The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-21
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THE SWING TRIAL.

THE SWING TRIAL,
Tie Rsr. Professor Charged 'oiA Ddrtotntdt
Rr0elfsittes I-.H6 AnSloer 1hertto-1R(
g 101M Psqlm-7hS Old Deportation Gnr
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tIsKtnet non, Prof BNlnR's Speech before The
z NJ Chicago Presbytery.l 1"al'H3
Tho learned prosecutor, after unfolding
stOyou the evolution theory Of spen Ger
and others, says; ssusual, MI. Swing holds
these. And,yet / am, l believe. the only
Chicago minister who has, published q
sermon in part against that theory It Is
aplty that i should DO the only one ar
ratgned for not doing 1t. While the pros
ecutor was proving the divinity Or deity
Of Christ from the date Aun0 DominL-
. claiming that no nation would reckon It's
years from anything less than d Cod
while no was thus showing tho divine
origin Of Mohanmed, and Of the olym-
pads Of Greece, and Of RomuIus and Re-
mus, ] was on the: same Sunday trying to
overthrow the spencerian evolution
otis not certainly, q myth that there
isR human race; and hence there must
have been o first pair in this long series,
andthis first pair must have had q, first
home and d Creator Just at hand; and this
pair must have made their first move in
virtue or Gin; and from what sin we now
sec in the world, otmuch doubt can re-
main as to what limo Of conduct this first
pail, followed, and that they early left q
paradise oil virtue Is the verdict Of history.
The theory most in conflict with this
Bible picture Of primitive man Is the al.
most popular notion that man isa grad
llal result OF progress In the animal king
dom, and never had paradise, but Is on
the way toward one, from cellular and
electric starting point million years
back. Against this theory, however,
rises up tho fact that in the Thousands Of
years Of history no animal Is showing the
least sign Of passing over into that moral
consciousness, that selfhood, which go
wonderfully distinguishes nan. The
highest order Of brutes are doing absolute.
ly nothing toward forming language, or
toward reaching that consciousness Of
"men and mot me" which joins man 10
the divine; there ia no effort, visible on the
part Of the most intelligent QuGdraMana
10 build q school house or start country
newspaper; and Tin ono historic period no
progress whatever has been made, and
that, too, with the advantage Of human
association, what could they have done In
two historic periods 10000 years give
nothing what will COCO 900 years give ?
The best reason lean myself bring to bear
on this matter leads me to sec man setting
forth as man, and setting forth from q
Creator; hence he had place which We
may call Eden, and easily. reason may
Join tho Bible In giving 1t river.banks and
trees, and flowers, and song Of birds"
The prosecutor has read my sermons
tolerably well only.
THE 1O9Tn PSALM. 4
Let us pass NOW to the 109th Psalm. I
Am very glad to see that this matter has
at last been put to rest. The prosecutor
has wholly given uptall that he claimed
here. 1t was my theory you know, that
this was a special psslm-no part Of the
perpetual hYmnology of the world-not
inspired for all times like the 2Sd Psalm
or the Goth. My theory was that 1t was
an adaptation TO military age, when the
Church advances not by persuading It's
enemies, but by extcrminating them-a
psalm dictated by the Almighty for an
age of 100 or 500 years or more; and that
Christ has announced the perpetual law
Of life, the everlasting law Of lie, when
HehaS said that you shall "pray for your
enemies, and bless them that prosecute
you and despitelully use you" ypoint
was that, as Christ revealed divorce law,
which was divinely given for certain
period only, so BE did, by His person, re.
veal also psalm lull Of curses, and took
1t away from the everlasting hymnOlogy
OF life--that the same God that passed a
bad divorce law could inspire a bad
psalm also, and that when He recalled the
one, He could recall the other. And
though i may be mistaken, yet my whole
principle Is founded right on the inspira-
lion OF tho Bible. But this idea the prose.
cutor has,at last given up2that 1t was q
perpetual psslm-for he says now that the
l09th Psalm was written as
ACURsE UPON JUDAS 1soARIoT.
This Is all want, only his theory Is
narrower than mine, Tor my theory was
that. 1t was used by tho Jews as Q mill
tary hymn for hundreds. Of years, and
; thenb divine command applied also to
JIdhss 1scariot But, II the prosecutor
tells us that Il was even too bad for the
Jewish people to Sing, and that it lay
dormant thousand years, waiting for a
great traitor like Judas to come, before
the psalm could spring into life, have
not In my heart any reason to object, and,
Judas being now dead, the psalm has
been abrogated from Christian hymnolO.
gy 1 trust-explred by Limitation laugh.
teri, II Judas Is dead. Renewed laugh
ter. know not whether any one needs
word with regard 10 :.
THOSE HEBREW WARS,
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