The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-02-19

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disguise of rhetoric or fantastic senti'
mentality. OF course an opposition to
Christianity will make great stir-just
as one man jumping overheard from a
Cunard steamer, will make more eensa
ton than the five hundred passengers
who stay on the decks or in the cabins.
But does that stop the ship2 1t is an
awful plunge for man to make off the
leCturing platform or the pulpit into eter'
nifty; but does the fact that he Jumps
overheard hinder the glorious Bible taxi
ing its millions into the skiesp Do You
suppose such thing could be enacted
in our day as was done in the day Of Ro.
bespierre, when they decided that Chris
tianity should be abolished and the Bi.
BILE should be denounced, and they rails
ed the wife of one of their prominent
men to be a goddess, and they carried
her on golden chair into the Cathedral
and France bowed down and Worship
ped and people burned incense before
this Goddess Of Reason who was to take
the place Of Christianity, and the Bible,
and the Lord God Almighty, while in
the chspels Of that Cathedral, on either
side, there were being enacted by the
prominent people of that day the most
abominable drunkenness and debauCh,
cry and obsCenity the world ever heard
of Do you tell me that thing could be
enacted in our dayP l tell you the po
lice would swoop in the villains and let
them rot in jail, Infdelity iBnot half as
bold as it used to be. But, say a great
many of these men, Christianity is fall.
ing away from this country and from
the world, in the fact that science, it's
chief antagonist, is triumphing over it. "
l reply: There is not fact in science
that may not be reconCiled with the Bi.
BILE. So said Hugh Miller, Joseph Hen.
ry, Prof. Hitchcock, and scores OF Others.
Besides, have you not noticed that inf.
del scientists, instead of waging 80 hot a
war against Christianity, are now begin.
ming to fight among themselves? II in
fdel scientists came up with a solid face,
perhaps they might do some damage;
but, as far as can read the signs of the
times, it is going to be telescope against
telescope, Leyden jar against Leyden
jar. Do you think there is any danger
that ever the Bible account of the origin
of life will be overthrown as long at sci
entists differ about the origin of life,
some adopting the theory Of Biogensis
and others the theory of Abigensis Il
use that phrase because it sounds learn
ed), and while Agassiz comes out and
puts his feet on the doctrine of evolution
and rebukes the young scientist Of the
day by saying: Il have noticed that
many of the young naturalists are falling
into the mistake of adopting for theories
of science that which has never passed
under observation" Agassiz discovered
what we have discovered-that mon Of
ten talk wisely in proportion as they
know little; and just as soon as these
Young sCientists know the difference be
tween the feelers of wasp and the horn
of beetle, they begin to patronize the
Lord Almighty, and talk about culture
as though it was spelled c-u,l CHI ar. 1t
makes me sick to see these literary fops
coming down with Darwin under one
arm and case of transixed grasshop-
pers and butterflies under the other arm,
talking about Huxley's protoplasm and
natural selection" and nebular bypoth.
esis-lithping with an exquithit lithp,
and calling all common men fools. The
scientists are disagreeing. They do not
agree in regard to the gradation of the
species. They do not agree in regard to
embryology. Can you tell me anything
they agree in? Darwin charging against
Lamarch, Wallace spearing Cope and
HersChel denouncing Ferguson. How
many colors woven into the light? Seven
says Newton, three says David Brewster
How high the aurora borealis? Two
miles and half says Lias; one hundred
and sixty-five miles says Tuning. Her
IChel devOtes one whole chapter to
What he calls Errors of Astronomy"
Iaplace says the moon was not put in |
he right place; he says If it had been |
'ut four times further off from our world |
here would have been more harmony
n the universe; while Lionville comes
Ip just in time, and very fortunately, to
how that the Lord was wise, and put
he moon in the right place. How far
} the sun from the earthP Lacaille
aysseventy six million miles; Humboldt
ays eighty-two million; Henderson says
inety million. Only little difference
t twenty eight million miles. Mathe.
latiGians do not agree. Taylor's Loga'
ithms are defective. The French me-
-iC system, which employed the most
earned msthematicians of the day, is
)und to have wrong calculations. Geol-
gists differ; biologists differ; Mathema.
clans differ. Talk about exact sciences.
have looked all over for something that
worthy the complimentary adjective,
nd l tell you the only exact science is
hristianity.
There is nothing under which YOU may
ith so much propriety write guod crat
Gentlemen of the Jury
ave you agreed on your verdict" So
lys the Clerk of the Court to the Jury
J they come in after they have been
Ut on the case all night. "Have you
greed on your verdict" If they say
yes" the verdict is taken and recorded.
they say mo-" and one man says, II
link the defendant was guilty" and am
her man says u think he was guilty."
ld another man says, Il think he was
iilty of MURDER" and another man
Iys, 81 think he was guilty of man.
and another, II thing he is
iilty of assault and battery with intent
kill" the Judge loses his patience and
ys: "Gentlemen, that ia no verdict; 70
1t to your room and agree, or l shall
ave to discharge you. Agreep Now,
lere has been a great trial going on in
10 werld-a very great trial. 1t 10
keptieism, the plaintiff, vs. christianity
le defendant. All the scientists have
een out as the jury; they have been out |
r centuries. They are coming in.
Up the courtroom TO order. "Gentle.
en of the jury, have you agreed on
our verdict" mo- they say, I'VE
aven't agreed" "Then," / say, go
aCk to your room and stay another cen.
ry, and then we'll discharge you
you don't agree" Now would the
eanest man in q police court room be
by jury that could not
yreep And yet you ask US to reject our
orious Christianity, when this jury of
dentists come In and tEev all differ. In