Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-16

tianity, 1t makes great eXcltement-oI
course it does, and people come to the
conclusion, weak-minded Christians
come to the conclusion, that everything
is going overheard because some man
of strong intellect assails Christianity.
If man jumps overheard from a
Cunard steamer he makes more excite
ment than all the five hundred sane
passengers who continue in the berths
or on the decks; but does that stop the
ship? Does that wreck all the five hum
bred passengers? 1t makes great ex-
element when man leaps from a plat
form or n pulpit into infidelity; but
does that hinder our glorious Bible
from taking its millions into the skies?
l tell you inidelity is not half as bold
as it used 10 be.
Do you suppose such things could be
enacted now as were enacted in the
days of Robespierre, when shameless
woman was elected to be goddess, and
she was carried on golden chair to n
cathedral, and the people bowed down
to her us n divine being, and burned
incense before her-she to take the
place of the Bible, and Christianity,
and of the Lord Almighty? And while
that ceremony was going on in the
cathedral, in the chapels, and in the
corridors adjoining the cathedral,
scenes of drunkenness and debauchery
and obscenity enacted such as the
world had never seen. Gould such
thing as that transpire now? No, sir.
The police would swoop on it, whether
in Paris or New York. Infidelity is not
half as bold now as it used to be.
But" say our antagonists, Chris.
| tianity is falling back because science,
its chief enemy, is triumphing over it."
Now, deny that there is any war be-
tween science and revelation. There
is not fact in science that may not be
made to harmonic with the statements
of the Bible. So said Hugh Miller, so
said Joseph Henry, so said Prof. Hitch
cock, so said Prof. Silliman, so said
Prof. Mitchell.
If the scientists of the day were all
agreed, and they came up with solid
| front to attack our Christianity, per-
haps they might make some impression
upon it, but they are not agreed. 1t is
often said that we religionists are fail
ing in our advocacy of Christianity be-
cause we differ in our theology. tell
YOU we do not differ inside the church
in theology half as much as they differ
outside the church in science.
Do you suppose that this Bible theory
about the origin of life is going to be
overthrown by men who have different
theories-fifty different theories-about
the origin of life? And when Agassiz
comes out and puts both feet on the
doctrine of evolution, and says in re-
gard to many scientists, Il notice that
these young naturalists are adopting
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 as soon as young scientist finds
out the difference between the feelers
of wasp and the horns of beetle, he
begins to patronize the Almighty, and
go about talking about culture as
though it were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r-
culchar!
It makes me sick to see these literary
tops going down the street with copy
of Darwin under one arm and case OF
transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies
under the other arm, talking about the
Survival of the Fittest," and "HuX-
ley's Protoplasm," and the ''Nebular
Hypothesis" and talking to us common
men as though we were fools!
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 in.
Have you agreed on your verdict?"
If they say yes the verdict is taken
and recorded. If they say, mo, we
have not agreed" they are sent back
to the jury room. If one juryman
should say, Il think the man is guilty
of murder" and another juryman
should say, 81 think he is guilty of
manslaughter," and another juryman
should say, 81 think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent to kill"
the Judge would lose his patience and
say, go back to your room now and
make up a verdict; agree on some
thing"
Well, my friends, there has been a
great trial going on for centuries, and
for ages between SlSepticism, the plain
tiff, versus Christianity, the defendant
The scientists have been impaneled
and sworn on the jury. They have
been gone for centuries, some OF them,
and they come back, and we say:
Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon verdict" They say,
mo, we have not agreed" Then we
say, go back for few more CEN
turtles and then come in and see If you
agree-see if you can render some YER
dict" Now, there Is not the meanest
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