New-York tribune., 1874-05-04

religious cfeeu v a nartcniar nterposon. Inspiration
revelation from God 1t VIII nor oyyorthless everything
else from Moses 10 John. from ironnd "taochinrs of
hpoc%5Rse H h5s oo1aarnns % @s oa tn' as Creator
Moral and Provdential Governor; reward
ns the evil and the good making an eternal % hr
between them and all concernlng u, .io hin divine Re-
acer of Christ true ana perfect psig ,s
deemer and everything concerning NIs thin ine,ng
thoughts instructions, miracles, nyrsn Of hfoSiyng
truth and love il sweeps awayas ne. ~ aheS tlc sa
havoc and caricature with tue az dnc ~ Da,nra
development by conservative and correatve OF forces
Man and his supremacy ana s9v of sbsrant force
luton libel upon God DcrS "a aUs M ~ LIN
Indifferent TO human guilt anh , ai a.
out ability TO help man by nteTpoIIs p o % M b, ncss
libel upon God and Nature and Sflst anu Ms sptGesI
as the Redeemer libel on the soVernGienu VI GoI'
nor reveal himself TO man Is not God. Coo
PRAYER nor teaching how to worship, permits
false revelation TO be imposed npon mankind without
the possbity of discovering proving It's falsenoDd,
not God A God who is neither love. nor hght, nor
mercy, is God Now apply evolution and Its phoS-
and the possibility of miracles to the character OF
EVOLUTION G S I'll the aw one on iSTf 6% anSbag anna m
by the directive agency OF natural selection from thc
Moses and David and Daniel aud christ But evolution
that Christ and all his predecessors who ever
related or pretended to perform miracles were i'm
posters and that the of the creation given
or believed by them, was hlsehooi' ana lhe
teachings of the fall Of man into sin aud the pro
vision OF Redeemer falsehoods, ani the assertion
Of himself on the ground OF those teachnss as Dens
divine, as the worlds Redeener aud authoratiye
teacher an immeasurlblc impO5ure. But now, II eyO
luton be the right philosophy, Christ himself, as
material and spiritual force, the existence or evolution
OF which cannot be denied, Is the grandest product OF
evolution known through the conservation. CORE
la0n and conversion OF the forces OF lmp0stnre ana
creduty, false opinion and enthusiasm. III evolution
be true Christ Is vast fatality OF evolution ald the
world is regenerated by fasehood or this regenation
Christ himself the germ. the root the sap, the life
He is the vine, OF which evolution the planter ana
natural selection Is the husbandmln Personally ana
socially the regeneration begins with him ana DeleI IN
him, and love to him; and II runs on from nun t t per
meates and ransSures ferocious ana lcchtots huros
and societies into sacred order, genteness, purify sym
pathy affection and peace Ilere never were De.rm m nj
his character depicted IN the Gospels.
THE CHRISTIAN DEFENSE.
