The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-24
HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH.

Kev. MIR. PentecOsf Darwinfsm and tho
Bible.
Kew george +. Pentecost, the able aud eloquent
pastor or this church, preached an excellent sermon
before q large congregation yesterday morning. lie
seiected his text rom portion OF the eighth verse
OF the Tooth Psalm-"Nevertheless He saved them
for His names sake" In LOOKING abroad upon the
earth in all its glory, and upward into the sky
with all its brilliant lights, and look.
Ing upon ourselves looking upon our own
thoughts and upon minds, there comes but one
answer to the questions. who made the heavens and
the EARTH who made usg God made u.s. He Is our
Creator. He has made US for Himself. Our respon-
sibIlity and accountability are to Him. But In ne
last ten or fifteen years there has been revived
AN OLD DOCTRINE,
and we have been told that In The reviews that aru
published monthly, and In books that are now I'LL
ing book stores and being read by Christians ana
non-Christans In the midst OF social gatherings
and even in the midst of minister's meetings.
We have invited an explanation OF the
new philosophy, ana they said us that 1t Is not
so that God made the word and Us. It Is nOt 50
that all we see all we feel and al we have came
from Col. We ask them, then, Wneace comes the
own soulsg Who made usi Who is our authOrf And
there Ii strange answer. 1t Will lie almost I'M
known answer TO most OF YOU IL Is unknown to
those who profess to know It, The answer IS
"Pr0toplasm." am hardly competent to say ;hat
! know what It Is; bus IT. means tnis-lt means
"a more familiar term would be that Of
In the wonderful work, in some respects OF Her
bert Spencer, we are told that the Old Bible theory
has at las, broken down-that after ages OF bind
and superstous belief at last the old the oloycal
dogma, that was only 1t for superslitous and
unenghtened aye, has fallen before science. little
Parleys Natural Philosophy" The agents came
back and said that the people would not subscribe to
1t. they said they had heard OF some new notion
ahpv mi mr. trnp NH fh.teh
publisher was so impressed by this public inquiry
that he was compelled to have a supplement- writ
ten explaining this new philosophy. Mr.. Pente.
cost said that the man who wrote this had said to
them In one OF their meetings Few weeks ago that
men. but he tMr. Pentecost did not propose TO aus
cuss Darwinianism or Spencer's philosophy, but he
would say that this theory that
THE WORLD BEGAN FROM PROToPLAsM
was atheism. There was one great lack in 1t which
would prevent 1t from becoming the belief OF Inc
people, There was nothing moral in 1t. How de-
iigltful 1t was to turn away IRON this doctrine and
look again upon the heavens and the Earth and
LOOK agaa n.o Ss @ a ASK ins
come ~ ITO whom and to what am gongn How
fully was the whole whole. question OF the sou!
am golng.n There was deeper question:
behind it all II it were so that God created all.
two or three passages out OF hundred that God
hath made ali tnngs Tor Himself. He sets apart
them for Mis- names saken We found not only
that God made US, out made US TO come back u
Himself. God made everything for
HIS OWN HAPPINESS.
Mr.,Pentecost thought We got cold idea OF God
sometimes. We had the liked idea OF God as ta3
Creator ana the Bible made Him appear as warmer
being. so to speak 1t seemed that God had lore,
far we knew, t. the utmost limit OF HIS power.
He had only made U.s. but having fallen Into SIN.
God has redeemed us. We could see in tho light Of
redemption how out OF sin God wrought out our
redemption and launched man forth into higher
sphere We were TOLD In the Scriptures that Jesus.
for the Joy that before Him. endured the cross.
Mr.. PentecOst said that Gods delight was In lifting
us up To that relation TO Him that came redemp-
ton, and In concluding the pastor called the alten.
ton OF his congregation 10 some OF tue elements e.
that redemption.