Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-21

II ellsiflt1l HUN 1s
DAVIS of Robespierrc, when a shameless
woman WAS elected to be goddess, and
sbe was carried on a golden chair to q
cathedral, and the people bowed aoWt
TO her as a divine being, and burned ih'
cense before her--she to take the place
of the Bible, and OF Christianity, anu
of the Lord Almighty? Ana wnle
that ceremony was going on Ii the ea,n'
edral. scenes Of drunkenness ana ue'
hatchery and obscenity enacted suih as
the world had never seen. Couid SUCH
a thing as that t%ranspire now! NO.
sir. The police would swoop on IT,
whether i'm Paris or New YORK. IN
fidelity is not half as bold now as II
used TO be.
But" say our antagonists, chris
tianity is falling back because science,
it's chief enemy, is triumphing over IT,
Now. I DENY that there is any war De-
tween science and r~eyelauon. lheie
Is not n fact In science that may not
no made TO harmOnize with the state
ments of the Bible. So said hugh NH
Ter. so said Joseph Henry, so SAID froI.
Hitchcock, so said Prof. Slliman, SO
said Prof. Mitchell. .
Joseph Henry. the leading n
of America. better known ana non
ored in the royal socities transatlantic
han any other American, lived ana
died q believer in the religion or jesus
Christ. Joseph Henry knew all the
facts of geology, and yet believed the
Rock of Genesis. He knew all me
facts of astronomy, and yet beheved the
Book of Joshua, the sun II moon
standing still. Joseph Henry knew all
the anatomy Of man and tlsh, II yet
believed the Book of Jonah.
If the scientists of the day were all
agreed, and they came up WIN soiiu
front TO attack our Christianity, per
haps they might make some ihlpressioh
upon it; but they are not agreed. II Is
| often said that we religlonlsts are Ian
ing in our advocacy OF Chrlsliainty We,
cause we differ in our theology L yen
YOU we do not differ inside the chuIch
in theology half as much as they dlher
| outside the church in science. III u e
| reject our religion because we dller
| on some minor points, we might JUST us
well reject science because the sclen-
tistc differ; but as far as | can tell, IN"
war of infidel science against christi
| anity is not SO severe as 1t used TO be,
| because these men are antagoniStic 10
| each other; and as fan as l tell, It
is going TO be a wal between telescope
and telescope, Legion jar and Legion
jar, chemical apparatus and chemical
apparatus. They do moi agree on any
thing.
Do you suppose that this Bible theory
about the origin of life is going TO be
| cverthrOWn by men who have different
theories-tifty different thcores-about
the origin of life? And when Agassiz
! comes out and puts both feet on b
doctrine Of evolution, and says in re-
gard to the many scientists, Il notice
that these young %naturaliSts are adopt
ing as theories in science things which
have not passed under observation"
Agassiz saw what we all see-that
there are men who talk very wisely
who know but very little, and that just
us soon as a young scientist finds out
the difference between the feclers Of u
wasp and the horns of a beetle, he be
gins to patronize the Almighty, and go
about talking about culture as though
it were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r-culCher!
1t makes me sick to see these literary
tops going down the street with a copy
Of Darwin under n arm and a case of
transfiXed grasshoppers and butterflies
under the other arm, talking about the
Survival of the Fittest," and Hulk
ley's ProtOplasm," and the "Nebular
Hypothesis" and talking to us common
men as though we were fools! If they
agreed in their theories and came up
with solid front against Christianity, |
say perhaps they might make some i'm
nppGSinns hIt fhnr do NOT ~ rnp
VIII charges upon Lamarck, Wallace
upon Cope, Herschal even charged
upon Ferguson. They do not agree
about'the graduation of the species; tho
do not agree about ~embryology. What
do they agree about?
Herscbel wrJte a whole chapter on
what he calls the Errors in Astronomy.
La Place says that the moon was not
put in the right place; that il it had
BEEN put four times the distance from
our world there would have been more
ha 'mony in the universe. But Lion
vile comes up just in time to prove
that the Lord was wise, and put the
moon in the right place. How many
colors woven into the light? Seven SAYS
Newton. Three, says David Brewster.
How high is the Aurora Borealis? Two
and a half miles high, says LAS. One
hundred and sixty-five miles. saws
Twinig. How far is the sun from the
earth. Seventy-siX million miles. saws
Lacaille; 100000 miles, says Hum.
boldt; 9O,000,000 miles, saye Hender-
son; 104, 100000 miles, says Mayer.
Only a little difference of 2 .OOO.OOO
miles! These men say we do not
agree In religion. Do they agree in
science? Have they come up with solid
front to assault our glorious Christi
anity?
Even maihematicians do not agree.
Taylor's Logarithms are found to have
faults Ill them. The French metric sys-
tem has WRONG calculations. Talk about
exact sciences! They are inexact. AS
FAR a. with my little knowledge | have
been able to explore the only exact
science is Christianity. There is moth
ing under which you can so appropri-
ateiy write, "QuOd erat demonstran-
dunn
Gentlemen Of the jury, have You
agreed upon your verdict?" the court
or the clerk says to the jury, having
been out all night, on coming in. Have
you agreed on your verdict?" If they
say yes the verdict is taken and record
p1. IF thpy GOV, .sNn