Daily globe., 1883-08-12

the Gross to make atonement for sin,
guilt, transgression, a fall that never
existed? Or is the story of the GROSS, &C.
cording to this new-fsngled doctrine ef
evolution, fable? 1t has been asked with
no little pertinence, if there was no fall,
what is the true Interpretation of the
second and third chapters of Genesis and
the fifth chapter of RomansG According
to the doctrine of evolution there is no
Interpretation needed, for the. state
ments are not true. The believers in this
modern doctrine of evolution unhesita:
tingly set aside and deny the validity and
inspiration of the scriptures that do not
comport with their. scientific creed. Mr..
Beecher claims to be "Christian evo-
lutionist." The term is solecism. 1t is
contradiction in terms. AS we'll claim to
be "Christisn infdel"-the two terms
"Christian evolutionist" and "Christian in
fider' are correlative, are in consonance,
AID in interchangeable accord. Mr..
Beecher claims in his letter to Mr.. Ken
nsrd a sort of half orthodoxy, but boldly
says: Evolution strikes at the root of all
orthodox modern theology" Mr.. Beecher
broadly admits: II know / am not
orthodox as to the philosophy which
hes hitherto been applied to these
facts" The facts and substance of
the Christian religion. Mr.. Beeeher, in
the sense of half-orthodoxy. is a whole.
full ll-fedged infdel, equally SO with
the Agnostic school of evolutionists
Huxley and others. It is time to strip of
his disguise, his pretensions as a Christian
teacher. Congregational churches take
kindly to him in the name of his ante
cedents as Congregational pastor,
not realizing the great change that
has come over him. He has withdrawn
from all connection with the orthodox
Congregational association to which he
belonged, so that he cannot be called to
account by his ministerial brethren for
any heresies he may preach. He is impos-
ing on the Congregational churches in his
present journey that have not yet realized
his apostacy, his departure from orthodoxy
70 heterodoxy. We find the fol-
lowing in the Daily Northern Tier, pub
lished at Crookston: "Henry Ward Beech
er will deliver his 'Evolutions,' for the ben
eft of the Congregationalists, at the new
church next Wednesday evening. The
church will be then and there sppropri-
ately dedicated" What is this but be-
guiling an orthodox church under false
pretences? 1t is quite unusual for an
infdel lecture, denying the inspiration
of the scriptures, the fall of man, and the
efficacy of the atonement based on that
fall, to be delivered for the benefit of an
orthodox Congregational church. But Mr..
his new role, and will find
his true place, and will entertain audien-
Ces that relish and find equal amusement
in the rhetorical blasphemous converse
ton of Bob Ingersoll, Colonel Ingersoll,
as Mr.. Beecner politely styles him, when
alludinR to him on the platform. Mr..
Beecher is making progress in all direc-
tions in religious laxity. He no longer be-
lieves in the ssnctity of the Sabbath, if he
ever did. He is reported as saying that
Sunday means going to church in the
forenoon and taking rational enjoyment
the rest of the day, and he doesn't believe
in any attempt to prevent the people
from taking relaxation on the seventh
day" 1t is difficult to believe that he will
be able to take his Brooklyn
congregation in its entirety, the whole
length of his wide departure into unortho-
dox, scientific, philosophical, skeptical
evolution theology, his boasted new re-
ligion." There must be in that large
church, it is reasonable to believe, sincere
believers who can not be swerved from the
truth by the seductive magnetism of the
whilom "great preacher"