, 1875-04-12

legations to God, our love, reverence And 1uties
to tl.to and e1ch otllor..-our faiths, vows and
Worship bY which hthese ara 1oresacd. Mr. Draper,
IN orc way and smother, rofern 10 ali these but
any Of i.a beartngs conflict With tho obHgat,ons
that btnd man 10 God OF lis pciglbori
Does Is conflict will lovc, trual, wornlin,
1us.icc. Of goodnc1s Ill any Of Their
forms? Docs q conflict with tho doctrines
Regeneration. or future wosidi Wha. haa
Natural Science, "a Geology OF ABt,anouiy. to do
with t!,cso tLtngs? Dut Or. Draper sa5a tho
teachings Of this Church on thcsc latter points
have been In drect conflict With tho later reyo.
lations Of scsnco. 80 they havs, In soms osses
lJut docs ho call tho vex Of tho Cl,ulcl, 10 past
ngca on foW Of theao ontftde poInts, ttl,t do
not touch so!tgton In is decpcst Aonhe 1T oil, re-
lialon2 DocH ho call tho Church. oven, religion
Church hold ~ 10 Tho form Of tho ear1 and re-
iigion no to its spiritual doctrines aud religion
~ character, . worship, lIfo2 Tle i,Auo That
llo raises IL unfair and misleading. There Ia no
conflict betwecn religion snd hc!enrs. 1lot, arc
yet In an imperfect stass OF development tloir
facts not fully sscertaned or Understood: tbe
men Of both parties not wholly FREQ from pro|-
u11ce, and misconceptions. and mIrstatenont.,
Tho perfect religion atd tho terfect ecionce
VIII 10 nt ono. Ihoir soem!ug conflicts are 40
cidoiseat, not necessary. Or anpposc even that
the Dlblo ooaEoBopy AMI science should be
shown to bo irloconoAbsI Hunposo Il 10
shown that those early conceptions ot tha racsed
writer's were imperfect? What tlcn7 Does Il
follow that tho Dible must 60 DOWN. Tho I,lbto
docs tot claim to bo a toox OF natural Bce,lce.
and its best lrionA regard ita teachings ot tLoen
points as only phenomenal. Supl oas Il bo
shown that Moees got Lila Impressions on tloBo
matters from Egypt, aud that thoy arc faulty.
md that NO Ind it bcst TO hay that tho D,ijfe
contains Tho word Of God, instead OF saying that
it Ia in every sentence tho word Of Cad, st;l ihe
foundations Of religion rom ain.
object again to DF. Diapers book in ti,at its
snm''s l. nnfrou1'y TO Ihe Church. Thi. spirit
10 widespread in our times, mid tear Il III not
Always born Of tho purcst and best feelings, no
one At ali Informed Will claim that lIe Church
has boeu In apr aenso fauItleys. OF that It hao
against humanity. but then tLero should la
pity we'll ~ censlre. aud tho Church Of
tu.lay should not bo hold responsible for the
errors mud wronaa Of the Church Of the pass,
and especially is It unfair to cha'Eo those thlnea
to to!iaion. A Church is simply company IF
having Its doctrines rites, etc. llln Bible itteli
grew up along "a . part Of the history OF auch
Church. tho teachings Of Its fouhdera aud iu.
spised n,en; but The conduct OF the Church, It's
intailiablo human bcings euch Us we, and
they havo besa subject to tho ignorance
nuI prctudicea Of their tjnes. Whcn
tLo age 1aa ignorant ths chulch
6hareu Of tNat ignorance. Whoa It WAS
criol aud saperntitlous tho Cl,ureA naturally
ra.took Of this cruelty aud superstition. Why
not a. well bamo tho governments Of today
with all the ignorance aud dcspot.eln Of the
past sha!t wo despso liberty because sto
la: been loaded uoan with ciaitla and prisouA
a. to blanc religion because she la, laa to
travel over dark aud bloody path to reach tho
days Of light and poaco.
Why not btln,o science for oncn teaching thnt
tue earlh waa fiat, we'll 81 to ola,ne the Church
for agreeing then with sconcoS Tueu would ,e
not 1t not bs far to giro tho Church credit for
What good 1t has dono7 Did no. tLa mouis iu-
troduca agriculture into EuroEo1 Did not tho
priests Aayo learning to the world when nucioty
Uo., Uonla hnye cE1mhcd under Tho 1trotss Of tLs
man di,cover our continent, and
dues 1t not Lcnr tho namo Of
auother cAurchtnsn-Amoricus yespucius7 Did
not IN. Church found tho great universities Of
El;!nropoa Whonce came Oxford aud cambyidgc2
Wlenco our highest, aEt. music, nud ascIl'.
tecturo7 Who founded hospitals and Invented
methods for tohchipg the doat aud dumb? Who
veto Chaucor, spenBor, Shakespeare Dryden, mud
Ioso2 In those things have been ro-
dn,g fsrd5ng to wha. tho nv, world owes TO religion
Church helped to fill tho world with scholars,
schools. and htiarles7 n not the Church tho
warn'eat patron Of learning to.lay7 insist
that It ID uukind TO cast cenpures upsu the
~AuANLs AuN Akl|A WGTbS 10 p1auJe TeljHIQl 1of
all tho misconceptions aud orrora held
by eoolesiastics In tho dark past oI
our world. Such {ault-iindiug bet.ays 8
poprly-disgutsel eunity to tho Church, and Ia
calculated 10 do hn.m among tic un,binkire.
With all tho imperfsct,ous OF tho Church, and
tue unseomty garments in which religion has
been compelled to appenr unon Garth, Bhe uny-
ertlclcBs oests tic most precious hopes and in
teraass Of humanity.
Tha tr,e snltft Ink. rnon Aha erro,. anil
abupox OF tho nast in ruycrpmrnt sc,cnce anti
religion rs bei,,g seeuinrly inos, ero n1o raw ths
OF our raen tSionrh 1ha vda.nas. Az
Of its da,lneas. Ignorance. End wnpJer;ncs ~, IT,
Tie Canaan OF Ia bet;tr fnf,,ic THo .Tun snr,T
d to ia tho 4esd nnst in~v Il. ;,e,d sra ~ ~
tiyintr nrnnnnt IN {oIn t.c onpsri ,nsroI ~ ~
coyn1umnns. enlirh,ancd IIanv trne .c,,n.a
End nn,o raljoinn' '' ''"o "o'S'~o'
IuL Dr. D,ap.r ,e,m. To tt,;nl, t,,at r.,{,,on I,
restrninnd fron, ent"r, ,,,,,, th,s - :. i;nn w hs
ra,,ae asra ia !. rai;',,'n ;',,,,in ,ns'
fai. .b1o rSycint,on ,nst n.ccas .rv ~ tonunt
of rsfnr,, r. thfs way .nrld In "a ~ Gn,,,n,,
aud rotIcion dnwn IL ihn d.rk".ss ~ ~. n.s.
sud cali nnon than tn a,ann f',' II. iii ia M
takn whniv "a rc.eon Nav th,s IL ~ r,ti,sr =
misconn. ns,on nf rhc n.tn1o .na naics ~ IN
I,Lla thst Il rac,ns hard to .ccont for n one ~
10 clonr a nnJ Al 11r. Iirsn,r ~ Il i. sn.h'a. ~
Lry Of ub,cn l. ia nain1rf to think ia rnntd
be canabla IL i. trnn INT II - ~ I sIIou
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