The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-23

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ployed upon II, ami they were in MANY
lands aud i'll different centuries, and
THESE WOrkmen hdu 10 Contamination
win each other i'll regard t. The grand
design Of the building. ana vet. ali
'ntlr fragments uf work HiOught to-
Seller, II Is perfect al ChuectuTal tri-
umph. Although the man who, built
the pillar knew nothing of the man who
quilt the DOME and the man WHO built
the doorway knew nothing OF the man
who lifted the arch, yet a complete ac-
cord, complete architecture and a COM
plete triumph.
Again, Mr.. IngersOll charges that the
blOle Is unsclentitic. | showed YOU in
previous dlscOurses by an array of facts
that there Is no clash between science
and the Bible. Who says there is a col
llsiOn? lngersOll, Stuart, Mill, Dar-
WIN, Iyndall, Renan. Yes, they heard
a dlscOTd between science and Reyela-
tlOn. | can give you the names of men
who tell you there is perfect accord be-
tween science and Revelation. | could
give you the names of men as much
higher than those | have mentioned as
Mt. Washington and the Himalayas are
higher than the RidgewOOd water-wOrks
-Herschel, Keppler, Liebnitz, Ross,
Isaac Newton. Did you ever hear Gen
eral Mitchell or DR.. DOremus lecture on
elatiOn? Science is a boy; Revelation a
man. The boy thinks he knows more
than the man, and asks many unanswer-
ed questions. The great temple of ma
ture has two Orchestras, the orchestra
of Revelation and the orchestra of
science. The orchestra of Revelation
has its musical instruments all strung,
and it is ready for a burst of eternal ac-
cord. Science is only stringing its in
strEments. You will have to wait, but
after a while it will be as in some of
those Cathedrals in Germany where they
have an organ at one end of the Cathe-
dral and an organ at the other, and
they respond to each other. And so it
will be in the great temple of the uni
verse; the orchestra of Revelation and
the orchestra of science will respond to
each other, and into one wreath will be
twisted the Rose of Sharon and the
laurel of scholarly achievement, and
the roar of the ocean will be the mag
nificent bass of the temple wOrshipers,
and the earth itself will be found to be
only the pedals of great organ of
which the heavens are the keyboard.
Now, Mr.. IngersOll has not made out
his case against the Bible as being
cruel, as being impure, as being contra
dictOry, as being unscientific. This
plaintiff, infidelity, has not made out
its case against the Bible, the defendant,
and l might, in the Court of your rea-
son, move for a nOnsuit; but | will not
take advantage of the circumstances,
and l will tell you some things why we
believe this book is the right book, and
the book from God, and an infallible
book, and an indestTuctible book. Mr.
IngersOll represents us as very gullible
people, ready to believe anything, and
the more improbable the occurrence the
better we like it, and that the manu-
scripts of the Bible are unauthentic,
picked up here and there accidentally.
Let US see. There are are the two Testa-
ments, the Old and the New. Take the
New Testament first. Why do believe
it? Why do receive it with all my
heart? You can trace it right out.
Jerome and Eusebius, in the first cen
tury, OTigen i'll the second century,
gave lists of the writers of the New
Testament, that list just corresponding
with our lis of writers of the New Testa-
ment, showing precisely as we have it
they had it in the third and fourth cen
turies. Where did they get it? From
POlycaTp. Where did POlycarp get it?
From st. John, who was a personal as
SOciate of Jesus. The line just as clear
as any thing ever was clear. My grand
father gave book to my father, my
father gave it to me, give it to my
child. No difficulty in tracing that down
from generation to generation. Just as
a communion chalice is passed along
from one to another, the chalice filled
with wine of the sacrament, just so
this New Testament was handed down
from one to another, and we drank of
the new wine of the Kingdom. But say
some: suppose they did write it, they
may have been lying impOsterS.' All. /
have to tell you no man ever died for a
lie cheeTfully and triumphantly. These
men died for the truth.
We'll, you say, you have got through
a small part of the Bible; how about
the Old Testament?" | accept the Old
Testament because the prophecies de-
scribed things hundreds and thousands
of years ahead-minutely and ac-
described them. Who can fore
see? God only. How far can you fore
see? A thousand years? No. Not
hundred, not five years, not an hour.
William H. Seward, one of the most en-
lnent men of his time, made a prophecy.
He said: The South will be CONQUERED
in thirty days" The war went along
four dreadful years. He said: 1t will
be job that will be accomplished be-
fore breakfast Instead of that it was
after midnight-fOur years midnight.
You see human prophecies amount to
uOIuluS' Lie BItdG fItuCuulhu ue-
clared that the NapOleOnic glOries would
go down from generation to generation.
Where are those glOries? All vanished.
But here are the prophecies of things
that occurred hundreds and thousands
of years afterwaTd. l want you to re-
member that Tyre and Nineyeh and
Babylon and Jerusalem were in full
power and glory when these prophecies
declared that they were going to be
OveTthTOwn-a architecture, in some of
these cities, that make your houses on
Madison Square and Fifth avenue utter
ly insignificant. And yet these prOphe-
cies were made at that time in regard
to the destruction of those cities. Sup
pose, now, man should appear in our
streets and say: "The East River will
overflow and destroy Brooklyn, the Hud-
son River will overflow and destroy
New York, and then there will be an
and the two rivers will dry
up, and there will be haTvests of grain
corn raised there, and where Fulton
street and Broadway are there will be
pasture fields" Why, the man would
be pronounced insane. Yet, these men,
these prophets, stood right amid those
glOries of ancient times and said they
were going to perish, and the City of
Babylon was to become desOlate. All
frna tho nOuy