The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-13


day.school HYMN that their little girl
sang the last Sabbath afternoon she
was out before she was seized with tne
awful sickness that broke fathers
heart and mothers heart. o.. you
know as we'll as dol shall notdwel
on it any longer-thc church OF GOO
instead of being worn-out institutiop'
stands nearer the sympathies OF th
people than 1t ever did and eclipses =
other institutions.
But our antagonists go on and >'p
that Christianity is falling back, IN &c.:
fact that infidelity is bolder now aa'
more blatant than it ever was. deny
the statement. Infdelity is not near
so bold now as IL was in the days OF
our fathers and grandfatherS. 'Ihere
were times in this country when men
who were openly and above'board IN
fidcl and antagonistic to Christianity
could be elected to high office. Now, /!
let some man wishing high position IN
the state proclaim himself the foe OF
Christianity and an infidel, how many
states of the Union would he carry
how many counties? how many wards
in Brooklyn? Not one.
All! my friends, infdelity in this day
is not half as bold as it uscl to be. IL
it comes now, it is apt to come under
the disguise of rhetoric or fantastic
sentimentality. know If n man with
great intelligence does become an inh-
del, and begins an attack o. Christian
ity, it makes great excitement-of
course it does aud people come to the
conclusion. weak-minded Christians
come TO The corclusicn, that everything
Is going overheard because some man
of strong intellect assails Christianity
II man jumps overheard from
Cuuard Steamer he makes more excite
ment than all the five hundred sane
passengers who continue in the berths
or on the deck: but does that stop the
shin? Does that wreck all the five
hundred pa 3scngers? Itmakes great
excitement when man leaps from
platform or pulpit into infdelity; but
does that hinder our glorious Bible
from taking its millions into the skiesp
tell you infidelity is not half as bold
now as it used TO he.
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 a
cathedral, and the people bowed down
to her as divine being, and burned
incense before her-she to take the
+, place Of the Bible, and of Christianity
t and of the Lord Almighty? And while
: that ceremony was going on in the
I cathedral, in the chapcls, and in the
I corridors adjoining the cathedral
scenes Of drunkenness and debaucherl
g and obscenity enacted such as tn,
n world has never seen. Could such
e thing as that transpire now? No, sir
c The police would swoop on it, whethe
c in Paris. or New York. Infidelity i
g not half so bold now as it used to be.
"But," say our antagonists, Christi
e anity is falling back because science
S its chief enemy, is triumphing over it,
g. Now deny that there is any war be
.e tween science and revelation. Their
70 Is not fact in science that may not b
10 made TO harmonize with the state
n ments of the Bible. So said Hugh Nil
10 ler, so said Joseph Henry, so said Prof
Il Hitchcock. so said Prof. Silliman, S
Y said Prof. Mitchell.
le Joseph Henry, the leading scientis
" of America, better known and honore
n in the royal societies transatlantic tha
Il; any other American, lived and died
G. believer in the religion Of Jesus Chris
~ Joseph Henry knew all the facts
in geology and yet believed the book {
- Genesis. He knew all the facts OF n
Or tronomy and yet believed the book
d. Joshua, the sun and moon standin
ed still. Joseph Henry knew all I'll
no anatomy OF man and fish and yet b
ed lieved the book of Jonah.
On II the scientists OF the day were a
" agreed. and they came up with sol
% front to attack our Christianity, pc
ut haps they might make some impressic
ed upon It; but they are not agreed. 1t
IL often said that we religionists are fai
lis ing in our advocacy of Christianity b
If cause we differ in our theology. | te
as you we do not differ inside the churC
re in theology half as much as they diff
~ outside the church in science. II thu
cir reject our religion because we differ
no some minor points, we might just
he well reject science because scientis
les differ; but as far as can tell, the W
at of infidel science against Christiani
est Is not so severe as II used TO be, becau
OF these men are antagonistic to en-
ill other: and as far as can tell, II Is 8
. ing 10 be war between telescope a
lis telescope, Leyden jar and Leyden j
ON chemical apparatus and chemical
Ich paratus. They do not agree on al
as thing.
the Do you suppose that this Bible thee
.he about the origin of life is going to
ia oyerthrown by men who have differC
ps, theories-fifty different theories
rch about the origin Of life? And wh
red ARassiz comes out and puts both Il
de- on the doctrine Of evolution, and 81
ou- in regard TO many scientists, 81 not
in that these young naturalists are ado
Ugh ing as theories in science things VIII
,er, have not passed under observation
Itu- ARassiz saw what we all see-tl
our there are men who talk very wisely "
ent know but very little, and that just
tel, soon as young scientist finds out
the difference between the feelers OF
,er- wasp and the horns Of beetle, he
eds gins TO patronize the Almighty, and
vhn .kort toIl,ino, about cultura as thor