Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20


French atheists of past generation, in place
of inspiration. Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher is
one of these false guides. In the North
American Reu;t,c for August he has an elap-
crate essay, in which he discredits the Mosaic
account OF the creation. He sneeringly asks:
us there no other word of God than the
Bible? y Did God ST. down and write
the Bible? or did he whisper all its statements
IN the ear of inspired men, who became me-
chanical reporters?" He strikes out for
Darwin's theory of evolution and not only
admits, bat claims that evolution would over
throw the existing theology of the world
and much OF the Bible. itself. He says: "To
admit the truth OF evolution is to yield up
the reigning theology. It is to change the
whole notion of mans origin, his nature, the
problem of human life, the philosophy OF
morality, the theory of sin, the structure OF
moral government as taught in the dominant
theologies of the world, the fall of Adam, the
doctrine of original sin, and the method
of atoning for it, Can any thing
be more sweeping than this? sHe fippantly
scouts the account of creation. as given in
Genesis, and calls in question the wisdom and
justice of God himself. He says: ''But the
most astounding part of this account of crea
ton is, that God, when he had created limo
cence and inexperience, permitted it to be de-
bauched, ana went on to transmit to tbs
whole human race, through all time
the degradation, sin, and suffering of these
divinely destroyed experimentalists in Eden
He says: 1.-THE scientific account of the origin
of man and nature of sin is as health to sick
ness, as life to DEATH" compared with 18th;
Presbyterian Confession of Faith" "We ar
taught it has been the business OF God for ter
thousa nd years to produce Infinite sin and suf-
fering." God did not create man as
stated in Genesis, he asserts, but according
to The scientific theory of evolution as present
ed by the learned Mr.. Darwin, "the human
race itself is Developed from the animal king
DOM" Little did the clear. minded, SINGER,
and faithful orthodox clergyman, Lyman
Beecher, think that son Of his would wande,
away into tie frozen fields of IN
belief, and place Darwinian, soulles:
evolution before the inspired wore
of God, when be thundered forth tina. elo-
quent discourse, founded upon the text
Earnestly contend for the faith once de
ivered to the saints" Oaly 8 few Of Mr. H.
W. Beecher's strongest objurgations of ftht
reigDing theology" are here given; bu
enough have been presented to show his pres
ent temper and spirit. Ee IS rap.
idly drifting away from 1.-THE faitI
once delivered 70 the saints,
and where this unsafe guide viii 5e found to
morrow, no man can tell. He closes his "sci
entiic' 'diatribe against the"Di7ine despot;sm'
of Bible inspiration, with the placid self-satis
fed enunciation that 1.-THE future is not in
danger from the revelations of science. Sci
ence is truth. Truth loves the truth But
great teacher. is not Inspiration truth I:
Does not Inspiration love III.
truth? Is not the great Creator OF the
universe also, the author not OF divine des.
potism,' but of the divine inspiration of The
holy scriptures? What good can result TO the
world by these attempts of boosted, vauuttd
scientists and speculative theorists to und er-
mine the faith of the church? Vain Effort
this, to destroy the foundations OF the church
of GOD