Connecticut western news., 1890-04-30

philosopher. But the Christian re- ligion has no such apprehension now.
 Bring on your telescopes and micro scopes and spectroscopes-and the more the better. The God of nature is the God of the Bible, and in all the universe and in all the eternities he has never once contradicted himself. Christian merchants endow univer- sites, and in them Christian profess ors instruct the children of Christian communities The warmest and most enthusiastic friends of Christ are the bravest and most enthusiastic friends of science. The church rejoices as much over every discovery as the world rejoices. Good men have found that there is no war between science and religion. That which at first has seemed to be the weapon of the infidel has turned out to be th- weapon of the Christian.
 SCIENCE IS FOR CHRISTIANITY.
 Scientific discussions may be divided into those which are concluded and those which are still in progress, de- pending for decision upon future in vestigation. Those which are con- cluded have invariably renderesltheir verdict for Christianity, and we have faith to believe that those which are still in prosecution will come to as fa- vorable a conclusion. The great sys- tems of error are falling before these discoveries They have crushed every thing but the Bible, and that they have established Mohammedanism and organism in their ten thousand forms have been proved false and by great natural laws shown to be impo- sitions. Buried cities have been ex- humed and the truth of God found written on their coffin lids. Bartlett, Robinson and Layard have been not more the apostles of science than the apostles of religion. The dumb lips of the pyramids have opened to preach the gospel. Expeditions have been fitted out for Palestine, and explorers bave come back to say that they have found among mountains and among ruins and on the shore of waters liv ing and undying evidences of our glorious Christianity
 Men who have gone to Palestine in- fdels have come back Christians They who were blind and deaf to the truth at home have seemed to see Christ again preaching upon Olivet, and have beheld in vivid imagination the Son of God again walking the hills about Jerusalem. Caviglia once rejected the truth, but afterward said, II came to Egypt, and the Scriptures and the pyramids converted me-" When l was in Beyrout, Syria, last December, our beloved American missionary, Rev. Dr. Jessup, told me of his friend who met skeptic at Joppa, the seaport of To- fho ho11 to his friend: Fl am going into the Holy Land to show up the folly of the Christian religion. l am going to and write them up, and show the world that the New Testament is an impo sition upon the worlds credulity." Months after, Dr. Jessup's friend met the skeptic at Beyrout, after he the Holy Land. ssWen, how is it2' said the aforesaid gentleman to the skeptic. The answer was: ''I have seen its all, and l tell you the Bible is true! Yes, it is all truev' The man who went to destroy came back to defend After what I myself saw during my recent absence, l con- clude that any one who can go through the Holy Land and remain an unbe- liever is either bad man or an i'm becile God employed men to write the Bible but he took many of the same truths which they recorded, and with his own almighty hand he gouged them into the rocks, and drove them down into dismal depths, and, as docu- ments are put in the corner stone of a temple, so in the very foundation of the earth he folded up and placed the records of heavenly truth. The earth s corner stone was laid, like that of other sacred edifces, in the name of the Fla ther, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The author of revelation, stand ing among the great strata, looked upon Moses, and said. "Let us record for future ages the worlds history; you write it there on papyrus; I will write | it here on the powders.
 | NATURES INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO CHRISTIANITY.
 Again, nature offers an invaluable l contribution to Christianity by the l illustration she makes of divine truth. 1 The inspired writers seized upon the | advantages offered by the natural l world. Trees and rivers and clouds and rocks broke forth into holy and | enthusiastic utterances. Would Christ 1 set forth the strength of faith, he points to the sycamore, whose roots 1 spread out and strike down and clinch l themselves amid great depths of earth, and he said that faith was strong enough to tear that up by the roots.
 At Hawarden, England, MT. Glad
 stone, while showing me his trees dur ing prolonged walk through his mag
 nihcent park, pointed out sycamore,
 and with wave of the hand said, "In
 your visit to the Holy Land did you
 see any sycamore more impressive
 than that?' Iconfessed that had not.
 Its branches were not more remark able thar it's roots. It was to such a
 tree as that Jesus pointed when he
 would illustrate the power of faith.
 ''Ye might say unto this sycamore
 tree, Be thou plucked up by the root
 and be thou cast into the sea, and it
 would obey you" One reason why
 Christ has fascinated the world as no
 other teacher is because instead of
 using severe argument he was always
 telling bow something in the spiritual
 world was like unto something in the
 natural world. Oh these wonderful
 Hikes" of our Lordl Like grain of
 mustard seed. Like treasure hid in a ueIu. Like a merchant seeking
 goodly pearls. Like unto a net that
 was cast into the sea. Like unto a
 householder.
 Would Christ teach the precision
 with which he looks after you, he says
 he counts the hairs of your head.
 Well, that is long and tedious count
 if the head have the average endow-
 ment. It has been found that if the
 hairs of the head be black there are
 about 12O, 900, orif they be faxen there
 OTTO ohout 1dO OO0 R,,t God knows