Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-19
the LAST LECTURE
Of the Series Delivered During the
Lenten Season,
By Ri. Rev. Bishop Kain, Upon the Subject
of Harmony Between the Scrip
lures and Science,

AS PREVIOUSLY a~unOuhSeu, 'N
restsd by Bishop Ksiu, in the last lecture
# his Lenten series, yesterday evening"
we're of a most interesting and instructive
nature. In dealing, the previous Sunday
With the question Of the origin OF spe'
,iea,' he had reserved until yesterday that
which concerns the origin Of man and
he liusal descent Of all men from one
common head. First he ~expounded the
Christian doctrine of the immediate crea-
ton By God of every human soul and
briefly refuted the errors Of Panthiests and
others. Next be took up
Il sCRIPrUsAL ACCOUNT
of the formation of the bodies OF both
Adam and Eve, and insisted on the strici
and literal construction of the sacred text;
whiIst ne was not prepared to con
denim, in advance of any cog
matte decision by the church,
the opinion held By even some
distinguished Catholic scientists, that The
body Of Adam may have been formed and
prepared By a gradual and slow process
out of the slime Of the earth. But the theo-
nv of those who push the system OF eVolu'
t;on 10 its extreme limits and teach that
man, even in mis- body. is but the full and
perfect development OF the ape or some
other inferior animal, he branded as a noSs
~unfounded hypothesis. The arguments al
legged in its favor, he carefully analysed
and refuted. Although the most perfect
Instruments can detect no difference in the
ife-gsrms, how u~nscienlhe,' SAID the
Bishop. is the conclusion of Huxley and
others that therefore they are
~ABsoLUrELY ALIKE2
Does not the wide difference that ls seen
10 exist in the various beings into which
rhsv develop, prove conclusiVely that the
germs themselves must also be different
The similarity Of anatomical structure Is
also advanced as sn argument 10 support
of that theory; and yet It's own advocates
ara forced to recognize and admit most
essential differences between the organism
of man and oil othe: animals. 10 vain 100
has the earth been searched .or some fos-
sill remains of the pretended intermediary
link between msu aud any known species
of lower animal. That missing link
cannot be found
The Bishop then passed to the consider
alton of the important question OF the uni
" of the human family-s doctrine essen
tally connected with the dogma OF the
Redemption. He cove a brief account OF
the Prs-Adsmites end the Co-Adsmltes,
aud after refutiug their errors from Holy
Scripture, he took up the arguments
based on
tbs wIDE DIFFERENCES
that exist between ths various races Of
men-diferences which, it is argued, could
not have arisen in the short period that
has elapsed since the Deluge the snsSer
Of Christian scientists having been given,
the Bishop asked the pertinent question
whether we are obliged 10 limit the
period during which these dlfef-
ences Shave arisen, to the time that
has elapsed since the Delugei or whether
it NAV not be extended even to the fret
creation of man? The latter opinion
would of course imply that the Deluge did
not destroy the entire human family, ex'
cept those 10 the Ark. This opinion, re-
marked the Bishop, is now ably defended
by eminent Catholic scholars, and he re-
ferred il terms o, high praise and com
mendation, to c recent work of the is'e
ASbe Mo,sis, Professor o. Scripture AID
Hebrew in the Seminary OF Rsnnes,
France, Yho adduceJ, in favor of this opin-
ion, an array Of arguments
THAT APPEAR I~RREFCTABLE.
This theory admitted many OF the diitcu!-
ties, especially from p~hiIology, ore easily
solved.
The Bishop then quoted authorities to,
show how readily answered ars the objec-
tiors grounded on the supposed impoasi-
biity of persons finding their way in olden
times 10 America, and the many islands
scattered through the oceans.
Then followed the Ususl arguments al
legged IN support O. tie greater an
tiquity of man than the Bible record ad
miis. These were arranged under these
several heSdirya: Is. H,sforJ; that espe-
cislly of the EgyptisGs, Chinese, etc, I'd.
Astronomy; or the pretended ~as'rouomical
calculations of some nations reaching back
hundreds af thousands OF years. 3.
Geology, in the syidences it gives of hu-
remains and articles VI msn's work,
conmingled with the remains OF a~uisiala
supposed 10 be long ages ago extinct; and, |
finally, the pretended Intellectual progress
of men from the lover types to the rcst
perfect. All Ihese objections were shown
% be groundIess and reference given to
works which deal fully and satisfactorily
with all these questions.
The conclusion which the Bishop drew
was thar religion had no reason TO fear the
advance of science in any Of its depart,
and that science never could de-
monstrate any truths that would be found
in ~antsgonizs the teachings Of Divine Re-
violation.
PEOPLE WE ALI, KNOW.