The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-22
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gain, turned the blaze of their bril-
liant genius upon the relations of
nan TO deity, to say with a sigh,
God has forgotten the world.
They saw about them world in
which right lay in the dust and
might sat upon thrones, they saw
death spare the evil and take the
good, they saw Sthe lightnings of
pass by aged oaks to blight
young saplings, they saw right and
wrong, justice and injustice, truth
and falsehood, purity and vice jost-
ling each other and heaven seeming
" Indifferent, and they turned from
profound studies of these .inconsist-
ences to say,-Thc Gods having
made the world, have given it, over
to nature, and interest themselves no
longer in its concerns. From this
sprang naturally the adage, Dunn
Vipimus Virdmus 'Ict us eat and
drink for to, morrow we die" and
the adage was crystalized into the
faith of the Orient, and century after
century, the world learned to live
the life of an insect or to scorn
things seen and unseen.
God pays no attention TO man, was
n sentiment which swayed the earth
for hundreds of years, till one came
who whispered to a few weary men
wandering with him over the purple
hills of Judca, "The very hairs OF
your head are numbered and there
falleth not even a poor sparrow to
the earth without Gods leave.' And
the simple words were taken mp and
passed into a provcrb, and the pro-
verb grew into n great faith, and ma
tons accepted it, and ii brought hope
and comfort and peace where reck1
lcssncss or despair had been.
The occurrence of to-day brings
before our readers a contrast between
those two scutimcnts. for the old
Greek pbilosopby. revived under the
name Of science. has its yotaries to-
dav by thousands. who believe God
either Indifferent 70 the world. or
unable TO control. On the other
hand other thousands hold TO the
boncfu, words of the humble .Judcan
and bo,oive. that eyery hair of man's
head is numbered by A God who
holds the world in the palm of a
Loving hand No better time could
he 10 contrast those two PHILOSOPHERS
which nv turns have ruled religious
sentiment and now divide the world
between them
or the stoical or Epicurcan phil
osopby II may be said. that It seems
IN he MS sadly true vet, as il seemed
to the moralizing Greek. God seems
to have forgotten the world. Hav-
ing framed for it immutable laws he
seems to have retired to impcnetra-
BILE shades, and the laws move on like
veritable Juggernauts. crushing old
and young, innocent and guilty be-
meath their heavy wheels, or else as
branch of philosophy held,
he himself seems subject to the fates
and unable to exercise any pity he
may feel. The cause of right and
truth and justice seem to find no APP
proval from heaven, those of wrong
and falsehood and injustice to meet
no reproof, the suffering seem I'M
pitied, and innocence unprotected.
Speculative philosophy now as in the
days of Epicurus finds no single sol
itary proof that God cares aught for
the world or caring for il is able to
interfere.
Opposed to this the belief In Gods
overrulino providence rests only ON
faith in the strange beautiful words
uttered 1900 years ago by one who
snake ne never man snake. For
Tho trptb of them. external evidence
there is none. nav. the evidence of
no,pre "a aoainst /, But iudped nv
internal evidence the phiIosopby Of
rhr;s, turns the nb;losonhv az the