Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-09-28

hdrSelllalSe hymn, God Save the
tlueen," or our own grand national air?
No; they want the old hymns with
which we sang their old Christian
mother to sleep; they want the Sun
day-school hymn that their little girl
sang the last Sabbath afternoon she
was out before she was seized with the
awful sickness that broke fathers
heart and mothers heart. 0, you
know as well as | dol shall not dwell
on 1t any longer-the church of God,
instead of being a worn-out institution,
stands nearer the sympathies of the
! people than it ever did and eclipses all
other institutions.
But our antagonists go on and say
that Christianity is falling back, in the
fact that infidelity is holder now and
more blatant than it ever was. deny
the statement. Infdelity is not near
SO bold now as it was in the days of
our fathers and grandfathers. There
were times in this country when men
who were openly and above-board in
tidel 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, intidelity in this day
is not half as bold as it used to be. If
it comes now, it is apt to come under
the disguise of rhetoric or fantastic
sentimentality. / know if a man with
great intelligence does become an inf
del, and begins an attack on Christian
ity, it makes great exeitement-cf
course it does, aud people come to the
conclusion, weak-minded Christians
come to the conclusion, thateverything
is going overheard because some man
of strong intellect assafls Christianity
If a 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 deck: but does that stop the
ship? Does that wreck all the five
hundred passengers? Itmakes great
excitement when man leaps from a
platform or pulpit into infidelity; but
does that hinder our glorious Bible
from taking its millions into the skies?
/ 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 a shameless
woman was elected to be goddess, and
she was carried on a golden chair to a
cathedral, and the people bowed down
to her as a divine being, and burned
incense before her-she to take the
place of the Bible, and of Christianity
and of the Lord Almighty? And while
that ceremony was going on in the
cathedral, in the chapels, and in this
corridors adjoining the cathedral
! scenes of drunkenness and debauchery
! and obscenity enacted such as the
/ world has never seen. Gould such
, thing as that transpire now? No, sir
, The police would swoop on it. whether
in Paris or New York. lnfidelity !
} not half so bold now as it used to be-.
sBut," say our antagonists, Christi
: anity 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 a fact in science that may not o'
: made to harmonic with the state
l ments of the Bible. So said Hugh NIL
= Ter, so said Joseph Henry, so said Prof
: Hitchcock. SO said Prof. Silliman, 81
: said Prof. Mitchell.
E Joseph Henry. the leading scientis
: of America. better known and honore'
: in the royal societies Transatlantic thar
!: anv other American. lived and died
!. believer in the religion of Jesus Christ
i Joseph Henry knew all the facts o
4 geology and vet believed the book o
: Genesis. He knew all the facts of as
r tronomy and yet believed the book o
. Joshua. the sun and moon standing
4 still Joseph Helry knew all tn
o anatomy OF man and tish and yet be
1 lieved the book of Jonah.
4 IL the scientists of the day were al
: agreed. and they came up with soli'
= front to attack our Christianity, per
t hans they might make some impression
d bnou it; but they are not agreed. II
/ oftan said that we religionists are fan
5 ;ng in our advocacy of Christianity be
( canse we differ in our theology. tel
S 4 vou we do not differ inside the churcl
e in theology half as much as they ditfe
i outside the church in science. II the
r. reject our religion because we differ .
o some minor points. we might just a
e well reject science because scientis'
$ a;ser. but as far as | can tell, the wa
I ~ infiael science against Christianit
4 is NOT so severe as it used to be, oecaus
# these men are antagonistic to eac
Il other: and as far as can tell. 1t is 60
inc TO be a war between telescope an
s. telescope, Leyden jar and Leyden Ja'
n chemical apparatus and chemical al
h naratus. They do not agree on AM
Is thing.
e DO YOU suppose that this Bible theor
e about the origin of life is going TO
A. overtbrown by men who have ditferer
! tbeories-fifty different theories
n about the origin of life? And whe
"A Agassiz comes out and puts both fe'