Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-30

Is merely product of certain laws or
tendencies impressed upon matter, and
process of evolution by which the low
er forms of life 9le transformed into
the higher, is, te say the least of it, OBJ
nox lous to the views of the Christian
world. 1t Is, however, the invariable |
law IN respee, to all controversies where
the vital tr,lths of Christianity are con-
eerned, r at the oponents fall out among |
| themsel'. es, and hence their devices |
come 70 confusion. In the present in |
stance Prof. Louis AgassiZ, one OF the |
| moF eminent of the investigators of
| nT Jdern science, man in every way
9 .ualified to rank with, if not above
J those we have named, comes out from
them and proclaims himself on the side
) of straightforward religious belief,
; and in thorough, earnest opposition to
, the development theory. The course of
. lectures in which this most important at
; titude was assumed and defended was
delivered before the Museum of Com
2 bridge. These lectures recommend
themselves by variety of Interesting
information concerning animal life, not
less than by animal life, not less than
by the evidence they afford of the per-
feet harmonies that exist between the
highest religious and most profound
scientific truths. This work by Agassiz
seems to us the most valuable service
lately rendered the cause of revealed re-
ligion.-Pittstargh Christian n Adrocate.
1t has often occurred to us of late that
much of the evil now oversnadoWing
the Church might be dispelled if her
priests and laity would but borrow from
the rich stores of proverbiaI philosophy ;
recalling and acting upon, at least one
time-honored maxim. 3Honesty is the
Il best policy'' Whatever exception may
IN< faI-e af MI
,s modern instances which are constantly
on our lips, to this, at least no valid OBJ
y lection can be offered. The lifelong
lesson learned by all of us, learned by
a our fathers, as our children will also
- have to learn it, is, that honesty is more
VI profitable than fraud in this world as in
to the next. But by honesty we NEAR
of something more than that negative vir
. /. tue which consists in not appropriatine
our neighbor's goods; we mean honesty
e OF thought and speech as we'll as of ae
ne ton; honesty towards ourselves as wei
as towards others; honesty in th'
pulpit and closet as well as in the draw
;ie ing-room and counting-h house; honest,
ip- towards God as well as to ourselves
IN The honesty which -Obeys the eight
en- commandment is, to most of us, a yer.
=. teasy matter; il is replered easy by tn
ieo conditions OF our education, and by tn
NIX circumstances in which we are placed
w 1t is no difficult thing to avoid fallin
ser when we are not tempted. But the loft
!, Ter honesty-the honesty of conscience
MS and thought and will--lies so far aboy
and beyond us, that we may hope to al
ed tain to itonly by the most tervent pray
- er, and the most rigid self-sacrifice.
fai ssWhat. am ] not honest ?" cxelaim
ky the reader. Judge for yourself. D
1ey you ever say the thipgyoudo not mean
a. Do you ever make, promise YOU ha,
no intention of fulfillinga4 Do you eve
VI disguise an unworthy motive by an a
ley fectation of conscientious scruples? /
fu- you ever practice self.deeeption
orn YOU ever pretend to an interest you {
not feel? Are you ever tossed to az
fro by the impulses of vanity, or prid
are or ambition? Do you affect charitab
and disposition, and yet stint your offering
to the poor and needy? Do you devo
ian your time to worldly occupations, az
her yet claim the repute of a "faithful dise
ms /? ple?'' Do you plume yourself on yol
am- righteousness, and: rail at your neig
Dor or your enemy? Ii you do this,
e 70 anything like this, we fear. you are II
en-; honest; that your honesty will show 1
the threadbare and Aimsy in the sight
+bo heaven. Our satirists find ample mate
ial for their eensares in our gross soci
slIams and deceptions and were %
ac- preachers honest, these would affo
ing lhen In tih sneie ~. G,,ana; pam spo"A'