The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-22

corridors adjoining the cathedral,
scenes of drunkenness and debauchery
and obscenity enacted such as the
world had never seen. Could such a
thing as that transpire now9 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 fall
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-ffty 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, 81 notice that
these young naturalists are adopting
as theories in science things which
have not passed under observation u"
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 a 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-
culcharl
1t makes me sick to see these literary
fops 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!
Herschel wrote whole chapter on
what he calls the Errors in Astron-
omy." La Place says that the moon
was not put in the right place; that If
it had been put four times the distance
from our world, there would have been
more harmony in the universe. But
Lionville 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 Brew
ster. How high is the Aurora Rorealis?
Two and half miles high, says Lias.
One hundred and seventy-five miles,
says Twinig. How far is the sun from
the earth? Seventy-six million miles,
says Lacaille; eighty-two million miles,
says Humbolds; ninety million miles,
saws Henderson; one hundred and four
million miles, says Mayer. Only lit
tie difference of twenty-eight million
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 Christianity?
, Even mathematicians do not agree.
!, Taylors Logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metric
system has wrong calculations Tall
about exact sciences! AS far as with
my little knowledge 1 have been able
to explore the only exact science is
} Christianity.
) 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?'
t IL they say yes the verdict is taker
, and recorded. If they say, mo, we
? have not agreed" they are sent bach
: to the jury room If one jurymar
: should say, 81 think the man is guilty
{ of murder" and another jurymar
/, should say, 81 think he is guilty o.
manslaughter," and another jurymar
: should say, 81 think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent to kill,
: the Judge would lose his patience anc
= say, ''Go back to your room now anc
r make up a verdict; agree on some
t thing"
r Well, nv friends, there has been {
t great trial going on for centuries, anc
r for ages between Skepticism, the plain
: tiff, versus Christianity, the defendant
1 The scientists have been impaneled
: and sworn on the jury. They hav'
a been gone for centuries, some of them
/ and they come back, and we say
i. | Gentlemen of the jury, have yo'
agreed upon a verdict" They say
: 'sNo, we have not agreed" Then W.
i say, go back for few more cen
turies and then come in and see If yol
Y agree-see If you can render some yer
q dict" Now, there is not the meanes
4 prisoner in the Tombs court who woul'
Y be condemned by jury that could no
r agree, and yet you expect us to re
f nounce our glorious Christianity 70
e such a miserable verdict as these mel
q have rendered, they themselves no
: having been able to agree.
v But my subject shall no longer b
v defensive, it must be aggressive.
d must show you that, instead of Chris
f tianity falling back, it is on the march
v and that the coming religion of tn
!? world is to be the religion of the Lor'
S Jesus Christ ten thousand times in
tensified. 1t is to take possession o
Y everything all laws, all manners
f all customs, all cities, all nations. l
r is going to be so mighty as compares
C with what it has been, so much NOR
h mighty that it will seem almost like
: new religion.
: / adopt this theory because Chris
f tianity has gone on straight ahead, not