Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-04

did not object to being called lad. But
that was thousands of years ago; and
thirty years now is the average OF life; and
the majority of young men of 10 or ID be-
gin to feel the twinges of insult and OF I'M
derestimated dignity if they are called boys.
Since the time of the food the period of life
has been decreased, until centenarian has
become subject for newspaper articles and
a real curiosity. The allotted period of
mans life is now three score and ten; and,
if by reason of strength it be four score ears,
we say be has enjoyed, indeed, very ripe
old age. o, the centuries of experience and
knowledge that may be crowded into one
short life. Kepler, Copernicus, Brache,
Newton, Leland Lagrange, Sir William
Herschel, with a host of others, from the
early observations of the Chinese, Chal-
deans, Hindoos and Egyptians, down TO the
remarkable discoveries of the last decade,
have spent their lives in astronomical in
vestigation; and the result of these centu-
ries of patient and persistent labor, re-
corded in few volumes, may be learned IN
a few brief months of study. The sub
stance of all that has been learned about
the earth's structure from the early period
of Pythagoras and Stabo down to Lyell OF
our own day, may be passed over IN the
Freshman class year OF the college course.
"There is reason to belive that Zoroaster
devoted some attention to plants. Iheo-
phasten, pupil of Aristotle, wrote the flrst
book upon botany nearly four hundred
wears before Christ. The writings of Pliny,
1 81 foir n opPnnnt nf more than
l 900 species of plants. In the sixteenth
century botany took its true place among
the sciences. From that time the names of
DR.. Turner DIR. Morrison, Harshaw, Hook,
Linnaus, Link, Schleiden Won Mohl and
Lindley appear as eminent botanists. The
world in which we live is progressive
world. The planet itself has been whirl-
ing through space since the creation at the
rate of nineteen miles per second, and its
inhabitants have been keeping up with it.
When Robert Fulton, in 1907, stood at the
wheel of the Clermont, there was rapid
stride made in the worlds civilization
When George Stephenson pulled upon the
throttle of the first railroad engine, declar-
ing that he could make it run fifteen miles
an hour, the people laughed and said the
Scotchman had gone mad over his inven-
ton. Little did he dream that the time
would be quadrupled, and that elegant
palace cars, with sleeping and dining ap-
psrtments in less than fifty years, would
be whirling through the country at the
rate of sixty miles per hour. Fifteen miles
an hour is too slow for the quick pulse of
to-day.
The ancierts counted seven colossal
works of art which they called the Seven
Wonders of the World, but the wonders of
the world have been multiplied till the
number is lost. The world is on the ad-
vance-it is progressive. Look at the nu-
merous steamship lines that cross the ocean
with their hundreds of passengers, reaching
the distant continent in FIVE or six days.
But what has all this to with progress
i've religion?
The reply to the question is, that pro-
gressive religion has everything to do with
the word progress. Destroy the Bible. and
the sun of the worlds enlightenment sinks
forever behind The everlasting hills France
tried it by the abolition of the Christian
religion. There was a time when the
Prince of Peace rode upon the foal of an
ass, and his way was strewn with palm
branches and flowers and the garments of
those who shouted 'Hosannah.' The time
is when the same Prince of Peace, who has
come to the throne and reigns as King over
all k1DRuOIuS, IlueS III Tile CudTlOl Vi uul-
yersal sovereignty, whose path is strewn
with the trophies of science, art, invention
and philosophy. The time is coming when
every knee shall bow and every tongue
shall acknowledge Him Lord of Lords and
King of Kings. There is not nation in
the world to-day where the inalienable
rights of man are recognized where the
Bible is not acknowledged as the divine
law. You may search the annals Of an
cient, medieval and modern history, and
there is not a single example.
THE religion of tie Lord Jesus Christ is
progressive. 1t makes the desert blossom
as the rose, and the solitary place to re-
joice, and the desolate plac glade, and the
sorrowful place happy, and gives rod and
staff upon which to lean, even in the
valley and shadow of death. Where the
church spires point heavenward. there the
smoke wreaths in clouds above the factory
chimneys as the smoke of incense, in &C.
acknowledgement of the triImphs of the
gospel Who would for a moment i'm
sgine, without investigation, that the
trembling needle of the compass was in
fiuenced by the distant planets. Balfour,
Stewart and Warren de la Rue have shown
that the planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus
and Mars, are the cause of these disturb
ances. These mighty planets, the nearest
of which is more than 100000 miles,
and the farthest nearly thousand mill
ions of miles from the earth, govern and
control the little trembling needle in the
compass. So, the omnipotent, the AL
mighty, eternal God, exalted above all
gods, controls and governs the minutest
affairs of the most humble and trembling
child who puts his trust in Him. Your
pulpit is in the store; your pulpit is in the
editorial chair; your pulpit is in the factory
wheels; your pulpit is at or over the work
bench, and your pulpit is in the home
circle. And who would have it otherwise?
Who would change the religion that gave
your father such quietude in the last home?
Who would change the religion that sup
ported your mother in that trying ordeal?
Who would change the religion that gives
such sweet hope and consolation in af-
Fiction? Who would change the religion
that throws out the soul anchor in the
haTbor of rest?"