The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-02-26
EvoLUTIoN:
REV. W. q. RIDER, A. N.
God, Revelation. and Immortal.
ity..Quenched.
ARTICLE WI.

ARTICLE WI.
The notified world has not forgotten
he unblushing affrontery Of materialistsI
u opposition to Revealed Religion
That there is no God, no eternal life, isI
IN old song, Modern evolution is mol
better. We are aware that theistic dis
;lpies are going to this scnool, auf Tnat1
hey would scorn this statement. But
ne are not alone. Both evolutionists
and their reviewers sustain us. Huxley
n bis "Lay Sermons" argues at length
with Paley against design in nature
They all deny intelligence in nature, and
differences that there is q
God. Tyndall endorses. Spencer says
The very idea Of God is inconceivable.
and if there is GOO, he must be forever
upknowable' Darwin is practical athe-
ist He rejects the idea Of God as
throwing any light on the evolution of
things, though to start with he borrows
a few germs from the insulted Deity
This would be God creation and q
Goddess preservation: theistic at the
commencement,a land atheistic all through.
How could God ordain laws for "rocks,
plants, animals" and the mind Of man,
without living and being in their execu.
ton. Laws cannot execute themselves.
The Ordainer must be the Executor
Every thing is under law, and we can
not logically or inductively speak of q
law without its fulfllment. Shall God
breath life into protoplasm and theu
abandon the Universe to atheistic evolu
ton. Did the Divine Architect transfer
his own infinite spiritual nature TO the
original material atoms, saying, "Go
now yourselves and work out the his
tory of the next million years, and mar
when he appears will not know me
(Spencer) but study you (Darwin) fol
my existence will offer no solution oI
the mystery in which he dwells and oi
which he forms apart (Tyndall." No
No and evolutionists see it, /. e., they
see men as trees walking. They know
there is boundless energy behind ma
ture, and could they conceive of it a.
the infinite will, they would change theil
hypothesis. .ssAs
Huxley in his New York Lectures
said That the question is one which
cannot be solved or approached by th,
historical method '--Methodiss Quarterl,
ReuieU, April, 1877.
1t cannol2 Geological history not 6
confirmation of creative hatp All geol
ogists except evolutionists attribute hal
the history to the direct miraculous
agency of God. They account for tht
sudden appearance of new forms of lif,
without ancestors by creative power
while evolutionists attempt to gil up thu
gap by what they call "missing links
of which they know nothing and hav,
found nothing. But why does Mr.. H
name the name Of God and then Will,
away an hour before the British Asso
ciation trying to disprove the evidenc
of design in nature, and even drive tn
soul out of man by pronouncing him al
automaton, no better perhaps than tha
demonstrative frog of his9
Says Dawson, "We have already seel
that the doctrine, as carried oat to it
logical consequences excludes creation
and theism. 1t may, however, be show
that in its more modified forms, an
when held by men who maintaid tha
they are not atheists, it is PRACTICAL
atheism because excluding the idea 9
plan and design, and resolving all thing
into the action of uniDteligent forces.
|-StSryof The Earth And Man, p. 34s
Again the came author says, "The
seek to revolutionize the religious bt
liefs of the world, and if accepted woul
destroy most of the existing theolog
and philosophy-bid., p. 317..
Why did Tyndall entitle his Belfas
lecture Science And Religions' Ther
is no religion in it. There are many ii
reverences in IL. He quotes with CON
placent pomp the one-sided views of th
old philosophers, leaving out all thei
ideas of final cause in nature, msnifes
ing no veneration for God or a religio
of any kind, yet lecturing on Scienc
and Religion. He has hooted at th
idea of prayer, challenging Christian
to measure their faith with his medic,
skill in curing the diseased. The worl
knows his religion.
Some of the evolutionists have CON
close to harmonis:ng their views wit
Revelation, but the Bible, as ever, wi
be exclusive and repulsive until full
orbed truth appear. Says Foster, "Whe
the curtain Of the grave drops is thl
the end? So says Darwin and all hi
worshipers. So we should say, il W
had no light but the feeble flicker G
earth born science. e.'-lngham Lectures,
p 80.
Bovine says, "Whatever Mr.. Sper
GERS personal views may be The doc
trine of his books is fatalism, materia
ism, atheism. There is no persons
God; there is no immortal soul"
los. Of e. Spencer, p. %.
We close this section with the follow
ing characteristic language from the n
Y Daily Tribune, of May 2, 1870, q
quoted by DR.. Paine in the work here
tofore referred to: "This generation ha
opinions, but no faith. 1t denies the e1
istence of God, of Immortality, of Love