 q,
nought' deserve place in the creed of every d
'ood man. II ought to give shape to the life al,
nc hablt OF the parent, to the mental and phy. tn
ic"i training of the child, and through the COM 10y
nunity and the world become the handmaiden W.
Il that blessed system, in which " the wayfaring
nan though fool need not err" NJ
Mans body, as well as his soul, is suscept. er
le OF culture; Virtuous, appropriate develop s nc
1ent; this life is its probation. Like the scion of
ccordlng to the nursing and training, so will to
e the rgor of the trunk, the beauty of the an
ows, the richness of the fruit an
The Bible asserts not only spiritual, but sff
lso physical theology; the same halIowed alb
RECEIPT which teaches the meekness of Christ. tn,
lught Paul to keep his body under, and Peter tro
nat the basis OF patience was temperance-and ~
the Bible is true, where, in the day of reck. ,h,
ming, will stand the blind voluptrarv. when tor
estlality and Pampered sense, like howling PEI
evils, shall shake "palace of the soul with INV
he grim chorus " This kind goeth not out but f.'
y prayer and fasting" bv
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