Now how to treat this madness is very dlihcut ques
ton. It's desOlang sweep is to be considered Ii man
forms his re gious opinions by tins philosophy OF eyou
ton he renounces Christ. For CHRIST, as the soulRo-
deemer and Teacher based his whole theological and
metaphys system on the creation and the fall of man
being facts indisputabe rs Gods Own existence
If not created but grew asa tree Grows or an
ape, with more inbreathing from the spirit OF Goa
than the prmOrdal cell OF the nfst mudnomad, then
both Moses aud Christ are the cOnrNers ana uterers Oh
falsehOoj aud the Old Testament scriptures are Fl-
road OF lies. which the Jews held al the STOCK Ior
their benefit until Christ seized IL FOR his own anl
watered the stock with the Gospels ana the Nc" Iest
| ment greater fdsehoot sti piled upOn yhe Od. IL
is not to he supposed that the admrel and appaudei
Daturilists ana scientists, 0 whom Mr Ddf"lh Is to
most conspicuous, dd not know what they Wer1 u1,,g
Others and follow these principles to their cohclu
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of evolution as provided vita its conducng point by
| conpre hensive as tho law of gravatiOn IN
| tho planetary universe. The advocates OF IL
truths as il they were a matter of growth Of mana-
borers in West Indian swamp, where tey are working
take elaborated, wild dcuson5 Of this philosophy OF
no creation and no creating God, ana no inIhthac5 na
spirit not merely ia place of calm ana vital tr.hs Oh
be
as the work at suit OF savage superstition, hdOPtSl
afterward for the purposes OF selfish despOllsn 10
| have taught them truths not knowing the!f false
hood proves Christ unit tolDe teacher Impossible 10
have been sent from God. To have tansat them % ior
selfish purposes, whether OF vain ambition or power,
| would prove him to have been neither h'fmIoss
| enthusiast nor savior nor good mAh Du' iolsoI
Now it is quite impossible to keep terms Of frondsmp
of the scriptures is OF little moment for We may be mis-
taken. But when il denies Or cOnrdd0s the assertions
of Jesus Christ or tho Interpretation Oh Moses "tnIs
as Gods Word, on which Christ grounds his own WorK %
| belief in its appropriation OF 1t, then we say IL
! scientific theory assumes to DO the trulh
an assent in makes Christ errng aud deeeiy-
lug person. The two things are absolutely incSlnPatDo;
mankind. Christ Is either In ali tnlngs the way th3
truth and the life, or an InPOstOr Ii there Is no Wd
OF reconciliation the intuition OF conscience toward
aside every other claim Int-every other witness
THE PERSONALITY OF CHRIST.
Make man so insane as to believe that he sprang
from monkey and as the first natural result OF his
advanced condition the scale Of being proceeded to
eat up brothers and sisters and the first demon
OF his insane must be absolute atheism.
And that is the ditch into which the materilsm OF the
philosophy OF evolution plunges. 1t Is wetermed the
| Gospel Of Brutality" II "A man believes that he
| was made q brute, there is nothing wrong
in his acting ike brute His conscience will
never 10 higher than his belief; his conscience Will
ahsoiye MIN mn the case of every crime TO which reasons
OF state taste comfort or eXpeiiency have led him.
1t most comfortable demonstration. II the mind
and its moranty are nothing but brain and nervous
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show by electric lamps and combinations OF reiracting
aud rejecting lenses effects and experiments demon
stratng that light itself is no essence, nor was ever
created nor gives any message OF creator, but IS only
an eternal motion the mode ana product OF the
of motion, building up organisms OF matter, and
| then acting upon them by forces that, in kind
degree could not possibly have been more or less,
and could not possibly be altered but are all the same
whether forms OF what Is called matter or mind;
toms or Voltaires Thomas PIines, or Michael Fdra
days intellect all the same It Is comforting To con-
madness the work OF this natural evolving force
directly or indirectly those of love. geutleness,
righteousness, holiness. Punishment OF this one
ward of the other are as irrational as unjust as 1t
would a crystal III the stocks, or tie the frost
| the heat or the SNOWFALL to whippngpost.
Now all this by the theory ana pretended demonstra
though himself evolved OF IT, yet, he possessed
the power which he claimed OF detecting fasehOod and
hood when engaged in setting it forward. But If he
did not know it to be such then he was false in his pre-
tensions, and deceived by what evolution demon
strates TO be aehood but what he ad hold upon aud
mainta and established as eternal truth aud llfe
But all this is the system OF means aud Influences
by which Christ has accomplished and still accOmplshes
| his work, aud extends ana establishes his kingdom on
earth and all this, these books OF myths and lies and
pretended MIRACLES and the habit OF PRAYER the God
revealed iu them, and obedent love TO Him, reyer
Of those books His divine, infalble word and
those miracles as His works were the very Influences
habits and beliefs in which and ont OF which the
and heart the whole life and character OF Christ were
trained and determined the of his power
and inspiration; that by every word that proceeded
| out OF the mouth Of God, and by every breath
of Gods Spirit, he lyed-lyed on the OH
Testament any other being did, and was guided
and trained by II never any other being was and car
ried power into other souls for them live and he
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