New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-18

look ONCE INTO Vrsalinss cell lIs WINDOW, anu
dsors boted and barred by himself betoken the storm
Of bieory which ragged without The crnciix. tG%aLe
which he casts his eye, symDoles .ne s1 ~, Which he
bends ceases be repusve His very soul seems 70 SEM
forth rays from the canvas when sTeng'ent h NV men
good fight In this age. Ho was hunted TO deatn ny h
who conscenously supposed that be was nllring Ie.
goD His poor blind foes DESTROYED one oi IeI InS
greatest apostles What was his influence on regoni
He substituted for repetition by roe OF worn out theo
res Of dead men, conscientious ana TeVereht f
representations OF the human structure. ptifu ana IN
real truthful representations revealing the Orea'ors
power and goodness In every nue.
ERRORS IN AMERICA
Warfare OF this sort against science seems petty
indeed but II Is to be guarded against In Protestant
countries not less than Catholic 1t breaks out ID Amer
lea not lees than III France have seen "l'hu THIS las'
year the most perverted statements OF words u''ereu
the lecture Of American University circulated
by excellent men, who in their eagerness believed to
have seen pratcs nsed IN lectures by Christian Profess
oIs AT such an Institution eked out ana peced out win
prcXes aud All Xcs and suOslltutOns anu SuPpOs
until they became mOnstrous peryerslohs, anu ,H I
have seen them med 10 proyc that scientific education
unsafe and that unsecaran institution mus De c
christian. Luckily the world has learned soino'nns ''0
the days OF Calico and Nesaliu''
AGuCULTURB AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Did time permit We might go over other batte
fields no less instructive than these We nave
seen. We might go the battle'helds OF Az
rcutural rogress and note how by most curious per-
version Of text OF Scripture great masses Of the peas
and eatir potatoes. We might go over the
battlefield Of Technology, aud note now t dn
introducua OF railways INTO EranGo Was e wi
Clared IL earnest churcmnan an eNf
denco Of tie Divine dspleasurc against country mn
keepers ~o set meat pe,Vfe thI * p,'I Eon"iuy
and note Inv too literal Interpretation Oh sgiiPtuY
upon the Material interests but upon the moral chaiac
ter of hosto enterprislng and thrifty men,
GEOLOGY
| But I shall ask you to only one more OF
. hapan
| shows n,re clearly than any others how Prot
| estant naons and In our time, have suffered
themselya 10 be led into the same that have
wrought hurry 10 religion and science in other times
We will o1 very briefly at tho batteheds OF Geology
From thelrst llspings OF investigators In this science
reins }re irtsi,s nd-freuks OF nature-and In 1917
Fracastorwas violently attacked because no Thought
ssy folu ed up the contest the right side Ia France
but &c reqred years TO carry the day fairy against
| This sing, preuOsterOus theory. The champion VINO
dealt IL 20 deadly blow was Scla anu DIS weapons were
facts obined by examination OF the fossils OF Caaoaa
nG-m nj the advocates Of tampering with sclentihc
reasonneoOn retired TO new position III was sIonR
for it waspparenty based ON serptureIthongh as tno
whole void now knows, utterly exploded lnelpret-
ton OF Sculpture. The new position was llt tue iosss
were proGced by the deluge OF NOAH In VAN nau y
| been shnn by such devoted Christians as bernard
Palsy int this theory was utterly untehaDe; III Nan
did goodnen protest against the injury sure 70 Result 70
religion tying 1t TON scientific theOry sure 10 D. eA'
podcd-he doctrine that the fossils were remains on ah
mails doined at the Flood continued TO DC uPheu ~ tno
great IpidrIty as sound" doctrine. IL TOOK 10
Wears ohhe searchcs Of Gods truth as revealed IN ma
uresuh Button, l.lnneus qodwaI9 ana nnite'
hurt-t under these mighty fabrics OF error ana,
by which could not be resisted TO explode
them. a. -. A., . 90 40,
ogy walwaged more herccly in Protestant countries
t5Syn Ctbolic and OF all countries England furnished
the mos bitter opponents You have noted already that
there ar generally sorts OF attacks on new science
FIRST uefe is the attack by ptting against science some
when elarmne ana others insisted that the doctrine OF
the eaths revolving about the is contrary to tho
| ~ tlp Incarnation.
