The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-05


 are the mos, glorious peaches that are known here are the luscious pears, and here the gorgeous apples. One would suppose that they would like to test the quality of these fruits by eating them. But no, they do not. They turn back to their catalogues, and they quarrel and dispute as to the nature of the trees that bore them. Where did you get your tree. Well, mine is a more authorita- tive nursery than yours is that you got your tree from. Mine is ten times as good as yours is. How early were your peaches raised! What kind of manure did you use?- And all such questions as these. and yet here upon this table IS this beautiful fruit. and by taking it and break ing It open they could very easily tell
 which is the best.
 Now. hold tha, iI the time to come
 the very philosophy that is bound to
 spring from the evolu,i mary doctrine will
 clean out half the disputes oi the ages that have been disgrace to religion. and give to us simpler faith. based upon absolute facts, which will tend rather to
 draw men together and unite them in a
 blessed ami,y than to split them asunder
 and drive them wider apart. Now churches are schools 10 teach men higher
 manners.
 Many of them need themselves io be taught The first clements: nevertheless. there are such ,hings as good schools and poor schools.
 The evolutionary doctrine will inval- Ida,e neither the raising nor the opera .g rkx
 institutions. Men jus, as much IS ever will be urged 10 charitable conside. ,tion oi their fellow-nen the strong should take care of the weak. the wise look afte- the ignorant. the polished and the re- fined le; the light of their course tempt the vulgar and the coarse forward. Churches are for the higher education If men. higher than earthly lore. into this sprit-working. do not see why they should not exist. whatever the mode of scientific philosophy. with or without evolution. for they have got their funo- ton. and evolution IS not going to take i, may take away some oi the lordly claims. Il may shear of some of the plumes. bu, Il will not hurt the church in its subs,an- ual elements IS an educator of morality and of spirituality.
 Now. there Is one other element Has evolution any relation to the doctrine of future eNlstancc: think there is an analogy very distinctly traeable in il. bu, there Is another ground besides that there are two grounds on which say ev- olution will no; disturb the conviction of man that he $ immortal. and that he lives again after he has gone out of the bondage af his body The first Is that the whole theory of growing from lower to higher. from eoarser h finer. from simplicity io compleNi,y tha, we are go- ing on m stages of eNlstanoe. that whole theory would lead. naturally. man to say: How natural l, will be then. after death. that we rise to d higher develop ment than we had here-finer condition. hner climate. finer soil. for growth than the earth afforded Us" so that. looking alone the line of analogy. one may proph- esy that there would be larger dis closure of man than has been seen in this world. But there Is another ground which is peculiarly fitted one to address to the scientific man. Sach Is the bound less held of science that no man can com pass the whole of i, except IS student of other men $ work. No man can even be Il perfect botanist. |, is well under stood that no living man has the capa- city to go through the whole vegetable kingdom and be an expert and authority Tn every department of il; and still less can man be an authority in chemistry. an authority in geology. an authority in biology, or zoology. These are too vast tor any man ,o make himself such an authority. and therefore scientific men among themselves. perceiving that, be- lIeve each other. You ask man. What IS your view in respect to the evolution any theory" Well" he says. :" am metaliurgist: my attention has been called 10 mines and chemistry. and have not had tune to examine that. but the men that are authority on these things say so and so. and we are accustomed io lean on each other for authority" There are certain men that say that such and s',ch IS true in chemistry That is the end of controversy. That is truth. There are men, that if they say so and so Tn geology. that Is settled. The whole scientific world takes it. They are author ity. They are experts. Now. when you come to the immortal man we need only to apply to the Lord Jesus Christ that which Is the habit and rule of scien- tltic men among themselves. Was there ever man on earth who had the right to say on the question of life here and life hereafter, "I am aushority?' It is Jesus Christ only who declared He came down from heaven and returned there and had seen God and was of Him. and His whole life confirmed the claim not only translucent. but perfectly full of light the light that comes into the world and that hghteth every man. He cer- tainly is the supreme authority on the question of the final destiny of man. and He declares life, and light and immor- tality are brought to the knowledge of men through me-" This is the end of the controversy on that subject.
 Allow me to say that the development of this doctrine is going to make trouble just in proportion as it is opposed. Allow me to say specially to young men who are now purposing to be moral teachers. and l suppose there arc some such here. . A .sk ~E L