Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-06-07

sons. our daughters, that the foolish
ideas which they have received from
the instructions Of the parson and
their parents in the church, the SAB
bath school around the dear old family
altar, and in the nursery Of hallowed
memory; in regard to mans creation
probation, fall and conditional re-
demption, are a myth and cheat
thew are Denind the philosophy OF
the age and on the sure road to men
tai and moral ruin. If our physiOlo-
gists have not fatty and plainly given
the lie to Moses account OF the erea-
ton Of our worthy original parents
they are not entitled to a place in the
ranks Of WiSssnschGJt, at least can
not be recognized by the philOsophey
Of VdterLaHd. n,
Man is nothing more and nothing
less than an ordinary Olpeu, viii
yvboze creation the being known as
60 had nothing to dol By virtue
~ gIaduaI processes Of development
of Certain forces in nature, our primo
genitors first saw the light in the
shape Of a plant-perhaps cabbage
head-and through SUGGESTIONS OF de-
-
tonished and gGatified one morning to
find the good old green cabbage assu-
ming head, ears, mouth, eyes, hands,
feet, tail. A babOon entered the
world. But harmonious develop
ment did not stop here. Father and
mother Bah soon found themselves
passing through another and still more
agreeable metamorphOse, which rails
ed them q peg higher in the scale OF
deUelopeds, until at last young, fresh
though rather rough-Mr. and Mrs.
Adam stepped forth to gaze in Won
der on old Father-Mother Natures
developing process.
Springing from the lowest order Of
vegetable life, thence honored with
elevation to the grade Of the highly
respectable ape family, man has the
benefit Of q more valuable and inter-
esting experience in his transit thro'
these several degrees of vegetableand
animal ERtIDickelsfng, development,
than the dull, insensate individual
whom good old Moses so simply and
beautifully represents as having been
formed from the earth, and as coming
forth from the plastic hand Of Jeho-
vah-GOd, perfect, fresh, intelligent,
innocent and pure,
But as we find nothing in nature
perfect, without the evidences Of
gradual development, so the appear
anee and existence of primitive man
must have depended on the same gen.
eral law. God, as God in his attri-
butes must be ignored. He is nothing.
/ He can do nothing incOnsOnant with
| q L a ~ NnH nN
prefers to hunt up and trace out his
pedigree to vegetable monkey /!
Is it any wonder If such philosophers,
such "wonderous wise" materialists,
are often hooted at by extremely YER
dant, by the wide-awake American
school boy and school girl, who have
read and studied their physiology in
exact harmony with the word of the
great Author Of all Life, learned TO
look in reverent wonder and filial
praise on all natures works up to God
and in the inspired writer's account
of the creation Of original man, recOg-
nize not q single principle Of the law
Of DEVELOPMENT violated?
But then this is not philosophy,
this is not art. A different principle
of "hiiudnityn must be instilled into
The youth of the land, must permeate
society, must be accepted by the
church. The physical, the material
must be developed and trained to the
neglect Of mans religious nature and
necessities. This, in the opinion oi
the more benevolent, humane Ger
man, is humanity. he forgets, he de-
nies thst the religion Of Christ, which
alone can convert the heart, eneour-
ages, and not only encourages but de-
mands, the harmonious development
Of the body, and, in order TO this, ap-
plies means and determines times and
places which God and all good men
can approve and bless That style Of
philosophy and art which subordl-
mates the animal to the moral, mental
and religious, and places God above
everything else, recognizing his wise
lust and merciful hand in all the
events and revolutions Of life, and
bowling in adoring homage and sub
mission to his modes Of doing, is the
only true "edLe WiSSsHschGJt," the
only genuine "dnD1tfthige ktfnst ~
Such, and such only, dare the Ameri-
can church and nation accept and
teach, and at the same time be sure Oi
the stand they have hitherto taken
and Occupied-the noblest, grandest,
most enviable among the nations Oi
earth. The sooner our foreign p0pu'
lation is made to understand this the
better will it be both for them, the
church, the nation, and the world.
The same writer says that the Ger
mans in America are against "all
separate leagues.n That is to say, they
are opposed to all political and relig'
ious associations and efforts that are
not in favor of letting the brewery
the dancing hall, the card saloon take
the place of the church and the school
as conducted on American principles
They are against all excessive pre-
tensions to municipal and State sOU
ereiQnty that would injure the com
monwealth." He could not tell th'
American government and church
more plainly, that they are willing L
respect US as a people and to be tru'
to us as a government, in only so IA
as the government and the church arr
disposed to respect and encourage the
damning heresies and demoralizinl
customs which they wish to impOr
and introduce from a country wherl
the same heresies and customs ar
honored by the wink Of church anC
State, and have grown gray as 'in
stitutions" indispensable TO the ful
and harmonious development o
body and mind" but which are new
ertheless not the less to be eondemne'
by the American pulpit, school, press
and government.
(To be continued next iUeek.)
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