was uUed that the scientific doctrine mat the fossils
represented animals which died before Adam was con-
trary the doctrine OF Adams fall and that death en-
tered t world by sin Then there is the attack by the
INSTRUMENTATION OF texts which serves better pur
nosa Generally in rousng prejudice. IL difficult To
reaizt il now but within the memory Of the majority OF
TnSiayd and both these kinds artillery in full
play and filing the civilized world with their roar Less
than thirty years ago, the Rev D. Mellor Brown was
hurting AT all biologists alike and especially at such
Christian diynes as Dr. auckland, Dean Conybeare, and
ssdrwiek the epithots of Inndel" Impuguer OF the
Sacred Record" and "Assaent o{ the Volume Of God"
Ills IA orte weapon VA the charge that these men
wero attacking tho Truth OF God" forgetting
that Sy we're simply GpRGss 'n lie declared
geology a subject of lawful inquiry; he speaks OF
II lark art as dangerous aud dlsrepntableD as
forbi den province This attempt TO scare men from
| the having failed, various other means were
| taken. , ,,,-,-
| 10 SO nothing about England. II Is humillatng
20 humn nature remember the trials TO which the
pettestand narrowest OF men subjected such Christian
scholars IN our own country Benjamin Slliman and
Edward Hitchcock. But II is duty and pleasure to
hec that one great Christian scholar dd honor to
nd 20 himself by standing up for the claims OF
science lespte all these clamors That was Nicholas
Wlsemal better known afterward as Cardinal Wseman
The conduct this pillar OF the Roman Catholic Church
contrasts noby with that OF tlmd Protestants who
hliuE Iagland with shreks and denunelations Perhaps
by mt specimen OF the English Don, Dean COckburn OF
York toulouse It's champions out OF the field without
apparently the simplest elementary knowledge OF geol-
ogy, he opened battery OF abuse. lilo gives 1t TO tho
wou a. ~ ~ p e by nrivsfs letters Bnt these
weapon cid not succeed They were like Chinese gonGs
and drs un lanterns against rhed cannon auckland,
Pye sm u, Lyell sillman, hitchcock, MnIohisOn Agas;
az Da ana host OF noble champions besides pressed
on the battle for truth was won Aud was u won
merely az men OF seiencet The whole clyllLed word
declare hat 1t for religion; that thereby was
infnrJ Increased the knowledge of the power and
goodnts II God
FEARS ABOUT RELIGION
And u,w, in concluding, might allude 70 another
battlei I'd IN our own land and time. l might show
how al attempt to meet the great want OF this
state 10 Institution providing scientific and modern
instruction been with loud Outcnes from many
e1oeles men who fear injury thereby religion. l
might you the strategy which has been used 10
keep est young menIrom an institution which It is
declan cannot DO Christian because II Is not secaran
/ mig lay before you wonderful lines OF argument
which been made 10 show the dangerous tendencies
OF N which gives TO scientific studies the
same light classical studies, and which lays
10 le tress on modern history and literature than
an II history and literature. might show now IL
has b denounced from many pulpits, and In many
secta journals, how the most preposterous charges
have made and believed by good men, how the epl-
thets goddess" "intdel," "rregious," unre
ligou "atheso" have been hurled against body OF
Chris Trustees and Professors earnestly devoted 10
bald 1p Christian civilization. might show how,
tie bal has waxed hotter the hon0red founder OF tho
instlt o. who has devoted the bulk OF his for
tune ali his efforts 20 building up such institution
as the to needs and whose llio has been OF the
p1res 4 nObest on American records how this man
has be charged with "swindiug the colleges OF
the STaI sefseeung" corruption seeking TO
erect a ionuinent To himself
CHEERFUL oMESs.
But friends, | will not weary you with re-
cent q dapter IN the history OF the great warfare
Extend through tho centuries. There are cheer
ing omL The greatest and best men in the churches
tho Ism standing at centers Of thought-aro in.