The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1880-12-02

thO0sand dt1eI5nt readings, but these
differences were unhuportant and
vefe very smslh differences and we're
70 be accounted for on the ground that
The bible had come down from gem
eration % generation, and had been
copied by a great many different
hauds, and it is not surprising that
here snd there is a word changed,
bat about the great doctrines 10
TIE bible there is no difference All
The sacred writer's agree Ia these doc
trlnos God--Sood, holg, Just and
omaiP0teat. Man-a lost sinner
Christ-hH glorious and inviting the
whole world 10 bo saved. Two des
tinies-- one Cor helieveTs and the 9th
er for unbelioYers. About these doc
trihes there is perfect harmony.
Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn
never saw, wrote or heard more com
plcte harmony. Is it not Wonderful
that this bible. written by scpres OF
men living in different lands, living
10 different ages, some Of them hav-
ing no communieation with each
other, aud having NJ idea Of the gen.
eral design Of the bible, after their
fragments OF work are brought from
these different lands and ages aud
are put iogsther, make complete
book, a book so harmonious that the
best scholars Of Of oar day pronounce
it complete harmony Z 1t is as
though q great cathedral we're to be
built, and q hundred men we're to DO
the work, and those hundred men
lived in different countries and lived
10 different ages, and bad no com
munication with each other, sud no
idea,Of The general design Of the ca
thedral, and yet alter a while all their
fragments Of work shan Be brought
together, and they prove to be q com,
plete architectural triumph; the man
Nho carved the pillars having no
communication With the man who
| planned the dome, the man who
| fashioned the door had no eommani.
cation with tue nan who eontrived
/ the arches Charge The fourth
rnE BmLE,ls uEsclENurIc'
Your bible says there vas light be
fore the sun was created. How was
il possible? Your bible intlmates
that the sun turns around the earth,
when tue motion is to Tue. other di
rection Your bible says dat 10
J0shua's timo tho sun and moon
stood still, which hating would have
uogcared the whole machinery OF the
J universe. Your bible says that the
water was turned into wine; aud pre-
senss other impossiblIties Through
all Of that rigmarole in6delity goes
every day, anil it says the bible is
hnscieniinc. Who made you believe
that there is on unabridged chasm
betWean the b, bic and science Z Stew,
/ art Mil, Darwin, Tyndall, Renanf Z
va Well Twill rive Won the nam s
I Of men who believe there ls per
feet harmony between science and
the philemon as much higher than
those whose names l have quoted as
Mount Washington and HimaIayeh
are higher than RidgegoOd water
wooks; Herschell, kep.er Leibnitz,
Ross, Isaac Newton At any rate,
these names that quote are as good
as the names you quote These men
found harmony between the bible and
science Have you never heard Prof
Hitchcock or Gen. Mitchell lecture
on the harmony totween tho bible
and science? The fact is, science is
the boy and revelation full grown
man. The boy thinks he knows more
than tie man, and he asks great
many unanswered questions; but
after science is fully grown and has
been growing and Learning as long As
revelation has beed Established, per-
hsps it may knoF as much, ! say per
haps. Voltaire brought an argument
to show that the bible story OF the
golden calf being dissolved was an
impossibility--a chemical impossi-
I bilityl While Voltaire was proving
that gold could not be beld in solu-
tion, all the gilders aad ooners and
me'nllurgists Of the earth we're hold
| ing gold is solution, and there wope
l6ny shops
IN PARIS
at that tine where Voltaire might
have seen the very process which he
4 pronounced an iihpossibihty- IT.
therefore, at any time You should