The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-04-22

uay-tne Chlnaman J0StleS US In the street,
and the centuries that look through his
dreamy eyes have lost all sense of wonder
ships that were freighted from the heart
Of Africa lie in our harbor, and our market
places ere vocal with more tongues than be-
widered the builders at Babel--a letter
slips around tho earth in ninety days, aud
the messages Of men fash along the bed of
the occan-we tell the secrets of the uni.
verse as woman tells her. beads, and the
stars whirl serenely through orbits that SCI
ence has defined- I'VE even read of the in
slant when the comet that plunged in dim
iliimitable distance, where even the separate
! stars are lost in mist and vapor, shall whirl
again into the vision of, man; q wanderer
that could not, shake off the inexorable su.
peryislon OF ssclcpc pce. even ins the. chill and
measoreiess depths of OF faS ufiiv6fsc FIT
time this' for, science to make its last and
supreme assault-to challenge the last and
supreme mystery DEFY the last and supreme
i1rce. ana the church may glr1 itself for
the connict. AS tue pope has said: "ltis
no longer rebel that threatens the church.
IL Is belligerant + 1t is no longer a shad-
ing OF creed L. is the upsettal OF all oreeds
'nat Is attempted.
IL is Impossible TO conceive the misery
ana.tne. blindness that Will come -in the wake
Oh this spreading atheism. The ancients
Witnessed the 1ah or hundred creeds, but
SUI, c ,.c eaa q hunarea ieft' Inc vast mystery
Vi ''!e hu1g ABOVE tnem, put was lit with
rehSions tnat were sprlnklcd as stars in its
depths. From host Of censcrs was their
air made rich with fragrance aud warmed
from Held OF affairs. No logs was irrepar-
able; But with US it is different. He have
reached the end. Destroy our one belief
ana we are ieft hopeless, helpless, blind
Uur AIR VIII be oderless, chill, colo:!css.-
huxley the leader OF the posltivists, him
ss se1l conIesses[l quote from memory
Never' IN the history OF man. has calam.
NY SO ter1lmo oetalen the race as this ad-
'aucinS deiuSe' Diacx with destruction, up
roofing our most cherished hopes, engulf
iog our most precious creed, and burying
our hishest hte 10 mindless desoation."-
AND yet Mr. Huxley urges on this deluge
win FURIOUS energy. The aggressiveness of
.nN a'neists Is inexpi'caole to me. Why
tney shouIu insist on destroying system
tnas Is pure ana ennoDiing when they have
no'n'ns 20 replace it with-why they should
shatter iaith that coiors lie, only to leave
IL Hco'of'ess-wny they should take away the
couso'a''on 'nae iiits men ana women from
the despair or Der 'avement and 'desolation,
o. the iiSht that guides the teet OF struS-
Sihs numao'ty' or the nope that robs even
.ne grave OF ITS terror !; why they should do
"" ."''' h:u '"oc s'aae e"P'y nanoed and
unae.pouS.se 'i;ae. Ie'ote tue yearnlns ana sup,
pS pocp'o my "u'I stripped VI ai
PIo'Ta' u'oie 'nau eau unaer
I'"uu. iuo uo'' "'n''ss' ~ my .''na, ,na'
, 'sel A"ew' was que VINO sent MS cnl'dren
~ rs Io.sou' .s Ir 10. 'ne'r eouca',on. Il can
uc. ~, ,iS ,"e o:Sn' Vi ohoene' ifo" my own
,", ~ no ss'u' pu.i sna,. Ut never iaii upon
'"o n,'ous u my cn''ueen !" can he'p IT,
c.s s .I ~, ne, "ou,u give a' nave on eartG
,I ~. ."o g S.u 'a'.n tnaS "of' Gu hsh'y aha
".T% Tho ~ n,a",;saI az S''ossy ea"S.. oc., ., e
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s;ona IS n,on 49, ho I " I' p"s'
wb;ob ,hon o.n sn;. r;,h Gu '''I. T..
will no, - eau h;m, w.. b;S
root Grs ,ho aan.", ~ a. 1 ns .I I"n ooi
ticol scientists or of ls.S;nn ; " I ssom,;aps 1p,
os nroof that nohs,;sp aoos no, hr;pn ' :;
cense These men are heId 70 dscsnn. ~
- n.;do - nnS;.;nn S I IL Hs'a w ue0enoy ~
responsibility. It is tho masses that atheism
will dcmorctize and debauch. It is the
thousands of simple men and woman who.
loosed Of the one restraint that is absolute
and imperious will, that will drift upon the
currents Of their passions. oolliding every
where, and bringing confusion and ruin
The vastly greatest influence that religion